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"The Court of Rome upheld the action brought by Movimento Consumatori against Netflix Italia, ascertaining the vexatiousness - and therefore the nullity - of the clauses that allowed the modification of the price of subscriptions and other contractual conditions from 2017 to January 2024".

After Amazon, Oracle is now in the bulls-eye.

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Space watchers enthralled by the live stream from NASA’s Artemis II Orion spacecraft have noticed that even astronauts can have trouble with Microsoft software. BlueSkyer Niki Grayson clipped an amusing segment of the live stream, where a puzzled astronaut asks for support from Mission Control because they “have two Microsoft Outlooks, and neither one of those are working.”

Grayson was agog at NASA inflicting Outlook on astronauts. “I'm so sorry we've sent these souls to the moon and they're using Outlook?” they quipped.

https://archive.ph/2026.04.02-112104/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-04-02/openclaw-is-helping-chinese-ai-firms-find-users-overseas

https://archive.ph/2026.04.01-211303/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-04-01/microsoft-s-ai-ambitions-rest-in-hands-of-satya-nadella-s-trusted-cfo

https://archive.ph/2026.04.01-122358/https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-races-to-contain-leak-of-code-behind-claude-ai-agent-4bc5acc7

It was not a phone call. It was not a meeting. For thousands of Oracle employees across the globe, Tuesday morning began with a single email landing in their inboxes just after 6 a.m. EST — and by the time they finished reading it, their careers at one of the world’s largest technology companies were over.

Oracle has launched what analysts believe could be the most extensive layoff in the company’s history, with estimates suggesting the cuts will affect between 20,000 and 30,000 employees — roughly 18% of its global workforce of approximately 162,000 people. Workers in the United States, India, and other regions all reported receiving the same termination notice at nearly the same hour, sent under the name “Oracle Leadership.

https://archive.ph/2026.04.01-064420/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/anthropic-accidentally-releases-source-code-for-claude-ai-agent