August 4, 20230CommentsCoinbase asks a judge to dismiss the SEC’s lawsuit against it, arguing that the case falls outside the agency’s authority as Coinbase doesn’t trade securities (Emma Roth/The Verge)
August 4, 20230CommentsIlya Lichtenstein, who earlier pleaded guilty to laundering billions in cryptocurrency from the 2016 Bitfinex hack, admits to being the original Bitfinex hacker (CNBC)
August 4, 20230CommentsTel Aviv-based insurance marketplace Vesttoo considers removing its CEO and CFO amid an alleged multibillion-dollar fraud involving faked letters of credit (Jean Eaglesham/Wall Street Journal)
August 4, 20230CommentsA profile of TSMC founder Morris Chang, who moved from the US to Taiwan in 1985 to build a chip industry behemoth that now sits at the center of a tech Cold War (New York Times)
August 4, 20230CommentsAn interview with TSMC Chair Mark Liu on why the company plans to stay in Taiwan, the US CHIPS Act, China invading Taiwan, cutting off Huawei in 2020, and more (New York Times)
August 4, 20230CommentsRevolut plans to start shutting down its US cryptocurrency service from September 2, citing regulatory uncertainty, impacting <1% of its crypto users globally (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
August 4, 20230CommentsQualcomm, NXP, Bosch, and Infineon form a new company in Germany to promote the open-source RISC-V chip architecture, initially targeting the auto industry (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
August 4, 20230CommentsTikTok announces measures to comply with EU DSA, including making reporting illegal content easier for users and removing targeted ads for those aged 13 to 17 (Martin Coulter/Reuters)
August 4, 20230CommentsApple, Samsung, and others freeze imports of laptops and tablets to India; sources say India’s sudden import license rules caught the industry by surprise (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)