Twitter reportedly cut thousands of contractors without warning

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter eliminated a large number of contract employees on Saturday, affecting anywhere from 4,40...

'Cryptography's Future Will Be Quantum-Safe. Here's How'

Fearing the possibility of encryption-cracking quantum computers, Quanta magazine reports that researchers are "scrambling to produce n...

The Climate Issue Government Leaders Aren't Addressing: Livestock Farming

It's "a major cause" of our climate crisis. "It's on course to guzzle half the world's carbon budget," write...

‘Fix your companies. Or Congress will,’ Senator Ed Markey warns Elon Musk

Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) told Elon Musk, “Fix your companies. Or Congress will,” after Musk snark...

Why California's EV-Rebate Proposition Lost

California's EV-funding proposition 30 "has suffered an unambiguous defeat," reports Bay City News. The measure would've i...

'Three-Body Problem' Animation Sci-Fi Series Starts Next Month

"Cixin Liu's sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem can't stop jumping to other formats," reports Gizmodo: In addition to nex...

How Close Was America's FBI to Deploying Pegasus Spyware?

In a statement in February, America's Federal Bureau of Investigation "confirmed that it obtained NSO Group's powerful Pegasus ...