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)
03-17 The 110 Billion Catalyst That Makes It More Likely Oracle Will Hit Its 700% Cloud Infrastructure Revenue Growth Guidance by 2030 (news.google.com)
18:31 When an off-duty police officer was murdered in Chicago, Alex Villa was arrested and sent to prison for ten years. The problem? He almost certainly didn’t do it (www.theguardian.com)
17:46 What happens after you retire early? People who have done it in their 30s describe boredom, identity shifts, and second thoughts. (www.businessinsider.com)
17:01 Jensen Huang floated AI tokens as part of engineers'' compensation. Sam Altman says they could one day be a form of universal basic income. (www.businessinsider.com)
18:00 Probability Calculator: Chances That Your Friend Bails Tonight - “I’ll most likely be able to get there a little after 8!” Bring granola bars. You’ll eat your first bite of dinner at 9:17 P.M. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 “Judy Blume: A Life” and the Problem of Biography - A new book about the children’s author is conscientious, respectful—and, like any good biography, dedicated to recovering vivid, occasionally unsettling particulars. (www.newyorker.com)
18:00 Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste - In the age of A.I., the term has become as much of a Silicon Valley cliché as “disruption” was in the twenty-tens. (www.newyorker.com)
03-17 Illinois Primary Map: Live Election Results - The state’s lieutenant governor and a cryptocurrency darling square off in the Democratic race to fill Dick Durbin’s U.S. Senate seat; Republicans are picking a candidate to challenge Governor J. B. Pritzker. (www.newyorker.com)
03-17 How Should We Remember the Hippies? - They’ve often been a punch line, but by fusing their political convictions to a broader cultural identity they seemed to find something that we’ve lost. (www.newyorker.com)
03-17 Israel’s Gulf-State Gamble in the Iran War - Benjamin Netanyahu has predicted that the conflict could draw Israel closer to its Arab neighbors. That may be wishful thinking. (www.newyorker.com)
03-17 Why David Boies Thinks We Should Support Trump’s Iran War - The prominent lawyer says that Democrats should get behind the President, and make sure that he finishes the job. (www.newyorker.com)
03-17 Were the 2026 Oscars a Swan Song for Warner Bros.? - At the Academy Awards, The New Yorker’s correspondent saw a win-win night for the studio behind “Sinners” and “One Battle After Another”—and a lose-lose situation for the industry. (www.newyorker.com)
03-16 As Movies Adapt to the Times, the Oscars Can Only Look On - Doom-laden humor at the 2026 Academy Awards ceremony obscures the courageous innovation of much of the work it celebrated. (www.newyorker.com)
03-16 The 2026 Oscars Were a Protest Against Their Own Irrelevance - With few exceptions, a ceremony that honored two of the most politically ferocious Hollywood action-thrillers in recent memory engaged only fitfully with politics. (www.newyorker.com)
03-16 How Arsenio Hall Shook Up Late Night - His show became the epicenter of early-nineties cool, with the decade’s biggest names, from Tom Cruise to Bill Clinton, stopping by to earn street cred. (www.newyorker.com)
03-16 How Doodles Became the Dog du Jour - Poodle crossbreeds have grown overwhelmingly popular, sparking controversy in dog parks and kennel clubs alike. (www.newyorker.com)
03-16 What’s Behind Trump’s New World Disorder? - A foreign policy freed of liberal pretenses and imperial ambitions could lead to restraint—or, as the Iran attack shows, simply license hit-and-run belligerence. (www.newyorker.com)
03-16 “The Life You Want,” Reviewed - In a new book, Adam Phillips wages a playful war on the strictures of traditional talk therapy. (www.newyorker.com)
03-16 Rolling Out Our New A.I. Tools - Internal memo: Meet our new suite of A.I.-optimized losers and douche bags. Although they are fully agentic, we’re sure they will annoy you in all the ways you’re accustomed to. (www.newyorker.com)
03-16 Junior LaBeija, Master of Ceremonies - As the ballroom legend makes their Broadway début in “Cats: The Jellicle Ball,” they reflect on accessorizing with raw chicken and dressing like Al Capone. (www.newyorker.com)
03-16 How to Be Your Own Super - Doorknob troubles? No sweat—an Upper West Side handyman is helping the helpless, with a beginner’s class on how to fix your (many) apartment problems. (www.newyorker.com)
03-16 Wendy Red Star Gets Her Bag - The artist, whose new show centers on the history of trade beads, shops for a knockoff Louis Vuitton bag on Canal Street and ruminates on authenticity. (www.newyorker.com)