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Spend management startup Alaan raised a $48M Series A led by Peak XV, one of the Middle East's largest Series A rounds for a fintech, after a $2.5M seed in 2021 (Tage Kene-Okafor/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/ai-p

AI-powered fintech Alaan raises $48M, one of the largest Series A rounds in MENA | TechCrunch
When Parthi Duraisamy was a consultant at McKinsey’s Dubai office, he discovered that the American Express cards his company relied on for corporate

Trump and Schumer head for a high-stakes rematch (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/inside-congress/2025/08/05/trump-and-schumer-head-for-a-high-stakes-rematch-00493474
http://www.memeorandum.com/250805/p11#a250805p11

Some ad industry executives express anger and disappointment at the US v. Google ruling, and say it will do little to alter Google's dominance of the ad market (Ronan Shields/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media-buying/angry

Angry and disappointed, if not surprised: The ad industry reacts to the Google search remedies ruling 
The industry reacts to the ruling that Google will not have to divest Android or Chrome in latest antitrust development

Raiders represented in all 7 rounds of ESPN best NFL draft pick ever at every slot https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/07/03/espn-best-nfl-draft-pick-ever-at-eve…

1,700 #California workers, including 500 #Teamsters, left in lurch to be laid off as the buyer of major CA alcoholic #beverages distributor for 2,500 beverage brands, quickly winds down operations and ditches state to consolida…

RNDC to 'Withdraw' from California By End of Summer (Developing)
Not even halfway into 2025, Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) has hemorrhaged key supplier accounts in markets across the country, and especially in California. Now, VinePair has learned, the country’s second-largest wine-and-spirits distributor will be departing the Golden State entirely at the beginning of September. Over the weekend, social media was abuzz with versions of this rumor.

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC: https://blog.rmendes.net/2025/08/03/six-voix-pour-la-vrit.html

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
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ranDecepter: Real-time Identification and Deterrence of Ransomware Attacks
Md Sajidul Islam Sajid, Jinpeng Wei, Ehab Al-Shaer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00293 https://

ranDecepter: Real-time Identification and Deterrence of Ransomware Attacks
Ransomware (RW) presents a significant and widespread threat in the digital landscape, necessitating effective countermeasures. Active cyber deception is a promising strategy to thwart RW and limiting its propagation by misleading it with false information and revealing its true behaviors. Furthermore, RW often acts as a communication conduit between attackers and defenders, allowing deception to return false data to attackers and deplete their resources. This paper introduces ranDecepter, a no…

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg, Senator Amy Klobuchar, News / Media Alliance CEO Danielle Coffey, and others criticize the US v. Google ruling as too lenient (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/769738/google-doj-antitrust-remedies-ruling-cr…

Google critics think the search remedies ruling is a total whiff
Google critics aren’t happy with the remedies ruling handed down in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against the company.

Did you know a movie I'm in is free to watch (with your Amazon Prime)?
It's Dependent's Day: she takes him as a dependent on her taxes and hilarity ensues.
Watch it here: #RomaticComedy

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC: #Justice

Six voix pour la vérité : une nouvelle étape dans le combat contre OKC - rMdes - a place to write and think freely
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