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Yoshua Bengio: ‘The ball is in policymakers’ hands’
A nearly empty US House of Representatives chamber. Credit: Getty/Alex Brandon-Pool Yoshua Bengio would like you to know that AI risks once considered fantastical are quickly becoming reality. “There were a number of concerns that were only theoretical until this year,” he told Transformer ahead of today’s launch of the 2026 International AI Safety Report.
What Is an Earthquake?
Earlier today, a 2.3 magnitude earthquake occurred near Ferntree Gully in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. It got us thinking, what actually causes an earthquake and how do they happen? What is an earthquake? The Australian Academy of Science says that to find out, we need to go deep underground. With us so far? The uppermost section of the mantle is relatively cool and brittle, and deforms elastically, and above this layer is the crust, the outermost layer of the planet (the bit we stand on).
Thanks for reading Source Code
Good morning. Thanks so much for being a loyal subscriber to Source Code. We’re writing with some unfortunate news: Protocol has ceased publication, and that means that we’re ending the publication of this newsletter. It has been our absolute pleasure to keep you up to speed with the news from across the tech industry. We hope that the newsletter has been useful, and helped you understand the tech landscape a little better.
Thanks for reading Braintrust
Good morning. Thanks so much for being a loyal subscriber to Braintrust. We’re writing with some unfortunate news: Protocol has ceased publication, and that means that we’re ending the publication of this newsletter. It has been our absolute pleasure to keep you up to speed with expert insights from across the tech industry. We hope that the newsletter has been useful, and helped you understand the tech landscape a little better.
Coinbase, Robinhood get a boost from rising interest rates
Good morning. Thanks so much for being a loyal subscriber to Protocol Fintech. We’re writing with some unfortunate news: Protocol has ceased publication, and that means that we’re ending the publication of this newsletter. It has been our absolute pleasure to keep you up to speed with the news from the fintech industry. We hope that the newsletter has been useful, and helped you understand the tech landscape a little better.
Broadcom is reportedly in talks to acquire VMware
Broadcom is said to be in discussions with VMware to buy the cloud computing company for as much as $50 billion. The news was first reported by Bloomberg and then by The Financial Times. The discussions are said to be ongoing, which means it's unclear whether the deal will be confirmed. VMware was spun off from Dell Technologies last November, and has had multiple owners in the past.
A Twitter deal 'cannot move forward' without proof about bots, Musk says
Elon Musk says he needs proof that less than 5% of Twitter's users are bots — or the deal isn't going ahead. "My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate," Musk tweeted overnight. "Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does." Musk last week paused his $44 billion Twitter takeover of the social media company until he got more information on the number of spam and fake accounts on the platform.
The tech downturn is scary. Best to channel those nerves.
Good morning, and happy Sunday! Here’s your weekly roundup of what’s been happening this week. You’ve got that feeling in your stomach Your stock portfolio is down. Your company’s stock is way down. Or maybe your startup is staring down a short runway, with that Series Whatever round looking increasingly implausible? That safe haven of crypto is anything but. Hell, maybe you just got laid off. Just a week ago, there were hints that the industry could soon be in a tough spot.
The new world of subscriptions
Good morning, and happy Sunday! Here’s your weekly roundup of the best stuff from the week. Everything you need, for a few bucks a month Years ago, subscribing to everything sounded like a great idea, whether it was personal or professional. Netflix and Spotify? Sure, I’ll pony up for that, it’s so convenient! Slack and Asana? Great, it’s nice to have the freedom to choose the best software for the task at hand! Salesforce and some AWS instances?
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Years ago, subscribing to everything sounded like a great idea, whether it was personal or professional. Netflix and Spotify? Sure, I’ll pony up for that, it’s so convenient! Slack and Asana? Great, it’s nice to have the freedom to choose the best software for the task at hand! Salesforce and some AWS instances?
The EU is making tech regulation look easy
Good morning, and happy Sunday! Here’s your weekly roundup of the best stuff from the week. Where there’s a will, there’s a way If there’s been a defining narrative in technology over recent years, it’s surely been that companies overreach, piss people off, get yelled at by lawmakers and then kind of get away with it for a while. And that’s pretty understandable, you know?
Here today, gone tomorrow
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 already very much out of date. In a turn of events that is both surprising and also not at all surprising, Elon Musk won’t be joining Twitter's board of directors after all.
Why Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal let Elon Musk join his board
Your five-minute guide to the best of Protocol from the week that was, from how to choose board members to what carbon dioxide removal can actually solve. Who should be on your board? Choosing board members is hard. You want smart and imaginative people, ones that are going to challenge your thinking as a CEO.
Sanctions on Russia for Ukraine war could hit US tech
Hello, I’m Jamie Condliffe,Protocol’s managing editor, and I’m standing in for Biz Carson, bringing you a selection of Protocol stories from the week that was to keep you in the loop. This week, we can’t not talk about what’s happening in Ukraine. But also: what tech wants from the State of the Union, the complex nature of AI and metaverse R&D, and why one company thinks it’s time to ditch the C-suite.
Sequoia’s Roelof Botha is shaking up the world of VC
Hello, and happy Saturday. I’m Jamie Condliffe, Protocol’s managing editor, and I’m standing in for Biz Carson, bringing you a selection of Protocol stories from the week that was to keep you in the loop. We’ll kick off with a fantastic story that Biz published this week about Sequoia’s Roelof Botha. Also: the things that CIOs worry about right now that you could tap into, some hiring tips and what you should know before you adopt a four-day workweek.
Hiring is hard. What should you do about it?
Hello, and happy Saturday. I’m Jamie Condliffe, Protocol’s managing editor, and I’m standing in for Biz Carson for a few weeks, bringing you a selection of Protocol stories from the week that was to keep you in the loop. This week, we’ll kick off with a little reflection on the existential angst you’re probably feeling about hiring right now. Also: how to know when to upgrade your tech stack, a defense of Coinbase’s desire for a crypto regulator, and more.
Jobs, jobs, jobs
Hello, and happy Saturday. I’m Jamie Condliffe, Protocol’s managing editor, and I’m standing in for Biz Carson for a few weeks, bringing you a selection of Protocol stories from the week that was to keep you in the loop. This week, we’ll kick off with a little reflection on the existential angst you’re probably feeling about hiring right now. Also: how to know when to upgrade your tech stack, a defense of Coinbase’s desire for a crypto regulator, and more.
What goes up must come down: superbubbles, a crypto winter and meme stocks
Hello, and happy Saturday. I’m Jamie Condliffe, Protocol’s managing editor, and I’m certainly no replacement for Biz Carson when it comes to VC and startup news. But while Pipeline proper takes a pause for the next few weeks, I’ll be bringing you a selection of Protocol stories from the week that was to keep you in the loop. This week: the potential and peril in ecommerce, and some big thoughts about superbubbles.
Protocol small business fintech survey 2022 methodology
Small businesses are on the front lines of the fintech revolution, with fintechs big and small fighting to provide payments, financing, bookkeeping and even banking and lending. But how do small business owners themselves think about this rush of innovation? Protocol | Fintech, in partnership with polling organization Morning Consult, polled a national sample of 746 small-business executives on their use of financial technologies.
PayPal says it isn't acquiring Pinterest after all
Responding to rumors from last week, PayPal said Sunday that it was "not pursuing an acquisition of Pinterest at this time." Bloomberg News reported last week that the payments company had approached Pinterest about a possible acquisition in a deal that could have been worth $45 billion. Pinterest's share price soared on that news, while PayPal's dropped. CNBC later reported that the companies were in late-stage talks.
PayPal says it isn't acquiring Pinterest
Responding to rumors from last week, PayPal said Sunday that it was "not pursuing an acquisition of Pinterest at this time." Bloomberg News reported last week that the payments company had approached Pinterest about a possible acquisition in a deal that could have been worth $45 billion. Pinterest's share price soared on that news, while PayPal's dropped. CNBC later reported that the companies were in late-stage talks.
U.S. blames the Chinese government for Microsoft Exchange hack
Jamie Condliffe Jamie Condliffe ( @jme_c) is the news editor at Protocol, based in London. Prior to joining Protocol in 2019, he worked on the business desk at The New York Times, where he edited the DealBook newsletter and wrote Bits, the weekly tech newsletter. He has previously worked at MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, and New Scientist, and has held lectureships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He also holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Oxford.
CEOs are racing to space. Wait for a battle over what counts as space.
The CEO bragging rights of 2021 will go to whoever got to space first. Sadly, the argument could rumble on past launch date. In case you missed it, Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos are in a race to get to space. Bezos is taking Wally Funk to space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket on July 20. But the Financial Times reported that Branson hopes to be aboard a Virgin Galactic flight on July 11, meaning he'd beat the Amazon founder by nine clear days.
Machine learning and data science jobs are booming
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Google hopes to build a useful quantum computer by 2029
Google has announced that it aims to build a "useful, error-corrected quantum computer" within the decade, which it hopes could be used to tackle big problems relating climate change and advance scientific progress. As part of the announcement, yesterday the company unveiled its new Quantum AI campus in Santa Barbara. It will be home to the company's first quantum data center, its quantum hardware research laboratories, and quantum processor chip fabrication facilities.
People may be confusing Ethan Allen stock with ether
Jamie Condliffe Jamie Condliffe ( @jme_c) is the news editor at Protocol, based in London. Prior to joining Protocol in 2019, he worked on the business desk at The New York Times, where he edited the DealBook newsletter and wrote Bits, the weekly tech newsletter. He has previously worked at MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, and New Scientist, and has held lectureships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He also holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Oxford.
Google will pay News Corp for premium Google News content
News Corp announced Wednesday that it has signed a three-year partnership with Google to provide journalism from a number of its news sites around the world to be featured on Google News Showcase, "in return for significant payments by Google." U.S. publications that form part of the agreement are The Wall Street Journal, Barron's, MarketWatch and the New York Post.
Cruise just raised $2 billion
Jamie Condliffe Jamie Condliffe ( @jme_c) is the news editor at Protocol, based in London. Prior to joining Protocol in 2019, he worked on the business desk at The New York Times, where he edited the DealBook newsletter and wrote Bits, the weekly tech newsletter. He has previously worked at MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, and New Scientist, and has held lectureships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He also holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Oxford.
Hundreds of Google employees have formed a union
Jamie Condliffe Jamie Condliffe ( @jme_c) is the news editor at Protocol, based in London. Prior to joining Protocol in 2019, he worked on the business desk at The New York Times, where he edited the DealBook newsletter and wrote Bits, the weekly tech newsletter. He has previously worked at MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, and New Scientist, and has held lectureships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He also holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Oxford.
Red Meat Is Responsible for One in Ten Early Deaths
Deep down, we all know that red meat isn't the healthiest thing to eat—but that doesn't stop us tearing into a bloody steak all too often. Sadly, new research suggests that red meat is behind one in ten early deaths, so it might actually be time to make a real effort to cut back. According to the study, carried out by the Harvard School of Public Health, regularly eating red meat massively increases your risk of heart disease and cancer.
Wikipedia’s Founder Wants to Fix Fake News
The cofounder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, has a rather unconventional plan to stamp out the current scourge of the Internet, fake news. Taking inspiration from his world-changing online encyclopedia, he wants to reinvent the way that news is made. Wales imagines a future where a civic-minded community of voluntary workers can help create news in such a way that reporters have nowhere to hide.
Facebook Forbids the Use of User Data for Surveillance
Protesters hold up their smartphones during a rally in Artvin, Turkey. Following no shortage of pressure, Facebook has finally announced that data about its users must no longer be used to provide surveillance capabilities. Facebook knows all kinds of stuff about you and your weird little preferences—from personal details you offer directly to preferences based on your clicks and likes (which can often do a better job of describing you than your friends can).
Offensive Content Still Plagues Facebook
Facebook is coming under renewed pressure to redouble its efforts to remove offensive content. A new investigation by the BBC reveals that the social network failed to take down sexualized content relating to children when its presence was reported. The news organization alerted Facebook to 100 pieces of content, such as sexualized images of children and pages said to be “explicitly for men with a sexual interest in children,” using the report button that sits alongside content.
Google suffers a sustained outage
Jamie Condliffe Jamie Condliffe ( @jme_c) is the news editor at Protocol, based in London. Prior to joining Protocol in 2019, he worked on the business desk at The New York Times, where he edited the DealBook newsletter and wrote Bits, the weekly tech newsletter. He has previously worked at MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, and New Scientist, and has held lectureships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He also holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Oxford.
How Facebook decided to deploy its AI lab when the pandemic hit
In late February, as coronavirus took hold in Europe, governments around the world were still resisting lockdowns. In Facebook's artificial intelligence lab in Paris, data scientists and machine learning researchers were dumbstruck. "I mean, they are data nerds, right?" Antoine Bordes, managing director of Facebook AI Research, told Protocol.
Facebook Is Enlisting Human Experts and AI to Fight Terrorism
Heightened security was put in place on the streets of New York City after London's recent terror attacks. Following recent terror attacks, politicians criticized social networks for providing safe spaces for extremism.
Security Experts Agree: The NSA Was Hacked
It looks as if the NSA has indeed been hacked. A group of hackers known as the Shadow Brokers is currently selling off cyber-spying tools, which it claims belong to the U.S. government, in an online auction. Now, analysis of software that the group made freely available to prove its legitimacy suggests that it’s authentic, and likely to belong to the National Security Agency.
Ukraine’s Power Grid Gets Hacked Again, a Worrying Sign for Infrastructure Attacks
Russian hackers have reportedly taken down power grids and tracked military units in Ukraine. Security researchers at CrowdStrike believe that the hacking collective known as Fancy Bear, which was linked to hacking of Democratic National Committee’s e-mail servers earlier this year, used Android malware to track Ukrainian artillery units.
Trump threatened to veto a defense bill if Section 230 isn’t repealed
Jamie Condliffe Jamie Condliffe ( @jme_c) is the news editor at Protocol, based in London. Prior to joining Protocol in 2019, he worked on the business desk at The New York Times, where he edited the DealBook newsletter and wrote Bits, the weekly tech newsletter. He has previously worked at MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, and New Scientist, and has held lectureships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He also holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Oxford.
The World's Biggest Coffee Drinkers, Visualized
If you think you drink a lot of coffee, think again. While the US might pride itself as being a nation fuelled by the stuff, it turns out that other countries beat it hands down. This map, created by Quartz using data from Euromonitor, reveals that the US doesn't even make into the top 15 coffee drinking nations. In fact, US residents average just 0.931 cups of coffee per day—which compares poorly with the Dutch, who top the leaderboard by drinking a jitter-inducing 2.414.
Marissa Mayer is back ... with a contacts app
Jamie Condliffe Jamie Condliffe ( @jme_c) is the news editor at Protocol, based in London. Prior to joining Protocol in 2019, he worked on the business desk at The New York Times, where he edited the DealBook newsletter and wrote Bits, the weekly tech newsletter. He has previously worked at MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, and New Scientist, and has held lectureships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He also holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Oxford.
Marissa Mayer is back ... with a contacts app
Jamie Condliffe Jamie Condliffe ( @jme_c) is the news editor at Protocol, based in London. Prior to joining Protocol in 2019, he worked on the business desk at The New York Times, where he edited the DealBook newsletter and wrote Bits, the weekly tech newsletter. He has previously worked at MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, and New Scientist, and has held lectureships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He also holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Oxford.
The Cellphone Turns 40 Today
Forty years ago today, senior Motorola engineer Marty Cooper made one very important phone call. From midtown Manhattan, Marty called Joel Engel, then the head of rival research department Bell Labs. When Joel picked up, Marty uttered something rather unexpected: "Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cellphone, a real handheld portable cellphone." Perhaps unsurprisingly, he was greeted by silence. Not because the phone call didn't work, silly, but because Motorola had won.
The Sounds Your Dial-Up Modem Used to Make, Visualized
Though your old dial-up modem (hopefully) now sits in a junk yard somewhere, its beeps and whistles surely remain etched into your brain. With this massive image, Oona Räisänen decided to explain every single note your modem used to make—and it's fascinating. If you click the image above, you'll be able to explore the visualization in all its (massive!) glory. Räisänen explains: When humans talk, only one of them is usually talking while the other one listens.
Facebook is reportedly giving U.S. staff the whole of Thanksgiving week off
Jamie Condliffe Jamie Condliffe ( @jme_c) is the news editor at Protocol, based in London. Prior to joining Protocol in 2019, he worked on the business desk at The New York Times, where he edited the DealBook newsletter and wrote Bits, the weekly tech newsletter. He has previously worked at MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, and New Scientist, and has held lectureships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He also holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Oxford.
How Not to Open Your New iPhone
There are ways and ways of unpacking your new iPhone 5. This is probably one you want to try and avoid. The image originally surfaced on Reddit a few hours ago, and the comments are well worth reading. Among my favorites: "Put it in a bowl of rice", "Try and reset it to factory defaults", and "Didn't Apple say that scratches were 'normal?'". Sob. [Reddit via Steve via 9to5mac]
SoftBank and Saudi Arabia aim to build a mind-bogglingly huge solar power system
Costing $200 billion, the facility would generate 200 gigawatts of power—about 100 times more than any other planned solar plant. The news: Bloomberg reports that SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman signed a memorandum of understanding yesterday to build the huge new solar plant. It would, in theory, be fully built by 2030. By the numbers: Currently, the biggest planned solar facilities promise to generate up to two gigawatts of power. So 200 gigawatts is huge.
Microsoft will reportedly let staff work remotely for good
Jamie Condliffe Jamie Condliffe ( @jme_c) is the news editor at Protocol, based in London. Prior to joining Protocol in 2019, he worked on the business desk at The New York Times, where he edited the DealBook newsletter and wrote Bits, the weekly tech newsletter. He has previously worked at MIT Technology Review, Gizmodo, and New Scientist, and has held lectureships at the University of Oxford and Imperial College London. He also holds a doctorate in engineering from the University of Oxford.
In Buying Boston Dynamics, SoftBank Is Betting Big on Walking Robots
The technology conglomerate Softbank has acquired Boston Dynamics, the firm known for its often terrifying animal- and human-like robots, from Alphabet. Back in 2013, Alphabet went on somewhat of a robot-buying binge.
US trade wars could soon extend to electronics
Trump is mulling tariffs on imports of Chinese consumer technology. That could well backfire. The news: Bloomberg says that the president’s new tariffs could be extended to hit imports to the US beyond aluminum and steel. That could include electronics, to “punish Beijing for its alleged theft of intellectual property.” The impact: Gadfly notes that firms like Amazon and Apple, which build devices in China, may have to hike US prices if that happens.
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