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Venice, which develops identity security software, emerges from stealth after raising a $25M Series A led by IVP, following an $8M seed round (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sk5qcux00we

Rotem Lurie raises $25 million Series A for Venice, an identity security startup backed by Wiz founders
The Israeli company replaces static enterprise permissions with dynamic access control. 

It’s possible that this is nothing at all, and they’ll be back in full force today. Nobody, and I mean nobody, has suggested that maybe the worst is over.
But we took the days of relative rest anyway. Hmm, “rest” is wrong: mutual aid, food distribution, school observers, people doing laundry for those who can’t go to a laundromat — that continues unabated. But there’s a definite feeling of catching our breath for a moment.
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U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated | PBS News https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-citizens-detained-by-immigration-agents-describe-how-they-were-treated

U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated
Videos from across the country have shown months of violent interactions with immigration officers. Part of the outcry has been the treatment of U.S. citizens. Uproar rose higher last month following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by agents in Minnesota. Lisa Desjardins reports, and we hear from some of the people who were detained.

A citizen of Rome in 117 AD,
under Emperor Trajan,
would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing.
The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia:
all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity
Edward Gibbon gave us six volumes explaining how that feeling turned out to be wrong,
and even he couldn't fully untangle all the causes.
But the overarching theme mig…

The empire always falls
A citizen of Rome in 117 AD, under Emperor Trajan, would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing. The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia: all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity // the Mediterranean itself.

Friends in #Gaza/#Palestine:
Obviously a one-state solution is impossible while Netanyahu still leads #Israel. But could you imagine ever feeling safe in a unitary secular state in which Islamic, Christian, Jewish and other citizens had real equality under the law, if all land seized since 1950 was re…

We're all at home and doing fine, thanks for asking. (If you don't know what this is in reference to, don't worry.)
https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens/

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
WINDER, GA—In the hours following a violent rampage in Georgia in which a lone attacker killed at least four individuals and injured nine others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Wednesday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was […]

This summer, Mikhail Loshchinin set out for Russia on a motorcycle with German plates, reaching the border in Latvia on July 1.
At the Ubylinka checkpoint on the Russian side, he presented his Russian passport.
According to his mother, Olga, he didn’t use his Belgian passport because of the urgency of the trip and to avoid needing a visa.
Russian border guards examined Loshchinin’s phone and likely discovered his many contacts in Ukraine.
After holding him for several…

Belgian-Russian dual citizen charged with treason after trying to visit father in St. Petersburg following a heart attack
A 48-year-old man with dual Russian and Belgian citizenship has been charged with treason in Russia following an attempt to visit his father, who recently suffered a heart attack. Mikhail Loshchinin’s family is scattered across Europe. He has lived in Germany for the past several years, working as a database administrator in Luxembourg. His mother is in Poland, his father is in St. Petersburg, and his sister is a Ukrainian citizen. Mikhail also has many friends in Ukraine, i…

Source: ChatGPT has ~900M weekly active users; Sensor Tower: Gemini MAUs grew ~30% to 346M between August and November while ChatGPT's rose ~5% to 810M (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/chatgpt-near…

ChatGPT Nears 900 Million Weekly Active Users But Gemini is Catching Up
The competition between AI chatbots has been heating up, with Google’s Gemini nipping at OpenAI’s heels. On Monday, I wrote about how Gemini’s share of weekly mobile app downloads increased in late November following the release of Gemini 3, according to data from research firm Sensor Tower, ...

Federal immigration officers have started using Renee Good’s death to threaten more U.S. citizens.
A video posted to Reddit showed a screaming ICE agent repeatedly threatening to kill a man who was sitting in his car, asking how he didn’t “learn from what just happened.”
In the two-minute clip, a masked agent wearing a Minnesota Timberwolves hat approached the vehicle already furious, while the driver rolled down his window.
“Stop fucking following us, you are impeding opera…

“You Did Not Learn?”: ICE Uses Renee Good’s Death as Threat
One protester said an agent told her, “That is why we killed that lesbian b*tch.”

U.S. immigration officials do not plan to detain #Kilmar #Abrego #Garcia again -- as long as a judge’s order banning it stands, according to a Tuesday court filing.
❌Immigration and Customs Enforcement did make clear they would detai…

ICE doesn't plan to detain Abrego Garcia again as long as judge's order banning it stands
Immigration officials do not plan to detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia again as long as a judge’s order banning it stands That's according to a Tuesday court filing from the U.S. government. The Salvadoran citizen’s case has become a lightning rod for both sides of the immigration debate as he fights to remain in the U.S. after a mistaken deportation to his home country, where he was imprisoned. The government court filing comes after U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis earlier this month questioned …