Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning''s Regular Press Conference on April 7, 2026_Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People''s Republic of China (news.google.com)
YouTube Revenue for Full-Year 2025 Topped 60 Billion, Making Video Platform Bigger Than Netflix Ad revenue hit record 11.38 billion in Q4 but fell short of Wall Street expectations (old.reddit.com)
Uber found liable for sexual assault in first of thousands of similar lawsuits / A federal jury has ordered Uber to pay the victim 8.5 million in damages. (old.reddit.com)
After 3 years of negotiations with Microsoft, Blizzard QA workers win a new contract guaranteeing ''better working environment with increased pay, benefits, and layoff protections'' (old.reddit.com)
Yet another Windows update is wreaking havoc on gaming rigs worldwide — Nvidia recommends uninstalling Windows 11 KB5074109 January update to prevent framerate drops and artifacting (old.reddit.com)
What Trump’s Reorganization of the Forest Service Means for Rural America - Lots of room for lumber lobbyists, less for forest science. (www.newyorker.com)
The Scandal of the Sharenting Economy - As kidfluencers come of age, some may find the law an imperfect means of restitution for what was lost and broken in their childhoods. (www.newyorker.com)
What I Know About You Based on How Many of Your Friends Are Becoming Therapists - If one of your friends is studying to be a therapist, it’s your wife and she’s thinking of leaving you. (www.newyorker.com)
What Will the Artemis II Moon Mission Teach Us? - Four astronauts are travelling deeper into space than anyone in history. NASA will never be the same. (www.newyorker.com)
“Theodore Roosevelt Taylor,” by Tyehimba Jess - “In short, he slid metal on string till the devil / got tickled and laughed up the Blues.” (www.newyorker.com)
We Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing - Genetic research has been complicating the idea of the genome as a determinative blueprint. (www.newyorker.com)
An Economist’s Quest to Solve America’s Wage Problem - Arindrajit Dube argues that the answer is empowering workers and setting mandatory wage standards across industries. (www.newyorker.com)
In “Cinematic Immunity,” the Greatest Drama Is Offscreen - Michael Lee Nirenberg’s oral history of classic New York filmmaking centers on crew members whose labor the movies are made of, and reveals behind-the-scenes passions and tensions that shape the art. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides? - Health and wellness influencers are hawking unapproved treatments on the gray market. The future of the F.D.A.—and the health of consumers—is at stake. (www.newyorker.com)
Can Sponge Cities Save Us from the Coming Floods? - As the planet gets warmer and the rains fall harder, the future of flood control is looking less like a wall and something more like a park. (www.newyorker.com)
Briefly Noted Book Reviews - “In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man,” “True Color,” “Half His Age,” and “Under Water.” (www.newyorker.com)
“Meanwhile It Rains for Two Weeks and the Heat Never Breaks,” by Morgan Parker - “Sometimes I text my friends I’m crying / and they reply lol.” (www.newyorker.com)
In Marie NDiaye’s Spellbinding New Novel, Witchcraft Stays in the Family - In “The Witch,” a mother passes to her daughters a secret, burdensome power, but sorcery can’t fix a household that’s coming apart. (www.newyorker.com)
Will Biblical Womanhood Box You In or Set You Free? - Two writers of different evangelical generations offer rival visions of marriage, motherhood, and ambition. (www.newyorker.com)
Happy Hour with Emanuel Ax - To ring in his new WQXR podcast, the veteran pianist puts on a special live show with a secret surprise guest—his old drinking buddy Yo-Yo Ma. (www.newyorker.com)
Do the Circulation-Desk Shuffle - The New York Public Library’s new series, Lunch Dances, features choreography based on objects in the stacks. Can a pirouette tell the story of a mid-century lesbian magazine? (www.newyorker.com)
Getting Older with Clare Barron and Anne Kauffman - At Cherry Lane Theatre, the writer and the director of “You Got Older,” starring Alia Shawkat and Peter Friedman, dish on mortality, romantic angst, and the rapper Pitbull. (www.newyorker.com)
Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? - New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI. (www.newyorker.com)