​GoPro is cutting 23 percent of its workforce 

​ The GoPro Max2 is the company’s most recent action camera, launched in September 2025. | Image: GoPro GoPro has announced plans to cut nearly a quarter of its workforce in an effort to return to profitability, after struggling with increased competition and declining revenue. The cuts, announced in a Form 8-K filing, are expected […]

​Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages 

​ Unionized staff at ProPublica, one of the country’s leading nonprofit newsrooms, are walking off the job for 24 hours beginning Wednesday and asking the public to honor a digital picket line. The roughly 150 members of the ProPublica Guild are in the midst of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement after unionizing in 2023. The […]

​The only USB-C AA battery I’d buy for myself is the Zepath 3600 

​ The Zepath eight-pack of rechargeable Li-ion batteries. | Photo by Sean Hollister / The Verge Last September, a company named Lumafield scanned 1,000 cylindrical lithium-ion batteries to shine a light on the hidden risks of cheaping out. At roughly the same time, I found myself testing two awesome new kinds of AA battery that […]

​Why Microsoft’s war on Windows’ Control Panel is taking so long 

​ The Control Panel still exists in Windows 11. | Screenshot by Tom Warren / The Verge Microsoft first started trying to get rid of the Control Panel in 2012, with the launch of Windows 8. More than a decade later, it’s still working on migrating all the old Control Panel items into the modern […]