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Cydney Hayes

Cydney Hayes is a business and tech reporter for Gazetteer SF. She has previously written about tech, culture, music, and media for The Drift, Architectural Digest, Baltimore, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere. She also writes a Substack newsletter called OPENWORLD. Subscribe at openw0rld.substack.com.

A beloved magazine about writers and money is reborn as a newsletter

Manjula Martin, Rahawa Haile, and friends are resurrecting ‘Scratch’ as a place for writers to talk about money, art, and how they survive

March 18, 2026

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative sued for gender discrimination by director

The lawsuit alleges women at the company were paid less and systemically tasked with menial labor

March 17, 2026

‘When you land in Vegas, it feels like this’: Gambling on the future of gaming at GDC

Video games offering cash payouts are on the rise, and developers are betting that they’ll spread

March 17, 2026

Finally, a defense of brainrot

It’s a modern virtue, so says an AI exec. Plus, send me tips about the gaming industry

March 9, 2026

San Francisco’s future spokespeople: Coyotes

A new city ad is rumored to be in the works, headed up by ‘Last Black Man in San Francisco’ director Joe Talbot

March 5, 2026

Soon Technology is tech-pilled and loving it

A Vice Media alum’s ‘new media’ company offers up friendly coverage to an increasingly controversial industry

March 4, 2026

Wars within wars

Anthropic’s loss is OpenAI’s gain. Plus, the mysterious “Dime” appears at Sightglass

March 2, 2026

Guerrilla outdoor campaign decrying ‘GROK CHILD PORN’ appears around the city

The mysterious marketing push comes amid public uproar and international investigations into sex abuse material generated by Elon Musk’s chatbot

February 24, 2026

Who (allegedly) runs tech?

Two magazines investigate. Plus, the people want a ‘Silicon Valley’ reboot

February 23, 2026