Nick Statt

Decoder is now a video podcast. We’re very excited to announce that Decoder is now officially on YouTube. So if you prefer to watch and not just listen to your podcasts, you can head over to youtube.com/@decoderpod and subscribe to ...

Lots of big moves at Decoder this month.

We launched ad-free podcasts last week. Today, our YouTube channel is officially live with its first brand-new episode. Catch all of our Monday interview shows in full video every week going forward. www.theverge.com/podcast/8027...

Okay just upgraded and Liquid Glass is really as bad as people said it was, and I’m of the understanding that it used to be worse. What the hell was Apple thinking here?

Words cannot describe how much this gaming achievement hurt me. 7 years in the making, and an unconscionable amount of hours spent practicing.

To Hollow Knight, my favorite game ever 🫡

Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month All Xbox Game Pass tiers are getting big changes

I think we'll look back at the brief window around subscriptions as a business model anomaly for the game industry. Just as streaming tv/movies rose from $5-8 to $20-25, there as just no way Game Pass was ever going to stay in the $10 zone for the full offering. www.theverge.com/news/789424/...

Ford CEO Jim Farley on China, tariffs, and the quest for a $30,000 EV The head of Ford on why the US car industry needs lower-cost EVs to compete with China.

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...

A screenshot from Sam's conversation with Hank Green on The Verge. The excerpt reads: Interesting. Is there, on the list of reasons that you like this or want to do this, we talked about this before, but let’s end here with this. Is [the idea] that people aren’t doing things weird enough, and you want to do things weird, on that list? One hundred percent. You and I have connected a lot on the topic of Homestar Runner over the years. Homestar Runner may be hugely responsible for my career taking the direction it has. It was incredibly influential on me. And something I loved about it was like, it felt like a walled garden of weird that existed at a URL. Yeah. That resonates. And I think about how sometimes I wish that I could plant a forest full of weird trees on the internet. I wish that the internet were still a place where, just like there was really fun, mysterious, hopeful stuff that existed a URL away. I would hope that Dropout can just be one of those things."

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

Microsoft blocks the Israeli military from some cloud and AI services The Guardian revealed last month that Microsoft’s services were being used for mass surveillance of Palestinians.

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

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

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-...

The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.

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

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

If you value the work we do at The Verge, please consider subscribing so we can keep doing it. It's $4/month right now, which is a really great deal!

‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts Armed with a revolver, the 16-year-old shooter systematically reloaded and fired as he wandered the school, trying to find new targets, police say.

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...

Apple announces the ultra-slim iPhone Air Not just a spec bump.

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.

The only thing that comes even close to this level of "wow it's actually happening" in the game industry imo is FFVII Remake, which truly felt like some sort of grand lie until it actually materialized and shockingly was actually good.

Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

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...

Silksong finally launches in September You’ll be able to play it soon.

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/...

The Prince of Persia roguelike has left early access. The 1.0 version of The Rogue Prince of Persia is available now on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, with a Nintendo Switch version “coming soon.” My colleague Ash Parrish tried the early access version last ...

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/...

What is the correct amount of pro-Palestine content? The origins of the TikTok ban.

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...

Why Did Shari Redstone Do It?

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

Obsidian’s CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI Steph “kepano” Ango on how software can be a superpower and why you don’t need AI to supercharge your life.

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...

Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets LLMs make things up — including about themselves.

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/...

IGN Boss Leaving After Six Years Following Latest Mass Layoff Games media veteran John Davison got his start at PC Zone and EGM back in the late '90s

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

Notion CEO Ivan Zhao wants you to demand better from your tools Notion’s Ivan Zhao on AI agents, productivity, and how software will change in the future.

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...

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China

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...

Google swears it isn’t destroying the web with AI search Changes to Search have sent ripples across the media industry.

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/...