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Synopsys, Which Controls a Microsoft FUD Operation (Black Duck), to Lay Off Hundreds of Workers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 13, 2025

One white duck among many black coots

Crossposted from Tux Machines

Winter is here and so are rounds of layoffs that are likely "last" for the year because companies get bad reputation if they fire people "too close" to holy days. According to this new report, "Synopsys will lay off 10% of its global staff, which is about 2,000 employees."

Synopsys is the company which controls Microsoft Black Duck, so it probably impacts its FUD operations too.

Microsoft had plenty of layoffs this year, well over 30,000 in total, including at least two waves of layoffs last month.

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