The company was planning an "ask me anything" meeting with Musk himself, but now it's a day of rest. | Continue reading
Good morning, and welcome to Source Code. If there's one thing that's predictable about Elon Musk, it's that he's unpredictable, so you shouldn't be too surprised that he's no longer joining Twitter's board. I'm Jamie Condliffe, and the newsletter I wrote yesterday about Elon is … | Continue reading
The line of code that enabled apps to collect the data was linked to companies affiliated with U.S. national security agencies. | Continue reading
The world’s landmark climate report makes it clear that technology isn’t stopping us from solving climate change. It’s our political system and entrenched fossil fuel interests. | Continue reading
Microsoft's Azure unit said Monday that it was launching a preview of virtual machines powered by Ampere's Altra chips, which are based on Arm designs. | Continue reading
Non-fungible tokens, and the blockchain platforms that power them, are either the next big shift in video game monetization — akin to the free-to-play movement started in Asia nearly two decades ago — or they’re a scam repackaging the same exploitative business models that have p … | Continue reading
Sending a message could become as frictionless as sending an email. But getting there will be a technical challenge. | Continue reading
Your five-minute guide to what's happening in tech this Monday, from why app store commissions aren’t all bad to Spotify pulling completely out of Russia. | Continue reading
Meta and Google are taking the right steps with Russia, but still wield too much power in the world. | Continue reading
Workers have asked why Google isn't doing more to compete with Amazon and Apple. | Continue reading
Microsoft came out on top. | Continue reading
"To win more revenue for your sales teams, start with the customer. Understand what your customers need, and make sure that those needs are aligned to clearly defined internal success criteria. Build trust across the teams that what you sold the customer is what is being delivere … | Continue reading
The chipmaker’s next flagship mobile processor is tipped to support the open-video codec AV1. | Continue reading
The new funding, which values SiFive at $2.5 billion, was designed to help the company establish RISC-V as a real option in the market for third-party chip designs dominated by Arm. | Continue reading
Meta wants the documents to prove it actually does have competition. Those competitors are asking the court to intervene. | Continue reading
Jeff Kosseff on the technological and regulatory fight between those who want to stay anonymous and those who would unmask them. | Continue reading
It may have found a new standard for penalizing tech companies that violate privacy and use deceptive data practices: algorithmic destruction. | Continue reading
Amp is Amazon's answer to Clubhouse, Greenroom and Spaces, and it could shake up the industry. | Continue reading
Today in Protocol | Enterprise: Workday’s Amazon fiasco, gaming goes subscription, and AWS continues to dominate. | Continue reading
Yandex provided non-news results in Russia, said a senior public policy manager in congressional testimony. | Continue reading
Ford and Volvo are the first two automakers to join the program, started by an ex-Tesla exec. | Continue reading
Universal translation is part of the company’s push to use AI for the creation of the metaverse. | Continue reading
Geo-neutral compensation is expensive. Here’s another way that startups are staying competitive as workers move around. | Continue reading
It's already bigger than you think. | Continue reading
The contentious comment: “anyone can download a vpn its literally free on the App Store.” | Continue reading
A few weeks ago, Vivyan Tran, Protocol’s head of Digital, started a #wordle channel in our Slack without telling anyone. The only rule: “spoilers in thread pls.” Our whole team instantly understood the assignment, and ever since the channel has been an endless stream of black, ye … | Continue reading
One day, we will all don AR glasses, capable of serving up information geospatially tied to every house and place in our neighborhoods. But who will own and control these spatial AR layers? | Continue reading
“It just seems like rearranging deck chairs on the sinking ship of targeted ads.” | Continue reading
Your five-minute guide to what's happening in tech this Wednesday, from YouTube’s focus on creators to Google ditching FLoC. | Continue reading
‘I’ve put a lot of work into it, and $5k is just really not enough.’ | Continue reading
The social media giants are reportedly adding digital tokens to social profiles. | Continue reading
The center of Maine’s lobster industry shows how much work towns must do to convince anyone they have poor internet access. | Continue reading
An Alibaba engineer found the world-threatening software vulnerability, but the company gets no rewards. | Continue reading
"No scent. Disappointing." | Continue reading
The video-sharing platform got more traffic than Google in 2021. | Continue reading
He's turning Automattic into a different kind of tech giant. But can he take on the trillion-dollar walled gardens and give the internet back to the people? | Continue reading
The Open Broadcaster Software project has already reached out to TikTok. | Continue reading
After years of manufacturing struggles, Intel will make upcoming chips using extreme ultraviolet lithography, which is precise enough to hit your thumb with a laser pointer from the moon. | Continue reading
From private Spaces to work DMs, Twitter employees sound off on how they use the platform. | Continue reading
Xbox chief Phil Spencer talks with Protocol about Minecraft, the metaverse and how Microsoft intends to build a future of virtual worlds. | Continue reading
More than a decade after its release, “Big Buck Bunny” remains a popular movie among video engineers and YouTube viewers alike. | Continue reading
Unpaid leave and termination loom for unvaxxed Googlers. | Continue reading
Use Unlock Protocol to manage membership, access, and monetization with existing WordPress sites. | Continue reading
Dot Dot Stand says little about its origins. But Tencent’s fingerprints are all over it. | Continue reading
Apple once seemed unbeatable in Washington. Here’s how small app developers and companies like Tile, Spotify and Epic have helped change that. | Continue reading
The White House is planning to unveil its Alliance for the Future of the Internet this week following a month of pushback and a mad dash to reshape the ambitious proposal. | Continue reading
The call terminating the employees reportedly lasted 3 minutes. | Continue reading
Square Crypto is now "Spiral." | Continue reading