Nilay Patel

The fake Nilay Twitter account created by Verge managing editor Alex Cranz — that was “verified” and recommended to many during Elon’s messy first attempt at a $7.99 Twitter Blue subscription — has met its end.

We joke about the byzantine nature of EU regulations on The Vergecast all the time, but Congress’ failure to pass tech antitrust reform really does mean that Europe will be in charge of the tech economy for years to come, as American big tech companies will have to spend much more time designing products for that market instead of ours.

the way people talk about it feels exactly like people describing their dreams: tedious and of no consequence, but you have to be nice and pretend to care since it was obviously important to them. I haven’t had Twitter on my phone for a few weeks now, but I only realized what that specific feeling is after Adi wrote this great piece about AI-generated art. This feeling needs a name!

Shoutout to the USR Sportster hive.

Just a fun Wikipedia link I’m posting for no reason.

TikTok’s influence on the music industry is seismic — there’s a reason songs just keep getting shorter and sounding like nursery rhymes — but here’s neat Billboard piece on how labels and streamers are turning to TikTok for the next generation of talent.

and then Zack Snyder somehow convinced them to release it in 4:3 because he thought it looked more like IMAX? That all really happened!

iOS 16.2 is out now with support for Matter (and the first Matter devices updates have arrived) so a reminder that the simplest HomeKit bugfix if things go sideways is to sign whatever Apple TV (or HomePod) serves as your home hub out of iCloud, restart it, and sign in again to download a fresh HomeKit config. This fixed all my broken automations over the weekend!