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)
14:00 Trillium, Birmingham B4: ‘There’s a general feeling of people – gasp! – actually enjoying life’ – restaurant review Grace Dent on restaurants (www.theguardian.com)
09:33 The Trump administration says American “terrorists” and “rioters” are assaulting immigration agents. A WSJ investigation found none have been convicted at trial. (on.wsj.com)
09:01 MacKenzie Scott’s more than 26 billion in charitable gifts have arrived without warning and have led to bolstered finances, scholarships and jobs (on.wsj.com)
04:09 resident Trump sends a blunt message to Latin America: If you’re with us in fighting drug cartels, you need to use your military. And the U.S. stands ready to help. (on.wsj.com)
01:02 Some Republicans complain Virginia’s most prominent GOP figure is missing from their counterattacks against Democrats’ plan to redraw the state’s congressional maps (on.wsj.com)
00:42 A promise to steady the economy helped President Trump win voters in 2024. The attack on Iran could undermine that support, months before the midterms. (on.wsj.com)
00:00 A federal judge has given the Trump administration more time to start refunding the approximately 166 billion it collected from tariffs the Supreme Court recently invalidated (on.wsj.com)
03-07 For a growing number of online sleuths, there is a booming business in exploring sordid and unfounded claims raised by the newly released Jeffrey Epstein files (on.wsj.com)
03-07 I''ve lived in the Boston area for 14 years. Here are 5 things that live up to the hype and 2 I tell first-timers to skip. (www.businessinsider.com)
03-07 Travellers stranded in the Middle East are racking up mounting bills: ''That''s a lot of money we were not intending to spend'' (www.businessinsider.com)
03-07 I work at Google and saw AI change the tech industry. Here''s how I upskilled and made a ''future-defining'' career pivot. (www.businessinsider.com)
03:51 A Nineteenth-Century Countess’s Sultry Selfies - Virginia Oldoini helped conceptualize and starred in more than four hundred portraits so experimental and expressive that they have drawn comparisons to works by Claude Cahun and Cindy Sherman. (www.newyorker.com)
03-07 The Captivating Derangement of the Looksmaxxing Movement - In their warped and wrongheaded way, the omnipresent influencer Clavicular and his compatriots are intent on demystifying the ideal of natural beauty. (www.newyorker.com)
03-07 “Neighbors” Captures the Drama That Follows You Home - In the new HBO docuseries, about petty disputes between homeowners, everyone has a gun, a grievance, and a security camera. (www.newyorker.com)
03-07 “Yam Daabo” Reintroduces a Late, Great Filmmaker - Idrissa Ouédraogo’s first feature, now streaming, is a tense drama of romance amid politics and a striking advance in cinematic form. (www.newyorker.com)
03-07 Kristi Noem’s Fireable Offenses - The former Secretary of D.H.S. faced criticism for misspending funds, prioritizing her own self-promotion, and reflexively defending even the most brutal acts of the Trump Administration’s deportation efforts. (www.newyorker.com)
03-07 Ryan Coogler on “Sinners,” His Epic Film about Race, Music, and the Undead - The director talks with the New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb about his movie, which has been nominated for a record-setting sixteen Academy Awards. (www.newyorker.com)
03-07 The Global Fallout of Donald Trump’s War on Iran - As the conflict rapidly spreads throughout the Middle East, the New Yorker writers Dexter Filkins and Robin Wright discuss the stakes for Iran, the U.S., and the rest of the world. (www.newyorker.com)
03-06 Stephen Shore, Ryan McGinley’s Xeroxes in “Hard Copy New York” - Also: Jonathan Richman’s soft touch, Sean Hayes’s liquid charm in the play “The Unknown,” “The Bride!”-related culture picks, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
03-06 Can a “Living Drug” Cure Autoimmune Diseases? - CAR-T was developed as a cancer treatment. Now it is showing promise for conditions that have long been considered incurable, such as lupus and multiple sclerosis. (www.newyorker.com)
03-06 Iran’s Desperate, High-Risk Survival Strategy - The regime in Tehran knows it likely can’t win the war, but it can certainly globalize the pain of the conflict—even if it’s ultimately at its own expense. (www.newyorker.com)
03-06 “Hoppers” Is a Happy Leap Forward for Pixar - In Daniel Chong’s cheerfully ludicrous science-fiction comedy, robot technology enables an environmental activist to walk and talk with the animals. (www.newyorker.com)
03-06 The End of Limits on a President’s Wars - Past conflicts eroded Congress’s ability to decide when to go to war. Donald Trump’s attack on Iran destroyed it. (www.newyorker.com)
03-05 The No-Explanation War - The Trump Administration has decided that it need not make a case for military action. In the current media environment, that approach makes a disturbing kind of sense. (www.newyorker.com)
03-05 The Sacred Vibes of Wunmi Mosaku - The Oscar nominee, who plays a hoodoo healer in “Sinners,” stops at a Brooklyn apothecary and reflects on pregnancy, learning Yoruba, and blessing Michael B. Jordan’s bag. (www.newyorker.com)
03-05 The Hall of Fame—and of Shame—of Oscars Hosts - Even the most seasoned performers have had trouble nailing the gig. Why is it so hard to get right? (www.newyorker.com)
03-05 “Vladimir” TV Review - The new Netflix series stars Rachel Weisz as a professor whose lust for a younger colleague renews her lust for life itself—and drives her to alarming extremes. (www.newyorker.com)