What Is Financial Software Development?
Financial software development runs the world, whether we notice it or not. We explain key considerations for businesses, and why it might be a good idea to partner with a fintech development company, especially a values-aligned one like DBA.
Daring Bits
FBI, DHS Use Employers to Spy For Them - You’ve heard of neighbor-informing-on-neighbor. Now, alphabet agencies bring you employer-informing-on-employee. The DSAC circumvents 4th amendment protections by providing private companies with a secretive portal where they can build profiles of employees who are flagged as “extremist” for things like opposing vaccine mandates or purchasing religious books.
Default Judgment: Crypto = Securities - A judge has ruled that certain crypto assets traded on secondary markets, like Coinbase, are securities, and fall under the SEC’s jurisdiction.
Robot Overlords
China Probably Has All Our AI Secrets Already - A software engineer stole Google’s trade secrets and gave them to China. This comes to light three days after Marc Andreessen said it would be trivially easy for China to do something like this.
Feds: Doing Good Research is Problematic for Censorship - An MIT team funded by the feds to develop AI censorship tools says people “reading a wide array of primary sources, and performing their own synthesis” are the real problem - problem for state-controlled propaganda, maybe.
Anthropic’s AI Knew It Was Being Tested - Anthropic’s latest AI model, Claude 3 Opus, exhibited a spooky level of meta-cognition by telling researchers during a test that it had figured out it was being tested.
