Alex Cranz

GQ published a piece that was largely a condemnation of Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav, particularly skewering his artistic merits and effectiveness as a steward of the enormous amount of Hollywood history he acquired along with Warner Bros. Then, according to the Washington Post, GQ pulled it, apparently because Zaslav’s people complained. You would think a guy who professes to love Hollywood history would know all about the Streisand effect and how to avoid it.

The U.S. Agriculture Department has given approval to Upside Foods and Good Meat to begin selling chicken derived from cultivated cells. This would be the first lab grown meat sold in America and the intended market will be “upscale restaurants” according to AP News. Both companies have joined a bevy of other biotech firms in a race to secure funding and be the first companies to unseat big traditional meat processors like Tyson, JBS, and Cargill.

In the latest season of Black Mirror the show pointedly goes after streaming services for their growth at all costs approach to entertainment with the creation of the Netflix parody, Streamberry. Now Netflix, which produces Black Mirror, has created a Streamberry website full of weird riffs on Black Mirror episodes.

David, Nilay, and Dan hopped into a studio in Cupertino so we could talk about their impressions of the Vision Pro, and then, the WVFRM crew stopped by for a deeply fun and chaotic lightning round. But stay tuned, because this is just the first of many Vergecasts this week.

The USSR dug the deepest hole in human history—setting the record back in 1979. It capped the hole, known as the Kola Superdeep Borehole, decades ago. When it capped it it had reached 40,230 feet. Now China is attempting to dig its own huge hole in a bid to explore and potentially find new mineral resources. But at a planned 33,000 feet it will have a ways to go if it wants to claim the Kola Superdeep Borehole’s record.

Plenty of people have been able to pair Nintendo’s Joy-Con controllers with the Steam Deck, but redditor mrblackm123 heavily modded a Steam Deck, axing the built-in controls and adding rails for Joy-Cons. They claim performance in graphic-heavy games can peak at about 25 fps.

but are those changes going to destroy Google and a lot of others in the process? This week on the Vergecast we talked about that, the shockingly good looking Pixel Fold, and everything else announced at Google I/O.