We might need to make a shirt

Gonna be live with @reckless.bsky.social in ten minutes talking Apple, Tim Cook, and whether Nilay is disappointed he didn't get the CEO gig www.youtube.com/live/7iYXTPD...

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

Trust me, you don't want to know

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YOU CAN JUST SAY THINGS

Yes, this rules

Yes!

Thanks so much! Really glad you enjoyed it, I did too — Vee remains undefeated

I need a favor for a story: I want to know about software you built, just for you. Not to sell, not to raise capital for, just for you and you alone. Vibe coding, hand-coding, whatever works. If you've done this, email me (david at the verge dot com) or DM me — I want to hear all the stories!

My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.

The heist of iOS 26 Apple hates leaks. Apple really hates leaks.

Last year, Apple sued YouTuber Jon Prosser after he shared three videos leaking details of Liquid Glass. ​Apple usually doesn't acknowledge leaks. But this time, it decided to pick a fight in public.

My report, including new statements from Prosser:

www.theverge.com/tech/908476/...

I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

Well, I just teared up reading about bread. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The new Trump Phone design is here The Trump phone just got a new shade of lipstick.

Remember that Trump phone I saw two months ago? It's back in official images on a Trump Mobile website redesign that I seem to have caught mid-rollout

Yes please!

the passive voice store was visited by me and you were known by everybody there

The drama behind an iconic landline phone YouTube video by Version History

Was just incredible fun to talk about the history of the phone system with Tim Wu on Version History (also @davidpierce.xyz, he's fine)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2a1...

How AT&T created the most iconic phone ever On Version History: The phone almost everybody had.

The season 3 finale of Version History is an absolute banger, and yes, it's about rotary telephones. It's also about patent drama and AT&T's monopoly and how one company can come to rule just about everything

www.theverge.com/podcast/9107...

I mean potentially! How early would you want it?

Hey, I gotta be right about something eventually, you know?

I... dunno. Send me an email? david at the verge dot com. We'll sort it out!

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A year of continuous glucose monitoring pushed me to the edge My year of unrest and CGMs.

For a year, @vicmsong.bsky.social tested and researched continuous glucose monitors to find out what they could actually do for non-diabetics. Why MAHA is obsessed with CGMs, why doctors are confused, and why too much data made Vee spiral:

My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery

I’m not completely convinced by the conclusion that Adam Back is Satoshi, but this story is such a fun bit of process-nerdery about journalism and research and rabbit holes www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...

You could just, like, move the browser to the center of your enormous gigantic monitor

With vertical tabs!

Statcounter's not perfect but it's generally pretty good gs.statcounter.com/browser-mark...

TBH these two sentiments seem perfectly aligned

Can't imagine a better place and a better person to make this pitch for ending cookie banners with than @theverge.com with @davidpierce.xyz

Honored to have my latest law review article on this featured! Have a listen!

Unfortunately, statistically everybody