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Listen and follow 'Hard Fork'Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YoutubeThis week we'll look at how artificial intelligence is impacting jobs. As companies begin to announce AI-related job cuts and experiment with customer service bots, economists are betting that AI will lead to big gains for companies and workers. Some even predict that this will help rebuild the middle class.Then, multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker Paul Trillo joins to talk to us about his experience as part of a select group of testers who were granted early access to Sora, OpenAI's video generation tool. Finally, Kevin explains what happened when a Microsoft developer encountered a massive cybersecurity breach.Today's guests:Paul Trillo, multidisciplinary artist, writer and directorAdditional read...

Israel has agreed to open another crossing and increase the flow of aid entering Gaza, a move apparently aimed at assuaging the US president's growing frustration over the dire humanitarian crisis in the enclave.The Israeli government confirmed the new measures in an overnight statement, after the Biden administration announced them Thursday evening following a tense phone call between President Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. During the call, Biden threatened to make future support for Israel conditional on how it addresses its concerns about civilian casualties and the humanitarian situation in Gaza.In a statement, a National Security Council spokesperson said Israel had agreed to open the Erez crossing to allow aid into northern Gaza, to use the port of Ashdod to direc...

If you're 50 or older and reading this article, chances are you wear a pair of inexpensive reading glasses to correct presbyopia, or hyperopia, the age-related decline in vision that makes it progressively harder to read small and tiny print . objects.Eventually, everyone gets the condition.But for nearly a billion people in developing countries, reading glasses are a luxury that many cannot afford. According to the World Health Organization, lack of access to corrective glasses inhibits learning among young students, increases the likelihood of road accidents and forces millions of middle-aged workers and farmers to leave the workforce too early.Not surprisingly, uncorrected presbyopia makes it more difficult for breadwinners to support their families. That's the conclusion of ...

When NATO leaders gather this summer to celebrate the 75th anniversary of their military alliance, the last thing they want to see is a resurgent Russian army marching through Ukraine because Europe is too weak to provide a Kiev the support it needs.What Ukraine ultimately wants is a formal invitation to join NATO. But alliance officials agree that won't happen during celebrations planned in Washington in July. NATO has no intention of welcoming a new member who, due to the alliance's collective security pact, would drag it into Europe's largest land war since 1945.That has pushed NATO to look for a middle ground, something short of membership but concrete enough to demonstrate that it is supporting Ukraine “for the long term,” as Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO secretary general,...

Ford Motor on Thursday delayed production of at least two new electric cars and said it would shift to producing more hybrids. His decision was the latest sign that big automakers are being forced to rethink their electric vehicle strategy because sales of these models are slowing.The shift by Ford and automakers such as General Motors and Mercedes-Benz, which have also pushed back their plans for electric cars, was largely prompted by the companies' difficulties producing and selling enough electric cars and do it profitably.Sales of such vehicles are still growing, but the pace has slowed dramatically in recent months as automakers weed out many early adopters who were willing to spend more than $50,000 for a new battery-powered car. Because they are still learning how to produce c...

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, speaking on the phone call between Biden and Netanyahu, then said that Israel must do more to increase the flow of humanitarian supplies to Gaza, a challenge that has expanded exponentially since the attack on Gaza. humanitarian workers have pushed some groups to reconsider their activities on the ground.“If we lose that respect for human life, we risk becoming indistinguishable from those we face,” Blinken said during a stop at NATO headquarters in Brussels. “Here is the current reality in Gaza, despite the important steps Israel has taken to enable assistance to Gaza: the results on the ground are woefully insufficient and unacceptable.”The Secretary of State made clear that the Biden administration is now ready to exact a price if Israel continues...

The federal government is required to “expeditiously” house migrant children who enter the United States illegally, rather than allowing them to remain in unsafe outdoor sites along the border, a Federal District Court judge ruled Wednesday evening.The decision, issued by Judge Dolly M. Gee of the U.S. District Court of Central California, mostly sided with lawyers representing children in a class action lawsuit. She determined that the minors at the sites were in the legal custody of the Department of Homeland Security and therefore entitled to certain rights and protections, such as a safe and sanitary environment, even if they had not yet been formally processed.The court order, which takes effect immediately, is expected to impact thousands of children and potentially many more. It w...

For half a century, the Sernesi family lived in a historic villa overlooking Florence, where Renaissance artist Michelangelo grew up and later owned it. The property included several buildings, an orchard and a drawing of a muscular male nude etched into the wall of a former kitchen. Tradition has it that the work was designed by a young Michelangelo, although scholars aren't so sure.Last year the Sernesi family sold the villa. Now they want to sell the mural drawing, which was removed from its original location in 1979 so it could undergo much-needed restoration. Etched with charcoal or black chalk on plaster and measuring about 40 by 50 inches, art historians have identified the figure - which is well built, but somewhat wizened - as a "merman," a sea god, or a "satyr, "Part man,...

The Internet, as anyone who works in the trenches can tell you, is not a smooth, well-oiled machine.It's a messy patchwork that's been pieced together over decades and is held together by the digital equivalent of duct tape and chewing gum. Much of it relies on open source software thanklessly maintained by a small army of volunteer programmers who fix bugs, patch holes, and ensure that the entire rickety contraption, responsible for trillions of dollars in global GDP, continues to function. .Last week, one of these programmers may have saved the Internet from huge problems.His name is Andrés Freund. He is a 38-year-old software engineer who lives in San Francisco and works at Microsoft. His work involves developing open source database software known as PostgreSQL, the details ...

In a tense phone call Wednesday, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III rebuked his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, for Israel's deadly attack on a humanitarian food convoy in Gaza earlier this week.“Secretary Austin expressed his outrage over the Israeli attack on a World Central Kitchen relief convoy that killed seven aid workers, including an American citizen,” Maj. Gen. said in a statement Wednesday evening. Patrick Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, describing the phone call.“Secretary Austin stressed the need to immediately take concrete measures to protect aid workers and Palestinian civilians in Gaza after repeated failures to coordinate with foreign aid groups,” General Ryder said.While Austin's comments echoed President Biden's forceful language – “outraged and he...