just checking the list of published stories real quick to see how @vicmsong.bsky.social is doing at ces oooookay

I admit that I think it's cute Amazon named the art version of the Fire TV (which can get very dim to show art)... the Ember www.theverge.com/tech/853508/...

I loved the Decoder episode where @reckless.bsky.social interviews Stack’s CEO, who is convinced that the business is evolving but healthy. It’s a really interesting conversation about how to navigate both urgently and thoughtfully through disruptive change. www.theverge.com/podcast/8440...

Packers lose, in a sort of empty, meaningless way. America’s status uncertain but extremely shaky

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

Dog ain’t gonna wag itself.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev told that all the prediction markets had rules against insider trading last April as part of a large conversation about turning the economy into gambling. This is all zeroed out by today’s insider trading on Venezuela strikes, I think www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

I'm late, but this from @sarahjeong.bsky.social is essential. And given my profession, so depressing. www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

It really just boggles the mind how consistently nonsensical AI Overviews are

Broken TikTok algorithm resurfaced this video of me saying the web is dying on Vergecast and this amazing comment. Yes Comcast loves me so much you guys

Everything in this bizarrely credulous story about a home security startup named “Sauron” is insane, down to their big idea to deter criminals being… flashing lights at them techcrunch.com/2025/12/28/f...

This is such a deceitful misrepresentation of what is happening I don't even know where to start. The Trump administration hijacked billions in infrastructure bill money to slather Elon Musk with subsidies and the Wall Street Journal is thrilled about it:

I’m actually so stuck on Andrej excitedly sharing this seemingly-impressive use of AI, which actually recapitulates tons of existing work to create new and exciting security issues. Any human engineer would have been like, idk dude just use Home Assistant

Elite free speech discourse has culminated in state action to compel labor

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

The enduring legacy of Trump 2 - and really, unbridled Stephen Miller - will be that government can claim vastly more power than anyone thinks, and it should use it as quickly and ruthlessly as possible. Will be fascinating to see how this strategy plays out in the hands of progressives

Just pure incoherence from a product Google is shipping to billions of people. Also already being hacked by SEO games

A little ridiculous that HomeKit doesn’t support toggling lights on and off with a single button so you have to write silly little shortcuts

Netflix NFL broadcasts are produced by CBS but with Netflix goofiness on top which is very much Samsung truly believing the people demand Bixby

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

kavanaugh not beating the allegations that he’s a dumbass

It's been quite the year in Washington! www.theverge.com/policy/84583...

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/...

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...

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

Nothing will inspire renewed confidence in American aviation like hastily making planes at the behest of the mad king

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!

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

This is the kind of hard-hitting journalism and journalistic integrity that makes me proud to be a Verge subscriber. Thank you @reckless.bsky.social.

The Verge is the best. Subscribe today! www.theverge.com/subscribe

I love The Verge

Free stories box on theverge.com is sharp today

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

crisis averted -- we asked chatgpt and grok and now have both sides of the story, direct from the chips. have learned mechahitler is involved

Why I pay for a @theverge.com subscription — tech journalism with an editorial standard and social purpose.

Sometimes the no comment is the entire story ;) 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...

excuse me?!

Sometimes the no comment is the entire story!

as foretold by the prophesy

Dance like no one’s watching (or has a memory longer than two minutes)

Packers lose. America is so doomed

“Stop stealing and start creating” is a real thing an “AI artist” said

OpenAI’s agentic AI revolution is going terrific lol

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...

School shootings and measles

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.

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