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Editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of Decoder, cohost of The Vergecast. I am in love with spectacle.
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Anil Dash
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After that podcast episode, listen to
@reckless.bsky.social
interview Stack Overflow CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar about how they evolved the community to respond to AI. That all began just as I was stepping down from the board, but it has been fascinating to watch.
youtu.be/0Km9YTMGIhk
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Stack Overflow CEO says ChatGPT was a "Code Red" | Decoder
YouTube video by Decoder with Nilay Patel
https://youtu.be/0Km9YTMGIhk?si=2k7wuxvvIlXNsohL
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jamelle
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kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass
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Lauren Feiner
2 days ago
It's been quite the year in Washington!
www.theverge.com/policy/84583...
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The year the government broke
Hundreds of thousands of workers left the federal workforce this year.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/845838/2025-year-end-government-doge
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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
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dive into why and what comes next
www.theverge.com/tech/845958/...
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David Pierce
2 days ago
For our final Vergecast of 2025, it's the Holiday Spec-tacular: 90 deeply wonky minutes on RAM with
@reckless.bsky.social
and
@seanhollister.bsky.social
www.theverge.com/podcast/8495...
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The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-tacular
On The Vergecast: it’s a memory deep dive.
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/849551/ram-explainer-holiday-spectacular-vergecast
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Bari Weiss had no understanding of 230 and it will soon be painfully obvious that she has no understanding of what DMCA takedowns actually accomplish
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Nothing will inspire renewed confidence in American aviation like hastily making planes at the behest of the mad king
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George Pearkes
3 days ago
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!
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Elizabeth Lopatto
3 days ago
read CHIPWRECKED here
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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Aaron Brethorst
3 days ago
This is the kind of hard-hitting journalism and journalistic integrity that makes me proud to be a Verge subscriber. Thank you
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Roman France
3 days ago
The Verge is the best. Subscribe today!
www.theverge.com/subscribe
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out of home
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I love The Verge
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Free stories box on
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is sharp today
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The Verge
3 days ago
We pulled this one out of the paywall for today, because, well
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Adi Robertson
3 days ago
crisis averted -- we asked chatgpt and grok and now have both sides of the story, direct from the chips. have learned mechahitler is involved
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3 days ago
Why I pay for a
@theverge.com
subscription — tech journalism with an editorial standard and social purpose.
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Sometimes the no comment is the entire story ;)
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CHIPWRECKED yes I headlined a
@lopatto.bsky.social
banger after my kid forced me to watch an Alvin and the Chipmunks movie no regrets
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Chipwrecked: Can Nvidia avoid the crash?
What happens if the GPU-backed loans go south?
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/848988/nvidia-chip-loans-coreweave-gpu-debt-ai-neocloud
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Elizabeth Lopatto
3 days ago
excuse me?!
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Sometimes the no comment is the entire story!
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Elizabeth Lopatto
4 days ago
as foretold by the prophesy
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Dance like no one’s watching (or has a memory longer than two minutes)
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Packers lose. America is so doomed
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Kat Tenbarge
5 days ago
“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said
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OpenAI’s agentic AI revolution is going terrific lol
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Ernie Smith
6 days ago
Speaking of subtweets made public, I see
@reckless.bsky.social
and
@davidpierce.xyz
expanded the best recurring feature of The Vergecast to a full episode.
www.theverge.com/podcast/8480...
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Brendan Carr is a dummy
The season finale of America’s favorite podcast within a podcast.
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/848012/brendan-carr-fcc-dummy-free-speech-vergecast
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School shootings and measles
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James Turner
6 days ago
As a kid of the 90’s who grew up loving technology and the promise of a better world by way of it, only to see how bad we’ve fucked it all up in 1000 different ways… but also, I still kinda love it? I’m really appreciative for people like
@reckless.bsky.social
and the work
@theverge.com
is doing.
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The Verge
6 days ago
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
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Microsoft made another Copilot ad where nothing actually works
I don’t want Copilot for Christmas.
https://www.theverge.com/report/847056/microsoft-copilot-ai-vision-pc-assistant-christmas-holiday-ad
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David Pierce
6 days ago
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...
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Brendan Carr is a dummy
The season finale of America’s favorite podcast within a podcast.
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/848012/brendan-carr-fcc-dummy-free-speech-vergecast
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Incredible
@vicmsong.bsky.social
banger looking into the wild west of unregulated "GLP-3" weight loss injections being sold on TikTok — bananas that influencers have incremented "GLP-1" like a version number to make it sound newer
www.theverge.com/column/84640...
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The wellness wild west is back on its bullshit with unapproved weight loss drugs
I bought an unapproved, experimental drug in five minutes on TikTok.
https://www.theverge.com/column/846406/optimizer-wellness-wild-west-glp-3-retatrutide
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7 days ago
Taking
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advice: replacing old surge protectors and power strips. Now that I think about it, some of them are older than I’d like to admit. 🤦♂️
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Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making
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test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works
www.theverge.com/report/84705...
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Microsoft’s holiday Copilot ad is wrapped in empty promises
I don’t want Copilot for Christmas.
https://www.theverge.com/report/847056/microsoft-copilot-ai-vision-pc-assistant-christmas-holiday-ad
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Kate Cox
7 days ago
Today's episode has led to, I think, the best email subject line we've ever gotten? (Still reading every email!)
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Steve Kovach
7 days ago
A $6 billion bet that Devin Nunes will crack nuclear fusion
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lol lmao dying
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Kate Cox
7 days ago
I do a LOT of different things at work; "producer" is at least 12 jobs in a trenchcoat and I never know what a day will hold. The scariest thing I do every single year, however, is look Nilay dead in the eye on camera and make fun of his show to his face. (Worth it.)
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‘It’s all chaos and panic’
We turn the tables on Nilay and make him answer the questions on Decoder for once.
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/846750/decoder-mailbag-qa-nilay-patel-interview-2025
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The Verge
7 days ago
It’s your last chance to own Content Goblins, The Verge’s limited-edition anthology of features, commentary, art, and more — all about “content” and the people who make it. It's available now for a limited time, only while supplies last. (psst subscribers, check your email for a special discount)
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Content Goblins Zine
It’s your last chance to own Content Goblins, The Verge’s limited-edition anthology of stories about “content” and the people who make it. Disguised as The Verge Guide to SEO, pull back the cover to f...
https://shop.theverge.com/products/content-goblins-zine
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Decoder year-end mailbag episode is up... you all asked some good qs and there's a little scoop in the beginning ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDrY...
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Nilay answers the Decoder Questions (2025 edition) | Decoder
YouTube video by Decoder with Nilay Patel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDrYywM1nUM
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This fuckin guy
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Mia Sato
9 days ago
Earlier this month, a study went viral — a social listening firm said it had traced "inauthentic" social media activity that helped to spread narratives that Taylor Swift was using Nazi symbolism. Then all hell broke loose. I tried to get to the bottom of it:
www.theverge.com/report/84572...
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A vague study on Nazi bots created chaos in the Taylor Swift fan universe
A sloppy report has triggered a new wave of viral discourse.
https://www.theverge.com/report/845725/taylor-swift-gudea-report-rolling-stone-social-media-discourse-bots
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Wilson D’Souza
9 days ago
www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Loving my annual subscription to the Verge. Well done
@lopatto.bsky.social
and the entire Verge team. We need more of this regardless of the politics or ideology.
@reckless.bsky.social
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Larry Ellison’s big dumb gift to his large adult son
Is funding his son’s dreams of media moguldom enough?
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/845532/larry-ellison-paramount-wb-netflix-takeover-oracle
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Taylor Swift publicist Tree Paine runs into The Verge’s background policy. If you want to be in our stories as an official spokesperson, you have to be on the record!
www.theverge.com/report/84572...
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lol
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banger alert
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David Carroll
9 days ago
2000s: “Digital ads will fund journalism and support democracy” 2010s: Adfraud bots see ads but humans block ads 2020s: Adblock-blocker-blocking, paywalls, influencer culture dominance
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Free stories updated at the
theverge.com
, new bangers daily at 12pm et ;)
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Fighting with Margot Robbie in a bathtub is certainly a choice
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Killer
@justcalma.bsky.social
piece on the mad scramble solar installers are facing to get systems installed before the end of the year… and the deep uncertainty about what comes next. (Inside baseball: got this story idea from the installers at my house last week!)
www.theverge.com/science/8448...
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The ‘mad rush’ to install solar panels before tax credits run out
There will be winners and losers.
https://www.theverge.com/science/844852/solar-energy-panel-installation-tax-credit-trump
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Carl Quintanilla
10 days ago
Happy birthday, Paul Simonon. 🎸 And thank you for taking time out to sing with young street musicians playing The Clash. 💕
@theclash.com
@faroutmagazine.co.uk
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DECODER GETS RESULTS
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Cadillac and Chevy are getting native Apple Music
Native app experiences
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/844697/gm-cadillac-chevy-apple-music-native
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