Netflix adds 19 million subscribers, capping streaming giant's biggest year The earnings report solidified Netflix's dominance in the market, with hits such as "Squid Game" and a boxing match between Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. 01/21/2025 - 8:54 am | View Link
Netflix Reaches 302 Million Paid Subscribers with 19 Million Adds in Q4 Netflix reached 302 million paid subscribers globally, adding 19 million new subs in Q4. It will be the final time Netflix shares subscriber totals. 01/21/2025 - 8:20 am | View Link
Netflix had its biggest quarter ever of new subscribers The number of new Netflix subscribers rose again during the fourth quarter to reach historic proportions. The streaming service added 19 million new paid users — "the biggest quarter of net adds in ... 01/21/2025 - 8:15 am | View Link
Airlines, banks, casinos, package deliveries, and emergency services around the world are recovering today from what could be "the largest tech outage in history." the root cause was not a foreign agent but linked back to a software update issued by a u-s based cybersecurity firm called "Crowd Strike." Could this have been avoided?
In London, a mobile phone is stolen every 6 minutes. "If I steal your phone, I'm stealing a thousand dollars," says digital identity expert David Birch. But "If I can get into your bank account, I can steal $100,000. So that's what they really want." So there are important steps to take immediately - including turning off message preview.
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."