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)
09:04 Vice President JD Vance was wrapping up a trip to Budapest when President Trump presented him with the most significant international assignment of his career: leading the administration’s high-stakes peace talks with Iran (on.wsj.com)
08:26 The Artemis II mission took astronauts farther from the planet than ever before. For the millions following on Earth, the crew has never felt closer. (on.wsj.com)
04-10 When my kids got their first phones at 10, I made them sign a physical contract. They''re teenagers now, and it''s still binding. (www.businessinsider.com)
04-10 Hulken was once a sign of success for entrepreneurs. Now, it''s coming for travelers -- just don''t call it a suitcase. (www.businessinsider.com)
05:50 “Exit 8” Is a Video-Game Adaptation That Ingeniously Subverts Its Source - In Genki Kawamura’s infinity-loop thriller, a labyrinthine metro station becomes a metaphor for a life lived in extreme tunnel vision. (www.newyorker.com)
02:00 Sam Altman’s Trust Issues at OpenAI - Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz on the rise of the C.E.O. of OpenAI, and how allegations of deceptive behavior continue to dog one of the most powerful figures in tech. (www.newyorker.com)
04-10 Isa Genzken Finds Chaos in Order - Also: Raye’s ambitious new album, Nathan Lane’s Willy Loman, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s seminal “Firebird,” and more. (www.newyorker.com)
04-10 The Global Stakes of Hungary’s Pivotal Election - What the fate of Viktor Orbán, a pioneer of strongman politics and a darling of right-wing movements across the world, might mean for Europe, Russia, MAGA, and beyond. (www.newyorker.com)
04-10 A Grandmother’s Life in Photos - As long as I’d known her, Laolao had a point-and-shoot camera loaded and ready to record—gardens, meals, new outfits, and visitors. (www.newyorker.com)
04-10 Trump’s Strategic and Moral Failure in Iran - From the first day of his Presidency, Trump has posed an emergency to both his country and the world. (www.newyorker.com)
04-10 Zohran Mamdani, Perpetual Student of the City - The Mayor, along with some teen-agers from Bronx Science, takes stock of his first hundred days. (www.newyorker.com)
04-10 “Big Mistakes” Is a Crime Show for the Girls and the Gays - Dan Levy’s first scripted series since “Schitt’s Creek” is another fish-out-of-water comedy—this one set in a very different milieu. (www.newyorker.com)
04-09 So Sorry—I Was Just Reminded of My Own Mortality - I think it’s best that I stay here cradling these baby squirrels. That’s pretty much all I’m capable of doing right now. (www.newyorker.com)
04-09 What the Verdict Against Meta and Google Says About the Way We Live Now - The finding of a California jury represents the opening legal salvo in a fight against one of the central anxieties of our time. (www.newyorker.com)
04-09 Pam Bondi Fails to Make Her Case - Bondi’s tenure at the Justice Department was marked by incompetence. But her effort to remake it in Donald Trump’s image was “a tragic success,” the contributing writer Ruth Marcus says. (www.newyorker.com)
04-09 A Reading List from the Director of the Noguchi Museum - Amy Hau discusses some books by Marilyn Chase, Karin Higa, and Edmund de Waal that have guided her work as a curator. (www.newyorker.com)
04-08 A U.S.-Iran Ceasefire Is Here, but Trump’s Stone Age Mentality Endures - A temporary truce can’t erase the chaos of a war that the White House started and never fully understood. (www.newyorker.com)
04-08 The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology - The new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us that resistance to new inventions has existed in some form across millennia. (www.newyorker.com)
04-08 The Patron Saint of Oddballs and Delinquents - The New Orleans writer Nancy Lemann conjures scenes of booze-soaked calamity, where everyone and everything is on the verge of rot. (www.newyorker.com)
04-08 “The Drama” Is One Long Troll - Zendaya and Robert Pattinson are charismatic as a couple confronting the fallout from an appalling revelation, but the film itself seems engineered solely to stimulate discourse. (www.newyorker.com)
04-08 What Would a Ground Invasion of Iran Look Like? - As President Trump’s deadline for Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz looms, Tehran is using lessons from the Iran-Iraq War to prepare for an American escalation. (www.newyorker.com)