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2025 was a dismal year for jobs
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on February 11. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images This story appeared in Today, Explained, a daily newsletter that helps...
WhatsApp is now fully blocked in Russia
After warnings from lawmakers last year, WhatsApp has been blocked in Russia for as many as 100 million users, the Financial Times reported. Russian authorities removed the app from an online...
ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground
Minneapolis was not the war zone I expected to find. Depending on who you are and where you live, things can seem, for a few fleeting moments, almost normal, like a few blocks or neighborhoods over...
How the left taught the right to hate white women
Tens of thousands of marchers participate in New York's second annual Women's March to protest against President Donald Trump on January 20, 2018, in Midtown Manhattan. | Andrew Lichtenstein/ Corbis...
Apple acquires Severance and will produce future seasons in-house
Apple’s in-house studio will be producing the future seasons of Severance, according to Deadline. The company has reportedly acquired the show’s IP and all rights from its original studio, Fifth...
Highguard’s developer reportedly lays off ‘most’ of its staff just over two weeks after launch
Highguard, a new multiplayer shooter from developers who worked on games like Apex Legends and Call of Duty, launched just over two weeks ago, but developer Wildlight Entertainment is already...
Diablo II: Resurrected is adding warlock as a brand new player class
Blizzard announced today that it is introducing the Warlock as a playable character to Diablo II: Resurrected. It brings the first new class in 25 years to this remaster of the original RPG. It’s...
Credit card theft, penis injections, and other weird scandals from the 2026 Olympic Games
For a brief moment, Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate of Spain united us all after he was initially prohibited from skating to Minions music at the Olympics. | Jorris Verwijst/BSR/Getty Images Generally...
Two more xAI co-founders are among those leaving after the SpaceX merger
Since the xAI-SpaceX merger announced last week, which combined the two companies (as well as social media platform X) for a reported $1.25 trillion valuation - the biggest merger of all time - a...
iOS 26.3 makes it easier to switch to Android
iPhone users have a new option for switching to Android on iOS 26.3. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Wednesday, Apple released its latest iOS 26 update, which includes a new process...