Pulling the Plug on TikTok Will Be Harder Than It Looks
“A lot of this is a game of chicken,” said James A. Lewis, who runs the cyberthreats program at the Center for Strategic and International...
What Google Bard Can Do (and What It Can’t)
Google has released a new chatbot, Bard, and has shared the experimental technology with a limited number of people in the United States and Britain....
Google Releases Bard, Its AI Chatbot, a Rival to ChatGPT and Bing
For more than three months, Google executives have watched as projects at Microsoft and a San Francisco start-up called OpenAI have stoked the public’s imagination...
Inside the 3 Months That Could Cost Fox $1.6 Billion
As part of the suit, Dominion obtained thousands of internal Fox emails and text messages and deposed dozens of Fox employees. That evidence shows in...
Book Review: ‘Meganets,’ by David B. Auerbach
“Just one word. Are you listening?” Mr. Maguire said to Benjamin Braddock in “The Graduate” (1967). “Plastics.” Twenty-five years later a puckish French horn player...
BONUS: Hard Fork Live! Big Tech’s Arch Nemesis + Bot or Not?
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Amazon Plans to Lay Off Another 9,000 Employees
Amazon plans to lay off 9,000 corporate and tech workers by the end of April, adding to the 18,000 roles it already cut late last...
Falling Lithium Prices Are Making Electric Cars More Affordable
Lithium, the common ingredient in almost all electric-car batteries, has become so precious that it is often called white gold. But something surprising has happened...
Crypto Wants Its Shine Back
At a cryptocurrency conference in Denver this month, a group of singers clad in bright orange onesies took the stage to perform what one industry website later...
YouTube Restores Donald Trump’s Account Privileges
YouTube suspended former President Donald J. Trump’s account on the platform six days after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. The video platform said...
BORG Drinking Is Going Viral on TikTok. What on Earth Is It?
Before you ask, BORG — which is pronounced like the aliens from “Star Trek” — is an acronym for “blackout rage gallon.” The drink going...
Justice Dept. Investigating TikTok’s Owner Over Possible Spying on Journalists
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is investigating the surveillance of American citizens, including several journalists who cover the tech industry, by the Chinese company that...
WeWork Reaches a Debt Restructuring Deal With SoftBank
WeWork, the struggling office space company, said on Friday that it had reached a deal with SoftBank and other investors to significantly reduce its debt...
Twitter’s Talks Over Licensing Music Are Said to Stall Under Elon Musk
Twitter explored the licensing of music rights from three major labels before negotiations stalled after Elon Musk’s takeover of the company, said eight people with...