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An Xbox wireless controller, the face of Microsoft's gaming division
Gaming·

Xbox is planning major layoffs in July as new CEO Asha Sharma overhauls the unit

Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports Xbox plans significant job cuts after June 30, as new CEO Asha Sharma tells staff a 3% margin can't continue. Microsoft hasn't confirmed.

Promotional artwork from Bungie's Destiny franchise, the live-service game whose content support is ending in June 2026.
Gaming·

Destiny 3 isn't in production. Bungie is heading for significant layoffs after Destiny 2 wraps in June.

Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports Bungie has no follow-up project for the Destiny 2 team. Sony is taking tighter management control and Marathon hasn't recovered.

Vasilios Syrakis at his desk next to a whiteboard diagram of an Open Service Broker: Client → FastAPI → SQS → Worker → DynamoDB, with provisioning tasks to Route53, CloudFront, and API calls.
Web·

Atlassian laid off the engineer who built its edge. He published the blueprints.

Vasilios Syrakis spent eight years building Atlassian's Envoy control plane. After the March cuts, he posted a 40-minute walkthrough that hit 1.1M views.

Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins speaking on stage.
Hardware·

Cisco cut 4,000 jobs on its record revenue day. AI infrastructure orders jumped to $9 billion.

Cisco posted $15.8B in Q3 FY26 revenue on May 14, up 12% YoY, then sent layoff notices to 4,000 staff the same day. AI orders are now tracking to $9B for the fiscal year.

GitLab Act 2 blog post header graphic
Web·

GitLab is cutting staff and killing its CREDIT values. The CEO calls it 'Act 2.'

CEO Bill Staples announced a restructuring he frames around agentic AI, retiring GitLab's six core values for three new operating principles. Exact layoff numbers come June 2.

Illustration of Cloudflare layoffs with company logo and downward trend
Web·

Cloudflare cut 1,100 jobs on its best earnings day. Revenue grew 34% and the stock dropped 18%.

Cloudflare laid off 20% of its workforce on May 7 while reporting record Q1 revenue of $639.8M. The stock dropped 18% after hours.