Filing: Binance, CZ, and its former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim plan to file for the dismissal of a CFTC lawsuit; the CFTC sued the three in March 2023 (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:Filing: Binance, CZ, and its former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim plan to file for the dismissal of a CFTC lawsuit; the CFTC sued the three in March 2023  —  The response to the CFTC complaint is due on July 27 and the defendants plan to submit motions to dismiss, […]

A look at the Boston Fed’s Project Hamilton, launched in 2020 to research how to design a US CBDC but ended in 2022 amid opposition from anti-CBDC legislators (Mike Orcutt/MIT Technology Review)

Mike Orcutt / MIT Technology Review:A look at the Boston Fed’s Project Hamilton, launched in 2020 to research how to design a US CBDC but ended in 2022 amid opposition from anti-CBDC legislators  —  Prominent politicians want to make sure a central bank digital currency never happens in the US—just […]

A look at solid-state speakers etched from silicon and their potential applications, like helping people with hearing loss and making AR/VR objects feel real (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:A look at solid-state speakers etched from silicon and their potential applications, like helping people with hearing loss and making AR/VR objects feel real  —  Speakers the size of an asterisk have the potential to change the way we reproduce sound, cope with hearing loss—and […]

The Download: digital dollars, and AI guidelines

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Is the digital dollar dead? In 2020, digital currencies were one of the hottest topics in town. China was well on its way to launching its own central […]

A report says the Microsoft key that Chinese hackers stole could have given them more access than originally assumed; Microsoft disputes the report (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

Jonathan Greig / The Record:A report says the Microsoft key that Chinese hackers stole could have given them more access than originally assumed; Microsoft disputes the report  —  Microsoft is disputing a new report that claims hackers may have had access to more parts of victims’ systems than previously known […]