The FCC’s foreign drone ban is here

the samizdat 60 minutes report www.theverge.com/policy/84943...

The 60 Minutes report on CECOT that Bari Weiss censored is now internet contraband

ChatGPT’s yearly recap sums up your conversations with the chatbot

Call of Duty, Titanfall developer Vince Zampella has died at age 55

"Unfortunately, all this also means that a lot of the openness of podcasting is slowly going away and becoming more centralized on platforms like YouTube and Netflix." Hill I'm willing to die on: podcasts becoming a video-forward medium is / was a huge mistake, and the space is worse off for it

Bitcoin does cultural diplomacy in a dive bar

Pirate library rips 86 million of the most popular songs on Spotify

Birdfy’s Hum Bloom captures 120fps slow motion footage of hummingbirds

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Indie Game Awards retracts Expedition 33 prizes due to generative AI

We pulled this one out of the paywall for today, because, well

Netflix doesn’t stream its ‘Originals’ forever, here are some that may leave in 2026

The Beats Studio Pro headphones are $200 off today

Instacart scraps AI pricing tests that made some products more expensive

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Chipwrecked

what happens when you let @reckless.bsky.social write heds www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

CHIPWRECKED yes I headlined a @lopatto.bsky.social banger after my kid forced me to watch an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie no regrets www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Podcasts on Netflix? My thoughts here... www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

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Get why people are concerned about what selling to Netflix might do to theaters, but need everyone to understand why Paramount gobbling up the entirety of WBD would also be very, very terrible. No matter which company wins this fight, everyone except the execs loses

www.theverge.com/business/793... terrific piece

Samsung ‘Wide Fold’ rumored to rival Apple’s foldable next year

It’s finally time to retire the word ‘podcast’

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The best books we read in 2025

So prophetic that it’s a bit chilling.

as foretold by the prophesy

prescient www.theverge.com/business/793...

From October 2025: “I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him. They don’t have any goodwill toward you. They don’t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up.” Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:

Frozen Waymos backed up San Francisco traffic during a widespread power outage

Imagine a radiologist is using a cutting-edge AI tool to analyze your brain scan. The scan flags a problem in your "basilar ganglia." The problem is, there's no such thing. Read more from @haydenfield.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/health/71804...

You need to listen to these Christmas deep cuts

You guys are gonna love this movie

Job killer

The best thing I bought this year: The Nintendo Switch 2

How AIM taught the internet to chat

2025: a year in art on The Verge

Humanoid robots are coming. Eventually?

Our favorite stuff of 2025

Grassroots groups, voters, and local lawmakers have managed to block or stall tens of billions of dollars’ worth of potential investment in proposed data centers. And they’re not letting up. This report from @justcalma.bsky.social is free to read for today only: www.theverge.com/science/8411...

Since his appointment, RFK Jr. has pursued a brutal vision of American health that several experts liken to a sort of eugenics. Kennedy has made it clear that certain deaths are acceptable or even preferable to a world where every child is vaccinated. Read more: www.theverge.com/health/66136...

The Steam Deck no longer starts at $399. It's $549 now. Technically that's because Valve has discontinued the LCD version. Realistically, it changes every conversation about handheld price from here on out. www.theverge.com/news/848595/...

Sony’s XM5 headphones and the latest Kindle round out this week’s best deals

The best last-minute Christmas gifts you can grab for under $50

The LCD Steam Deck is done

Dogpile’s puzzles mix Balatro, Tetris, and a pile of puppies

You can buy your Xbox Ally an official pair of anti-drift joysticks