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Michelle Ma / Bloomberg : Gigascale Capital, a climate tech VC firm co-founded by former Meta CTO Mike Schroepfer, closed a $250M fund to back early-stage startups supporting the AI boom   —  Gigascale Capital closed a $250 million fund for early-stage startups.  —  Climate tech venture capital firm Gigascale Capital …

The Department of Justice (DOJ) pressed pause on the Trump administration's "anti-weaponization" fund on Monday, giving Senate Republicans runway to hammer through a massive immigration enforcement funding package in the process. The DOJ announced on X that it would abide by a Virginia federal court's order to not move forward with the fund. It comes as Republicans in the upper chamber punted their plan to advance a $72 billion immigration enforcement package over deep concerns about who could access the flow of taxpayer dollars from the nearly $2 billion fund. The DOJ said in a statement that it "disagrees strongly with the decision on the Anti-Weaponization Fund" by the Virginia district court, "wherein the Court stated that, under no circumstances, may the Department of Justice proceed with the Anti-Weaponization Fund recently established in order to make up for the tremendous abuse, harm, and hate unfairly shown to so many people." SENATE GO...

A Nantucket church on the exclusive Massachusetts island long favored by former President Joe Biden canceled its annual Fourth of July reading of America’s founding documents, citing an effort to understand "our own whiteness" and drawing sharp criticism from conservatives. "Our cancelling the 4th of July celebration this year reflects ... an on-going process within the congregation to better understand our own whiteness," wrote Nantucket Unitarian Universalists (NUU) and the Rev. Erin Splaine of the Second Congregational Meeting House Society in a letter published by the Nantucket Current on Thursday.  The historic Nantucket Unitarian Meeting House has hosted a public reading of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights in downtown Nantucket each Fourth of July holiday for the past 25 years. The decision comes as communities across the country prepare for events tied to America's upcoming semiquincentennial celebrations, sparking criticism from so...

Rohan Prabhu / Step Security Blog : Researchers find several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm namespace shipped malware targeting credentials for GitHub Actions, AWS, GCP, and others   —  Several packages in the @redhat-cloud-services npm scope were found to carry malicious payloads that fire via a preinstall hook on every npm install.

It hasn't been a great last few days for Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker . First, as Fox News Digital reported exclusively last week, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) sent Piker an administrative subpoena seeking financial, logistical and communications records related to his March trip to Cuba as part of an investigation into whether he violated U.S. sanctions laws against doing business with the communist regime running the island nation. Then last night, during protests outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Newark, N.J., hecklers confronted Piker, calling him a "f---ing fraud, " "fake-a-- grifter" and "dog abuser," telling him, "Go back to the desktop." (Piker has denied allegations he trained his dog, Kaya, with a shock collar.) Now, Piker told his loyal following on the gaming platform Twitch that British authorities denied his Electronic Travel Authorization, or ETA, pre...

Marxist political commentator and Twitch streamer Hasan Piker blasted New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill during a livestream Sunday, accusing the Democratic governor of aiding the Trump administration's immigration agenda through her response to anti-ICE protests outside a Newark detention facility. Piker's criticism came after Sherrill defended the deployment of state police around demonstrations outside Delaney Hall, an ICE detention center in Newark, saying she would not allow unrest to provide a pretext for expanded federal immigration operations in New Jersey. "I refuse to let that happen in New Jersey. I will not give ICE a pretext," Sherrill said in remarks aired during a news segment Piker was reacting to on stream. Piker quickly mocked the governor's explanation. GOV. SHERRILL BLAMES ICE, DEFENDS RIOTERS AFTER DEPLOYING TROOPERS TO QUELL VIOLENT MOB "Yeah, I won't give ICE a pretext. So I'm going to ensure that they don't have to do anything...