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Mike Murphy

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58 articles stable

A confirmed launch of an SMB-tech series at Protocol anchors a coverage record that spans Apple hardware, platform governance, search, and AI-related technology shifts.

Who they are

Mike Murphy appears in the corpus as a technology-media figure whose confirmed role includes launching an SMB tech series at Protocol. The stories associated with him range across major consumer platforms and devices—especially Apple, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Facebook, the iPhone, Mac, and MacBook Pro—rather than concentrating on a single company or product line.

The recent arc

The strongest concentration came in 2019Q3, amid coverage connected to Apple’s dispute with Google Project Zero over its reporting of an iPhone attack. That period fits a broader earlier arc around the power, reliability, and accountability of major technology companies, including Facebook’s crisis handling, Apple hardware criticism, Alphabet’s leadership transition, and Twitter’s support for the decentralized Bluesky initiative.

More recent appearances shift toward AI, search, and infrastructure questions: Google gave publishers a robots.txt route to withhold training data; Arc Search’s AI-generated result pages prompted traffic and monetization concerns; IBM released Granite code models and presented its NorthPole chip; and the latest item concerns CoreWeave’s reduced IPO. The coverage has become more episodic, with the notable recent stories centered less on device cycles and more on how AI changes the economics and architecture of the web.

The tension

The recurring tension is between the scale of dominant platforms and the costs their technical or business decisions impose on users, publishers, and competitors. Apple and Google clash over security framing, Twitter’s Bluesky effort points toward decentralization, and the Google and Arc Search stories foreground whether AI-led discovery can preserve publishers’ control and monetizable traffic.

Why it matters

If this trajectory continues, the coverage connected to Murphy will remain useful as a lens on the shift from consumer-tech product scrutiny toward control of information flows, AI training inputs, and computing capacity. The outcome is uncertain: publisher opt-outs and decentralized alternatives may constrain incumbents, while AI infrastructure providers and platform owners may further consolidate influence.

Mike Murphy has appeared in 58 articles since 2015-08. Coverage peaked in 2021Q1 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Apple, Twitter, Google, Amazon.

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Coverage Timeline

2023-03-06
Engadget

Some Twitter services are down including t.co links, images, and TweetDeck, producing the error “your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint”

Links are completely busted on Twitter at the minute across the company's website and mobile apps. Tweets: @daveleeft , @taylorlorenz , @khurtizz , @dannyjpalmer , @kwestin , @mcwm , @carnage4life , @...

2023-01-22
Margins 8 related

ChatGPT is a threat to Google mainly because the latter's monopoly position let the search experience degenerate into a spam-ridden, SEO-fueled hellscape

they simply don't have any theory of knowledge, or understanding of time with its ever-changing set of realities.” https://www.readmargins.com/ ... @kbr0o : Fantastic article that collects a lot of my...

2022-10-29
The Verge 7 related

“Welcome to hell, Elon”: Musk won't be able to grow Twitter users and revenue without enormous compromises and realizing that content moderation is the product

Now It's Elon Musk's Turn Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : How to download a backup copy of your Twitter data (or deactivate your account) Peter Kafka / Vox : The Big Tech boom is over and Wall Street kn...

2022-03-22
MacRumors 24 related

Apple's iCloud, App Store, Siri, Find My, Apple Maps, Music, Podcasts, and TV+ suffer outages; Apple's System Status page indicates the issues are now resolved

I'm told Apple's corporate and retail internal systems are down too, limiting remote work and retail operations like product pick-ups and repairs. Curtis Herbert / @parrots : Looks like this isn't an ...

2021-03-09
Protocol

How Facebook, Twitter, Google, and other tech giants let their work on domestic terrorism threats, like QAnon, lag behind foreign threats, like ISIS

On a Friday in August 2017 — years before a mob of armed and very-online extremists took over the U.S. Capitol — a young Black woman … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @wexler , @issielapowsky , @angelsdiaz_ ...

2021-01-16
Techdirt

Parler is not down due to a single company but because the market chose not to do business with it because it's toxic, which is the nature of a free market

I've delayed writing deeper thoughts on the total deplatforming of Parler, in part because there was so much else happening … Tweets: @benhixonva , @erratarob , @mcwm , @tynanpants , @jonjones , @erra...

2020-11-15
New York Times 1 related

The challenge of closing the digital divide for students has proved daunting in N. Carolina, which has a large rural population lacking reliable internet access

https://www.nytimes.com/... James Young / @jdyubergeek : Broadband Access was a big part of @jennawadsworth's platform, and it is still a crisis now that the election is over. Almost a century ago, th...

2020-09-30
Protocol

Some Black restaurant owners say initiatives announced by delivery apps, like Uber Eats and DoorDash, to support Black-owned businesses have fallen short

Emily Birnbaum / Protocol : Tweets: @birnbaum_e , @protocol , and @mcwm Tweets: Emily Birnbaum / @birnbaum_e : I wrote about the limits of the Uber/Doordash/Postmates initiatives to boost Black-owned...

2020-07-25
Reuters 18 related

Two former Twitter employees say more than 1,000 staff and contractors had access to internal tools to change account settings and ownership as of early 2020

the bathroom is over there, and here's the admin rights to start a nuclear war https://www.reuters.com/... Mike Murphy / @mcwm : 1,000 seems like... a lot https://www.reuters.com/... Tiffany C. Li / @...

2020-06-18
Wired

eBay confirms that ex-CEO Devin Wenig is the person who allegedly ordered six eBay employees to initiate a cyberstalking campaign; Wenig is not being charged

Surveillance.  Harassment.  A live cockroach delivery.  US attorneys have charged six former eBay workers in association with an outrageous cyberstalking campaign. Tweets: @karlbode , @wired , @lachla...

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