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Received β€” 1 July 2026 ⏭ Biz & IT - Ars Technica

T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit

1 July 2026 at 21:21

T-Mobile is asking a New York court to rule that Broadcom was contractually obligated to continue supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.

In its complaint, T-Mobile said it has tens of thousands of virtual machines using VMware software across approximately 303,140 CPU cores. It also said that it was migrating off VMware but noted the time-consuming and technical challenges involved in migrating over 1,000 applications.

It filed its lawsuit, which was first reported by The Register today, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in August 2025 (PDF).

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Received β€” 25 June 2026 ⏭ Biz & IT - Ars Technica

Notion killing Skiff-influenced email app since most users use AI agents instead

25 June 2026 at 19:04

In February 2024, Notion bought Skiff, an encrypted email and productivity software startup. Within a year, Notion shut down Skiff’s email service (taking @skiff.com email addresses with it). And in April 2025, the San Francisco-based company released Notion Mail, a Gmail client primarily built by people who joined Notion through the Skiff acquisition. Today, Notion announced that it’s shutting down Notion Mail, effectively killing what little remained of Skiff email.

In an X post (first spotted by 9to5Mac) today, Notion said that it will shutter the Notion Mail β€œinbox across web, desktop, and iOS on September 22.”

The post claimed that most Notion users don’t use email clients anyway and instead rely on AI agents to handle their electronic correspondence. It reads:

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Received β€” 23 June 2026 ⏭ Biz & IT - Ars Technica

Oracle’s 21,000 layoffs help drive its debt-fueled AI investments

23 June 2026 at 20:17

The growing use of AI contributed to Oracle laying off 21,000 workers in a year, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Monday.

In its annual regulatory filing for the fiscal year ending May 31, Oracle said it has 141,000 full-time employees. In its 2025 filing, Oracle said it had 162,000 employees. The reported 12.9 percent reduction followed March reports of mass layoffs at the database management software company.

"[T]he adoption and deployment of AI technologies across our operations have resulted, and may continue to result, in reductions to our workforce," the filing reads.

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