Our final Decoder guest host is the one and only @joannastern.bsky.social, who interviewed Ford CEO Jim Farley… and allowed me to call in with a very specific Nilay question www.theverge.com/podcast/7848...

checkitout! chatted with my good friend Hank green about all things business but more importantly homestar runner

BREAKING: Microsoft has blocked the Israeli military from some cloud and AI services. The block comes after The Guardian revealed last month that Microsoft’s services were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/785733/...

Masterpiece

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

did a little media criticism www.theverge.com/politics/777...

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We don't yet have any idea what the ideology of the Kirk shooter was. But we do know that the Denver school shooter was a far-right white supremacist. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...

Shit they got me... this is cool www.theverge.com/news/771942/...

Just an incredible quote, especially in the context of this person's pivot to gen AI www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

An absolutely harrowing and important story -- ChatGPT and other chatbots are becoming deeply enmeshed in many people's personal and social lives to an incredible degree, and the consequences can be devastating.

In the four years I've been at IGN I've watched its staff shrink and shrink, all while those who remain are asked to do more and more. I see colleagues skip lunch, stay late day after day, and burn out. IGN staff are passionate and love their work. But we can't keep letting that be exploited.

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Wow. This might be the biggest "holy shit" moment in the game industry has seen in years (at least for me personally) www.theverge.com/news/680636/...

Went from a slow gaming summer of just DK Bananza to now contending with Sword of the Sea, Silksong (!), and Rogue Prince of Persia all happening at the same time before October's Ghost of Yotei. Sincerely praying Supergiant waits a little for a Hades II 1.0 release. www.theverge.com/news/762637/...

A photograph cannot inspire an antiwar movement if the antiwar movement has been spirited away in the night to a facility in Louisiana. www.theverge.com/features/761...

no, yeah, everything's fine...why do you ask? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

It is wild how much of this story reads like Succession fan fiction www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/b...

Very cool chat with Obsidian's @stephango.com for the final part of @caseynewton.bsky.social's productivity series on Decoder this summer - on why what software tools really need today is a strong community rather than AI features. www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

Very grateful for this piece from @thedextriarchy.bsky.social. I’ve seen so many viral posts from people I like who are presenting AI-generated text as some sort of admission or proof of how it is administered—which is actually similar to the logic of AI psychosis www.theverge.com/x-ai/758595/...

What is happening to games media right now is just absolutely brutal. kotaku.com/ign-john-dav...

Very fun episode of Decoder up today with Notion CEO Ivan Zhao, as part of @caseynewton.bsky.social's ongoing productivity series we're running this month. www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

What if instead of weird one-off extortion schemes the government just collected meaningful and stable amounts of corporate tax revenue hmmm www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...

Is there a single instance of a medium- to large-scale website that relies on Google Search for a majority of its referral traffic saying they’ve since an increase in the last 12 months? I’m genuinely asking. Is there a single one? www.theverge.com/news/720069/...

I've got some news: Lowpass is partnering with The Verge www.theverge.com/bulletin/719...

Imagine sitting around a table dreaming about bootlicking

I'm having a blast guest-hosting Decoder for a few weeks this summer! First up, my chat with Cursor's Michael Truell

Trump's IRS chief finally said IRS Direct File is "gone." Intuit lobbied hard against free federal filing for years. Here's Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi defending that record in a Decoder interview last year. Intuit later asked us to cut this part. We refused.

Nah, I'm good actually

If Reddit succeeded in making a viable alternative to Google with vetted human-grade results I would never touch Google Search again save checking restaurant hours and pulling news clips for work. www.theverge.com/news/717095/...

Substack is back in the news again for the wrong reason: this time, the platform sent a push notification to a neo-Nazi newsletter featuring a swastika logo. Here's Substack cofounder and CEO Chris Best on Decoder two years ago struggling to answer a question about moderating hate speech.

Tame Impala is making house music now which means me and every other dude in their thirties about to be absolutely insufferable about this album and I’m apologizing in advance. youtu.be/ulkdUfItyxI?...

This is such a great example of how just giving new people a platform opens up such interesting ideas. I always like The Vergecast, and I read tons of stuff by @miasato.bsky.social + @franhoepfner.bsky.social but this lens on celebs using online platforms is brilliant www.youtube.com/watch?v=-74M...

It is mind boggling to me that so much of AI search is predicated on the now very real observable fact that most people seem to not care or even be able tell that they’re just being fed garbage that can often be wrong and then leaving Google immediately. www.platformer.news/google-ai-ov...

This is what I meant by earning my title as senior cursed tech reviewer.

How literally any of the people in TLOU got nominated over a single actor in Andor is utterly beyond me. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t...

Steve Bannon on killing the AI moratorium: “I call it the Great Unmasking, because we really saw who are the bitches of Big Tech. And Ted Cruz was the biggest loser in this." www.theverge.com/politics/704...

It's Thursday, and for the first time, I'm putting together this week's Installer newsletter for The Verge! I want to know what you're into right now. What are you reading / watching / playing / going down a deep rabbit hole about? Tell me so I can include it! (And subscribe to Installer!)

"I'll be dead soon so it would be cool to see some stuff burn down" is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the future from the world's richest person and apparent leading techno optimist.

"The Times is committed to a specific kind of journalistic kayfabe ... to look 'objective,' it must occasionally run stories that will irritate liberals and leftists" @lopatto.bsky.social perfectly sums up the disgraceful strategy that keeps embarrassing the NYT. www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

Please just give the Banjo Kazooie IP to some one and make a Super Mario Odyssey / Donkey Kong Bananza style open world game out of it. I'm begging them.

There is really no excuse for axing this many creative professionals when it comes to a company as successful as Microsoft. www.theverge.com/news/693535/...

Playing the new Zelda. Really excited to try this feature.

Lots and lots from Matt Mullenweg on Decoder, including some deep discussion of the WPEngine fight and open source, Tumblr moderation, and his messaging plans www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

Love all the Twitter blue checks who think they’ve cracked the code on identifying AI writing because it has an em dash or uses a turn of phrase they’ve seen only once before amid the algorithmic trash pile they dive into daily. No actually — you just don’t read anything of value.

Life was simpler back then

It’s still super funny that they named the company Palantir

Every app I’ve ever liked (Sunrise calendar, Tweetdeck, Nuzzel, Dark Sky, to name a few) just gets acquired and shut down. Sad. www.theverge.com/news/672924/...