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)
06:26 I flew to Dubai for my 30th birthday. Now I''m stranded 8,000 miles from home and terrified after the US strikes on Iran. (www.businessinsider.com)
00:42 Warren Buffett''s successor touted 4 of his most iconic stock picks — and they''re up 10 to 50 times since he bought them (www.businessinsider.com)
03-02 My 8-year-old invited his 4 best friends for dinner. I sat at a separate table and watched them have fun independently. (www.businessinsider.com)
08:30 Special Episode: War in Iran - U.S. and Israeli air strikes have killed the Iran’s Supreme Leader, sparked a regional conflagration, and set the stage for a “strategic shit show,” Ishaan Tharoor says. (www.newyorker.com)
07:36 Can Donald Trump Win a War with Iran If He Can’t Explain Why He Started It? - So far, explanations are few and the goals—from regime change to ending a nuclear program the President already claimed to have “obliterated”—are many. (www.newyorker.com)
05:23 The Republicans Are Messing with Texas - Amid the controversy over redrawn district maps, a bitter senatorial primary race between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton, and growing dissatisfaction with Donald Trump, has the Party overreached? (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 New York City Ballet Premières for the “No Kings” Era - Justin Peck takes on Beethoven’s “Eroica” symphony, while Alexei Ratmansky turns the tale of the Emperor’s new clothes into an anti-Trump satire. (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 “How to Get to Heaven from Belfast” Is an Ode to Middle-Aged Friendship - The series, from the creator of “Derry Girls,” focusses on a group of Irish women investigating a death. But it feels less like a murder mystery and more like a buddy comedy. (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 Meet the Dad Making Music from Toddler Twaddle - Stephen Spencer is a college music lecturer, but his side gig is producing songs written by his three-year-old. “Apple The Stoola,” Record of the Year? (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 Jafar Panahi Steps Out of the Shadows - The director of “It Was Just an Accident” will face arrest upon his return to Iran after the Oscars. But for now he’s looking for a new pair of shades. (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies - With climate change, the skies are becoming more turbulent. Can today’s planes still keep us safe? (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 Eugène Atget’s Epic Record of Time and Place - An exhibit of the French artist’s work at the I.C.P. shows how he taught photography to be specific. (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 The Sexologist Who Unlocked the Female Orgasm - Fifty years ago, a controversial writer named Shere Hite taught us how to talk about sex and pleasure, selling books by the millions. Why do so few people know her name today? (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 Scandal, Protest, Goofiness, and Grandeur at the U.S. Bicentennial - This year marks the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the nation’s founding. The two hundredth wasn’t exactly smooth sailing. (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 “‘I Might Not Be Here,’” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths - “We were being married / & it felt like marriage, our lives gliding in laughter.” (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 Can A.I. Be Pro-Worker? - As fears of mass unemployment grow, three leading economists advocate some policies to shift the focus from job displacement to job enhancement. (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 High Times, Flying Once More - The stoner magazine stopped publishing in 2024. Now the founder of Raw Rolling Papers is lighting it up again. (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 What Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Meant to Iran, and What Comes Next - The Supreme Leader, who ruled the Islamic Republic for nearly four decades, has been killed by Israel and the United States. Can the regime survive without him? (www.newyorker.com)
03-02 Has Trump Thought Through the Endgame in Iran? - The country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was killed by U.S. and Israeli strikes, but the conflict is far from over, and has convulsed the Middle East in a spasm of interstate violence. (www.newyorker.com)