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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.

Modern Relics closed after being ransacked in burglary

Jewelry store owner Alix Blüh recalls discovering the damage earlier this month: ‘Broken glass everywhere… Just everything destroyed.’

August 25, 2026

Anti-surveillance protestors flock to Chris Larsen’s house

Plus, TikTok’s newest aesthetic is the anti-AI girlie

August 24, 2026

The internet hates the new Instagram logo. What do professional designers think?

Four graphics experts critique the mega-platform’s ‘cleaner and more modern’ wordmark

August 20, 2026

Corgi kills short-lived website that ranked its female employees

The ‘demeaning’ website was spun up by a local founder with no relationship to the company

August 13, 2026

‘Members of the LGBTQ+ community have legitimate reasons to be sensitive about privacy’

After backlash, Badlands and Toad Hall management is ‘pausing’ surveillance of patrons in San Francisco but continues to employ it in Portland and Sacramento

August 11, 2026