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)
12:00 ‘A cauldron of people with their tops off!’ Goldie, Estelle, Courtney Pine, Flo and more pick great moments in Black British music (www.theguardian.com)
10:33 The immigration crackdown and tepid interest among teens make it harder than ever for restaurants to find someone to wash the dishes (on.wsj.com)
04-12 President Trump and his advisers have been considering the Wall Street and Main Street impact of continued fighting in the Middle East (on.wsj.com)
04-12 Recent months have been marked by slower growth, stubborn inflation and a weaker job market. Economists worry the war in Iran could exacerbate all three. (on.wsj.com)
04-12 Neither Iran nor China possess anything like America’s economic muscle, but the two have made up for it by using checkpoints, writes @greg_ip (on.wsj.com)
04-12 Jeanine Pirro’s ability to manage a mercurial president has helped make her a dark-horse candidate in MAGA circles to become the next U.S. attorney general (on.wsj.com)
04-11 Grand staircases, state-shaped pools, and a bowling alley in the basement: What the governor''s mansion looks like in every state (www.businessinsider.com)
04-11 I''ve applied to 1,000 jobs since earning my master''s and am still unemployed. I''m frustrated because I thought I did everything right. (www.businessinsider.com)
04-11 A millennial made 280K working 3 remote jobs -- until the job market turned against him: ''It was great until it wasn''t'' (www.businessinsider.com)
04-12 “A Private View,” by Douglas Stuart - “Oh, not another story about me,” she cried. “Another book about how I was the world’s worst mother. I wish you could find something else to write about.” (www.newyorker.com)
04-12 Elle Fanning Gets the Money Shot - The Oscar-nominated actress discusses collaborating with Nicole Kidman, the art of playing a performer, and her new series, “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” in which she stars as a single mom who turns to OnlyFans to make ends meet. (www.newyorker.com)
04-12 “Blue Heron” Is an Exalted Drama of Troubled Childhood - Sophy Romvari’s first feature brings keen observation and wondrous imagination to the quasi-autobiographical story of growing up with a brother in crisis. (www.newyorker.com)
04-11 Will J. D. Vance Inherit MAGA? - The Vice-President reportedly opposed the Iran War. Now he’s tasked with leading American negotiations to end it. (www.newyorker.com)
04-11 “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)
04-11 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)