Welcome to the tech meme right home for Friday, October 20th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

More on the crypto terrorism allegations. The FCC is freeing up Spectrum for use by

AR and VR devices. They're also laying the groundwork to bring net neutrality back.

AMD's latest chips designed to rival NVIDIA and of course the weekend long read suggestions.

Here's what you miss today in the world of Tech. Today's headlines are sort of an echo of yesterday's headlines, though slightly different.

For example, yesterday we spoke about assertions that crypto was being used to fund terrorism

and how maybe the quote facilitators of such

crypto trading need to be sanctioned. Well the U.S. Treasury's FinCEN has proposed labeling international crypto mixers as a primary

money laundering concern, citing their use by Hamas and other illicit actors. Quoane desk.

The Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network,

or FinCEN, issued a notice of proposed rulemaking on Thursday,

which will be open to public comment for 90 days.

FinCEN said that mixing services which seek to allow users to conduct transactions with anonymity

are being used by a, quote, variety of illicit actors throughout the world, referring

by name to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic jihad, and the Democratic

People's Republic of Korea, DPRK, otherwise known as North Korea.

The agency said this proposed rule is a key part of the ongoing effort to boost

transparency in the crypto markets.

The Treasury Department and the wider administration of President Joe Biden have been under

pressure from U.S. lawmakers to do something about the use of

crypto to support terrorism, especially in light of reports that Hamas received some

crypto donations in advance of its attack this month in Israel. FinCEN director Andrea Gaki noted that this is her agency's first ever use of its power to target so-called

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