August 14, 2025
FinCEN, Fed planning another swing at self hosted crypto AML?
Image by Ledger Insights On Friday the US Treasury published its semi-annual regulatory agenda. It includes two issues affecting cryptocurrency that may be related. In late 2020 the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) proposed a controversial rule change requiring additional AML reporting for transactions of more than $10,000 involving self hosted wallets. According to […]
August 14, 2025
AI search answers are the fast food of your information diet – convenient and tasty, but no substitute for good nutrition
If you have used Google lately and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to encounter an answer to your query rather than a bunch of links, you have been subjected to something called AI Overviews. This is a new core feature that Google has been rolling out, a move widely anticipated since the company’s […]
August 14, 2025
Google’s use of AI to power search shows its problematic approach to organizing information
From government documents to news reports, commerce, music and social interactions, much of the world’s information is now online. And Google, founded in 1998 with the mission “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” is the way we access this torrent of knowledge and culture. In April 2024, Google’s […]
