03-09 Special Envoy Zhai Jun of the Chinese Government on the Middle East Issue Meets with Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud_Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People''s Republic of China (news.google.com)
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)
03-08 The Iran War Is Heightening Stock Market Volatility -- but This 7.8 Trillion Figure Is an Objectively Bigger Worry for Wall Street (news.google.com)
01:30 Cut frivolous journeys and turn off computers during lunch: What countries are telling people to do as oil prices spike (www.businessinsider.com)
00:46 A new lawsuit calls for ''immediate'' student-loan forgiveness for borrowers enrolled in Biden''s affordable repayment plan (www.businessinsider.com)
03-09 The Bloody Life and Legacy of El Mencho - How the death of the notorious drug kingpin unleashed a wave of cartel violence across Mexico. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 Joe Vilardi Likes to Move It - The master rigger has hoisted huge art works for Richard Serra, Jeff Koons, and MOMA. Now he’s brought new pieces by Michael Heizer from a Nevada ranch to Gagosian. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 The Unmaking of the American University - For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 Life in Hitler’s Capital - In a new book about everyday existence in wartime Berlin, students, musicians, Nazi maidens, and members of the resistance are allowed to speak for themselves. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 “The Carbon Atoms of Saved Things,” by Brenda Hillman - “The carbon atom has six electrons / that move faster than bodies move / from one form to another.” (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 “Giant” Takes on Roald Dahl and His Antisemitism - Mark Rosenblatt’s début play brings light, shadow, and humor to its portrait of a troubled writer. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 A Wintry Utopia in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom - The region has long attracted idealists, from the radical performers of Bread & Puppet in the seventies to the striving artisan farmers of the early two-thousands. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 The Perverse, Tender Worlds of Paul Thomas Anderson - The filmmaker behind “One Battle After Another” specializes in stories about people who are cut off, adrift, desperately seeking connection. His films are studies of American loneliness. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 The Oscars: Who Will Win and Who Should Win - Every awards season is one battle after another, and the ninety-eighth Academy Awards ceremony promises a more climactic showdown than most. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 A Day in the Pre-Internet World, as Understood by Someone Born in 2002 - When clock radios, film cameras, and the Yellow Pages ruled the world. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 How to Prevent Insider Trading on Trump’s Wars - A flurry of well-timed and anonymous bets on Polymarket right before the U.S. strike on Iran shows the need for reform. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 The Zombie Regulator - As the cost of living continues to spiral upward, the Trump Administration is gutting the government agency built to protect Americans from financial ruin. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 Frankie Focus, Attention-Grabber - Governor Kathy Hochul’s recent policy cracks down on phones in schools. Her enforcer? A freaky neon-green creature. (www.newyorker.com)
03-09 “Gold Street Barn,” by Henri Cole - “From my upstairs-bedroom window, I used to ponder / its sagging timber shoulders and open gable roof.” (www.newyorker.com)
03-08 Addie Citchens on Judging Women and the Spirit Life of New Orleans - The author discusses her story “The City Is a Graveyard.” (www.newyorker.com)
03-08 Where Is the Iran War Headed? - President Trump has both called for Iranians to rise up and oust the ruthless theocracy and then said that he’s fully prepared to deal with a new religious leader. (www.newyorker.com)
03-08 How China Learned to Love the Classics - The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West. (www.newyorker.com)