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)
16:31 Billionaire investor Chamath Palihapitiya sparred with an X user over an investment loss — then offered to fund his daughters'' college (www.businessinsider.com)
13:05 Microsoft says Anthropic''s products can stay on its platforms after lawyers ''studied'' the Pentagon supply chain risk designation (www.businessinsider.com)
13:02 Zelenskyy said the US asked Ukraine for support in fighting off Iran''s Shahed drones, so he''s sending experts their way (www.businessinsider.com)
10:27 Dario Amodei says Anthropic is having ''productive conversations'' with the Pentagon despite being effectively blacklisted (www.businessinsider.com)
00:13 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)
03-05 “The Bride!” Exclaims but Never Explains - Maggie Gyllenhaal’s imaginative adaptation of the Frankenstein story, starring Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale, leaves its premise and its principles undeveloped. (www.newyorker.com)
03-05 Yuval Sharon Reimagines the Canon - The opera director—whose Met début, “Tristan und Isolde,” premières next week—discusses a few of his influences. (www.newyorker.com)
03-05 Why a Democratic Congressman Is Supporting Trump’s War with Iran - Representative Greg Landsman explains his hope that the conflict remains limited but also creates an entirely new Middle East. (www.newyorker.com)
03-05 Has Taking the Perfect Photo Ruined Tourism in “The Spectacle”? - Yasmin van Dorp’s short film depicts beautiful destinations—and the crowds of cell-phone photographers who inundate them. (www.newyorker.com)
03-04 Honest Eyelash-Curler Reviews - Dang, no lashes left behind with this curler. It even reaches those tiny corner lashes. Lifts, separates—the works. Also, the first time I used this curler, I saw God. (www.newyorker.com)
03-04 The Future of Horror Movies Is on YouTube - With releases like “Iron Lung” and “Backrooms,” Hollywood is looking to the platform for the next generation of horror auteurs. (www.newyorker.com)
03-04 Chris Fleming Prances, Scuttles, and Undulates Onto HBO - In a new standup set, the comedian uses oddball physicality to locate the weird in the everyday. (www.newyorker.com)
03-04 Rimbaud and Verlaine in Washington Square Park - “Godlike,” by the seminal punk musician Richard Hell, transposes a notorious affair between nineteenth-century French poets to nineteen-seventies New York—and testifies to punk’s paradoxical relationship with the past. (www.newyorker.com)
03-04 In the Texas Primaries, a Good Night for James Talarico, and a Bad One for John Cornyn - Democrats have not won a statewide race in Texas in more than thirty years, but on Tuesday night they seemed to have found an interesting prospect. (www.newyorker.com)
03-04 Do U.S. Presidents Have the Power to Declare War? - On paper, declaring war is reserved for Congress. The Tonkin Gulf Resolution turned a constitutional requirement into a legislative habit of looking away. (www.newyorker.com)
03-03 North Carolina Primary Map: Live Election Results - The state’s primaries on March 3rd will determine candidates for House and Senate races in November, with major implications for the balance of power in Congress. (www.newyorker.com)
03-03 Why a Woman Would Rather Love a Statue Than a Man - In “When the Museum Is Closed,” Emi Yagi takes her study of female objectification to a new, literal extreme. (www.newyorker.com)