Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, September 11th, 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, legal precedent is set in the crypto space,

some interesting moves as well as some steps backwards

in the autonomous vehicle space,

parsing the Zuckerberg New Yorker profile, and did Facebook disrespect the memory? the In what is probably the first criminal case of its kind in the US, a federal

judge has ruled that a pair of allegedly fraudulent initial coin offerings fall under U.S. securities laws, thereby allowing a criminal

case to proceed to trial next year, and thereby for the first time setting some precedent that an initial coin offering is a security for the purposes of federal criminal law at least. What's important about this is that I. C. O. C. O. C. O. C. O. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. C. A. A. A. A. A. C. O. C. O. C. C. O'Connor

the issue of whether or not they are actual securities for the purposes of

regulation, financing, liability, and now actual legal purposes, or if they were something else, something

not quite defined.

The case in question involves a pair of Iseos staged by a Brooklyn resident named

Maxim Zaslovsky, who was accused of committing

securities fraud by selling tokens which were supposed to represent shares in a

real estate venture and a diamond business. Zzili's lawyers argued that when it came to ICOs,

quote, securities laws are unconstitutionally vague as applied, end quote.

The judge in the case disagreed ruling

quote stripped of the 21st century jargon including the

defendant's own characterization of the offered investment

opportunities the challenged indictment charges a straightforward scam, replete with the common characteristics

of many financial frauds."

End quote. Interesting angle here in the self-driving car horse race Japan-based

Renesas, the second largest supplier of chips, used in cars, has agreed to buy US-based wireless chip maker integrated

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