Marina Galperina
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senior tech editor, the verge
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The violent occupation of Minneapolis started with a vlog. I've wanted to find a framework to describe Nick Shirley & others like him: "Influencer" is too quaint. "Journalist" is obviously wrong. I landed on "slopagandist." Gift link (open in a web browser)
www.theverge.com/news/869824/...
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What is Nick Shirley?
Slop doesnāt need to be AI-generated
https://www.theverge.com/news/869824/right-wing-influencers-nick-shirley-slopaganda?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6Ik9ybzNhRTVkV3IiLCJwIjoiL25ld3MvODY5ODI0L3JpZ2h0LXdpbmctaW5mbHVlbmNlcnMtbmljay1zaGlybGV5LXNsb3BhZ2FuZGEiLCJleHAiOjE3NzAxMzQ3NzUsImlhdCI6MTc2OTcwMjc3NX0.pSvXmTL-Bp-zqeCeqOavGJFU-selnaL2kD0VNRJaH08&utm_medium=gift-link
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sarah jeong
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me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible
www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
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Best gas masks
āHow did these people go out and get gas masks?ā AG Bondi asked.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks
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5 days ago
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being.
@theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/868567/alex-pretti-minneapolis-childhood-friend?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IktWYlQ1a1F1ZUUiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS84Njg1NjcvYWxleC1wcmV0dGktbWlubmVhcG9saXMtY2hpbGRob29kLWZyaWVuZCIsImV4cCI6MTc2OTk2NDA1NSwiaWF0IjoxNzY5NTMyMDU1fQ.FrZ0NlULSpVamKAg761dJTzxcH4-LkVYlrvVVZb2ZFc&utm_medium=gift-link
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I have a new appreciation for beautiful gadgets but I will never buy something that costs as much as a car and doesn't weigh as much as a car
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The Samsung Trifold will cost nearly three grand
Thrice the phone for thrice the price.
https://www.theverge.com/news/868190/samsung-galaxy-z-trifold-us-price-release-date-availability
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6 days ago
I wrote about California's attempt to stop ICE from masking, and what the legal uncertainty of the ban says about the health of our democracy (e.g., bad things)
www.theverge.com/policy/86720...
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Why wonāt anyone stop ICE from masking?
Americans do not like masked secret police.
https://www.theverge.com/policy/867202/ice-mask-ban-no-secret-police-california
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Mia Sato
6 days ago
I talked to one of the r/MassiveCock posters who decided to bring anti-ICE conversations to the subreddit. "... Nothing in life should feel ānormalā when these sorts of things are happening in our country. Even porn and sex," he said. Gift link (obviously):
tinyurl.com/mr3nua5k
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A keyboard for your phone on a magnetic power bank that you can easily attach/detach, an extensively customizable Xbox controller, and some robots that didn't fall over.
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The Verge Awards at CES 2026
Rollable laptops, twice-folding phones, and a ālongevity station.ā This is the CES tech we come back for.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/858494/ces-2026-best-new-tech-tv-car-wearable
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Mia Sato
24 days ago
Comments on this story devolving into whether The Verge is allowed to write about politicsā¦.
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1) "oh no our ai is so powerful" 2) I can't imagine reposting weird fake garbage instead of literally anything from my actual life
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You canāt trust your eyes to tell you whatās real anymore, says the head of Instagram
Weāre all looking for the guy who did this.
https://www.theverge.com/news/852124/adam-mosseri-ai-images-video-instagram
about 1 month ago
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Melissa Gira Grant
about 1 month ago
no better epitaph for this year, too, than āas crass and consequential as a PokĆ©mon deportation memeā
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CES should be a week later
about 1 month ago
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Victoria Song
about 1 month ago
In this weekās Optimizer, I buy an experimental āGLP-3ā 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...
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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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'Resurrection' really came together for me with that 30-minute shot, which Bi Gan really makes you wait for ...
@knguyen.bsky.social
talked to the director about the oner.
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How Bi Gan pulled off the most technically impressive movie scene of the year
The director of Resurrection talks about the purpose and power of the long, unbroken tracking shot.
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/842881/resurrection-bi-gan-interview-tracking-shot
about 2 months ago
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You guys made
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mad about AI again
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Disney wants to drag you into the slop
The House of Mouse enters its slop era.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/842992/disney-openai-sora-ai-slop-partnership
about 2 months ago
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The gang turns
@charlieharding.bsky.social
's country song sample into AI Limp Bizkit with Suno (00:50:30)
www.theverge.com/podcast/8434...
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How to vibe-write a country hit
Whatās your favorite AI song?
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/843447/ai-music-country-suno-vergecast
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
By the way, my story is free to read for everyone today, no subscription required, as part of a new feature The Verge introduced :-)
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The Verge
about 2 months ago
"You study how that liquid comes out of the hose normally. But then sometimes you have to manipulate the opening on the hose to make the liquid look like itās actually coming out of someoneās mouth." Read our interview with the special effects foreman who unexpectedly went viral:
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We talked to the guy running the Mad Men puke hose
āI had to watch a lot of videos of people vomiting.ā
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/839591/man-men-shannon-thompson-interview
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And next week we do it all over again
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about 2 months ago
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Last Sunday on The Stepback,
@steviebonifield.bsky.social
opened up a whole world of GeoCities revivalists for me. The kids are anti-social media, anti-AI, anti-algorithms, and pro-coding.
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The indie web is here to make the internet weird again
Welcome to the new old internet.
https://www.theverge.com/column/829831/indie-web-geocities-neocities
about 2 months ago
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nilay patel
about 2 months ago
Big
@tinanguyen.bsky.social
scoop - the Trump MAGA / tech coalition continues to fracture as the hard right pushes back against David Sacks and his attempt to preempt state AI laws. Caught in the middle: Vance.
www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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The far right is mobilizing against Trump AI czar David Sacks
A controversial executive order dictating Americaās AI policy has MAGA scrambling against the White House and its Special Advisor on AI and Crypto.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/838776/maga-ai-executive-order-david-sacks
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Sean Hollister
about 2 months ago
I will be at CES... and I want to know what gadgets I absolutely must see *and touch* and quite possibly *film* for
@theverge.com
and my Today I'm Toying With video series! Does your gadget seem like a fit? Don't pitch me text: DM me photos or a video clip!
www.theverge.com/gadgets/7128...
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Today Iām toying with
Where we play with gadgets and let you see what theyāre like.
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/712844/today-im-toying-with
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I don't know if this parade of misplaced confidence makes me want to Finally Write That Book or never write again
about 2 months ago
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'Cause you know Vee'd test a million bots If she could just show you They suck
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One day, AI might be better than you at surfing the web. That day isnāt today.
For sale: walking shoes? Not with AI
https://www.theverge.com/tech/837287/ai-browsers-comet-chatgpt-atlas-edge-copilot-chrome-gemini
about 2 months ago
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Benjamin Riley
about 2 months ago
Our legal process depends upon litigants citing valid legal authority to support the claims they advance. At present, LLMs are degrading this information ecosystem in ways that mirror the damage being done in schools. Join me won't you for a short thread illustrating the breadth of the problem?
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Suno is taking over Nashville's writing rooms. āYou tell it the genre and it totally does the whole thing, itās insane.ā The tech is ubiquitous, āfrom entry-level songwriters to the top dogsā use it. Check out the story for audio samples. From
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The future of country music is here, and itās AI
For AI and country.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/829964/country-music-ai
about 2 months ago
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Karl Bode
2 months ago
the AI journalism revolution continues to go great, thanks for asking
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Google is experimentally replacing news headlines with AI clickbait nonsense
āBG3 players exploit children.ā
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/835839/google-discover-ai-headlines-clickbait-nonsense
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āNo one Iāve spoken to about AGI has flat out said, āthatās impossible, youāre a heretic, get away from me.āā John-Clark Levin and a group dubbed "AI Avengers" not only believe in AGI doomsday scenarios, they really want Pope Leo to say something about it. From
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The race to AGI-pill the pope
A team of believers want the Vatican to take AI doomsday scenarios seriously.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/829813/ai-agi-pope-leo
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Mia Sato
2 months ago
Great story and also the recipe sites vs robots thing has been happening for years, except in the age of SEO it was humans trying to get robotsā attention, sometimes at the expense of accuracy. Another example is the ādonāt smash a burger to hold in the juicesā myth
www.theverge.com/c/23998379/g...
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Possibly the coolest internship ngl
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"LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning, no matter how many data centers we build."
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Is language the same as intelligence? The AI industry desperately needs it to be
The AI boom is based on a fundamental mistake.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems
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"As you grow up, you're more involved in society. I think it's a thing."
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Why college students prefer News Daddy over The New York Times
Zoomers get all their news from TikTok ā and refuse to go elsewhere
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/818380/college-students-news-sources-tiktok-instagram-newsdaddy
2 months ago
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Andrew J. Hawkins
2 months ago
Leave it to Sean Duffy to make a critical safety milestone ā the introduction of a female crash test dummy ā grossly transphobic and weird
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Another Leica post, another
@superantonio64.bsky.social
attempt to convince me that sauntering around with the equivalent of a used Prius around my neck is somehow "ok" and "cool" even
www.theverge.com/news/824295/...
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Leicaās latest black-and-white-only camera is the $7,800 Q3 Monochrom
Itās the Q3ās turn to go to the dark side.
https://www.theverge.com/news/824295/leica-q3-monochrom-black-and-white-digital-camera-price-specs
2 months ago
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nilay patel
2 months ago
the verge's reviews program has always been the heart of the site and one reason we jealously protect it and refuse to do brand deals is so we can just say the products are bad
www.theverge.com/report/82215...
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3 months ago
New from me: The same tactics marketers use to get you to find their toothbrushes or photography business on Google were also used by Jeffrey Epstein & co. to try to launder his reputation online. SEO to try to cover up the most infamous pedophile ring.
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
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How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes
āthe google page is not good,ā Epstein wrote
https://www.theverge.com/report/822311/jeffrey-epstein-emails-google-search-seo-pr
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qdot
3 months ago
I'm in the verse today talking about reverse engineering the kinect 15 years ago, alongside
@theowatson.bsky.social
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@memoakten.bsky.social
, and
@adafruit.com
! Thanks for covering this
@geoffreybunting.bsky.social
! Lots of fun memories.
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There is no "vibe shift" when this keep happening
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I just don't believe there are 1,000,000 people in the world who want a "robot"
3 months ago
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Geoffrey Bunting
3 months ago
Happy birthday to the Microsoft Kinect, a device I dearly hope to never write about again. For
@theverge.com
, I recounted the history of its hacking and the echoes of an older, now unreachable, internet that resound in its story. Also, AI, because⦠2025.
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Trumpoware
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"Captured and Bound By My CEO" anyone? Hollywood is investing in stupid microdramas -- short and cheaply made scene clips, sold separately. Binging will cost you way more than a feature, but you get points, so you can binge a little more, if you're into that kind of thing.
@jank0.bsky.social
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The future of Hollywood is sexy, expensive slop
Cheaply produced, highly shareable, and designed to make you pay.
https://www.theverge.com/column/805250/hollywood-is-in-love-with-microdramas-for-all-the-wrong-reasons
3 months ago
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Joseph Cox
3 months ago
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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Grokipedia misgenders Chelsea Manning, cites a "race science" journal, and redirects DOGE searches to the Shiba Inu meme
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Grokipedia is racist, transphobic, and loves Elon Musk
xAIās version of Wikipedia, Grokipedia, frames the worldās history from Elon Muskās perspective.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/808514/grokipedia-wikipedia-comparison
3 months ago
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Bill Gates š AI
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Why is Bill Gates tone policing on climate change?
Of course, he says AI can help.
https://www.theverge.com/report/808647/bill-gates-climate-change-ai-emissions-memo
3 months ago
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$3500 to look like this
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Appleās new Vision Pro is better than the first, but still lonely
The new headband is nice! And, at $99, you should buy it if you have the first Vision Pro model.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/807963/apple-vision-pro-m5-review-specs-release-date
3 months ago
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Joshua Rivera
3 months ago
another thing I donāt understand about people who want LLMs to āwriteā for themāhow can you then feel smug about a thing you wrote? Coming up with a good idea better than your nemeses?? Thatās the best part!
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Ian Boudreau
3 months ago
When your Chotiner interview is going great
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Sam Biddle
3 months ago
Every single Wikipedia "alternative" I've ever come across works like this. IIRC even the NSA's internal Intellipedia cribs extensively from Wikipedia. The amount of work it would take it actually replace Wikipedia is just too massive (unless you wanted dubious machine-generated entries)
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doppelgƤnger slop is here
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The next legal frontier is your face and AI
Things are getting weird.
https://www.theverge.com/column/805821/the-next-legal-frontier-is-your-face-and-ai
3 months ago
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