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)
14:38 Middle East crisis live: Trump says Israel and Lebanon to hold talks Thursday; US hits Iran’s oil sector with new sanctions (www.theguardian.com)
08:00 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)
04:00 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)
02:42 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)
01:15 A.I. Has a Message Problem of Its Own Making - OpenAI’s Sam Altman wants to “de-escalate” the rhetoric around A.I. But if you tell people that your product will upend their way of life, take their jobs, and possibly threaten humanity, they might believe you. (www.newyorker.com)
04-15 TMZ Gets Political - The celebrity tabloid has been basking in the Schadenfreude of catching politicians shirking their responsibility to the American people. (www.newyorker.com)
04-15 How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain - A new book charts the creation of a secretive system that automates warfare for the military. The progression from target identification to target destruction is four clicks. (www.newyorker.com)
04-15 What Zendaya Leaves Unsaid - Her films rarely center on—or even acknowledge—her race, seemingly out of concern that focussing on identity might limit her characters’ emotional palettes. But why couldn’t it expand those palettes? (www.newyorker.com)
04-14 How Much Has the War in Iran Depleted the U.S. Missile Supply? - Defense officials inside the Trump Administration were already concerned that American stockpiles were insufficient for a potential standoff with China. A war of choice in the Middle East has only made matters worse. (www.newyorker.com)
04-14 “The Peace President” Gets Belligerent with Iran and the Pope - After negotiations to end the war failed to produce a deal, Trump imposed a naval blockade to cut off the Islamic Republic’s ability to trade through the Strait of Hormuz. (www.newyorker.com)
04-14 The Hungarian Election Shows That Even Strongmen Can Lose - Many people in the country had trouble imagining that Viktor Orbán could be defeated. But a philosopher also warned that defeatism can abet authoritarianism. (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 What Wallace Shawn Did Before His “Moth Days” - When the two lead actresses in Shawn’s play called in sick, their understudies scrambled to prep in the dressing room. The stand-ins? Deborah Eisenberg and Shawn himself. (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 Sam Wang, Politician-in-Training - The neuroscientist went from analyzing elections to running for Congress. But can this rookie win over New Jersey locals—and Trump voters? (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 The Wild Mind of the Romanian Director Radu Jude - The director’s native city drives him crazy—and drives him to make loony, brilliant films. (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to E. Tammy Kim’s article about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Nicholas Lemann’s report about the Trump Administration’s attack on higher education, and Jill Lepore’s piece about whether A.I. needs a constitution. (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 When It Gets Warm . . . - I will wear the perfect amount of sunscreen so that I don’t look like clown-faced Mark Zuckerberg on that surfboard or red-faced Mark Zuckerberg at a Senate hearing. (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out - The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation. (www.newyorker.com)