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)
02-18 Ted Sarandos Slams Paramount for ‘Flooding the Zone With Misinformation’ as Warner Bros. Discovery Initiates New Talks With Rival Suitor (news.google.com)
02-18 Stephen Colbert’s stinging criticism of President Trump, CBS and the FCC might shape how media companies approach November’s midterm elections. Read more in today’s WSJ Politics Newsletter: (on.wsj.com)
02-18 EQT CEO Toby Rice is starting a nonprofit supported by the Rockefellers to tackle a lack of access to modern energy infrastructure in poor nations (on.wsj.com)
02-18 Heard on the Street: Debate about how much tax billionaires pay is likely to grow as America’s fiscal situation deteriorates and its wealth gap widens (on.wsj.com)
02-18 Climb aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a warship named for JFK''s brother that played a pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis (www.businessinsider.com)
02-18 Olympic skier Eileen Gu shut down a reporter''s ''ridiculous perspective'' when asked if her 2 silver medals are ''2 golds lost'' (www.businessinsider.com)
02-18 I''m the CEO of a cannabis and beverage company. I start my day in Central Park with my dog and hate being surrounded by ''yes'' people. (www.businessinsider.com)
02-18 The New Yorker Wins Two Polk Awards for 2025 Reporting - The staff writer Jon Lee Anderson is honored for chronicling Congo’s devastating war, while Andy Kroll is recognized for a profile of the Trump official Russell Vought. (www.newyorker.com)
02-18 When Sexual Exploitation Is Fundamental to Police Corruption - A new book provides a twist on the wrongful-conviction genre, showing how deep the rot can be when sexual violence is involved. (www.newyorker.com)
02-18 How Nick Land Became Silicon Valley’s Favorite Doomsayer - Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, instead of trying to stop an A.I. takeover, you work to bring it on as fast as possible? (www.newyorker.com)
02-18 Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep - Short sleepers, who make up less than one per cent of the population, spend significantly less time snoozing without any apparent health consequences. (www.newyorker.com)
02-18 Remembering the Filmmaker Frederick Wiseman - In nearly sixty years of nonfiction filmmaking, Wiseman passionately probed the nodal points of political and social power and connected them in a cinematic universe of his own. (www.newyorker.com)
02-17 The Growing Rift Between Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. - What this shocking split might mean for the future of the Middle East. (www.newyorker.com)
02-17 Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You? - What about the time it parked perfectly between two lines on the first try, despite you having spent your entire life contorting to fit in—socially, emotionally, and physically? (www.newyorker.com)
02-17 Our Company’s New Team Support Space - Please see the employee-efficiency team if you would like to schedule an organizational-issue repair conversation, as those are best done in private and not in the team support space. (www.newyorker.com)
02-17 How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap - Under Trump, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards has become a site for easy arrests. (www.newyorker.com)
02-17 How the University Replaced the Church as the Home of Liberal Morality - As progressive Americans have become more secular, the academy has become their primary moral training ground. The results have not been good. (www.newyorker.com)
02-16 Presidents’ Days: From Obama to Trump - The official oral history of the Obama White House is a stark and extensive reminder of the values and the principles that are being trampled. (www.newyorker.com)
02-16 The Jeffrey Epstein Files Are Peter Mandelson’s Final Disgrace - The Labour politician and strategist was a great survivor. Then came revelations that he passed sensitive government information to Epstein during the financial crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
02-16 What the Royal Family’s Links to Slavery Mean in the Age of Epstein - Just as the former Prince Andrew will always be royal, so will the trafficking of African people. (www.newyorker.com)
02-16 Peter Strausfeld, the Movie-Poster Master - An exhibition in New York celebrates the work Strausfeld made for a cinema in London over the course of more than thirty years—designs of graphic confidence that were clean, strong, and scornful of embellishment. (www.newyorker.com)
02-15 The Trial of Gisèle Pelicot’s Rapists United France and Fractured Her Family - After fifty-one men were convicted, Pelicot became a feminist hero. But additional accusations left her children struggling to accept her new role. (www.newyorker.com)
02-15 Restaurant Review: Bistrot Ha - At a new establishment, the chefs behind the hit Ha’s Snack Bar are pushing past the hype, with food that is no less thrilling. (www.newyorker.com)
02-15 “Love Story” Is a Forgettable Elegy for Gen X - The FX series, with its Wikipedia-page-like narrowness on the romance between John F. Kennedy, Jr., and Carolyn Bessette, excises all that contemporary drama that makes the Kennedy story, one of a relationship to a greater culture, so compelling. (www.newyorker.com)
02-14 A Tour Through Central Park’s Cruising Grounds - Arthur Tress’s new book, “The Ramble, NYC 1969,” provides a view into a world otherwise all but invisible to passersby. (www.newyorker.com)
02-14 Losing Faith in Atheism - I spent years searching for a livable secular world view, but none of them quite offered the value of belief. (www.newyorker.com)
02-14 The Disappearance of Nancy Guthrie - The search for the “Today” show host’s mother, nearing its second week, has transfixed the public in Arizona and beyond. (www.newyorker.com)