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)
04-09 ‘You can never really catch up’: The Iran war is exacerbating already high grocery bills, and it will only get worse if the war continues, experts say (finance.yahoo.com)
12:00 ‘I’m not a commercial director – I’m not even a professional film-maker’: Jim Jarmusch on the seven-year journey to make his new film (www.theguardian.com)
12:00 Even if Victor Orbán is ousted on Sunday, Hungary’s return to liberal democracy is not guaranteed Gabriela Greilinger and Cas Mudde (www.theguardian.com)
04-09 My income dropped to less than 12,000 after burnout caused my health to collapse. I had to learn how not to overwork myself. (www.businessinsider.com)
05:48 “Big Mistakes” Is a Crime Show for the Girls and the Gays - Dan Levy’s first scripted series since “Schitt’s Creek” is another fish-out-of-water comedy—this one set in a very different milieu. (www.newyorker.com)
04-09 So Sorry—I Was Just Reminded of My Own Mortality - I think it’s best that I stay here cradling these baby squirrels. That’s pretty much all I’m capable of doing right now. (www.newyorker.com)
04-09 What the Verdict Against Meta and Google Says About the Way We Live Now - The finding of a California jury represents the opening legal salvo in a fight against one of the central anxieties of our time. (www.newyorker.com)
04-09 Pam Bondi Fails to Make Her Case - Bondi’s tenure at the Justice Department was marked by incompetence. But her effort to remake it in Donald Trump’s image was “a tragic success,” the contributing writer Ruth Marcus says. (www.newyorker.com)
04-09 A Reading List from the Director of the Noguchi Museum - Amy Hau discusses some books by Marilyn Chase, Karin Higa, and Edmund de Waal that have guided her work as a curator. (www.newyorker.com)
04-08 A U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Is Here, but Trump’s Stone Age Mentality Endures - A temporary truce can’t erase the chaos of a war that the White House started and never fully understood. (www.newyorker.com)
04-08 The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology - The new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us that resistance to new inventions has existed in some form across millennia. (www.newyorker.com)
04-08 The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents - The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot. (www.newyorker.com)
04-08 “The Drama” Is One Long Troll - Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are charismatic as a couple confronting the fallout from an appalling revelation, but the film itself seems engineered solely to stimulate discourse. (www.newyorker.com)
04-08 What Would a Ground Invasion of Iran Look Like? - As President Trump’s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz looms, Tehran is using lessons from the Iran-Iraq War to prepare for an American escalation. (www.newyorker.com)
04-07 What Trump’s Reorganization of the Forest Service Means for Rural America - Lots of room for lumber lobbyists, less for forest science. (www.newyorker.com)
04-07 The Scandal of the Sharenting Economy - As kidfluencers come of age, some may find the law an imperfect means of restitution for what was lost and broken in their childhoods. (www.newyorker.com)
04-07 What I Know About You Based on How Many of Your Friends Are Becoming Therapists - If one of your friends is studying to be a therapist, it’s your wife and she’s thinking of leaving you. (www.newyorker.com)
04-07 What Will the Artemis II Moon Mission Teach Us? - Four astronauts are travelling deeper into space than anyone in history. NASA will never be the same. (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 “Theodore Roosevelt Taylor,” by Tyehimba Jess - “In short, he slid metal on string till the devil / got tickled and laughed up the Blues.” (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 We Are All Constantly Mutating—and That’s a Good Thing - Genetic research has been complicating the idea of the genome as a determinative blueprint. (www.newyorker.com)
04-06 An Economist’s Quest to Solve America’s Wage Problem - Arindrajit Dube argues that the answer is empowering workers and setting mandatory wage standards across industries. (www.newyorker.com)