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…
Fired Federal Workers Face a Sluggish Job Market
For about a year now, the labor market has existed in a state of eerie calm: Not many people were losing their jobs or quitting, but not many of those…
George Lowe, Kvetchy Voice of Cartoon Network’s Space Ghost, Dies at 67
George Lowe, the actor who voiced the superhero-turned-talk-show-host Space Ghost on “Space Ghost: Coast to Coast” on the Cartoon Network for nearly two decades, died on Sunday in Lakeland, Fla.…
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…
Russia Hits Ukrainian Power and Gas Facilities in Widespread Attack
Russia unleashed a furious bombardment aimed at critical Ukrainian infrastructure overnight on Thursday and on Friday amid increasing worries that the American decision to withhold intelligence assistance could leave Ukraine…
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…
Trump’s Policies Have Shaken a Once-Solid Economic Outlook
President Trump inherited an economy that was, by most conventional measures, firing on all cylinders. Wages, consumer spending and corporate profits were rising. Unemployment was low. The inflation rate, though…
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,…
South Carolina Inmate Set to Be Executed by Firing Squad
South Carolina is planning to execute a prisoner on Friday evening with a firing squad, an extremely rare method that has not been used in the United States since 2010.…
Two Army Soldiers Are Accused of Selling Military Secrets
Two U.S. Army soldiers in Washington State and a former soldier were arrested on Thursday on bribery and theft charges, accused in separate federal indictments of conspiring to obtain and…