From zero to 24/7: Always-on defence for iGaming and player safety Summary Authors: Evgeny Zaretskov, SOFTSWISS group chief information security officer, and Amir Aliev, deputy chief security officer. This piece explains why 24/7 Security Operations Centres (SOCs) are essential for real-money iGaming platforms and describes SOFTSWISS’s practical, automation-first approach to building an always-on SOC. The […]
Hot Copy: Monopoly money Summary This round-up from NEXT.io highlights three quick stories: GambleAware raising concerns that prize-draw promotions such as Omaze and McDonald’s Monopoly can normalise gambling and drive harm; a US political tussle involving the Winklevoss twins and a CFTC nominee that underscores ongoing fights over crypto regulation; and billionaire John Caudwell proposing […]
All in it together? Racing’s day of protest leaves much unsaid Summary A high-profile protest — complete with a giant white horse and an LED-lit van carrying the slogan #AxeTheRacingTax — saw British racing pause fixtures to press the Government over planned gambling tax harmonisation. Racing leaders warned of severe financial pressure on the sport, […]
I Hate My AI Friend Summary The Friend is an always‑listening pendant that pairs with an iPhone and routes audio to a cloud chatbot (Google Gemini 2.5). Priced at $129 and sold in the US and Canada, the disc‑shaped wearable offers a snarky, opinionated companion that texts you commentary about your day. Reviewers found the […]
Inside the Man vs. Machine Hackathon Summary On a breezy San Francisco afternoon a weekend hackathon called Model Behavior gathered more than 100 coders to see whether human teams could beat teams using AI agents for a $12,500 prize. The event pitted human-only groups against human+AI teams to test productivity and problem-solving under time pressure. […]
Reno’s Grand Sierra Resort breaks ground on $1 billion arena project Summary The Grand Sierra Resort (GSR) in Reno will hold a private groundbreaking ceremony on 30 September for a planned $1 billion arena development, following approval of a tax increment financing (TIF) package earlier this year. The arena is planned to seat 10,000, include […]
The Download: AI’s energy future Summary MIT Technology Review has released a short video to accompany a deep investigation into how much energy the AI industry consumes — down to estimates per query. The piece highlights that data-centre electricity use jumped about 80% between 2020 and 2025 and is set to rise further as billions […]
How do AI models generate videos? Summary The article explains the current technical stack behind AI video generation, centred on latent diffusion transformers. It breaks down diffusion models (which learn to reverse noise to create images), latent diffusion (working in compressed “latent” space to cut compute), and the role of transformers to maintain temporal consistency […]
The Download: America’s gun crisis, and how AI video models work Summary This edition of The Download pulls together several major items: a critique of the Trump administration’s child-health strategy for ignoring gun violence, an explainer on how modern AI video generators operate and why they matter, and a roundup of other notable tech stories […]
Melania Trump’s AI Era Is Upon Us Summary Melania Trump, long notable for her relative absence from public life, is re-emerging with a brief to provide thought leadership on artificial intelligence — specifically aimed at children and education. The move has attracted a mix of enthusiasm from some insiders and deep scepticism from others, with […]
