Well you mean *today* being Friday right?
It is now Friday [morning] in the UK.

25% is pretty savage, still it sounds like they are consolidating from 3 US sites to one (in Santa Clara).

That may mean more than a few products are EOL'ed.
When you "let your CTO go" thats a pretty major decision, but that may simply be a reflection of the (low) stock price of Sblue.

I wonder if the guy who decided to hold a fire sale of EOL'ed Empegs on Xmas eve last year is now still there?

I don't know if any Empeg guys are affected - I guess we'll find out within 12 hours or so.