Hey, Code Newbies. Since we're in between seasons, we wanted to share with you the first episode of this season of one of the other shows I host, Dev News.

In this episode, we talk about companies rescinding job offers after they've been accepted.

Just as Clarence Thomas arguing for categorizing some digital platforms as utilities, and why this is a huge deal for the tech world,

and a team archiving Yahoo Answers, which is shutting down after 16 years.

I hope you enjoy it.

Welcome to Dev News, the news show for developers by developers, where we cover the latest in the world of tech.

I'm Seranya Barak, founder of Disco.

And I'm Josh Pitts, principal engineer at Forum.

This week, we're talking about companies rescinding job offers after they've been accepted. Then we speak with Nicholas Guggenberger, Executive Director of the Yale Information Society project,

about Justice Clarence Thomas arguing for categorization of some digital platforms as utilities,

and why this is a huge deal for the tech world.

I think it could create a completely new equilibrium in terms of what kind of functions these platforms take on.

Then we chat with Jason Scott, co-founder of Archive Team, about their efforts to archive Yahoo Answers,

which is shutting down after 16 years.

If you look at the full story of Yahoo, if you spoil it, it's basically two guys, create a

directory of the internet, gather as much data as possible, and then delete it.

So during our little time off in between seasons, there were a couple of troubling tweets I saw

from pretty prominent developers talking about tech companies who rescinded some candidates' job

offers.

So first, there was a tweet by Chloe Condon, senior cloud advocate at Microsoft, who responded

to a tweet thread by CEO of Fast, Dom Holland,

which started off by saying, quote, we grew fast from two to 120 plus people in less than 18 months,

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