Benjamin Rolle Makes Back-to-Back WSOP Online Main Event Final Tables Summary Benjamin Rolle, founder of Raise Your Edge, returned to the WSOP Online Main Event final table in 2025 — one year after finishing eighth in the same event. Unlike 2024 when he arrived as the short stack and busted in eighth for $651,921, Rolle […]
Roundtables: Meet the 2025 Innovator of the Year Summary MIT Technology Review’s subscriber-only roundtable spotlights Sneha Goenka, the 2025 Innovator of the Year. Goenka designed the computational methods behind what’s billed as the world’s fastest whole-genome sequencing technique, enabling clinicians to sequence a patient’s genome and diagnose a genetic condition in under eight hours. The […]
Wynn Resorts’ $5B Al Marjan Resort on Track to Open in 2027 Summary Construction on Wynn Resorts’ Al Marjan Island project in Ras Al Khaimah remains on schedule for a March 2027 opening. Marjan’s head, Abdulla Al Abdouli, says 61 of the planned 70 floors are already complete on the 60-hectare island complex. The development […]
Federal Regulators Stop Coushatta Casino Consultant as Fraud Probes Continue Summary Federal gaming regulators (the National Indian Gaming Commission, NIGC) have asked the Coushatta Tribal Gaming Commission to suspend the gaming licence of Todd Stewart, a former general manager of the Coushatta Casino Resort in Kinder, Louisiana, who now works as a consultant. Regulators said […]
Thai Senate rejects casino bill, calls for public referendum to determine success of any future efforts Summary The Thai Senate’s special committee, chaired by Senator Dr Veerapun Suvannamai, has formally rejected the former government’s draft Entertainment Complex Bill and recommended that any future moves to legalise casinos must be put to a public referendum. The […]
COMMENTARY: The kids are not right; what will we do about it? Summary The piece, by Tommy Schultz of the American Federation for Children, warns that the nation’s K–12 system is facing an education emergency after new NAEP scores showed sharp declines in senior-year reading and maths and weak performance in science for eighth-graders. Schultz […]
👨🏿🚀TechCabal Daily – ‘You can’t have our chips anymore’ Summary Taiwan has imposed new restrictions requiring pre-approval for many chip exports to South Africa, a move framed as national-security retaliation after Pretoria downgraded Taiwanese mission offices amid closer ties with China. TechCabal’s briefing also covers DTB Kenya’s exit from Burundi, Hyundai saying EVs aren’t viable […]
MrBeast offers $100,000 reward in Catena co-founder scam Summary YouTube star MrBeast has offered a $100,000 reward for information that could lead to arrests after Catena Media co-founder Erik Bergman lost $1.25m in a sophisticated cryptocurrency “pig butchering” scam. Scammers impersonated high-profile figures — including MrBeast, Mark Rober, Ed Craven and Adin Ross — using […]
SEO Poisoning Campaign Tied to Chinese Actor Summary Researchers at Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 uncovered an SEO poisoning campaign, active since March 2025, that uses a malicious native IIS module called BadIIS to intercept and alter web traffic on compromised servers. Tracked as CL-UNK-1037 and nicknamed “Operation Rewrite”, the campaign hijacks legitimate websites (often […]
Redemption for Benjamin Rolle in WSOP Online Main Event Win for $3.9 Million Summary Benjamin Rolle, known online as “bencb789”, captured his first WSOP bracelet by winning the 2025 WSOP Online Main Event and a $3,900,707 top prize. The $5,000 buy-in gathered 5,961 entries for a $28,314,750 prize pool. Rolle — founder of training site […]
