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

‘Friend slop’ made co-op gaming goofier than ever in 2025

Rivian’s AI pivot is about more than chasing Tesla

The sold-out Nex Playground made my kids laugh and cry

Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install

Google is part of Movies Anywhere again

Did a publisher’s slip-up reveal smaller Switch 2 cartridges?

Gemini isn’t replacing Google Assistant on Android just yet

Next-generation nuclear reactors could get a boost from the National Defense Authorization Act

ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is

Google sues web scraper for sucking up search results ‘at an astonishing scale’

What scrambled my brains was watching influencers who claim to "only put clean food into their bodies" advocate for injecting dubiously sourced, unapproved drugs. And then calling people "Big Pharma shills" for suggesting that buying unapproved drugs off a gray market is dangerous.

god this rules. incredible stuff

And I wrote a lovely feature for @theverge.com about trans musicians using going on tour to push mutual aid programs as the government works to criminalize our healthcare:

The Vergecast is heading back to CES! Join us for a live recording on Wednesday, January 7th at 3:30 PM at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas. After the show, we’re hosting a reception and would love for you to come hang out with us. RSVP required to attend. Get your free tickets here:

Netflix is acquiring an avatar company as it moves into party games

Don’t expect Trump Media’s nuclear fusion power plant to generate electricity soon

The best Sonos speakers to buy in 2025

It's time for another batch of Verge articles that are completely free to read for the day. First up: @superantonio64.bsky.social made a list of all the prompts in Microsoft's holiday-themed Copilot AI ad, then checked them twice. Guess what happened

The RAM shortage is here to stay, raising prices on PCs and phones www.theverge.com/news/848199/...

Bose’s first-gen QC Ultra headphones just hit their lowest price to date

Who owns Trump Mobile?

The Fujifilm Instax Mini 12 instant camera is a great gift at $74

Europol imagines robot crime waves in 2035

The wellness wild west is back on its bullshit with unapproved weight loss drugs

In this week’s Optimizer, I buy an experimental “GLP-3” drug off the gray market after five minutes on TikTok. The Wellness Wild West is unregulated and people are turning themselves into guinea pigs with unapproved weight loss drugs. www.theverge.com/column/84640...

I subscribe to the The Verge for a lot of good content, but their segments on Brendan Carr might top the cake.

Brendan Carr is a dummy

New Vergecast! It's the epic season finale of America's favorite podcast within a podcast, Brendan Carr is a Dummy — and @reckless.bsky.social is ready for it www.theverge.com/podcast/8480...