Former Tumblr head Jeff D’Onofrio steps in as acting CEO at the Washington Post

GOG is already working on native Linux support www.theverge.com/tech/875425/...

I went back to Linux and it was a mistake

I recommend reading this. It’s beyond the wildest dystopian fictional plot and yet it appears to be true: Epstein seems to be a kind of decoder ring to understand the awful spot we find ourselves in.

Cairn is so, so good y'all www.theverge.com/games/874914...

"Take away our ability to speak, and we can still think, reason, form beliefs, fall in love, and move about the world. But take away language from a large language model, and you are left with literally nothing at all." Read more from @benjaminriley.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

LG’s C5 TV and Anker’s powerful power bank are this week’s best deals

"With apologies to George Carlin: It’s a big club, and the worst people are in it — because their interests are all aligned. Pushing back on social justice, it turns out, was coordinated."

The second-gen AirTags are a scatterbrain’s best friend

Anker’s new charger with a screen would feel less gimmicky if it did more

Cairn is a climbing journey about perseverance and obsession

The best way to watch the Olympics

“I know they would do anything, that they would hurt people, that they’ve murdered people... I know that intellectually. But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.” www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Props to the team at The Verge for sticking with this story, elusive doesn’t really begin to describe it

We found 20 Verge-approved gifts on sale ahead of Valentine’s Day

BREAKING GADGET NEWS www.theverge.com/gadgets/8751...

Apple might let you use ChatGPT from CarPlay

This is the Trump Phone

PSA: Now that Boys to to Jupiter is streaming on HBO Max, wanna re-up this banger of an interview I did last year with Julian Glander about how his deep love for Blender helped bring the movie to life

There isn’t even a cynical explanation for Jeff Bezos destroying The Washington Post

The Jeffrey Epstein Fortnite account is fake

Wellness branding often slips into science-washing — and that can be incredibly hard for the average person to spot in the age of influencer marketing. Read more of this week's Optimizer from @vicmsong.bsky.social: buff.ly/fbHcPvl

China is the largest auto market in the world and now the largest car exporter, too. But high tariffs and geopolitical tensions have kept Chinese automakers away from US customers. Read more: buff.ly/NU5CHxz

Spotify’s About the Song offers context and trivia about your favorite tracks

Aura’s Aspen digital frame is a great gift, especially now that it’s $30 off

The Alexa app is so bad I’m using Siri again

What happens when Waymo runs into a tornado? Or an elephant?

"It’s hard not to read these files and come to the conclusion that Epstein helped engineer the ultimate elite impunity — in which our society has been totally destroyed so the richest and most powerful men in the world can do whatever they want." Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kF9C1j

Analogue’s 4K N64 is getting five new transparent color options

"The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo." Great read.

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

AG1 is a lot less science-y than it sounds

visual representation of how I described this @lopatto.bsky.social piece in an editors meeting

How Epstein became a tech influencer

Can China’s No. 2 automaker make it in America?

How the men in the Epstein files defeated #MeToo

Uber found liable for sexual assault in first of thousands of similar lawsuits

TikTok’s infinite scroll is too addictive, say EU regulators

Google is expanding AirDrop support to more Android devices ‘very soon’

HBO is turning Baldur’s Gate into a TV show

Roblox is working to pull in adult players

Republicans attack ‘woke’ Netflix — and ignore YouTube

Iron Lung’s path to theaters was unique, even if the movie isn’t

The price of Bitcoin drops below $65,000

Spouse and up both recently upgraded with 4000-series cards off ebay and it is starting to seem like that was the smartest possible move

New: An unsealed email shows how Zuckerberg responded inside Meta after WSJ published its internal research on teen girls' mental health. In the email, he said he felt peers like Apple face less scrutiny by looking inward less, and wondered if Meta should follow. www.theverge.com/report/87417...

Zuckerberg considered changing how Meta studies social issues after research got it in trouble

One of the best laptop power banks available is cheaper than ever

Boris Cherny often gets recognized in public. At the bar, at the airport, in generally any public space, people want to take selfies with Claude Code's creator. Since the holidays, Claude has gone viral across sectors. Can Anthropic prolong the hype with Opus 4.6? www.theverge.com/report/87430...

Claude has been having a moment — can it keep it up?