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)
02-12 Fortuna Mining (FSM) Submits an Application for an Exploitation Permit for the Diamba Sud Gold Project to the Ministry of Energy, Petroleum, and Mines (finance.yahoo.com)
16:00 ‘We thought Midnight Cowboy might end everybody’s career’: the diverse, disruptive, Oscar-winning cinema of John Schlesinger (www.theguardian.com)
05:16 The Air Force changed how gate guards greet people. Troops and civilians on base say they sound like ''Walmart greeters.'' (www.businessinsider.com)
04:43 ''Jestermaxxing'' and ''frame mogging'' join ''looksmaxxing'' as strange new words. Someone is probably making money off them. (www.businessinsider.com)
02-12 We left New York City for the Connecticut suburbs. Our family gained way more than square footage, but it cost us a lot. (www.businessinsider.com)
07:57 “If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country” - Donald Trump’s attempt to criminalize political expression is crossing a line that’s held since 1798. (www.newyorker.com)
02-12 A Terrifying Scam and the System That Made It Possible - Product-liability lawsuits can bring justice for people harmed by corporate failure. But a complicated, opaque process provides opportunities for con artists. (www.newyorker.com)
02-12 Xi Jinping’s Purge and What Trump’s Foreign Policy Means for China - The machinations behind his recent military purge, and whether China sees an opportunity in Donald Trump’s aggression toward Europe. (www.newyorker.com)
02-12 Charli XCX Misses the Moment - The pop star’s new film parodies documentaries that sanitize their celebrity subjects—but her satire isn’t any more satisfying. (www.newyorker.com)
02-12 Is the Rat War Over? - In New York, a rat czar and new methods have brought down complaints. We may even be ready to appreciate the creatures. (www.newyorker.com)
02-12 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)
02-12 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)