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Anne Wojcicki to buy back 23andMe and its data for $305M

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/anne-wojcicki-to-buy-back-23andme-and-its-data-for-305-million.html

#HackerNews #Anne #Wojcicki #23andMe #data #acquisition #$305M #biotech #news

#23andMe, the personal genomics company, went public in early 2021 via a merger with a blank check company that valued it at $3.5 billion.

Then its fortunes began to sink.

Fading interest in #DNA kits
– 23andMe’s main product
–  was one driver.

So was news last year that #hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million of its users.

CEO and co-founder #Anne #Wojcicki now reportedly wants to take the 18-year-old company private.

After her own proposal to buy it was rebuffed by its board in July,
she was given time to wangle another deal.

But its independent directors announced Tuesday evening they’ve lost faith that another proposal is coming,
adding that because of Wojcicki’s
“concentrated voting power,”
they’re done,
effective immediately.

The company’s market cap closed the day at $173 million.

Losing its glittering board
– which included Sequoia Capital’s #Roelof #Botha and YouTube CEO #Neal #Mohan, among five others
– will likely drive its shares down further.

One question is whether a shareholder lawsuit might follow.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/23andme-sees-independent-board-directors-quit-en-masse/

Jakby ktos byl z okolic / w poblizu i zainteresowany to jednym z gosci #SlaskiFestiwalNauki bedzie Karol #Wojcicki #ZGlowaWGwiazdach

7-9 grudnia, Miedzynarodowe Centrum Kongresowe

#nauka #astronomia #ObserwacjeNieba #wydarzenia #eventy

Uwaga, szansa na zobaczenie na niebie niezwyklego spektaklu.

Jakis czas temu wystartowala #rakieta #Ariane6, ktora po 23:00 wykonywala manewry, dajac efektowny widok chmury gazow wylotowych nad polnocno-wschodnim niebem

I teraz najlepsze - jest szansa na powtorke! Za Karolem #Wojcicki.m z #ZGlowaWGwiazdach

⚠️ UWAGA PILNE! ⚠️
Widok który zafundowała nam rakieta ARIANE 6 podczas przelotu po 23:00 to był AWARIA silników korekcyjnych rakiety.

Rakiety nie udało się ustabilizować przez co nie została zepchnięta do atmosfery, co planowano podczas tego okrążenia.

Oznacza to, że wkrótce czeka nas KOLEJNY przelot widoczny z Polski! Rakieta jest na orbicie o wysokości ponad 500 km więc czas obiegu wynosi pewnie ok. 100 minut. Kolejny przelot powinien być widoczny ok. 00:40 (postaram się to doprecyzować).

Nie wiem czy silniki korekcyjne dalej wariują. Jeśli tak to jest szansa na powtórkę z rozrywki!

Wkrótce (00:30) konferencja ESA na ten temat.

#lotyKosmiczne #kosmos #nauka #astronomia #astronautyka

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14-year old girl became latest alt-right star on Youtube

Users — and more importantly to YouTube, advertisers — have over the past year started to hold the platform accountable for enabling the exploitation of children and exposing them to disturbing content. But this video reveals an entirely different way the platform is harming kids: by letting them express extreme views in front of the entire world. This is what indoctrination looks like when it’s reflected back by the indoctrinated.

Of course, it’s all presented in the terminally ironic style popularized by boundary-pushing comedy groups like the influential Million Dollar Extreme and adopted of late by white supremacist mass shooters in Christchurch and San Diego.

She’s 14, precocious, isolated, and pissed off, a combination that has produced a lot of bad behavior over the years, but not all of it monetized through preroll ads and a Patreon, and not all of it streamed to millions.

“Susan, I’ve known your address since last summer,” Soph said, directly addressing YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki. “I’ve got a Luger and a mitochondrial disease. I don’t care if I live. Why should I care if you live or your children? I just called an Uber. You’ve got about seven minutes to draft up a will. ... I’m coming for you, and it ain’t gonna be pretty.”