Starship Explosions Show SpaceX No Longer Defying Gravity
For SpaceX, 2025 should have been the best year yet. Elon Musk, the founder of the private space company, is one of the most influential people in the Oval Office,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
StubHub Eyes Potential I.P.O. as Soon as This Year
StubHub, a ticketing software company, has held talks with bankers in recent weeks about holding an initial public offering before the end of the year, two people with knowledge of…
How Dan Bongino Would Run the F.B.I., According to Dan Bongino
To hear Dan Bongino describe it, the Federal Bureau of Investigation is “the single most corrupt law enforcement institution” in America and a “full-blown leftist political action committee” devoted to…
How the Crypto Exchange Bybit Lost $1.5 Billion to North Korean Hackers
On the night of Feb. 21, Ben Zhou, the chief executive of the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit, logged on to his computer to approve what appeared to be a routine transaction.…