Tech Meme

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: CFTC’s case vs. Binance is mainly about US clients, like high-frequency trading firms in NYC and Chicago, trading crypto derivatives on an unregistered exchange  —  Binance  —  A decent rule of thumb is that all cryptocurrency exchanges are doing crimes, and if you’re lucky your exchange is doing only process crimes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Margaux Nijkerk / CoinDesk: Polygon launches the mainnet beta of its zkEVM layer 2 scaling solution for Ethereum, three days after rival Matter Labs released its own zkEVM, zkSync Era  —  The release of Polygon’s zkEVM comes just days after competitor Matter Labs released its own zkEVM, zkSync Era. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Kim / Bloomberg: SEMI forecasts South Korea will increase its spending on advanced chipmaking equipment by 41.5% YoY to $21B in 2024, versus China’s 2% YoY increase to $16.6B  —  South Korea is forecast to overtake China in spending on advanced chipmaking equipment next year in a sign of US export controls … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexander Onukwue / Semafor: Similarweb: Chinese-owned OPay and PalmPay became the Play Store’s top two finance apps in Nigeria on March 24 after a central bank edict caused a cash shortage  —  The main winners in Nigeria’s banking sector after a botched currency overhaul are two Chinese-owned fintech apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Juli Clover / MacRumors: Apple debuts iOS 16.4 with 21 new emoji, Safari push notifications for web apps on the Home Screen, Voice Isolation for calls, Crash Detection tweaks, and more  —  Apple today released iOS 16.4, the fourth major update to the iOS 16 operating system that initially came out last September. iOS 16.4 comes … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Kim / Bloomberg: SEMI: in 2024, South Korea is forecast to increase its spending on advanced chipmaking equipment by 41.5% YoY to $21B, versus China’s 2% YoY increase to $16.6B  —  South Korea is forecast to overtake China in spending on advanced chipmaking equipment next year in a sign of US export controls … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alexander Onukwue / Semafor: Similarweb: Chinese-owned OPay and PalmPay became the Play Store’s top finance apps in Nigeria on March 24, after a central bank edict caused a cash shortage  —  The main winners in Nigeria’s banking sector after a botched currency overhaul are two Chinese-owned fintech apps. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emma Roth / The Verge: Zoom partners with OpenAI to expand its Zoom IQ assistant with features to generate whiteboards from text prompts, recap meetings, summarize threads, and more  —  Zoom has become the latest productivity app to expand its use of artificial intelligence.  In a blog post published on Monday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

CFTC: The CFTC sues Binance, CEO CZ, and a former chief compliance officer, calling the company’s compliance efforts “a sham” and its structure “intentionally opaque”  —  Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced it has filed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Microsoft says Teams has 280M MAUs, up from 270M MAUs in January 2022, and the rebuilt Teams rolling out to Windows’ Public Preview program is twice as fast  —  Teams, Microsoft’s Slack rival, has always had a bit of a reputation for being slow and resource-hungry. Lees verder op Tech Meme