Search Engine Land: Reddit says 80 million people now use its search weekly. “Eighty million people use Reddit search every week, Reddit said on its Q4 2025 earnings call last week. The increase followed a major change: Reddit merged its core search with its AI-powered Reddit Answers and began positioning the platform as a place where users can start — and finish — their searches.”

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International Business Times: ICE Employees Vent on Reddit, Saying They’re Not Getting Paid and Still No Insurance Despite Promises. “In raw, unfiltered Reddit posts now spreading beyond law-enforcement circles, ICE officers describe going a month or more without a paycheque, struggling to secure medical cover for sick children, and watching promised bonuses quietly stall.”

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Source: Journalism lost its culture of sharing. “We crunched the numbers, and your hunch is right. In fact, it’s probably worse than you think. The data are clear: The open-source culture that defined an earlier era of online journalism has collapsed. Activity on GitHub has cratered. In 2016, news organizations posted more than 2,000 public projects to the code-sharing site. Last year, that […]

Washington Post: Outrage over ICE has spilled into typically apolitical online spaces. This link goes to the syndicated MSN version which has no paywall. “The moderator didn’t know how this post would go over; the forum’s most heated dispute had been about whether other animals being played like bongos should be allowed. But the anti-ICE post exploded, receiving more than 40,000 Reddit […]

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Geeks Are Sexy: Stack Overflow Is Dead, Long Live Its Training Data. “The numbers are brutal. Monthly questions have collapsed from more than 200,000 in 2014 to just 3,862 in December 2025. The reason is obvious: 84% of developers now use AI coding assistants. Turns out people prefer instant answers over being publicly shamed for forgetting a semicolon.” I tried Stack Overflow once. ONCE. It […]