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)
01:01 After the latest Mandelson revelations, Starmer needs to get a good lawyer. Wasn’t he supposed to be one? Jonathan Freedland (www.theguardian.com)
11:04 Republican officials are sounding the alarm ahead of November’s midterm elections, worried that the war in Iran and Democratic enthusiasm might mean a blowout (on.wsj.com)
10:34 A federal judge halted the 6.2 billion merger of television station giants Nexstar Media Group and Tegna after eight states and satellite broadcaster DirecTV sued to block the deal on antitrust grounds (on.wsj.com)
10:00 U.S. presidents have shared priorities with Catholic popes for seven decades. Today, American leaders’ values and those of Vatican authorities are in direct conflict. (on.wsj.com)
08:32 Greg Abel, the new CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is scrutinizing businesses and investments established under Warren Buffett’s long run (on.wsj.com)
07:02 New York City doormen and building owners reached a deal late Friday, avoiding a strike but showing how the affordability crunch is squeezing nearly everyone who lives or works there (on.wsj.com)
06:22 Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota said she isn’t as wealthy as documents she previously submitted to Congress suggest because there were major accounting errors in her filing (on.wsj.com)
04-17 We ditched our six-figure corporate jobs and sold our house to move to Albania. Moving abroad in our 30s let us chart our own path. (www.businessinsider.com)
08:00 Corruption Toppled Viktor Orbán. Could Donald Trump Be Next? - “Corruption is the Achilles’ heel of autocrats. It’s not a bug in the system. It’s the model,” the New Yorker staff writer Jane Mayer says. (www.newyorker.com)
04:03 The Art of the Fictional Pop Song - The chart-topping hits you hear in movies can stretch the limits of belief. On the “Mother Mary” soundtrack, Charli XCX and Jack Antonoff capture the real thing. (www.newyorker.com)
03:40 El retorno de la detención familiar - Durante el gobierno de Trump, miles de niños inmigrantes han sido detenidos y muchos han sufrido de negligencia médica. (www.newyorker.com)
03:06 The South Texas Democrat Who Will Sing at Your Quinceañera - Bobby Pulido, a Tejano musician who’s trying to unseat a Republican in Congress, has turned some of his district’s splashiest parties into campaign stops. (www.newyorker.com)
02:00 Patrick Radden Keefe on “London Falling,” His Book About a Teen-Ager’s Mysterious Life and Death - The New Yorker staff writer, who has chronicled political violence under the Irish Republican Army and the opioid epidemic, traces how a teen came to impersonate an oligarch’s son. (www.newyorker.com)
02:00 A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel - The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 We Need Fewer Influencers and More Bullshit E-mail Jobs - We need Directors of Manual Automation Sales Development who roll up their sleeves and type one singular e-mail every day in which they pass off their work to a different department. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 David Armstrong’s Probing Gaze - Also: Jennifer Tilly in the surreal world of “The Adding Machine,” New York City Ballet’s spring season, Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel in “Mother Mary,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 Queen Elizabeth II and the Lost Art of Fashion Diplomacy - “The Queen’s Style,” a new exhibition at Buckingham Palace, offers a lesson in how to make powerful statements without saying a word. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 Saving a Lost Generation of Young Men—with Chop Saws - The College of St. Joseph the Worker, which combines the trades with a liberal-arts education, is trying to restore its students’ sense of their own competence, and revive the city of Steubenville, Ohio, along the way. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 Our Longing for Inconvenience - The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might transport us back to calmer times. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 The Calculated Uplift of “I Swear” - Kirk Jones’s bio-pic of the activist John Davidson, who has worked to destigmatize Tourette’s syndrome, is effective as an educational tool but mechanical as a drama. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 America’s Orange Jesus - Reflections on a week in which Donald Trump decided to feud with the Pope while comparing himself to the Saviour. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 “Mother Mary,” Starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, Reviewed - Anne Hathaway, as a pop star, and Michaela Coel, as a fashion designer, are trapped in the narrow limits of a chamber drama that’s smaller than their personalities. (www.newyorker.com)
04-17 Who Is the U.S. Negotiating with in Iran? - As Trump searches for a friendly successor to the Ayatollah in Tehran, the leadership vacuum in the Iranian regime has been filled by hard-line members of the Revolutionary Guard. (www.newyorker.com)
04-16 “Beef,” “The Drama,” and the New Marriage Plot - Two releases about troubled couples meet a broader cultural moment of questioning what the institution is good for—and what new arrangements might replace it. (www.newyorker.com)
04-16 Sharp Claws at “Becky Shaw” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball” - Gina Gionfriddo’s zinger-filled sex farce and the celebratory ballroom-culture adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s confounding musical are cathartic catnip. (www.newyorker.com)
04-16 Is Zohran Mamdani’s “Sewer Socialism” Resonating? - After an unlikely political rise, New York’s Mayor has embraced a model of governance focussed on basic services—and making sure New Yorkers see it. (www.newyorker.com)
04-16 Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich - The writer and internet critic discusses books that reflect different facets of living in a society run by billionaires. (www.newyorker.com)
04-16 The Extremes of Israeli Public Opinion - Israeli voters are against a ceasefire with Iran, and think Netanyahu has not gone far enough. (www.newyorker.com)