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Oracle terminates an estimated 18 percent of its global workforce via early-morning emails with no prior warning, freeing up to $10 billion in cash flow to finance a $156 billion AI infrastructure expansion even as the company reports a 95 percent jump in quarterly net income.

Oracle ends security patches for MySQL 8.0 on April 30, leaving 58 percent of monitored instances on an unsupported version with no fix path for new vulnerabilities.

Oracle executes mass layoffs via 6 a.m. emails across the US, India, and other countries, eliminating up to 18% of its workforce to free an estimated $8-10 billion for AI infrastructure spending.

Oracle releases out-of-band patch for CVE-2026-21992, a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated RCE flaw in Identity Manager and Web Services Manager, just months after a similar vulnerability was actively exploited in the wild.

Oracle releases JDK 26 with ten JEPs spanning HTTP/3 client support, garbage-collector-independent ahead-of-time object caching, G1 throughput gains of up to 15 percent, and the final removal of the Applet API deprecated since JDK 17.

Oracle's Q3 FY2026 earnings reveal its fastest organic revenue growth since 2009, driven by explosive AI infrastructure demand, a 531 percent jump in multicloud database revenue, and a remaining performance obligations backlog that has tripled year over year.

Java 26 ships 10 JEPs including HTTP/3, ahead-of-time caching for all garbage collectors, G1 throughput gains, and the final removal of the Applet API after a five-year deprecation.

A community revolt over commit drought, staff cuts, and opaque development is forcing Oracle to rethink its stewardship of the world's most deployed open source database.