02-07 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)
02-06 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)
02-06 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)
02-06 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)
15:37 Conflict at the Sydney anti-Herzog rally was near-inevitable once we gave the state the power to suppress protests Stephen Lawrence (www.theguardian.com)
18:00 ''AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it'': A software engineer warns there''s a mental cost to AI productivity gains (www.businessinsider.com)
16:02 The guy who designed the iPhone helped craft the interior of Ferrari''s first EV — and it''s full of physical buttons and knobs (www.businessinsider.com)
13:03 Drones on Ukraine''s frontline perform so unpredictably in frigid weather that it''s like ''Russian roulette'': commander (www.businessinsider.com)
13:06 Elon Musk said he''ll congratulate Blue Origin if they land on the moon before SpaceX — he''s focused on something else (www.businessinsider.com)
06:39 Man Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Role in 73 Million Global Cryptocurrency Investment Scam - Department of Justice (.gov) (news.google.com)
08:22 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)
04:00 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)
02-09 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)
02-09 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)
02-09 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)
02-09 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)
02-09 Listening to “The Joe Rogan Experience” - How a gift for shooting the shit turned into an online empire—and a political force. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 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)
02-09 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)
02-09 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)
02-09 “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)
02-09 “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)
02-09 The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion - A wealthy couple obtained dozens of children through surrogates. Did they want a family, or something else? (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Pierre Huyghe’s “Liminals,” Reviewed: A Monster at Halle am Berghain - In “Liminals,” a terrifying, overwhelming new installation, the artist erases the boundary between humans and the void. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Can Ozempic Cure Addiction? - GLP-1 drugs, which have helped some people curb drug and alcohol use, may unlock a pathway to moderation. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Fab 5 Freddy, Still Fly - The Brooklyn-born artist has worn many hats: MTV host, graffiti artist, hip-hop maven. At a Harlem hat emporium, he talks about his newest gig: writing a memoir. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Why We Can’t Stop Reading—and Writing—Food Diaries - Spending a day in someone’s kitchen can tell us about their relationship to time, money, pleasure, and place. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 I Will Be Your Next President - You’re going to love my ability to nod and smile while people awkwardly thank me. White bread, straight ahead. That’ll be my slogan. (www.newyorker.com)