GeekWire Mid-Week Update

Read the top tech stories so far this week from GeekWire [GeekWire Mid-Week Update] Top stories so far this week [Zulily website inaccessible and ‘down for maintenance’ following layoffs]( Zulily’s website was “down for maintenance” Monday in the latest sign of the retailer’s collapse. [Surviving Amazon: Work, life, and bias inside one of the world’s most ambitious businesses]( [Editor’s Note: We’re excited this week to welcome a guest host to the GeekWire Podcast, Ross Reynolds, whose voice is well-known in the Seattle region from his 34 years at KUOW, the public radio station from which he retired in 2021. [Google to pay Washington state Play Store users as part of $700M antitrust settlement]( Google Play Store users in Washington state are eligible for a share of a multistate $700 million antitrust lawsuit settlement reached against the tech giant. [Rules targeting financial criminals will require new filings for startups and small businesses]( Startup and small business owners take note: if your company has 20 or fewer full-time employees and gross annual sales of less than $5 million, there’s a new federal filing requirement that you need to know about. [Tech Moves: Google leaders join Seattle startup MotherDuck; Humanly adds a VP; and more]( Seattle data analytics startup MotherDuck is expanding its nest with two new leadership hires. [High-tech art experience WNDR Museum closes abruptly in Seattle after 8 months]( WNDR Museum, an interactive, tech-infused art experience near the waterfront in downtown Seattle, has ceased operations eight months after opening. [Blue Origin ramps up for second launch attempt after delaying return to spaceflight]( Blue Origin is gearing up again to send its New Shepard suborbital rocket ship to space after a 15-month gap and a one-day postponement. [Wizards of the Coast doubles down on generative AI stance, says artists are ‘what makes D&D great’]( In response to social media criticism, Wizards of the Coast has released a statement that further clarifies its stance on the use of generative AI in material for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop game. [Self-driving company Cruise will lay off 67 workers at Seattle-area engineering hub]( Self-driving technology company Cruise is laying off 67 employees at its Bellevue, Wash., engineering center, part of widespread cuts at the GM-backed firm. [Zulily lays off more employees as website and app remain offline]( Zulily made more job cuts Wednesday, GeekWire has learned, the company’s second round of layoffs in the past two weeks and the latest move toward an apparent shutdown. GEEKWORK: TODAY'S TECH JOBS - [City of Newport: Systems Administrator I or II]( - [INRIX: Lead Software Engineer, Big Data]( - [City of Newport: Systems Administrator I or II]( - [INRIX: Lead Software Engineer]( - [INRIX: Finance Pricing Manager]( - [City of Redlands: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Analyst]( - [City of Redlands: Network Engineer]( - [City of Redlands: IT Security Analyst]( - [Submittable: Director of Engineering]( [FIND MORE JOBS ON GEEKWORK]( [HIRING? BUY A FEATURED LISTING TO APPEAR HERE]( [About GeekWire]( [Contact Us]( [Advertise]( Copyright © 2023 GeekWire LLC, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted to receive emails from GeekWire LLC.  Our mailing address is: GeekWire LLC 123 NW 36th St, Suite 203 Seattle, WA 98107  [change email frequency or address]( | [unsubscribe](