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Ok looks like it's getting worse before it may get better again! This one is a surprise so quickly after the Binance case yesterday, at least to me.
SEC Charges Coinbase for Operating as an Unregistered Securities Exchange, Broker, and Clearing Agency https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2023-102
I'm excited about the possibilities Apple mentioned for the Vision Pro mixed reality headset. It's getting us closer to the Cyberspace imagined by William Gibson et.al! https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/
Imagine a world where many more billions of people live and work with a lot less personal space than we have today. No space for a desk for everyone. And we collaborate globally, no longer in offices. We need new personal communication, creation, consumation devices.
Read more: https://maol.ch/2023/06/06/apple-vision-pro
"we are operating as a fking unlicensed securities exchange in the USA bro."
I got nothing to add!
SEC Sues Binance and CEO Zhao for Breaking US Securities Rules https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-05/sec-sues-binance-and-ceo-zhao-for-breaking-us-securities-rules
40 years of Wargames! And most of the topics are still current affairs: passwords, nuclear, computer simulations - and the question of how much decision power should be left to the computer (Chat GPT, anyone?)
Not even sure I've seen WarGames! Sneakers was my first hacker movie, and Tron also left a good impression
“WarGames”: Vor 40 Jahren erscheint der erste Hacker-Film
https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/WarGames-Vor-40-Jahren-erscheint-der-erste-Hacker-Film-9163231.html
So that “AI powered drone turns on its operator” was total nonsense - the Colonel who described it as a simulation now says it was just “a thought experiment".
AI doomers cannot have it bad enough!
Highlights from the RAeS https://www.aerosociety.com/news/highlights-from-the-raes-future-combat-air-space-capabilities-summit/
What is the future of combat air and space capabilities? TIM ROBINSON FRAeS and STEPHEN BRIDGEWATER report from two days of high-level debate and discussion at the RAeS FCAS23 Summit.
"Decentralized applications"... rely frequently on people and web 2.0 infrastructure to operate. And are operated by amateurs who don't understand the basics e.g. BCM
Multichain team says it can't contact CEO amid protocol problems https://www.theblock.co/post/232754/multichain-team-says-it-cant-contact-ceo-amid-protocol-problems
I might fold for this foldable, looks gorgeous!
Motorola introduced the Motorola Razr 40 Ultra yesterday.
https://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_razr_40_ultra-review-2574.php
This is long! I love the due diligence questionnaires (DDQs) for digital-asset investment managers and funds, to he industry needs frameworks to deal with these new assets.
Asset Allocator's Guide to Crypto Hedge Funds https://www.coinbase.com/institutional/research-insights/research/market-intelligence/asset-allocators-guide-to-crypto-hedge-funds
There's a new contender for the best home server on the market: Umbrel just released their first hardware. Good for everyone who doesn't want to deal with Linux or assembling a server.
Umbrel — The ultimate home server and OS for self-hosting https://umbrel.com/
