• Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no. 

    May 9, 2026

    As was widely reported, Oracle axed an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 people via email on March 31. One of the employees cut that day told TechCrunch about the experience: “I had, like, this weird feeling in my stomach. I went to go sign into the VPN, and the VPN was like, ‘this user doesn’t exist anymore.’ Then I called my friend, and I was like, ‘Hey, can you see me in Slack?’ And she said, ‘No, your account’s been deactivated.’” The person soon received an email stating their role was terminated immediately. The severance offer arrived a few days later. But…

  • Opel slashes R&D jobs, will get Leapmotor-based EV

    May 9, 2026

    Opel/Vauxhall will be the first brand in the Stellantis stable to develop a model based on Leapmotor hardware, but this will come as small comfort to the engineers that will leave the marque by the end of 2027. Overnight Stellantis confirmed it will begin building the Leapmotor B10 at its factory in Zaragoza, Spain, possibly as early as this year. It will be the first Leapmotor vehicle to be made in Europe, and will allow the B10 to avoid EU tariffs on made-in-China EVs, which can be as high as 35.4 per cent. The companies are also working together on…

  • Discord Is Back After An Outage That Took Some Users Offline

    May 9, 2026

    Primakov/Shutterstock Discord is recovering following a brief outage that saw some users unable to use the popular chat app. At 3:08PM ET, the company said it had begun investigating an issue with its API systems. Shortly thereafter, at 3:24PM ET, Discord said it had identified the problem, but noted at the time it was still affecting users, making it difficult for them to access the service.  “We are continuing to work to remediate the issues impacting availability for some Discord users,” the company said at3:56PM ET. “This is causing impact across our service, including logging…