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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: Money Hacks is a financial education series from GeekWire and BECU: [Get financial tips and find other resources to help you manage your money.]( THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES [Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar]( The Amazon Web Services executive who oversaw the cloud giant’s massive network of data centers is suddenly gone, without explanation. [How big was that Amazon walkout crowd?]( Paging Sean Spicer. The former White House press secretary made a quick name for himself at the outset of Donald Trump’s presidency in 2017 when he was dispatched by his boss to debate inauguration crowd sizes. [Amazon employees walk out, seeking bolder climate action and end of return-to-office policy]( Some Amazon employees in Seattle and other offices around the world walked out in protest Wednesday, urging the company to take bolder climate action and to reconsider its return-to-office policies. SPONSOR MESSAGE [Get tips for avoiding the most common money mistakes in financial planning, saving, and budgeting]( Money Hacks is a financial education series from GeekWire and BECU, the member-owned, not-for-profit credit union. Get financial tips from Stacey Black, BECU lead financial educator, and find other resources to help you manage your money. [Get answers from Money Hacks with BECU.]( [Microsoft vets lead secretive education startup using generative AI to help students learn]( Two decades after selling their startup to Microsoft, Eran Megiddo and Liviu Asnash are going back to their entrepreneurial roots. [Salesforce stops reporting individual revenue figures for Slack and Tableau]( Salesforce said it would no longer divulge the individual revenue numbers of acquired companies including Slack and Tableau in its quarterly earnings filings and instead focus on percentage changes. [Amazon employee groups expect nearly 2,000 workers to participate in walkout]( The walkout is on. Amazon employee groups say they expect more than 1,900 workers around the world to participate in a planned protest of the company’s return-to-office mandate and climate-related impact. [Zulily enters another era as Qurate sells Seattle e-commerce retailer to investment firm]( Ownership of Seattle e-commerce retail company Zulily is changing hands again. [Seattle school cuts a bold new STEM program, showing challenges of reimagining education]( As the school year winds down, Trish Millines Dziko is focused on helping students at Washington Middle School in Seattle prep for their big STEM expo. [Amazon starts testing new mobile app layout, moving search box to bottom of the screen]( In its neverending quest to remove every possible barrier from the shopping experience, Amazon has started testing a new mobile app configuration that moves the search box to the bottom of the screen. [Seattle Metro Chamber survey shows high adoption of hybrid work and most popular days in office]( A survey by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce found that a hybrid work model is the most popular option among employers in downtown Seattle, and most companies are seeing employees in the office three or more days per week. [Goodbye, Ctrl+F: AI startup aims to help financial analysts scour corporate filings with chatbot tool]( A new startup wants to make financial analysts more efficient with its chatbot tool that uses artificial intelligence to search publicly available business filings and answer research questions in natural language. [This Univ. of Washington startup wants to automate college admissions counseling]( A student-led startup at the University of Washington wants to help high school students apply to college through a platform that includes educational content and an AI counseling tool. [Tech Moves: Amazon fulfillment VP departing; former Pillpack co-founder joins VC firm]( — Melissa Nick, a vice president of North America fulfillment at Amazon, is leaving the company after more than nine years. [Axiom crew splashes down in a SpaceX capsule after doing space station science]( The second crew to be sent into space as a profit-making proposition for Texas-based Axiom Space came back to Earth tonight in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule after spending nine days on the International Space Station. [Tech Moves: Madrona investor joins Trilogy; Gamesight adds revenue leader: UW names provost]( — Elisa La Cava joined Seattle-area venture capital firm Trilogy Equity Partners as principal. 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