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)
Cricket, field and track: the Caribbean’s sporting success is extraordinary – so why does it feel like a missed opportunity? Kenneth Mohammed (www.theguardian.com)
Doctors told a woman she was too young for colon cancer and dismissed her symptoms for years. At 22, she was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. (www.businessinsider.com)
Why You’re Considered Attractive - If you are deemed attractive while sitting on the toilet, call the police. You are being spied on by a pervert. It might be time to plaster over the peephole in your bathroom wall. (www.newyorker.com)
Why Do We Like Music? - People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. (www.newyorker.com)
Even the Hospitals Aren’t Safe in Iran - As the regime imposes a forced forgetting of the massacres in January, it has begun targeting not only wounded protesters but medical workers, who have borne witness to some of the worst atrocities. (www.newyorker.com)
“The President’s Cake” Movie Review: A Neorealist Treasure from Iraq - The first feature by Hasan Hadi, set in 1990, depicts the agonies of war and dictatorship as experienced by a schoolgirl in the course of a high-stakes day. (www.newyorker.com)
The Movie That Shaped the Former Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino - Years before he led the Trump Administration’s immigration-enforcement effort in Minneapolis, Bovino saw the 1982 Jack Nicholson film “The Border.” (www.newyorker.com)
“McMindfulness” and the Fate of Spirituality Under Capitalism - Thich Nhat Hanh saw mindfulness as a way to understand the “interbeing” between all forms of life, but its social dimension has been largely forgotten. (www.newyorker.com)
The Woman Behind Japan’s Rightward Shift - How Sanae Takaichi, the country’s first female Prime Minister, won big in last weekend’s election. (www.newyorker.com)
Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Never Plumbs the Depths - Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi play a paper-doll Catherine and Heathcliff in an extravagantly superficial adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. (www.newyorker.com)
Jeffrey Epstein’s Bonfire of the Élites - His correspondence illuminates a rarefied world in which money can seemingly buy—or buy off—virtually anything, and ethical qualms are for the weak-minded. (www.newyorker.com)
What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either - Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Emily Flake’s comic strip about Alice Harvey, David Owen’s article about dyslexia, Jennifer Wilson’s piece on prenups, and Louis Menand’s essay about the dictionary. (www.newyorker.com)
The Landscape Artist Andy Goldsworthy Contemplates His Own Natural Decay - In rural Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor famed for his use of natural materials, contemplates his own decay. (www.newyorker.com)
How the Influential Make Influential Friends - The behavioral scientist Jon Levy hosts dinners for the élite. The catch? No one can say what they do for a living. (www.newyorker.com)
The Amazing Art Ventures of “Kavalier & Clay” - Jamian Juliano-Villani’s paintings hang in the Whitney and the Guggenheim. Her latest venue? An antifascist-superhero exhibit at the Metropolitan Opera. (www.newyorker.com)
Richard Holmes on Tennyson and Poetry in an Age of Science - His poetry reckoned with the immensities of reality, time, and grief, confronting a world upended by new truths about the earth and the heavens. (www.newyorker.com)
“Playmakers,” Reviewed: The Race to Give Every Child a Toy - For most of history, parents couldn’t buy their kids dolls, action figures, or the like. Then playtime became big business. (www.newyorker.com)
“Industry” Is a Study in Wasted Youths - In the new season of the hit HBO series, its young protagonists have left the trading floor that made them. Their second acts are revealing. (www.newyorker.com)