California Bans Sweepstakes Casinos Starting 2026 Summary Assembly Bill 831 passed the California legislature unanimously and was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom. From 1 January 2026, sweepstakes casinos — platforms that typically use virtual coins and have operated in a legal grey area — will be banned across the state. The California Nations Indian Gaming […]
PM Gati Shakti Marks Four Years: Driving India’s Integrated and Sustainable Infrastructure Growth Summary The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) marked four years of PM Gati Shakti at an event in Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. What began in 2021 as a National Master Plan for Multimodal Connectivity and a digital planning […]
Advancing Systematic Literature Reviews With Artificial Intelligence: A TCCM‐Based Synthesis of Over 50 Years of Double Jeopardy Research Summary This review demonstrates a practical, reproducible method for improving framework-based systematic literature reviews (SLRs) by combining artificial intelligence (AI) with a human-in-the-loop (HITL) workflow. Using the Theory–Context–Characteristics–Methodology (TCCM) framework to classify and validate knowledge, the authors benchmark […]
World Mental Health Day: Mental Health Crisis Costs UK 16.4 Million Working Days as Younger Workers Disproportionately Impacted – HR News Summary Stribe analysed 2025 health and workplace data ahead of World Mental Health Day and highlights the scale and cost of mental ill health in UK workplaces. Mental health problems (stress, depression, anxiety) are […]
The carbon pricing storm hits global shipping as the U.S. threatens sanctions over a new tax. Summary The global shipping sector is being hit by accelerating carbon-pricing measures that are shifting emissions from policy debate into tangible costs. From 2025 the EU will include maritime transport in its Emissions Trading System (ETS), adding more than […]
How to drive culture change when your boss doesn’t want to Summary Not every senior leader is prepared to prioritise culture, even though most executives link it directly to business results. Ella Overshott explains the three common reasons bosses resist culture work — it feels intangible, they don’t know how to change it, or they […]
SOFTSWISS opens waitlist for iGaming Trends 2026, the industry’s defining playbook for the year ahead Summary SOFTSWISS has opened a waitlist for iGaming Trends 2026, the fourth edition of its flagship industry report produced with NEXT.io. The report — due for release on 3 November — builds on last year’s success (iGaming Trends 2025 had […]
California Judge Throws Out Tribal Casinos’ Lawsuit Against Cardrooms Summary San Francisco-area Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Lauri Damrell has dismissed a suit brought by California tribes under Senate Bill 549 that sought a state-court ruling on whether commercial cardrooms illegally offer banked, Las Vegas-style games such as blackjack and pai gow poker. Judge Damrell […]
Elon Musk Firm Accused of Environmental Breaches in Las Vegas Tunnel Project Summary The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) has issued a cease-and-desist to Elon Musk’s Boring Company, alleging roughly 800 environmental violations over a two-year period linked to the Las Vegas Loop tunnelling project. Reported breaches include drilling without permits, releasing untreated groundwater […]
Q&A: IGA Acting Chairman David Bean calls prediction markets biggest threat to tribal gaming Summary David Bean, acting chair of the Indian Gaming Association (IGA) and member of the Puyallup Tribe, says prediction markets — which offer sports wagering outside state and tribal regulatory frameworks under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — are among the […]
