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)
04-05 ‘It’s shocking how poorly prepared the administration is’: DOGE gutted major energy personnel who warn the U.S. has lost key insights amid Iran war (news.google.com)
04-05 ‘It’s shocking how poorly prepared the administration is’: DOGE gutted major energy personnel who warn the U.S. has lost key insights amid Iran war (news.google.com)
04-05 setting up the atkey.pro usb fingerprint reader in linux -- this should also work for any fido2 u2p usb fingerprint reader; maybe even those 20 ones (gist.github.com)
04-05 Central banks live in fear of their last mistake: waiting too long to raise rates in the postpandemic boom. But there’s a difference between that boom and this oil shock. (on.wsj.com)
04-05 President Trump threatened to destroy all of Iran’s power plants if the country’s leaders don’t agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday evening, ratcheting up pressure on Tehran (on.wsj.com)
04-05 “‘I have never, ever seen price hikes this steep and this quick”: How the Iran war’s ripples have brought a lucrative reversal of fortune to U.S. chemical makers like Dow and LyondellBasell (on.wsj.com)
04-05 More aspiring young lawyers are asking for—and getting—extra time to finish the bar exam, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis (on.wsj.com)
04-05 Ben Lerner and the Impossible Interview - The novelist and poet discusses how smartphones “charge the air around us,” what fiction can record that a transcript can’t, and why the book is also a handheld device. (www.newyorker.com)
04-05 Trump’s Offshore-Drilling Dream Is a Recipe for Poisoning the Oceans - Trump envisions a new era of offshore oil drilling. Scientists know all too well how that story ends. (www.newyorker.com)
04-04 My Unrequited Love Story with J.F.K., Jr. - I knew John F. Kennedy, Jr., not that well and not that long, but enough to have experienced the gravitational pull he exerted, like some great big moon. (www.newyorker.com)
04-04 This Easter, an American Pope Confronts an American War - Last week, when asked if he had a message about the war in Iran for President Trump, Leo XIV said, “Hopefully, he’s looking for an off-ramp.” (www.newyorker.com)
04-04 The Art of No Deal: Trump’s Approach to the Iran War - “The plan is not to have a plan,” the staff writer Susan B. Glasser says. (www.newyorker.com)
04-04 The Strange (Partial) End to the (Partial) Government Shutdown - Democrats are claiming victory. But what did they really gain? (www.newyorker.com)
04-04 How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine - Olga Rudenko, the editor-in-chief of the Kyiv Independent, explains how Russia is supporting Iran with drone technology, and how the worldwide shock to oil prices is aiding Russia. (www.newyorker.com)
04-03 Pam Bondi’s Legacy of Flattery and Destruction - No Attorney General has done more damage to the Justice Department. Her successor could be even more dangerous. (www.newyorker.com)
04-03 Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth’s Warped Vision of the Iran War - The two men might wish that they lived in a world where whoever dropped the most bombs got whatever he wanted. But the war has shown that this isn’t true. (www.newyorker.com)
04-03 “The Christophers”: A Review of Steven Soderbergh’s New Drama - In Steven Soderbergh’s film, Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel are superbly matched as two skilled painters who find their way from slippery deception to common ground. (www.newyorker.com)
04-03 Searching for Iran’s Disappeared Prisoners - Families are doing ad-hoc forensics to confirm the whereabouts of their detained loved ones, who have been transferred to undisclosed locations, and are at risk of abuse or execution. (www.newyorker.com)
04-03 New Directors, New Films - Also: Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in “The Drama,” Michael Schulman on spring fabulosity, Rachel Syme on the latest in trenchcoats, and more. (www.newyorker.com)
04-03 “The Drama” Has a Combustible Premise That It Struggles to Justify - In Kristoffer Borgli’s Boston romance, Robert Pattinson and Zendaya play a couple weathering more than their fair share of premarital jitters. (www.newyorker.com)
04-03 The Woman Who Made the Machine That Made Zohran Mamdani - Tascha Van Auken helped turn the D.S.A. into an electoral force. What will she do inside City Hall? (www.newyorker.com)