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Tubi is a free and very rapidly growing streaming TV platform — according to Nielsen, it had an average of a million viewers watching every minute in May 2024, beating out Disney Plus, Max, Peacock, and basically everything else, save Netflix and YouTube. All those streaming service price hikes are driving people to free options, and Tubi is right there to catch them.
CEO Anjali Sud joins Decoder to explain why she thinks Tubi's model "could be" profitable, and how Tubi competes not only against the premium streamers, but also against the big competitors for viewers' time: TikTok and Youtube.
Links:
As streaming becomes more expensive, Tubi cashes in on the value of free | Los Angeles Times
Tubi’s new redesign wants to push you down the rabbit hole | The Verge
Tubi Rabbit AI: ChatGPT can give you better movie recommendations | The Verge
The future of streaming is free ad-supported TV and movies | The Verge
It’s true: people like leaving their TVs on in the background | The Verge
Stubios is the new name of Tubi’s fan-fueled studio program | The Verge
Comcast has a Netflix, Peacock, and Apple TV Plus bundle coming | The Verge
A Disney, Hulu, and Max streaming bundle is on the way | The Verge
Transcript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/23942621
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright.
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Private equity is a simple concept — a PE firm uses some combination of money and debt to buy a company, then makes a profit — but the reality of what happens to the companies that get acquired is anything but. It's everywhere, and it's not going away. In this summer remix, we're talking with Brendan Ballou, author of Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America, about how we got here and what happens next.
Links:
Private equity bought out your doctor and bankrupted Toys“R”Us — here’s why that matters | The Verge
Private equity and mismanagement: Here's what really killed Red Lobster | Fast Company
Sony and Apollo send letter expressing interest in $26 billion Paramount buyout | NBC News
Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America | Brendan Ballou
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco | Bryan Borrough & John Helyar
Barnes & Noble is going back to its indie roots to compete with Amazon | The Verge
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Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright.
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Cohere is one of the buzziest AI startups around right now. It's not making consumer products; it's focused on the enterprise market and making AI products for big companies. And there's a huge tension there: up until recently, computers have been deterministic. If you give computers a certain input, you usually know exactly what output you’re going to get. There’s a logic to it. But if we all start talking to computers with human language and getting human language back, well, human language is messy. And that makes the entire process of knowing what to put in and what exactly we’re going to get out of our computers different than it ever has been before.
Links:
Attention is all you need
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots
Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing | The Verge
AI isn’t close to becoming sentient | The Conversation
These are Microsoft’s Bing AI secret rules and why it says it’s named Sydney | The Verge
‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with regrets and fears about his life’s work | The Verge
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on Bing’s quest to beat Google | The Verge
Top AI researchers and CEOs warn against ‘risk of extinction’ | The Verge
Google Zero is here — now what? | The Verge
Cara grew from 40k to 650k in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch
How AI copyright lawsuits could make the whole industry go extinct | The Verge
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23937899
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
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The art of video game design is flourishing, but it feels like a really grim time to be in the business of making and distributing games. Huge global publishers and tiny indie studios alike are facing huge financial pressures, and it doesn’t seem to be letting up anytime soon.
So where did this enormous pressure come from, if consumer interest is high and sales are great? Verge video game reporter Ash Parrish joins Decoder to explain.
Links:
Global games market expected to grow to $189bn in 2024 | GamesIndustry.biz
Why the video game industry is seeing so many layoffs | Polygon
The tech industry’s layoffs and hiring freezes: all of the news | The Verge
Fortnite made more than $9 billion in revenue in its first two years | The Verge
Insomniac’s Spider-Man 2 Swings Past 10 Million Sold | IGN
The future of Netflix games could look like reality TV | The Verge
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. Our editor is Callie Wright.
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Today, I’m talking with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan — and let me tell you, this conversation is nothing like what I expected. It turns out Eric wants Zoom to be much, much more than just a videoconferencing platform. Zoom wants to take on Microsoft and Google and now has a big investment in AI – and Eric’s visions for what that AI will do are pretty wild.
See, Eric really wants you to stop having to attend Zoom meetings yourself. You’ll hear him describe how he thinks one of the big benefits of AI at work will be letting us all create something he calls a “digital twin," essentially a deepfake of yourself that can go attend meetings on your behalf and even make decisions for you. I’ll just warn you: I tried to ask a bunch of the usual Decoder questions during this conversation, but once we got to digital twins going to Zoom meetings for people, well, I had a lot of followup questions.
Links:
Zoom gets its first major overhaul in 10 years, powered by generative AI | ZDNet
An interview with Zoom CEO Eric Yuan | Stratechery / Ben Thompson
Zoom is cutting about 150 jobs, or close to 2% of its workforce | CNBC
Zoom meetings are about to get weirder thanks to the Vision Pro | The Verge
Zoom Docs launches in 2024 with built-in AI collaboration features | The Verge
Zoom rewrites its policies to make clear that your videos aren’t used to train AI tools | The Verge
Zoom says its new AI tools aren’t stealing ownership of your content | The Verge
Zoom adds “post-quantum” end-to-end encryption | Zoom
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23932774
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright.
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For nearly 20 years now, the web has been Google’s platform; we’ve all just lived on it. I think of Decoder as a show for people trying to build things, and a lot of people have built their things on that platform. For a lot of small businesses and content creators, that’s suddenly not stable anymore. The number one question I have for anyone building things on someone else’s platform is: What are you going to do when that platform changes the rules?Links: How Google is killing independent sites like ours | HouseFreshHouseFresh has virtually disappeared from Google Search results. Now what? | HouseFreshGoogle Is Killing Retro Dodo & Other Independent Sites | Retro DodoGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai on AI-powered search and the future of the web | The VergeWill A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It? | The New York TimesGoogle confirms the leaked Search documents are real |The VergeAn Anonymous Source Shared Thousands of Leaked Google Search API Documents with Me; Everyone in SEO Should See Them | SparkToroMountain Weekly NewsTelly VisionsE-ride HeroThat Fit FriendCredits:Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright.The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Today, I’m talking with Joseph Cox, one of the best cybersecurity reporters around and a co-founder of the new media site 404 Media. Joseph has a new book coming out in June called Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever, and I can’t recommend it enough. It’s basically a caper, but with the FBI running a phone network. For real.
Joseph walks us through the fascinating world of underground criminal phone networks, and how secure messaging, a tech product beloved by drug traffickers, evolved from the days of BlackBerry Messenger to Signal. Along the way, the FBI got involved with its very own startup, ANOM, as part of one of the most effective trojan horse operations in the history of cybersecurity. Joseph’s book is a great read, but it also touches on a lot of things we talk about a lot here on Decoder. So this conversation was a fun one.
Links:
Dark Wire by Joseph Cox | Hachette Book Group
How Vice became ‘a fucking clown show’ | The Verge
Cyber Official Speaks Out, Reveals Mobile Network Attacks in US | 404 Media
Revealed: The Country that Secretly Wiretapped the World for the FBI | 404 Media
How Secure Phones for Criminals Are Sold on Instagram | Motherboard
A Peek Inside the Phone Company Secretly Used in an FBI Honeypot | Motherboard
The FBI secretly launched an encrypted messaging system for criminals | The Verge
Canadian police have had master key to BlackBerry's encryption since 2010 | The Verge
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright.
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Today, I’m talking to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who joined the show the day after the big Google I/O developer conference. Google’s focus during the conference was on how it’s building AI into virtually all of its products. If you’re a Decoder listener, you’ve heard me talk about this idea a lot over the past year: I call it “Google Zero,” and I’ve been asking a lot of web and media CEOs what would happen to their businesses if their Google traffic were to go to zero. In a world where AI powers search with overviews and summaries, that’s a real possibility. What then happens to the web?
I’ve talked to Sundar quite a bit over the past few years, and this was the most fired up I’ve ever seen him. I think you can really tell that there is a deep tension between the vision Google has for the future — where AI magically makes us smarter, more productive, more artistic — and the very real fears and anxieties creators and website owners are feeling right now about how search has changed and how AI might swallow the internet forever, and that he’s wrestling with that tension.
Links:
Google and OpenAI are racing to rewire the internet — Command Line
Google I/O 2024: everything announced — The Verge
Google is redesigning its search engine, and it’s AI all the way down — The Verge
Project Astra is the future of AI at Google — The Verge
Did SEO experts ruin the internet or did Google? — The Verge
YouTube is going to start cracking down on AI clones of musicians — The Verge
AI is killing the old web, and the new web struggles to be born — The Verge
How Google is killing independent sites like ours — HouseFresh
Inside the First 'SEO Heist' of the AI Era — Business Insider
Google’s Sundar Pichai talks Search, AI, and dancing with Microsoft — Decoder
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23922415
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright.
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Last week, TikTok filed a lawsuit against the US government claiming the divest-or-ban law is unconstitutional — a case it needs to win in order to keep operating under Bytedance’s ownership. There’s a lot of back and forth between the facts and the law here: Some of the legal claims are complex and sit in tension with a long history of prior attempts to regulate speech and the internet, while the simple facts of what TikTok has already promised to do around the world contradict some its arguments. Verge editors Sarah Jeong and Alex Heath join me to explain what it all means.
Links:
TikTok and Bytedance v Merrick Garland (PDF)
TikTok sues the US government over ban | The Verge
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to President Biden’s desk | The Verge
The legal challenges that lie ahead for TikTok — in both the US and China | The Verge
Why the TikTok ban won’t solve the US’s online privacy problems. | Decoder
Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it | The Verge
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright.
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Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen has been at the top of my list of people I’ve wanted to talk to for the show since we first launched — he’s led Adobe for nearly 17 years now, but he doesn’t do too many wide-ranging interviews. I’ve always thought Adobe was an underappreciated company — its tools sit at the center of nearly every major creative workflow you can think of — and with generative AI poised to change the very nature of creative software, it seemed particularly important to talk with Shantanu now.
Adobe sits right at the center of the whole web of tensions, especially as the company has evolved its business and business model over time. And now, AI really changes what it means to make and distribute creative work. Not many people are seeing revenue returns on it just yet and there are the fundamental philosophical challenges of adding AI to photo and video tools. What does it mean when a company like Adobe, which makes the tools so many people use to make their art, sees the creative process as a step in a marketing chain, instead of a goal in and of itself?
Links:
How Adobe is managing the AI copyright dilemma, with general counsel Dana Rao
Adobe Launches Creative Cloud (2012)
What was Photoshop like in 1994?
Photoshop’s Generative Fill tool turns vacation photos into nightmares - The Verge
New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and others sue OpenAI and Microsoft - The Verge
The FAIR Act: A New Right to Protect Artists in the Age of AI | Adobe Blog
Adobe’s Firefly generative AI tools are now generally available - The Verge
This Wacom AI debacle has certainly taken a turn. - The Verge
Transcript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/23917997
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright.
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Today, we’re going to talk about the smart home — one of the oldest, most important, and most challenging dreams in the history of the tech industry. The idea of your house responding to you and your family, and generally being as automated and as smart as your phone or your laptop, has inspired generations of technologists. But after decades of promises, it’s all still pretty messy. Because the big problem with the smart home has been blindingly obvious for a very long time: interoperability.
Yet there are some promising developments out there that might make it a little better. To help sort it all out, I invited Verge smart home reviewer Jen Tuohy, who is one of the most influential reporters on the smart home beat today. Jen and I break down how Matter, the open source standard, is trying to fix these issues, but there is still a lot of work to do.
Links:
Matter is now racing ahead, but the platforms are holding it back — The Verge
2023 in the smart home: Matter’s broken promises — The Verge
Smart home hubs: what they are and why you need one — The Verge
My smart kitchen: the good, the bad, and the future — The Verge
How bad business broke the smart home — The Verge
The smart home is finally getting out of your phone and into your home — The Verge
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
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Today, I’m talking with Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath, whom I first interviewed on the show back in 2021. Those were heady days — especially for upstart EV companies like Polestar, which all seemed poised to capture what felt like infinite demand for electric cars. Now, in 2024, the market looks a lot different, and so does Polestar, which is no longer majority-owned by Volvo. Instead, Volvo is now a more independent sister company, and both Volvo and Polestar fall under Chinese parent company Geely.
You know I love a structure shuffle, so Thomas and I really got into it: what does it mean for Volvo to have stepped back, and how much can Polestar take from Geely’s various platforms while still remaining distinct from the other brands in the portfolio? We also talked about the upcoming Polestar 3 SUV and Polestar 4 crossover, and I asked Thomas what he thinks of the Cybertruck.
Links:
Can Polestar design a new kind of car company? — Decoder
The Polestar 3 isn’t out yet, and it’s already getting a big price cut — The Verge
The Polestar 4 gets an official price ahead of its debut — The Verge
Polestar makes the rear window obsolete with its new crossover coupe — The Verge
Volvo and Polestar drift a little farther apart — The Verge
Polestar gets a nearly $1 billion lifeline — The Verge
Car-tech breakup fever is heating up — The Verge
Polestar is working on its own smartphone to sync with its EVs — The Verge
Polestar’s electric future looks high-performing, and promising — The Verge
Electric car maker Polestar to cut around 450 jobs globally — Reuters
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23912151
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
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Today, Verge transportation editor Andy Hawkins and I are going to try and figure out Tesla. I said try — I did not say succeed. But we’re going to try. That’s because Tesla has been on a real rollercoaster these past two weeks, in terms of its stock price, its basic financials, and well, its vibes.
If you’ve been following the company, you know that that gap between what the business is and how its valued has been getting bigger and bigger for years now – and lately, with Elon Musk saying he’s going all-in on autonomy and announcing a robotaxi event in August, it seems like we’re getting closer to a make or break moment, especially as competition in the broader EV market heats up.
Links:
Tesla reaches deals in China on self-driving cars — NYT
Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs — The Verge
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to dozens of deaths — The Verge
Elon Musk says Tesla will reveal its robotaxi on August 8th — The Verge
A cheaper Tesla is back on the menu — The Verge
Tesla’s profits sink as the company struggles with cooling demand — The Verge
Tesla lays off ‘more than 10 percent’ of its workforce, loses top executives — The Verge
Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal — The Verge
Elon Musk says it’s “time to reorganize” Tesla — The Verge
Elon Musk lost Democrats on Tesla when he needed them most — WSJ
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
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A lot has changed since the last time Ola was on Decoder. Back then, he said Mercedes would have an all-EV lineup by 2030 — a promise a whole lot of car companies, including Mercedes, have now had to soften or walk back. But he doesn't see that as a setback at all, and he and Mercedes are both still committed to phasing out gas in the long run.
We also spent some time talking about what's happening both on the outside of cars — Mercedes' classic look and its EV look aren't necessarily quite in the same place — and on the inside of them, as infotainment becomes a huge point of competition and design.
Links:
How Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Källenius is refocusing for an electric future - The Verge
Mercedes-Benz opens its first 400kW EV charging station in the US - The Verge
Mercedes-Benz is the first German automaker to adopt Tesla’s EV charging connector - The Verge
Is the metaverse going to suck? A conversation with Matthew Ball - The Verge
The Mercedes G-Wagen, the ultimate off-road status symbol, goes electric - The Verge
Mercedes workers file federal charges with NLRB to stop union busting - The Alabama Political Reporter
The MBUX Hyperscreen - Mercedes-Benz USA
Transcript:
https://www.theverge.com/e/23904592
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright.
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Today, we’re talking about the brand-new TikTok ban — and how years of Congressional inaction on a federal privacy law helped lead us to this moment of apparent national panic about algorithmic social media.
This is a thorny discussion, and to help break it all down, I invited Verge senior policy reporter Lauren Feiner on the show. Lauren has been closely covering efforts to ban TikTok for years now, and she’s also watched Congress fail to pass meaningful privacy regulation for even longer. We’ll go over how we got here, what this means for both TikTok and efforts to pass new privacy legislation, and what might happen next.
Links:
Biden signs TikTok ‘ban’ bill into law — The Verge
TikTok ban: all the news on attempts to ban the video platform — The Verge
Anyone want to buy TikTok? — Vergecast
Congress takes on TikTok, privacy, and AI — Vergecast
Tiktok vows to fight 'unconstitutional' US ban — BBC
‘Thunder Run’: Behind lawmakers’ secretive push to pass the TikTok bill — NYT
On TikTok, resignation and frustration after potential ban of app — NYT
Lawmakers unveil new bipartisan digital privacy bill after years of impasse — The Verge
A real privacy law? House lawmakers are optimistic this time — The Verge
Congress is trying to stop discriminatory algorithms again — The Verge
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
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Today, I’m talking to Jason Citron, the co-founder and CEO of Discord, the gaming-focused voice and chat app. You might think Discord is just something Slack for gamers, but over time, it has become much more important than that. For a growing mix of mostly young, very online users steeped in gaming culture, fandom, and other niche communities, Discord is fast becoming the hub to their entire online lives. A lot of what we think of as internet culture is happening on Discord.
In many ways Discord represents a significant shift away from what we now consider traditional social platforms. As you’ll hear Jason describe it, Discord is a place where you talk and hangout with your friends over shared common interests, whether that’s video games, the AI bot Midjourney, or maybe your favorite anime series. It is a very different kind of interface for the internet, but that comes with serious challenges, especially around child safety and moderation.
Links:
Discord opens up to games and apps embedded in its chat app — The Verge
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers — The Verge
Inside Discord’s reform movement for banned users — The Verge
Discord ends deal talks with Microsoft — WSJ
Discord cuts 17% of workers in latest tech layoffs — NYT
Discord to start showing ads for gamers to boost revenue — WSJ
Discord says it intentionally does not encrypt user messages — CNN
How Discord became a social hub for young people — NYT
‘Problematic pockets’: How Discord became a home for extremists — WashPo
Discord CEO Jason Citron on AI, Midjourney — Bloomberg
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23898955
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
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Today, we're talking about Disney, the massive activist investor revolt it just fought off, and what happens next in the world of streaming. Because what happens to Disney really tells us a lot about what's happening in the entire world of entertainment. Earlier this month, Disney survived an attempted board takeover from businessman Nelson Peltz. While investors ultimately sided with Disney and CEO Bob Iger, the boardroom showdown made something very clear: Disney needs to figure out streaming and get its creative direction back on track.
To help me figure all this out, I brought on my friend Julia Alexander, who is VP of Strategy at Parrot Analytics, a Puck News contributor, and most importantly, a former Verge reporter. She's a leading expert on all things Disney, and I always learn something important about the state of the entertainment business when I talk to her.
Links:
The Story of Disney+ — Puck News
Disney’s CEO drama explained, with Julia Alexander — Decoder
Is streaming just becoming cable again? Julia Alexander thinks so — Decoder
Disney Fends Off Activist Investor for Second Time in 2 Years — NYT
For Disney, streaming losses and TV’s decline are a one-two punch — NYT
Disney’s ABC, ESPN weakness adds pressure to make streaming profitable — WSJ
Disney reportedly wants to bring always-on channels to Disney Plus — The Verge
The Disney Plus-Hulu merger is way more than a streaming bundle — The Verge
Disney’s laying off 7,000 as streaming boom comes to an end — The Verge
The last few years really scared Disney — Screen Rant
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Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
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At the absolute most basic, Dropbox is cloud storage for your stuff — but that puts it at the nexus of a huge number of today’s biggest challenges in tech. As the company that helps you organize your stuff in the cloud itself goes all remote, how do we even deal with the concept of “your stuff?”
Today I’m talking with Dropbox CEO Drew Houston about those big picture ideas — and why he thinks generative AI really will be transformative for everyone eventually, even if it isn’t yet now.
Links:
Dropbox AI and Dash make it easier to find your files from all over the web | The Verge
Kids who grew up with search engines could change STEM forever | The Verge
No, Dropbox's cafeteria didn't get a Michelin star | VentureBeat
It's official: San Francisco's office vacancy rate just set a record | San Francisco Examiner
Jeff Bezos: This is the 'smartest thing we ever did' at Amazon | CNBC
Dropbox is laying off 500 people and pivoting to AI | The Verge
Congress bans staff use of Microsoft's AI Copilot | Axios
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23892647
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright.
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Today we’re talking about Vice, the media company: Where it came from, what it did, and, ultimately, why it collapsed into a much smaller, sadder version of itself.
This is a lousy time for digital media, and it’s hard to make a profit from putting words on the internet right now. So when Verge senior reporter Liz Lopatto went to go report on what happened, she and I both assumed Vice had been done in by the brutal economics of digital advertising on the web. But the Vice story is more than that — in the word of one executive that talked to Liz, it was a “fucking clown show.”
Links:
How Vice became 'a fucking clown show' — The Verge
Vice is abandoning Vice.com and laying off hundreds — The Verge
Vice, decayed digital colossus, files for bankruptcy — NYT
Vice Is Basically Dead — New York Magazine
Shane Smith and the Final Collapse of Vice News — The Hollywood Reporter
At Vice, cutting-edge media and allegations of old-school sexual harassment — NYT
HBO cancels ‘Vice News Tonight,’ severing relationship with Vice Media — CNN
Shane Smith has a secret multimillion-dollar Vice deal — New York Magazine
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Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
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Cloudflare is an infrastructure provider basically protecting more than 20% of the entire web from bad actors. When everything is going well, you don't even have to know it exists. It's one of the only defenses — sometimes the only defense — standing between websites and the people who want to take them down.
Protecting free speech on the internet around the world, across war zones and hundreds of different kinds of government, is no easy feat. That puts the company, and CEO Matthew Prince, right at the heart of some of Decoder's biggest challenges and themes.
Links:
A Cloudflare outage broke large swathes of the internet | The Verge
Why security company Cloudflare is protecting U.S. election sites for free | Fast Company
The Daily Stormer just lost the most important company defending it | The Verge (2017)
Cloudflare to revoke 8chan’s service, opening the fringe website up for DDoS attacks | The Verge (2019)
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Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23885440
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Today’s episode was produced by Kate Cox and Nick Statt and was edited by Callie Wright.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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