The company has lost three high-profile podcast leaders in the past month.

Running headfirst into fights for users’ rights on the internet.

The news of Elon Musk buying Twitter has put Mastodon into the public spotlight as an alternative social network, rapidly exploding our growth with over 30,000 new users in just a single day. This is because at Mastodon, we present a vision of social media that cannot be bought and owned by any billionaire, and strive to create a more resilient global platform without profit incentives. We believe that your ability to communicate online should not be at the whims of a single commercial company.

What employees are saying. PLUS: Musk's key decisions

If he pulls this off, Elon Musk will basically become The Architect from 'The Matrix.'

The landmark web scraping case was bounced back to the Ninth Circuit by the U.S. Supreme Court.

Twitter is acquiring mobile engagement platform OpenBack, whose team will join Twitter's Bluebird product team and focus on enhancing notifications on Twitter.

Painstaking new techniques for archiving social media posts could provide crucial evidence in future prosecutions.

Apple Podcasts introduces Follower metrics, MP3 support for subscription audio, and more

Read to the end for the final crypto update from my dad in Miami

This episode tells the stories of some of the worlds biggest spamming botnets. We'll talk about the botnets Rustock, Waledac, and Cutwail. We'll discover who was behind them, what their objectives ...

When anything on social media can become A Thing, trends take on an unnerving shape and velocity.

Twitter’s product leaders have their work cut out for them.

Hour-long YouTube videos are thriving in the TikTok era. Their popularity reflects our desire for more nuanced content online.

A French dad faces jail time and a hefty fine after using a signal jammer to prevent his kids from going online and taking the rest of a nearby town down with them.

An interview with the author of Web3 Is Going Just Great

George Farmer doubles down on his efforts to revive a right-leaning social media company that was taken offline a year ago.

According to him looking at website source code is a crime

Personal Blog

Things look a little different around The Verge today. Very different. Like a thousand lasers shining through your mind, pointing at the future.

This week, Alex's favorite place on the Internet is in danger... thanks to a bunch of robot snipers.

Seemingly overnight, there’s been a whole new version of the Web invented, dubbed “web3.” I’ve seen a lot of people talk about it online ...

As someone who closely follows the ebbs and flows of the internet, I can’t help but find the sudden, overwhelming hype around “Web3,” essentially the blockchainification of the internet, to be something of a massive bubble.As anyone who has read a Gartner report can tell you, hype cycles tend to crest before they dissipate, and might bounce back after all that.But I think the reason why so many have become overexcited about the possibility of Web3 taking over the internet has much less to do wi…

Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.

We've got a crossposted episode for you this week: Mike recently joined The Cato Daily Podcast with Caleb O. Brown for a discussion about the "hacking" fiasco in Missouri and the state's treatment of the journalists who exposed its...

Tantalizingly close to a power user’s Google alternative.

It’s kind of a hellacious cookie hack, but it works.