Everyday sight that helped 'hero' cop save woman from scammers https://buff.ly/3XMt9S3 "Unable to withdraw the full amount, the victim – despite being questioned by her bank – took out $5000 in the hope of reversing the fake transaction" What are banks supposed to?
Most people wouldn't look twice at a woman using an ATM, but Sergeant David Mitchell knew something was off.
The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI https://buff.ly/3zuzgm2 St. Louis Fed: "We estimated that between 0.5% and 3.5% of all work hours in the U.S. are currently assisted by generative AI."
Starling warns of rise in voice cloning scams https://buff.ly/3Y1SxVq "a quarter (28%) of UK adults say they have been targeted by an AI voice cloning scam at least once in the past year." A quarter? I'm not sure I believe that but does anyone else have numbers?
She is 90 https://buff.ly/3zFY5vp You must read this from the wonderful Jeffrey Robinson.
(c) Jeffrey Robinson 2024
11 banks say Regulated Liability Network experiments for tokenized deposits were a success https://buff.ly/3TNGA3f "at a practical level it made it tricky to showcase some of the benefits of a shared ledger"
UK Finance shared the results of the Regulated Liability Network experiments for tokenized deposits involving 11 banks
Return to work https://buff.ly/47L48LL "Denise Prudhomme's bosses at Wells Fargo insisted that the in-person camaraderie of their offices warranted a mandatory return-to-office policy, but when she died at her desk in her Tempe, AZ office, no one noticed for four days."
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
New on Forbes: Digital Wallets Are A Battleground, Not Only For Apple And Google https://buff.ly/3zowcrL The fact that wallets are about much more than payments explains why the “wallet wars” are under way. Right now, in the UK and the USA, big tech has its tanks on the banks’ lawn
Not only are the wallet wars hotting up, they are going to force us on to some pretty interesting new battlegrounds!
New on the not-a-newsletter $: The Revolution Will Be Tokenised https://buff.ly/3XFB4k6 "The driver for tokenisation is money, not technology and, as the FT put it, the same technology that created Bored Ape Yacht Club Non-Fungible Tokens also promises to shake the tree of global finance"
The drivers for digital asset tokenisation are financial not technological.
Mike Fallat invited me on to the "Million Dollar Stories" podcast for authors, it was fun https://buff.ly/3zqBcfi "We don’t want total anonymity in our financial systems – that could lead to chaos."
Mike interviews David Birch. In this episode of Million Dollar Stories, We had the pleasure of sitting down with David Birch, author of Money in the Metaverse: Digital Assets, Online Identities,…
Do ‘crypto’ enthusiasts actually make up a significant voting bloc https://buff.ly/3Bg7jyX “The crypto ‘voting block’ is not voters but donors... Crypto appears on almost no one’s list of important issues, and most people are either unaware of it, or have rudimentary opinions.”
Coinbase, the American cryptocurrency trading exchange, recently suggested that young crypto voters could swing the 2024 election.