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Justice Department drops challenge to California net neutrality rules

The Verge

The Justice Department dropped its 2018 lawsuit challenging California’s state net neutrality rules on Monday, removing one of the law’s major roadblocks preventing it from going into effect. The following year, California passed its own law instituting net neutrality rules at the state level. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Biden appoints Jessica Rosenworcel as acting FCC chair

The Verge

Rosenworcel was first nominated to the FCC by President Barack Obama and served from May 2012 to January 2017. She was later confirmed for an additional term in August 2017 where she currently serves as the most senior Democratic commissioner at the FCC.

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Uber thinks it could actually turn a profit this quarter

The Verge

Whereas the company previously expected to make a net loss of under $100 million, it now believes it could make an adjusted profit of up to $25 million. “We Meanwhile, the company’s food-delivery business, while still unprofitable overall, has boomed over the course of the pandemic. They say that crisis breeds opportunity”.

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It looks like people are actually moving back to San Francisco (really)

Vox

The data represents a significant shift in population trends for San Francisco, which hadn’t seen notable net gains in LinkedIn’s data since 2017. The LinkedIn data, of course, only includes people who update their profiles, so it’s limited in its scope to professionals who stay up-to-date on their LinkedIn profiles.

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Some things Jeff Bezos can do with his $193 billion

The Verge

Forbes pegs his net worth around $193.2 For instance, last year, Bezos’ ex-wife, Mackenzie Scott, gave away $4 billion in four months — and her net worth is only a paltry $60 billion by comparison. Finally, in 2017, they settled on renting a studio apartment for its bathroom at $3,000 a month. It has everything!

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How effective altruism went from a niche movement to a billion-dollar force

Vox

I had asked the people at the “let’s all give our money to buy the world’s poor malaria bed nets” conference to buy me a plane ticket ? Obviously the money should go to bed nets! The degree requires that students write six 5,000-word, publication-worthy philosophy papers on pre-assigned topics, each over the course of a few months.

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Tech CEO moves $9B cybersecurity company’s HQ to Seattle area, says S.F. is ‘not the city it was’

GeekWire

Of course, maintaining a strong corporate culture is no easy task with employees dispersed across the globe. The most recent round valued Tanium at more than $9 billion and also cemented Hindawi’s position on the Forbes billionaire list , with an estimated net worth of more than $1.5 ” A ‘hard-edged’ style.