Twitter Cancels AMA with Elon Musk

The company was planning an "ask me anything" meeting with Musk himself, but now it's a day of rest. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Elon skips his board seat

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Google bans Android apps that were harvesting user data – Protocol

The line of code that enabled apps to collect the data was linked to companies affiliated with U.S. national security agencies. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

The IPCC says we already have the tech tools to stop climate change

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft Azure vaults into the Arm server era with chips from Ampere

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

The NFT gaming backlash reaches a fever pitch

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Messaging apps may soon be forced to work together. It won’t be easy

Sending a message could become as frictionless as sending an email. But getting there will be a technical challenge. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

App store taxes are good

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Facebook and Google are too big for democracy

Meta and Google are taking the right steps with Russia, but still wield too much power in the world. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Google execs push back on employee pay concerns

Workers have asked why Google isn't doing more to compete with Amazon and Apple. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Tesla is a complete climate embarrassment, a new report shows

Microsoft came out on top. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

"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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Qualcomm is adding AV1 support, which could be huge for online video

The chipmaker’s next flagship mobile processor is tipped to support the open-video codec AV1. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

SiFive raises $175M in bid to unseat Arm with RISC-V

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Meta is going on a subpoena spree, targeting Snap, Twitter and more

Meta wants the documents to prove it actually does have competition. Those competitors are asking the court to intervene. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

The fight over anonymity is about the future of the internet

Jeff Kosseff on the technological and regulatory fight between those who want to stay anonymous and those who would unmask them. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

The FTC’s new enforcement weapon spells death for algorithms

It may have found a new standard for penalizing tech companies that violate privacy and use deceptive data practices: algorithmic destruction. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Amp Is Amazon's Answer to Clubhouse, Greenroom and Spaces

Amp is Amazon's answer to Clubhouse, Greenroom and Spaces, and it could shake up the industry. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

If Amazon Can’t Make Workday Work, Who Can?

Today in Protocol | Enterprise: Workday’s Amazon fiasco, gaming goes subscription, and AWS continues to dominate. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

DuckDuckGo pauses its relationship with Russian search engine Yandex

Yandex provided non-news results in Russia, said a senior public policy manager in congressional testimony. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Electric vehicle battery recycling is starting in California

Ford and Volvo are the first two automakers to join the program, started by an ex-Tesla exec. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Meta is building an AI Babelfish to translate every language

Universal translation is part of the company’s push to use AI for the creation of the metaverse. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Tech companies are imposing raise caps on workers who move away

Geo-neutral compensation is expensive. Here’s another way that startups are staying competitive as workers move around. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Amazon is a dark horse that can win the music-streaming wars

It's already bigger than you think. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Skier Eileen Gu defends China’s internet freedom. Her message is censored

The contentious comment: “anyone can download a vpn its literally free on the App Store.” | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Who owns your address in AR? Probably not you

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Google killed FLoC: Topics is replacing it

“It just seems like rearranging deck chairs on the sinking ship of targeted ads.” | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

YouTube Became Unstoppable

Your five-minute guide to what's happening in tech this Wednesday, from YouTube’s focus on creators to Google ditching FLoC. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

A 19-year-old built a flight-tracking bot. Elon Musk tried to pay him to stop

‘I’ve put a lot of work into it, and $5k is just really not enough.’ | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

The social media giants are reportedly adding digital tokens to social profiles. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

How the ‘original sin’ of FCC maps keeps people offline

The center of Maine’s lobster industry shows how much work towns must do to convince anyone they have poor internet access. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Alibaba punished for not reporting the Log4j flaw to Beijing

An Alibaba engineer found the world-threatening software vulnerability, but the company gets no rewards. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Amazon Yankee Candle reviews are mirroring the Covid-19 surge – again

"No scent. Disappointing." | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

TikTok is now more popular than Google

The video-sharing platform got more traffic than Google in 2021. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

OBS: TikTok violates GPL with new broadcast studio app

The Open Broadcaster Software project has already reached out to TikTok. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Intel’s plans for the world’s most advanced chip-making process

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Twitter Uses Twitter

From private Spaces to work DMs, Twitter employees sound off on how they use the platform. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Microsoft’s Xbox Chief Phil Spencer on Minecraft, Metaverse

Xbox chief Phil Spencer talks with Protocol about Minecraft, the metaverse and how Microsoft intends to build a future of virtual worlds. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

How ‘Big Buck Bunny’ became an ‘internet legacy’

More than a decade after its release, “Big Buck Bunny” remains a popular movie among video engineers and YouTube viewers alike. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Google will fire unvaccinated employees

Unpaid leave and termination loom for unvaxxed Googlers. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

The Unlock Protocol WordPress plugin brings Web3 to WordPress

Use Unlock Protocol to manage membership, access, and monetization with existing WordPress sites. | Continue reading


@unlock-protocol.com | 2 years ago

Tencent PR seems to control DotDotStand- “third-party tech blog”

Dot Dot Stand says little about its origins. But Tencent’s fingerprints are all over it. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

How Spotify, Tile and Match brought an antitrust fight to Apple

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

The scramble to fix Biden’s plan for the future of the internet

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


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Better.com fired 900 workers after getting $750M from SoftBank

The call terminating the employees reportedly lasted 3 minutes. | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago

Square changes its name to Block after Dorsey leaves Twitter

Square Crypto is now "Spiral." | Continue reading


@protocol.com | 2 years ago