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Max Knoblauch4/24/25

Nintendo surges on Switch 2 demand and preorder mayhem

Nintendo is enjoying a more than 6% bump on Thursday after preorders for its Switch 2 consoles finally kicked off in the US after a weeks-long delay due to tariffs.

Giving the gaming giant a boost: demand appears to be huge. The $450 console (and a $500 bundle) are out of stock on the websites of retailers like Walmart and Target. A notice at the online checkout page of GameStop, which waited until 11 a.m. ET to open preorders for the console, states that it is currently sold out.

Online, dozens of customers are reporting long wait times, broken websites, and canceled orders.

Despite sending virtually all of its Vietnam-built console supply to the US in recent months ahead of tariffs, Nintendo may not have reached the stockpile levels it was seeking. The company’s US website states that delivery by the announced June 5 launch date isn’t guaranteed, and orders will be fulfilled as product becomes available.

On Wednesday, Nintendo said it received 2.2 million preorders in Japan, far exceeding its expectations.

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Charlie Kirk’s Wikipedia page was the top English-language article on the site in 2025

The day after his assassination in September, Charlie Kirk’s Wikipedia page was viewed over 170 times per second, or almost 15 million times, according to figures from the Wikimedia Foundation.

Like with most other years, the top entries of the year reflected the fact that millions flock to the platform to learn more about political figures, films, and fatalities.

Though there’s been much talk about the impact of AI-generated search summaries and chatbots on Wikipedia — not least from the platform itself — it’s still clearly a major go-to resource for anyone looking to learn a little about a lot online, especially if this week’s year-end figures are anything to go by.

Top Wikipedia articles 2025 chart — Sherwood News

Announcing Wikipedia's most-read articles of 2025 – Wikimedia Foundation

Announcing Wikipedia's most-read articles of 2025 – Wikimedia Foundation

Though there’s been much talk about the impact of AI-generated search summaries and chatbots on Wikipedia — not least from the platform itself — it’s still clearly a major go-to resource for anyone looking to learn a little about a lot online, especially if this week’s year-end figures are anything to go by.

Top Wikipedia articles 2025 chart — Sherwood News

Headline-fatigued Americans are tapping out of the news cycle

A new survey indicates US adults across all age groups are increasingly taking a break from constant breaking news.

Newspapers stacked up against a laptop

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Tom Jones12/4/25

Singer d4vd has been named the top trending person on Google in 2025

If you were asked to name the person who saw the biggest spike in Google searches across 2025, you might plump for a pope, perhaps, or a major political figure. Unless you were one particular Polymarket user, you maybe wouldn’t have put too much money on d4vd, a popular 20-year-old singer who reportedly remains an active suspect in the death of a teen girl.

However, when Google revealed its Year in Search 2025 today — a feature that, importantly, seems to reflect the figures and topics that have seen searches spike from last year, rather than overall search volume — d4vd, whose hits like “Romantic Homicide” and “Here With Me” have racked up billions of Spotify streams, sat atop the “People” section, beating Kendrick Lamar for the top spot.

Google’s top trending people — Google’s Year in Search 2025

As people in the business of making charts all day, you could say that we’re pretty au fait with Google Trends data. Even so, we can admit that Polymarket user 0xafEe may be a true savant when it comes to understanding what people are using the search engine for (though there are also allegations that the user is a Google insider or had other access to the information).

In any case, thanks to a series of what are now proving to be very prescient positions on Polymarket’s “#1 Searched Person on Google This Year” market, 0xafEe has made a medium fortune in the last 24 hours. There was a ~$10,600 “yes” position on d4vd himself — now worth more than $200,000 — as well as “no” positions across other candidates for the title, such as Donald Trump, Pope Leo, and Bianca Censori, all of which have profited substantially. All told, 0xafEe made just shy of $1.2 million on the market.

Spotify Wrapped 2025 is here — and it’s more vital to the company’s bottom line than ever

As rival music services launch end-of-year recaps, keeping listeners loyal is crucial to Spotify’s long-term profits.

Musical notes wrapped gift

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