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)
16:54 Minister credits Starmer for ‘taking responsibility’ over Mandelson ahead of key meeting with Labour MPs – UK politics live (www.theguardian.com)
02-08 The U.S. construction industry’s need for labor is soaring and will need half a million new workers next year while AI giants ramp up spending (finance.yahoo.com)
02-08 What to Expect in Markets This Week: January Jobs Report, Inflation and Retail Sales Data; Earnings From Cisco, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s (news.google.com)
03:58 Washington Post Staff Starts GoFundMe For International Employees Facing “Serious Security Risks” After Layoffs: “I Was Just Laid Off In The Middle Of A War Zone” (news.google.com)
02-08 My husband and I started doing adult paint-by-numbers to get off our phones. The hobby''s benefited us more than we expected. (www.businessinsider.com)
12:19 Bad Bunny’s All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show - You could think of the set as a tribute to the power and capaciousness of American popular music—or as a pointed critique of it. (www.newyorker.com)
02-08 Restaurant Review: The Eighty-Six - A new restaurant from the team behind Corner Store offers exclusivity, and great steak to boot. (www.newyorker.com)
02-08 Valeria Luiselli Reads “Predictions and Presentiments” - The author reads her story from the February 16 & 23, 2026, issue of the magazine. (www.newyorker.com)
02-08 “Predictions and Presentiments” - How do I reinvent it, the story, our lives? It was going to be only her and me from now on. (www.newyorker.com)
02-08 Is There a Remedy for Presidential Profiteering? - Until now, Trump always seemed unembarrassed to crow about his side hustles. But, if the Emirati payment was kept secret, what else might be? (www.newyorker.com)
02-07 The Rise of the Anti-ICE Protest Song - For a genre that confronts the horrors of the present, the protest song of 2026 is curiously backward-looking. (www.newyorker.com)
02-07 Seydou Keïta Captured a Nation on the Cusp of Independence - At the Brooklyn Museum, the Malian photographer’s elaborately patterned studio portraits picture a society in flux. (www.newyorker.com)
02-07 Ben Shapiro Is Waging Battle Inside the MAGA Movement - The conservative commentator on the antisemitism in MAGA media and why he condemns President Trump as corrupt yet sticks with him. (www.newyorker.com)
02-07 Jenin Younes on Threats to Free Speech from the Left and the Right - A First Amendment lawyer once attacked Democrats for suppressing unpopular opinions; she now sees a vastly greater threat from the Trump Administration. (www.newyorker.com)
02-07 A Pioneer of Electronic Music Reanimates Old Songs - Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s latest album, produced with his partner, Elizabeth, was made amid financial hardship and illness’s mounting toll. (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 The Pope’s Man Arrives in New York - In appointing Ronald Hicks to the most prominent post in the U.S. Church, is Leo XIV assembling his own Team U.S.A.? (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 Dan Bongino’s Podcast Homecoming - The short-lived No. 2 at the F.B.I. returns to the MAGA mediaverse he helped create. What’s changed? (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 The Dance Reflections Festival Is a Gift - Also: the primordial silhouettes of Simone Fattal, the indie-folk soundscapes of Florist, Rachel McAdams in “Send Help,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 “My Father’s Shadow” Is Intensely—Yet Obliquely—Autobiographical - Akinola Davies, Jr.,’s début feature, scripted by his older brother, Wale, follows two brothers and their father during Nigeria’s historic 1993 election. (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 Donald Trump Already Knows the 2026 Election Is “Rigged” - The question is not if he will undermine confidence in the midterms but how. (www.newyorker.com)
02-06 TV Review: “Riot Women,” Streaming on BritBox - Sally Wainwright’s irresistible new series follows a group of middle-aged women who start a band—and find an outlet for the kinds of female grievances that tend to go unsung. (www.newyorker.com)