Udemy lays off 280 staff, representing 20% of its workforce, with plans to relocate half of the affected positions to lower-cost locations.

Are you new to programming or do you know a beginner programmer? Have you looked at pages of code and thought it’s just too hard to even try to learn programming? There is an easy way: welcome to the world of Scratch! Created in 2007 by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT, Scratch was designed as an easy, fun introduction to programming for children. But you don’t need to be a child to appreciate Scratch. In CS50’s Introduction to Programming with Scratch, I enjoyed personalizing the cartoon

In October, Class Central wrote about CreativeLive shutting down on December 31, 2025. That article led to a series of events that actually saved the platform. Just two weeks before the deadline, on December 15, CourseHorse, an online marketplace of live classes, workshops, and experiences, acquired it for an undisclosed amount. The website is no longer closing at the end of the year. In 2021, Fiverr acquired it for $11 million. Four years later, in May 2025, the platform stopped accepting new