🗣 Meta* COO Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down after 14 years

Zuckerberg called the change an “end of an era” and said that he doesn’t plan to replace Sandberg’s exact role in the company’s structure. His current chief growth officer Javier Olivan, already one of the company’s most powerful but lesser-known executives, will take over as COO in what Zuckerberg says is a “more traditional” COO role.

Sandberg joined the company in 2008 to help the then-23-year-old Zuckerberg navigate the path to an IPO and build an ads business, which she has led since. Though she was recently accused of leveraging her position to squash negative reporting about her ex-boyfriend and Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, her decision to leave Meta* was unrelated to that scandal, the person added, saying that Facebook*’s internal review of the matter had recently been closed.

*Meta, Facebook, and Instagram are banned in Russia over extremist activities.

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❌ Elon Musk tells SpaceX and Tesla workers they must return to the office full-time

Elon Musk delivered an ultimatum to Tesla and Space X’s corporate workforces: Spend a minimum of 40 hours a week in the office, or leave the company. 

Musk taking a hardline stance on remote work is in stark contrast to a number of other major tech companies that have allowed all or most workers to request to work-from-home permanently, including Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce and Slack. Apple recently suspended a requirement that workers return to the office at least three days a week.

Tesla’s career website still lists a number of salaried and hourly remote positions. It’s unclear whether the new policy will apply to those positions.

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🧑‍🎓 Biden administration will cancel student debt for half a million students from Corinthian Colleges

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden's Education Department announced all remaining student-loan borrowers who attended now-defunct, for-profit Corinthian Colleges are getting their debt balances wiped out. The announcement approved $5.8 billion for a group student-loan forgiveness claim that covers 560,000 former Corinthian students.

Corinthian shut down in 2015 following a number of investigations that found the school engaged in predatory behavior that pushed students to take out loans when that was not the best option for them.

Wednesday's announcement is the biggest group approval the department has acted on to date, and it will include borrowers who did not submit relief claims themselves. 

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NASA outsources development of Moon spacesuit 

Today, NASA announced that two private companies — Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace — will develop the next-generation spacesuits that future astronauts will wear to conduct spacewalks and eventually traverse the surface of the moon.

Currently, NASA is aiming to land the first Artemis astronauts on the moon by 2025 — a one-year delay from the 2024 deadline originally set by the Trump administration. When the astronauts do land, NASA wants them to be equipped with proper spacesuits they can use to explore the moon’s terrain.

NASA announced that the total value of the contracts is $3.5 billion, though the space agency would not say the individual values of each company’s contract. Once the suits are complete, though, the companies will own them and have the option to use them for other purposes unrelated to NASA.

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⚡️ Russia clearly voiced its demands on Ukraine, Kiev is well aware of them, but Ukrainian authorities freeze negotiations, Kremlin says

📹 Russia’s MoD has published footage showing Russian Airborne Forces scouting terrain as part of the special military operation

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⚡️⚡️ Russian military warns foreign mercenaries fighting in Ukraine are criminally liable

📹🎞 Listen to a resident of Severodonetsk describe how people have been waiting for eight years to be liberated. The man was so happy, he couldn't help but begin to tear

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📌 The latest updates on the Ukraine op from the Russian Defence Ministry:

▪️ Russian forces have hit 21 Ukrainian areas of manpower and military equipment concentration as well as command posts of the Kraken and Azov neo-Nazis near Kharkov;

▪️ Russian aviation destroyed 15 areas of manpower and Ukrainian military equipment concentration in the DPR;

▪️ The Russian Air Force destroyed a Ukrainian SU-25 near the village of Liubomirovka, Nikolaev region;

▪️ Russian air defences shot down seven Ukrainian drones;

▪️ The flow of foreign mercenaries to Ukraine has dried up since the beginning of May;

▪️ Most of the mercenaries who fought for Kiev who have died were killed due to the low level of their combat experience;

▪️ Hundreds of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine have been eliminated with high-precision weapons after their arrival in the country;

▪️ Many foreign mercenaries faced with a real combat situation decided to leave Ukraine, but Kiev impeded this in every possible way

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⚡️ US to build 110 military facilities in Poland within next 10 years, US ambassador to Warsaw says

❗US, NATO have no plans to supply Kiev with advanced combat aircraft - official

📹🎞 Dmitry Kuzmenko, commander of the 194th Territorial Defence of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that he wants to get Russian citizenship

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📹🎞 A resident of Severodonetsk talks about how Ukrainian forces looted stores and threatened people with burning down their houses

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📹🎞 Azov neo-Nazis shot at a man’s feet and forced him to give them the key to his car so that they could hijack it

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Joe and Jill Biden congratulate Queen Elizabeth II on her platinum jubilee and thank her for 70 years of “selfless devotion”

❗Politician Medvedchuk facing up to 15 years in prison in Ukraine, State Bureau of Investigation says

📹🎞 Olga Tkachik, who fled the conflict to Belarus, talks about the atrocities of Azov militants in Mariupol

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