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)
Social media, we all know, can be harmful to children. But don’t forget the damage it is doing to retirees, who have lots of free time and few outsiders telling them to stop. (on.wsj.com)
I''m a 6-time surrogate who wasn''t fulfilled in my finance career. I quit to start a surrogacy agency and make more money now. (www.businessinsider.com)
The Hungarian Election Shows That Even Strongmen Can Lose - Many people in the country had trouble imagining that Viktor Orbán could be defeated. But a philosopher also warned that defeatism can abet authoritarianism. (www.newyorker.com)
What Wallace Shawn Did Before His “Moth Days” - When the two lead actresses in Shawn’s play called in sick, their understudies scrambled to prep in the dressing room. The stand-ins? Deborah Eisenberg and Shawn himself. (www.newyorker.com)
Sam Wang, Politician-in-Training - The neuroscientist went from analyzing elections to running for Congress. But can this rookie win over New Jersey locals—and Trump voters? (www.newyorker.com)
The Wild Mind of the Romanian Director Radu Jude - The director’s native city drives him crazy—and drives him to make loony, brilliant films. (www.newyorker.com)
Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to E. Tammy Kim’s article about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Nicholas Lemann’s report about the Trump Administration’s attack on higher education, and Jill Lepore’s piece about whether A.I. needs a constitution. (www.newyorker.com)
When It Gets Warm . . . - I will wear the perfect amount of sunscreen so that I don’t look like clown-faced Mark Zuckerberg on that surfboard or red-faced Mark Zuckerberg at a Senate hearing. (www.newyorker.com)
A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out - The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation. (www.newyorker.com)
“Apocalypso,” by Dobby Gibson - “I couldn’t finish the article about / short attention spans either, / armed feds in the Wendy’s, / Saturn slowly losing its rings.” (www.newyorker.com)
St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It? - New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later. (www.newyorker.com)
The Violence in Vermeer - It is easy to treat the Dutch artist as an agreeable intimist—a transcriber of domestic niceties. But he grew up in a world of war, starvation, and massacres. His paintings were safe havens. (www.newyorker.com)
Sandy Liang Puts a Bow on It - The designer will add frills to anything—from Dr. Dre headphones to Gap hoodies. At the Frick’s “Ruffles & Ribbons” exhibit, she confronts the deeper meaning of decadence. (www.newyorker.com)
Ed Solomon’s Family Portrait - The screenwriter’s latest film, “The Christophers,” stars Ian McKellen as a lapsed artist. While gallery-hopping, Solomon reflects on his relationship with his painter mother, who recently put down her own paintbrush. (www.newyorker.com)
The Return of Family Detention - Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect. (www.newyorker.com)
Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret, by David Sedaris - It’s not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words “my husband.” (www.newyorker.com)
New Orleans’s Car-Crash Conspiracy - High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. (www.newyorker.com)
Noah Kahan Makes an Unlikely Home-Town Hero - In his new songs—and a new documentary—the Vermont singer-songwriter considers how the misery of fame can make you yearn for the place you meant to escape. (www.newyorker.com)
“A Private View,” by Douglas Stuart - “Oh, not another story about me,” she cried. “Another book about how I was the world’s worst mother. I wish you could find something else to write about.” (www.newyorker.com)
Elle Fanning Gets the Money Shot - The Oscar-nominated actress discusses collaborating with Nicole Kidman, the art of playing a performer, and her new series, “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” in which she stars as a single mom who turns to OnlyFans to make ends meet. (www.newyorker.com)