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)
13:00 When an author says she had to decline a 175,000 prize, what does it say about the publishing world? Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett (www.theguardian.com)
12:21 ‘Meeting of two worlds’ as Prince Harry joins Wiggles and Australian football stars to put men’s mental health in spotlight (www.theguardian.com)
04-14 I''m Rebecca Minkoff. Here''s my typical day as a working mom, from my perimenopause drink to giving out discount cards on the subway. (www.businessinsider.com)
04-14 Ukraine is slowing Russia down and clawing back ground in key areas, war experts say. Here''s how it''s finding fresh wins. (www.businessinsider.com)
03:14 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)
04-13 “Apocalypso,” by Dobby Gibson - “I couldn’t finish the article about / short attention spans either, / armed feds in the Wendy’s, / Saturn slowly losing its rings.” (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 St. Paul Remade Human History. How Did He Do It? - New scholarship reconsiders the apostle who turned a Jewish sect into a world religion—and whose legacy remains contested two millennia later. (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 The Violence in Vermeer - It is easy to treat the Dutch artist as an agreeable intimist—a transcriber of domestic niceties. But he grew up in a world of war, starvation, and massacres. His paintings were safe havens. (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 Sandy Liang Puts a Bow on It - The designer will add frills to anything—from Dr. Dre headphones to Gap hoodies. At the Frick’s “Ruffles & Ribbons” exhibit, she confronts the deeper meaning of decadence. (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 Ed Solomon’s Family Portrait - The screenwriter’s latest film, “The Christophers,” stars Ian McKellen as a lapsed artist. While gallery-hopping, Solomon reflects on his relationship with his painter mother, who recently put down her own paintbrush. (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 The Return of Family Detention - Under the Trump Administration, thousands of immigrant children have been detained, and many have suffered from medical neglect. (www.newyorker.com)
04-13 Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret, by David Sedaris - It’s not that I was embarrassed by Hugh or that I thought someone better might come along. I just shudder when I hear a man say the words “my husband.” (www.newyorker.com)