In its earnings report on Thursday, OnlyFans revealed that users spent a whopping $5.6 billion on the subscription platform in the 2022 fiscal year — that’s 21 percent more than what users spent in the year before.
After the AMPTP publicly released its counteroffer to striking writers yesterday, the WGA posted a more detailed update on their negotiations, stating the latest proposals offered by Hollywood studios still aren’t enough:
We will continue to advocate for proposals that fully address our issues rather than accept half measures... As we have repeated from the first day of our first member meeting — and on every day of this strike — our demands are fair and reasonable, and the companies can afford them.
Disclosure: The Verge’s editorial staff is also unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East.
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According to a report from the Associated Press, Uber is increasing its minimum driver age in California from 19 to 25 years old — a move it blames on rising insurance costs in the state:
Personal injury attorneys have created a cottage industry specializing in suing rideshare platforms like ours, pushing Uber’s California state-mandated commercial insurance costs to rise by more than 65% in just two years.
Californians under the age of 25 who signed up to the platform before Wednesday will get to keep driving for Uber.
Starting today, you can access several PC Game Pass titles from Nvidia’s cloud gaming service GeForce Now, including Deathloop, No Man’s Sky, Grounded, and more. You can view the whole roster of available games from Nvidia’s website.
