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)
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)
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)
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)
Abigail Slater Says She’s Departing As Justice Department’s Antitrust Chief; Exit Comes As Division Prepped For Live Nation Antitrust Trial — Update (news.google.com)
''Jestermaxxing'' and ''frame mogging'' join ''looksmaxxing'' as strange new words. Someone is probably making money off them. (www.businessinsider.com)
We didn''t need childcare, but we still paid 7,500 to send our toddler to a program for 4 hours a week. It helped her build independence. (www.businessinsider.com)
“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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
“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)
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)
“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)
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)
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)
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)