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Q&A with Lambda School's Austen Allred on how the company helps bridge the class divide for students, like setting up bank accounts for those who don't have one (Antonio Garcia-Martinez/The Pull Request)

The Wikileaks-style group DDoSecrets claims that Parler-like site Gab has been breached and is now set to share 70GB of passwords, private posts, and more (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Pres. Biden says there should be "no coercion, no threats, no anti-union propaganda" by Amazon amid its warehouse workers' vote on whether to form a union in AL (Jennifer Epstein/Bloomberg)

A look at Biden's efforts to partner with allies to boost key tech sectors and counter China, going beyond Trump-era measures like restricting sales of SMIC (Bob Davis/Wall Street Journal)

An oral history of #hugops and the growing community of operations engineers who offer support for their peers before and during major cloud service outages (Tom Krazit/Protocol)

Qualcomm veteran to replace Alain Crozier as Microsoft Greater China boss

Twitter Super Follows and Clubhouse portend a shift from algorithmic, scale-focused, low-attention feeds to low-volume, high-attention relationships with users (Will Oremus/OneZero )

Autonomous drone maker Skydio raises $170M led by Andreessen Horowitz

Space startup Gitai raises $17.1M to help build the robotic workforce of commercial space

Profile of Discovery+, which has hit 12M paid subscriptions globally and offers a reality TV-focused catalog with 55K episodes, rivaling Netflix in sheer volume (Ben Smith/New York Times)

Profile of lawyer and activist Cori Crider who is suing Facebook and outsourcing company CPL in Ireland's High Court on behalf of traumatized content moderators (Ed Siddons/The Guardian)

How Reddit, at ~$6B arguably one of the most undervalued companies in world, can unlock the next step-change in valuation and protect against niche competitors (Mario Gabriele/The Generalist)

Skydio raises $171M led by a16z at a valuation of $1B+, the first significant fundraising by a US-based drone maker after China's DJI was blacklisted by the US (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Verizon support is now advising its users on Twitter to "turn on LTE", which would turn off 5G, to preserve battery life (Kim Lyons/The Verge)

Modi's government is abetting a vicious campaign against Indian climate activists simply for using organizing tools like shared Google Docs and WhatsApp groups (Naomi Klein/The Intercept)

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