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Catch up on the top tech stories from this past week. Here are the headlines that people have been reading on GeekWire. ADVERTISEMENT [GeekWire]( SPONSOR MESSAGE: Hear the latest news, and dive deep into AWS products and solutions: [Attend in-person or virtually.]( THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES [Meta layoffs ripple through Seattle region, taking some of the luster from ‘Silicon Valley North’]( Mark Zuckerberg got it wrong. The Meta CEO and Facebook founder admitted this explicitly Wednesday morning, announcing the layoff of 13% of Meta’s workforce, or more than 11,000 people. [Redfin CEO: ‘The housing market could get worse’]( The U.S. housing market continues to show signs of weakening, impacting Seattle real estate tech companies such as Zillow Group and Redfin. [Seattle voters overwhelmingly reject tech-backed approval voting system, early election results show]( Seattleites disapprove of approval voting. 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[When Mark Zuckerberg met Seattle: Facebook, Meta, and a turning point for Silicon Valley]( The year was 2011, Facebook was serving a mere 600 million users, and Mark Zuckerberg was making his pitch to a crowd of prospective hires inside the company’s fledgling office near Pike Place Market — explaining why the social network had chosen Seattle for its first remote engineering hub. [Flyhomes does another round of layoffs as slowing housing market hurts real estate tech companies]( Seattle real estate startup Flyhomes is laying off employees for the second time in five months. SPONSORED: GEEK REAL ESTATE [Live Your Legacy on Hunts Point]( [Boeing-built X-37B space plane lands after completing record 908-day orbital mission]( The U.S. Space Force’s Boeing-built X-37B space plane today completed yet another record-setting mission, landing like an airplane at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida 908 days after it was launched. [Redfin to cut 13% of workforce and shut down home-flipping business RedfinNow]( Redfin will wind down its home-flipping program RedfinNow and lay off employees for the second time this year as it cuts expenses in response to a slowing housing market. [The story behind those ‘Homelessness’ billboards in Seattle — designed to ‘get people talking’]( The crisis around homelessness in Seattle — and in cities across the country — is nothing short of a source of daily conversation among those experiencing it, witnessing it, or working to combat it. [DoorDash expanding engineering footprint in Seattle with new downtown office space]( DoorDash, the food ordering and delivery company, is expanding its office footprint in Seattle two years after starting an engineering outpost in the city. [More than 200 Twitter employees in Seattle laid off as part of larger cuts]( Twitter is laying off 208 Seattle-based employees, according to a new filing with the Washington state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) system. [Paul Allen’s private art collection fetches more than $1.5B in record-setting auction]( The sale of the private art collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen shattered auction records on Wednesday night, as Christie’s New York reeled in more than $1.5 billion for a variety of iconic works. [Inside the Seattle Auto Show, with more electric vehicles and a Hummer EV that is ‘just crazy’]( You know the move toward automobile electrification is getting serious when they roll out the electric Hummer. [Techstars Seattle founders on navigating a shaky economy and their startup secret sauce]( Venture capitalists are canceling meetings. [Crypto exchange Gemini expanding in Seattle area amid industry turmoil]( Gemini, a cryptocurrency exchange co-founded by the Winklevoss twins of Facebook fame, plans to hire 100 people at its Seattle-area hub. GEEKWORK: TODAY'S TECH JOBS - [MedBridge: Software Engineer III (Back end)]( - [INRIX: Technical Program Manager – Data Platform]( - [Periscopic: Full Stack Developer]( - [Government of Canada Trade Commissioner Service: Senior Trade Officer (International Business Development)]( - [Switchee: Fullstack Developer]( - [San Jose State University: Systems Analyst]( - [Scientific Software Engineering Center: Software Engineer – multiple roles!]( - [Remitly: Principal Software Development Engineer- Passbook (Seattle or U.S. Remote)]( - [San Jose State University: Web Analyst]( - [INRIX: Senior Frontend Engineer]( [FIND MORE JOBS ON GEEKWORK]( [HIRING? 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