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Rachel Nuwer / Wired:
A look at Option Impact, a salary database accessible to VCs and their startups, based on anonymized salary info from about 2,600 companies  —  WHEN STEVE, A thirtysomething engineer, launched a software company in San Francisco a few years ago, he and his cofounder faced the daunting task of hiring a team …
Financial Times:
Sources: alongside GV, Alphabet will invest directly in Lime, as part of the $300M round the on-demand scooter startup is raising at $1.1B post-money valuation  —  Alphabet is joining a $300m funding round for electric scooter start-up Lime, adding to an increasingly complex web of deals in transport and …
Nitasha Tiku / Wired:
How a growing political awakening among some tech employees has driven the recent wave of protests at tech companies against controversial government contracts  —  SILICON VALLEY HAS a long and secretive history of building hardware and software for the military and law enforcement.
More: Axios.  Tweets: @wired, @nitashatiku, @nitashatiku, and @digiphile
Rick Merritt / EE Times:
DARPA to invest $100M over the next four years to create the equivalent of a silicon compiler aimed at significantly lowering the barriers to design chips  —  Two programs aim to craft ‘silicon compiler’  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. — The U.S. will pour $100 million into two research programs …
More: Slashdot
TechCrunch:
French mobile gaming studio Oh BiBi raises $21M Series B led by Atomico, bringing total raised to date to $25M  —  Airbnb, the accommodation rental business, has been building up a larger profile as a travel services powerhouse to fill out its $31 billion valuation, and now it's putting …
More: PYMNTS.com
Suzanne LaBarre / Co.Design:
Blue light, prevalent in modern UIs, is aesthetically pleasing, but poses health risks; designers should switch to deep red/orange as the military did long ago  —  The cold blue light of modern touchscreens may be aesthetically pleasing, but it poses health problems.
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Cedar, a service that uses data analysis to help health organizations personalize the billing experience for patients, raises $36M Series B led by Kinnevik  —  Understanding bills should be simple and straightforward but unfortunately, that is not always the case, especially when dealing with medical bills.

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Adam Rose / The Intercept:
Independent reporter Carlitos Ricardo Parias, who has 100K TikTok followers, nears 300 days in ICE detention, the longest a journalist has spent in US custody

Scott Roxborough / The Hollywood Reporter:
A look at Europe's wave of broadcast consolidation, seen by industry insiders as necessary to compete with global streamers but facing regulatory challenges

Bloomberg:
A look at romantasy's rise from BookTok hit to cottage industry, with efforts to bring it to Hollywood; Circana says the genre raked in ~$1B in US sales in 2025

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Daniel Duane / Wired:
How huge contributions from tech titans, a STEM curriculum, and gadgets everywhere failed to overhaul systemic problems in a San Francisco public middle school
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
NSA says it is deleting all phone records acquired since 2015 under FISA because of a technical glitch that resulted in some unauthorized data collection
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