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)
15:00 The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) by Rabih Alameddine review – drag fabulousness in war-torn Beirut (www.theguardian.com)
02-11 Not Seasonally Adjusted, Retail Sales Spiked by 80 billion, the Most for any December Ever by far, to 817 Billion, the Most Ever (news.google.com)
08:30 A GoFundMe was set up for James Van Der Beek''s family — ''the extended fight against cancer have left the family out of funds'' (www.businessinsider.com)
07:25 A recording of CEO Marc Benioff''s keynote was posted on Salesforce''s internal site. His jokes about ICE weren''t included. (www.businessinsider.com)
07:10 James Van Der Beek died at 48 after being diagnosed with colorectal cancer. Here''s what to know about common symptoms, which can be subtle. (www.businessinsider.com)
02:35 I cancelled my flight after hearing El Paso airspace would close for 10 days. It reopened hours later, but I''d spent the night feeling helpless. (www.businessinsider.com)
01:51 AI CEO warns AI''s disruption will be ''much bigger'' than COVID: ''The people I care about deserve to hear what is coming'' (www.businessinsider.com)
09:00 Can Anthropic Control What It''s Building? - Inside the company behind Claude, researchers are trying to understand systems that may have already exceeded their grasp. (www.newyorker.com)
05:00 The Director of “Crime 101” on His Favorite Anti-Western Westerns - Bart Layton, whose new film stars Halle Berry, Chris Hemsworth, and Mark Ruffalo, discusses a few of his favorite novels that question the romance of the frontier. (www.newyorker.com)
02-11 Why You’re Considered Attractive - If you are deemed attractive while sitting on the toilet, call the police. You are being spied on by a pervert. It might be time to plaster over the peephole in your bathroom wall. (www.newyorker.com)
02-11 Why Do We Like Music? - People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. (www.newyorker.com)
02-11 Even the Hospitals Aren’t Safe in Iran - As the regime imposes a forced forgetting of the massacres in January, it has begun targeting not only wounded protesters but medical workers, who have borne witness to some of the worst atrocities. (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 “The President’s Cake” Movie Review: A Neorealist Treasure from Iraq - The first feature by Hasan Hadi, set in 1990, depicts the agonies of war and dictatorship as experienced by a schoolgirl in the course of a high-stakes day. (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 The Movie That Shaped the Former Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino - Years before he led the Trump Administration’s immigration-enforcement effort in Minneapolis, Bovino saw the 1982 Jack Nicholson film “The Border.” (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 “McMindfulness” and the Fate of Spirituality Under Capitalism - Thich Nhat Hanh saw mindfulness as a way to understand the “interbeing” between all forms of life, but its social dimension has been largely forgotten. (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 The End of Books Coverage at the Washington Post - What the closing of the Washington Post’s books section means for readers. (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 The Woman Behind Japan’s Rightward Shift - How Sanae Takaichi, the country’s first female Prime Minister, won big in last weekend’s election. (www.newyorker.com)
02-10 Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights” Never Plumbs the Depths - Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi play a paper-doll Catherine and Heathcliff in an extravagantly superficial adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Jeffrey Epstein’s Bonfire of the Élites - His correspondence illuminates a rarefied world in which money can seemingly buy—or buy off—virtually anything, and ethical qualms are for the weak-minded. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either - Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Letters from Our Readers - Readers respond to Emily Flake’s comic strip about Alice Harvey, David Owen’s article about dyslexia, Jennifer Wilson’s piece on prenups, and Louis Menand’s essay about the dictionary. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 The Landscape Artist Andy Goldsworthy Contemplates His Own Natural Decay - In rural Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, the sculptor famed for his use of natural materials, contemplates his own decay. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 Listening to “The Joe Rogan Experience” - How a gift for shooting the shit turned into an online empire—and a political force. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 How the Influential Make Influential Friends - The behavioral scientist Jon Levy hosts dinners for the élite. The catch? No one can say what they do for a living. (www.newyorker.com)
02-09 The Amazing Art Ventures of “Kavalier & Clay” - Jamian Juliano-Villani’s paintings hang in the Whitney and the Guggenheim. Her latest venue? An antifascist-superhero exhibit at the Metropolitan Opera. (www.newyorker.com)