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Judge blocks Texas app store age verification law

This was so much fun! (Disclaimer: I am not a RAM expert)

These great digital gifts will arrive just in time for Christmas

Very well done. I could nitpick as I usually do but Elizabeth got all the important stuff right and didn't sensationalize anything. Worth your time to read!

If something goes wrong with Nvidia’s business, this whole sector is in trouble. And judging by the increasing competition its chips face, something could go wrong soon. Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

DOJ appears to bungle Epstein Files redactions

Watch lists are broken. Federation could fix them.

New York’s landmark AI safety bill was defanged — and universities were part of the push against it

Dozens of Flock AI camera feeds were just out there

Belkin’s camera grip power bank is a few upgrades away from being a must-have

AI ran into a brick wall trying to control smart home devices this year, which feels like the canary in the coal mine for a lot of things. Excellent @jp2e.bsky.social dive into why and what comes next www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...

One last holiday hurrah for the $50 off deal on the Switch 2

How Last Samurai Standing adds kinetic action to the Battle Royale formula

The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-tacular

How AI broke the smart home in 2025

The year the government broke

Apple fined $116 million over app privacy prompts

Dometic makes a better portable water faucet

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...

read CHIPWRECKED here www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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’

I recommended a book www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

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: