DOJ Reinforces Demand to Break Up Google’s Search Monopoly
In a sign that President Trump is following the Biden administration’s lead in reining in Google, the Justice Department on Friday reiterated its demand that a court break up the…
Figma in Talks With Bankers to Explore an I.P.O. This Year
Figma, a cloud-based design platform, has met with investment banks in recent weeks to discuss an initial public offering that could come as soon as this year, two people with…
Melody Beattie, Author of a Self-Help Best Seller, Dies at 76
Melody Beattie, whose experiences as a drug addict, a chemical dependency counselor and the wife of an alcoholic informed a best-selling book about codependence that has guided countless people to…
Intuitive Machines Athena Moon Lander Dies After Toppling Over
A day after landing on the moon, the robotic Athena spacecraft built by Intuitive Machines of Houston is dead. In an update on its website on Friday, the company confirmed…
Trump Says He Wrote to Iran to Open Nuclear Talks
President Trump said he had sent a letter to the Iranian government seeking to negotiate a deal to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. He said the letter was…
Facing the Looming Threat of A.I., Publishers Turn to Decentralized Platforms
A tech industry veteran, Mike McCue sees an opening for a different kind of internet where algorithms don’t call the shots. Mr. McCue, the chief executive of the internet company…
Is Google Search Cooked? + We’re Getting a U.S. Crypto Reserve? + What You’re Vibecoding
Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadio This week, Google introduced a new way to search, which could mean that Googling as we…
Private Prisons Are Ramping Up Detention of Immigrants and Cashing In
Damon Hininger, the chief executive of CoreCivic, which operates private prisons and immigrant detention centers, opened an investor call last month on a buoyant note. “I’ve worked at CoreCivic for…
Republican Voters Support Medicaid but Want Work Requirements, Poll Finds
As Congressional Republicans weigh major cuts to Medicaid, most voters do not want to see the public health plan’s funding dialed back, according to a poll released Friday by KFF,…
Trump Signs Order to Create a ‘Crypto Reserve,’ Adviser Says
President Trump signed an executive order on Thursday to create a national stockpile of Bitcoin and other digital currencies, an adviser said, an audacious idea that has been widely criticized…