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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Double Fine staffers have filed a petition to unionize.

All 42 “regular part-time and full-time employees” of the studio, behind games like Psychonauts and Kiln, will be part of the union, Aftermath reports.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Discord is back after a major outage.

For more than an hour on Friday, many people were having trouble connecting to Discord, with the platform showing a message saying that there were “increased API errors.” Discord confirmed it was investigating issues at 3:08PM ET, and by 6:38PM ET, it reported that all “critical functionalities have recovered for all users.”

Updates: Discord says the issues are resolved.

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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Google has finally refreshed the Snapseed app on Android.

Google gave Snapseed its first major update in years on iOS last June, and now the Android app is getting a big upgrade, too, 9to5Google reports. Both apps are now on version 4.0.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Digg is back again — again.

Less than two months after shutting down its open beta relaunch and downsizing its team, Digg has launched a new version at di.gg. This updated version of the platform, instead of functioning similar to Reddit, is more like an online sentiment tracker. Right now, it’s focused only on tracking AI news, but “it’s going to be all the things,” according to Kevin Rose.

The Verge’s 2026 Mother’s Day gift guide

From time-saving gadgets to more sentimental picks, we’ve pooled together Mother’s Day gifts for every type of mom.

Sheena Vasani
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
MIT’s Labububot tops the list of things I wish I could unsee.

If the pointy-toothed grin of Labubu dolls wasn’t unsettling enough, a group of MIT grad students has turned 12 of them into a rolling robot capable of following you around. There’s more details about Labububot here, but the video should be all you need to keep you wide awake tonight.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
Meta employees are reportedly “miserable” between looming layoffs and AI push.

Meta recently began tracking employees’ computer activity to train its AI models, plans to cut 10 percent of staff later this month, and is pushing “employees to make so many A.I. agents that others had to introduce agents to find agents, and agents to rate agents,” sparking “anger and anxiety,” reports the New York Times:

Some said they no longer saw Meta as a place for a long career. Others were looking for new jobs or trying to signal that they wanted to be laid off so they could receive severance pay, the current and former employees said.