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)
04-20 Long waits make for sicker patients. Sicker patients need more time in hospital. Our health system needs urgent care Ranjana Srivastava (www.theguardian.com)
04-20 ‘We did a seance for Beethoven, to see what he thought’: the playful, pioneering life of field-recording maestro Annea Lockwood (www.theguardian.com)
04-20 With the Trump account, a new tax-advantaged savings account, coming soon, there’s no right or wrong answer about which one is best. Test your knowledge about how they work (on.wsj.com)
04-20 A Senate committee is set to vote on advancing Trump’s choice for the next Federal Reserve chair this week, but there’s someone blocking the way: North Carolina’s Sen. Thom Tillis (on.wsj.com)
04-19 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)
04-19 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)
04-19 I''ve been job hunting for 7 months with no success, so I''m at a loss. I''m wondering if going back to school at 45 would help. (www.businessinsider.com)
04-19 I started buying properties with family and friends in my 20s. I''ve bought 10 total, and one has made over 400k on Airbnb. (www.businessinsider.com)
04-19 South African safari park owner who said he''d rather be killed by charging elephant than shoot one dead is killed by charging elephant (news.google.com)
04-20 Is Dynamic Pricing Ruining the World Cup? - Soccer fans and host-city politicians are up in arms about the prices that FIFA is charging for tickets under its new sales system. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 Daphne Rubin-Vega Comes Home - Strolling through Hell’s Kitchen, the actress recalls old celeb sightings (Jane Fonda! Donald Sutherland!) on her way to playing the swaggering Mr. Zero in “The Adding Machine,” Off Broadway. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 The Action-Film Director Who’s Taking On Michael Jackson - Antoine Fuqua has built a career on movies with irresistible heroes. Now he’s telling the story of the King of Pop. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 Escape Rooms for Middle-Aged People - Work as a team as you and other dads chat about pro sports, college sports, kids (and their sports), while avoiding eye contact, politics, and any hint of vulnerability. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 The Novelist Reimagining the Japanese American Internment - In “Questions 27 & 28,” Karen Tei Yamashita opens an inquiry into how the story of the past gets made. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 When Your Digital Life Vanishes - A broken phone or corrupted drive can mean the loss of work, evidence, art, or the last traces of the dead. But sometimes data-recovery experts can summon lost files from the void. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 The Popes That Trump Might’ve Liked - The President thinks Pope Leo XIV is a wuss. Meet some real tough-guy Pontiffs who might have fit the bill. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 The Anatomy of a Failure - From spray-on condoms to radioactive wrinkle cream, “Flops?!,” at the Musée des Arts et Métiers, in Paris, puts terrible inventions in the spotlight. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 The Apprenticeship of Linda McMahon - The Education Secretary ran the W.W.E. for years with her husband, Vince, an unstable man who, like her new boss, has a genius for inflaming the crowd. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 “Spring Comes and I Finally Throw Out the Last Flowers I Bought You,” by Ariel Francisco - “It’s been weeks. / It’s been months. It’s been seasons.” (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 In Defense of the Moderate - In an era that prizes passion, “reasonableness” gets caricatured as political cowardice or bloodless neutrality. A new book says it’s exactly what we need. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 “Raphael: Sublime Poetry,” Reviewed: The Met Rescues a Master - Many have called him boring, a peddler of simpleminded beauty. At the Met, a blockbuster exhibition restores his standing. (www.newyorker.com)
04-20 When Soul Food Met Daniel Boulud - The Harlem franchise Charles Pan-Fried Chicken invited a bunch of chefs to take over for the weekend. Up next: oxtails from Lana Lagomarsini. (www.newyorker.com)
04-19 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)
04-19 “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)