03-11 IEA Member countries to carry out largest ever oil stock release amid market disruptions from Middle East conflict - IEA – International Energy Agency (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)
03-11 Assemblyman Gray calls North Star’s plan to put Wintergreen at helm ''absurd;'' Hochul says discussions for receivership are underway (news.google.com)
17:11 Sam Altman says AI isn''t very popular in the US right now, with people blaming it for electricity price hikes and layoffs (www.businessinsider.com)
03-11 IEA Member countries to carry out largest ever oil stock release amid market disruptions from Middle East conflict - IEA – International Energy Agency (news.google.com)
08:30 The Kristi Noem Show Is Cancelled - As Secretary of Homeland Security, Noem enabled Donald Trump’s harshest immigration policies—and embodied the idea of “law enforcement as just a photo op,” Jonathan Blitzer says. (www.newyorker.com)
04:00 Patricia Cornwell on Crime and Creativity - The prolific novelist—whose most famous character, the forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, is played by Nicole Kidman in a TV adaptation premièring in March—discusses a few of her perennial rereads. (www.newyorker.com)
03:19 How Putin Views Trump’s War in Iran - Russia’s President is profiting from rising oil prices, but he’s also facing a hard new reality: he’s no longer the lead disruptor of the postwar global order. (www.newyorker.com)
01:03 How Donald Trump’s Iran War Is Destabilizing the Gulf - Despite their animosity toward Iran, America’s allies in the Middle East are worried that the region is headed for wider conflict. (www.newyorker.com)
03-11 War in the Age of the Online “Information Bomb” - Memes such as “monitoring the situation” reflect a deluded belief that we can be more than just passive, confused bystanders to a spray of digital shrapnel. (www.newyorker.com)
03-10 The Creator of Wordle Tries to Solve the Cryptic Crossword - Josh Wardle designed one of the most popular word games of our time. Now he wants to mainstream one of the most difficult ones. (www.newyorker.com)
03-10 The Lawlessness of Trump’s War in Iran - The ferocity of U.S. and Israeli attacks has raised questions about whether the two countries are even attempting to minimize civilian casualties. (www.newyorker.com)
03-10 Georgia Fourteenth Congressional District Special-Election Map: Live Results - The race to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s House seat pits a Trump-endorsed Republican attorney against a far-right insurgent backed by Kyle Rittenhouse. (www.newyorker.com)
03-10 A Birthday-Gift Guide by Your Most Absent Aunt - It totally screams “Maya,” because she’s within driving distance, last I heard, so I probably won’t have to pay for shipping. (www.newyorker.com)
03-10 The Latest Republican Efforts to Make It Harder to Vote in the Midterms - Donald Trump is pushing the SAVE America Act, but there are other measures to undermine the electoral system. (www.newyorker.com)
03-10 Iran’s New Supreme Leader Is Mojtaba Khamenei - The selection of Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the assassinated Supreme Leader, signals defiance, as the Islamic Republic confronts the gravest threat in its history. (www.newyorker.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)