Intro

Hello, how the tech are you?

This is our weekly tech show on Echoplex Media.

*Matt introduces himself and segment*

*Dave introduces himself and segment*

Matt

Is this the end for Crypto?

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/sec-sues-binance-says-it-evaded-us-law-with-extensive-web-of-deception/
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/sec-sues-coinbase-continues-major-crackdown-on-cryptocurrency-exchanges/

Patrick Boyle: https://youtu.be/5ram7bHbZxI

• The SEC sues both Binance and Coinbase.

• Both Binance and Coinbase are being sued for running unregistered exchanges.
• Additionally, the SEC is suing the CEO and founder of Binance, Changpeng Zhao (CZ), directly.

• Binance is not a US based exchange

• Supposedly didn’t allow US customers to access the exchange.
• Binance either hosted or pointed to guides on how to use VPNs to get around restrictions.

• Coinbase claims the SEC has not released clear rules on how to register crypto exchanges.

• Congress needs to pass clear rules in regard to digital assets

Dave

Creator of Clippy is embarrassed and didn’t include Clippy in his portfolio

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/12/clippy_designer_embarrassed/

https://youtu.be/3kcQzCzSDvc

• For a time everyone hated Clippy, including you
• Now nobody hates Clippy
• Kevan Atteberry now does illustrations for childrens’ books
• He no longer hides that he was the Clippy guy

Elon and Twitter just aren’t paying their Google cloud bill

https://www.platformer.news/p/twitter-stiffs-google

• Prior to Musk buying Twitter last year, the company signed a multi-year contract with Google to host services related to fighting spam, removing child sexual abuse
• If they don’t pay, access could be cut off on June 30th
• They also threatened not to pay AWS

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