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)
04-18 Social Security''s 2027 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Estimate Is Getting a "Trump Bump" -- Here''s How Much Extra You Might Receive (news.google.com)
19:00 ‘After all the horrible things we’ve been through,’ he said to me, ‘if I die of cancer, it will make a bad story’: Siri Hustvedt on losing Paul Auster (www.theguardian.com)
02:40 North Carolina, where former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona faces a lawsuit, is one of just a few states with a “homewrecker law” that allows a jilted spouse to sue a third party for damages for a marital breakup (on.wsj.com)
01:20 President Trump signed an executive order Saturday that seeks to fast-track research into certain psychedelic drugs used to treat PTSD and other disorders (on.wsj.com)
04-18 Granville T. Woods, the inventor known as the “Black Edison,” died without wealth or lasting fame but his inventions laid the groundwork for urban transit (on.wsj.com)
04-18 The Justice Department told French authorities it wouldn’t facilitate their efforts to investigate Elon Musk’s X, after a raid on the social-media platform’s Paris office earlier this year (on.wsj.com)
04-18 San Francisco is a place with an already striking wealth gap. And it’s in the early stages of what could become a unique K-shaped divide between the haves and have-mores of AI. (on.wsj.com)
04-18 Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund reins in spending as cash strains force cuts to mega-projects and high-profile global investments (on.wsj.com)
04-18 Republican officials are sounding the alarm ahead of November’s midterm elections, worried that the war in Iran and Democratic enthusiasm might mean a blowout (on.wsj.com)
04-18 A federal judge halted the 6.2 billion merger of television station giants Nexstar Media Group and Tegna after eight states and satellite broadcaster DirecTV sued to block the deal on antitrust grounds (on.wsj.com)
04-18 U.S. presidents have shared priorities with Catholic popes for seven decades. Today, American leaders’ values and those of Vatican authorities are in direct conflict. (on.wsj.com)
04-18 Greg Abel, the new CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is scrutinizing businesses and investments established under Warren Buffett’s long run (on.wsj.com)
04-18 New York City doormen and building owners reached a deal late Friday, avoiding a strike but showing how the affordability crunch is squeezing nearly everyone who lives or works there (on.wsj.com)
04-18 Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota said she isn’t as wealthy as documents she previously submitted to Congress suggest because there were major accounting errors in her filing (on.wsj.com)
17:07 She can''t get payment relief on her 137,000 in private student loans. It''s a warning for millions of federal borrowers. (www.businessinsider.com)
05:53 Putin finally admits Russia’s economy is in trouble and grasps for answers, after warnings about a financial crisis have been piling up (news.google.com)
18:00 How the Creator of “Beef” Got from Petty Feuds to Class Warfare - Lee Sung Jin on tailoring dialogue to Oscar Isaac and Charles Melton, the differences between Korean and American élites, and making TV in an age of “all-gas, no-brakes capitalism.” (www.newyorker.com)
02:41 “Amrum” Offers a Child’s-Eye View of Fascism in Retreat - In Fatih Akin’s coming-of-age drama, a twelve-year-old German islander witnesses the end of the Second World War from a perilous, momentous remove. (www.newyorker.com)
04-18 Emmet Gowin’s American Family - The photographer has said, of his images of his wife Edith’s extended clan, “I wanted to pay attention to the body and personality that had agreed out of love to reveal itself.” (www.newyorker.com)
04-18 The Pain and Play of Divorce on Kids’ TV - A “Sesame Street” writer once said it was easier to write an episode about death than one about divorce. Where are the shows that manage to do it well? (www.newyorker.com)
04-18 “Euphoria” ’s Descent Into Hell - With Season 3, the HBO drama feels like it’s clicked into its final, hardened form: a thrilling, disturbing horror show, delivered with a sneer and a smile. (www.newyorker.com)
04-18 J. D. Vance’s Bumpy Ride - It wasn’t the first time that Trump had debased someone who serves him. It wasn’t even the first time that Vance had had to downplay a blasphemy-themed A.I. image. (www.newyorker.com)
04-18 Justin Bieber, Pop Music’s Fallen Angel, Rises Again at Coachella - The former child star, who, now past thirty, often gestures at a deep well of discontent, wants us to know that he’s got his own ideas. (www.newyorker.com)
04-18 Corruption Toppled Viktor Orbán. Could Donald Trump Be Next? - “Corruption is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the model,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says. (www.newyorker.com)
04-18 The Art of the Fictional Pop Song - The chart-topping hits you hear in movies can stretch the limits of belief. On the “Mother Mary” soundtrack, Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff capture the real thing. (www.newyorker.com)
04-18 El retorno de la detención familiar - Durante el gobierno de Trump, miles de niños inmigrantes han sido detenidos y muchos han sufrido de negligencia médica. (www.newyorker.com)
04-18 The South Texas Democrat Who Will Sing at Your Quinceañera - Bobby Pulido, a Tejano musician who’s trying to unseat a Republican in Congress, has turned some of his district’s splashiest parties into campaign stops. (www.newyorker.com)
04-18 Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death - The New Yorker staff writer, who has chronicled political violence under the Irish Republican Army and the opioid epidemic, traces how a teen came to impersonate an oligarch’s son. (www.newyorker.com)
04-18 A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel - The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 We Need Fewer Influencers and More Bullshit E-mail Jobs - We need Directors of Manual Automation Sales Development who roll up their sleeves and type one singular e-mail every day in which they pass off their work to a different department. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 David Armstrong’s Probing Gaze - Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of “The Adding Machine,” New York City Ballet’s spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in “Mother Mary,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 Queen Elizabeth II and the Lost Art of Fashion Diplomacy - “The Queen’s Style,” a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, offers a lesson in how to make powerful statements without saying a word. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men—with Chop Saws - The College of St. Joseph the Worker, which combines the trades with a liberal-arts education, is trying to restore its students’ sense of their own competence, and revive the city of Steubenville, Ohio, along the way. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 Our Longing for Inconvenience - The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 The Calculated Uplift of “I Swear” - Kirk Jones’s bio-pic of the activist John Davidson, who has worked to destigmatize Tourette’s syndrome, is effective as an educational tool but mechanical as a drama. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 America’s Orange Jesus - Reflections on a week in which Donald Trump decided to feud with the Pope while comparing himself to the Saviour. (www.newyorker.com)