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Listen and follow “Hard Fork”Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeThis week we head to Cupertino, California for Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference and talk to New York Times reporter Tripp Mickle about all the new features Apple has announced and the company’s giant leap into artificial intelligence. Next, we explore what has been another tumultuous week for Elon Musk, leading to a shareholder vote to re-authorize his massive compensation package at Tesla amid new allegations that he had sex with subordinates at SpaceX. And finally — let’s play HatGPT.Guests:Additional reading:Credits“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Rouse and Casey Newton…

Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz is set to lose his job. He has taken three of the team’s last four race wins since 2022, but that has not been enough to keep his place next season because Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton will move.As 2023 ended, Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc were set to sign new deals with the team. Leclerc signed in late January, but in early February Ferrari revealed they would be poaching Hamilton from Mercedes, with whom he has won six of his seven championships. Sainz would be gone after four years with the team.”That it was somewhat of a…

Catherine, Princess of Wales, said on Friday that she planned to take part in a parade on Saturday for King Charles III’s birthday, a tentative return to the public stage after confirming in March that she was being treated for cancer.The news, which Catherine released in an intensely personal six-paragraph statement, reflected both the progress she has made since she was first admitted to hospital for abdominal surgery last January, and the long road to recovery that has still facing.”I’m making good progress, but as anyone going through chemotherapy knows, there are good days and bad days,” Kathryn wrote.”On those…

On a clear spring morning, I trusted a horse—a bay named Sino—to show me the vast Gila Wilderness in southern New Mexico. Red rocks rose up beside us as we weaved back and forth in a shallow creek that separated the ponderosa pine on the shady south side of Rocky Canyon from the barrel cactus in the rock crevices on the desert-like north face. I leaned into his neck as Shino climbed a steep ridge that led to a hilltop savanna of pinyons, junipers, and forests of tentacle cactus chola sugar cane with sharp yellow fruit. Around them, the wooded…

“This is a video for anyone coming to the 2024 Paris Olympics,” a woman says in a clip posted on TikTok. He pauses a little, then continues, “Don’t come. Cancel everything.”The video, which was uploaded in November, now has more than 700,000 views.The creator, Miranda Starcevic, is a 31-year-old French-American living in Paris. She usually records herself speaking French, but she thought a message about the Olympics would reach more people if it was in English.And Ms. Starcevic wanted her viewers to know that from her perspective, for French citizens who “are kind of middle class,” as she put it:…

Pixar is finally back in racing form.The Disney-owned animation studio’s 28th film, “Inside Out 2,” reached about $145 million in estimated North American ticket sales from Thursday night through Sunday, ending a cold streak that began in March 2020 , when theaters were closed due to the coronavirus pandemic. .It was the second-biggest opening weekend in Pixar’s 29-year history, behind only the superhero sequel “Incredibles 2,” which took in about $180 million in 2018.”They’re back,” David A. Gross, a film consultant who publishes a newsletter on box office numbers, said of Pixar. “This is an exciting opening.”Based on pre-release surveys…

With Stuart A. ThompsonStuart Thompson collected and analyzed data on thousands of Facebook posts for this article.On the morning of January 6, 2021, Christopher Blair’s fake news empire was humming.Mr Blair was earning up to $15,000 in some months posting fake stories on Facebook about the Democrats and the election, reaching millions of people each month.But after a crowd of Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol, his growing business came to an abrupt halt. Facebook appeared to recognize its own role in fomenting an insurgency and tweaked its algorithm to limit the spread of political content, fake and otherwise. Mr.…

The once-conquering F1 team Mercedes-AMG Petronas is in a quagmire.It is a distant fourth in the Formula 1 constructors’ championship, and most of its race results this year have been in the bottom half of the top 10.”We have to accept that we are the fourth fastest team at the moment,” George Russell, one of the team’s drivers, said earlier this month at a media session after the Miami Grand Prix. “Lap times don’t lie, the championship doesn’t lie, here we are. We are fighting for the P5 to P8 area week in, week out at the moment.”Mercedes won a…

People who paid nearly $1,400 for an annual Disneyland pass will start getting checks in the mail this month from a $9.5 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit that accused Disney of misleading customers into believing the program had “no blackout dates “.More than 100,000 people who bought the Dream Key annual pass between August 25 and October 25, 2021, will each receive about $67.41, a small fraction of what they paid for the pass. The payments were supposed to start arriving by mail or online by mid-June, according to the settlement agreement.The lawsuit was filed in November 2021 by…

Iran and Sweden swapped prisoners on Saturday, breaking a standoff that brought relief to families but concern over Sweden’s decision to free the first Iranian official convicted of crimes against humanity.Iran has released Johan Floderus, 33, a European Union diplomat and Swedish national who was arrested in April 2022 in Tehran, as well as Saeed Azizi, a dual national who was arrested in 2023, the Swedish prime minister said.”I am happy to announce that Johan Floderus and Saeed Azizi are now on a plane bound for Sweden and will soon be reunited with their families,” Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said…