North Korea linked to crypto heists of over $650 million in 2024 alone
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hackers in North Korea stole a total of $659 million in crypto across several heists in 2024, according to a joint statement issued…
Netflix’s new animated Witcher spinoff movie sets sail this February
Netflix Though the fourth season of Netflix’s live-action Witcher series still doesn’t have a concrete release date, Netflix has finally announced when we’ll see yet another animated take on Geralt…
Sonos’ chief product officer is leaving the company
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge A day after Sonos announced a CEO transition, the company is making more moves. Chief product officer Maxime Bouvat-Merlin will also be leaving his…
Parallels is testing x86 emulation on Apple silicon Macs
Photo by Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge Parallels has added support for x86 emulation in Parallels Desktop 20.2, product manager Mikhail Ushakov wrote in a blog post last…
Meta to cut 5% of employees deemed unfit for Zuckerberg’s AI-fueled future
Anticipating that 2025 will be an “intense year” requiring rapid innovation, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly announced that Meta would be cutting 5 percent of its workforce—targeting “lowest performers.” Bloomberg reviewed the…
Amid a flurry of hype, Microsoft reorganizes entire dev team around AI
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has announced a dramatic restructuring of the company’s engineering organization—all around pivoting the company’s focus to developing the tools that will underpin agentic AI. Dubbed “CoreAI…
Ban on Chinese connected-car software is almost ready
Plans to block new vehicles with software and hardware linked to either China or Russia are moving ahead. Today, the Department of Commerce published a final rule in the Federal…
Buyers of Razer’s bogus “N95” Zephyr masks get over $1 million in refunds
The Federal Trade Commission said yesterday it is sending over $1 million in refunds to 6,764 consumers who purchased Razer Zephyr masks that were deceptively marketed as providing N95 protection…
Instagram alternative Pixelfed now has apps
Image: Pixelfed Pixelfed, a decentralized and ad-free Instagram alternative, now has apps on iOS and Android, as reported by TechCrunch. The iOS app launched today, while the Android app launched…
Up close and personal with the stag beetle in A Real Bug’s Life S2
A plucky male American stag beetle thinks he’s found a mate on a rotting old tree stump—and then realizes there’s another male eager to make the same conquest. The two…