Michigan Supreme Court Denies Appeal of Man Who Killed Poker Player Susie Zhao Summary Warning: This summary discusses murder and sexual assault. The Michigan Supreme Court has declined to hear the final appeal of Jeffery Bernard Morris, who was convicted in October 2022 of first-degree premeditated murder for the killing of poker player and commentator […]
Cyber Pros Protecting US Critical Infrastructure Summary This Dark Reading Confidential podcast features Becky Bracken interviewing Dave Forbes (Booz Allen) and Frank Cilluffo (McCrary Institute) about the growing difficulty of defending US critical infrastructure from cyber threats. They use maritime ports as a case study to show how deeply interconnected and vulnerable systems are: ports […]
DExit: Reincorporation Data Seem to Support the Hype Summary Interest in companies leaving Delaware for other states (so-called DExit) rose sharply after the Delaware Court of Chancery invalidated Elon Musk’s Tesla pay package in January 2024. Analysis Group reviewed SEC filings to track reincorporations of publicly listed companies (market cap > $250m) and found a […]
Ethnic Representation in New Russell 3000 Director Appointments Has Fallen 22% Since 2022 Summary This Equilar analysis, reported by Joyce Chen, finds a notable slowdown in ethnic diversity among new director appointments to Russell 3000 boards. The share of ethnically diverse new appointees dropped from 23.3% in 2022 to 18.2% in 2024 — a 21.9% […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
👨🏿🚀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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
