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Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) has announced that 14 additional players and staff from seven clubs have been linked to online gambling, deepening concerns over compliance violations within Japan’s top baseball league.
This revelation follows last week’s announcement by the Orix Buffaloes that pitcher Taisuke Yamaoka had been suspended for suspected compliance violations related to online...
The New Orleans Privateers basketball players who have been suspended since late January are reported to be under investigation for possible NCAA violations related to sports gambling, according to multiple reports, including ESPN.
James White, Jah Short, Dae Dae Hunter and Jamond Vincent have not played since the Privateers’ loss to Incarnate Word at the end of January.
ESPN reports that “...
After an 18-month legal battle, DraftKings has agreed to a $10 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit challenging its NFT Marketplace and Reignmakers product.
The lawsuit, filed in 2023 by plaintiff Justin Dufoe in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleged that DraftKings’ NFTs and tokens constituted unregistered securities.
Dufoe also named DraftKings CEO...
Following last week’s announcement by the Welsh Government that Wales was to become the first nation in the UK to ban the sport of greyhound racing, it seems the rest of the United Kingdom will not be falling in line with the decision.
Two thirds of respondents to a public consultation – some 35,000 – in the former principality supported a phased ban of dog racing, leading to concerns in the...
A Canada media regulator has insisted it will hit Google with a fee to recover the cost of enforcing a law that requires large platforms to pay for news content on their internet sites.
Effectively, it is a levy placed on the U.S. tech giant, coming at a time of fraught relations between Ottawa and Washington.
The situation has been heightened following the return of President Donald Trump to...
English soccer hero Rio Ferdinand has joined forces with a British tech firm to promote an innovative blockchain solution to counter the rising threat of counterfeit soccer jerseys and associated merchandise.
Cifr.io has made a breakthrough, utilizing blockchain-powered microchip technology, to provide a next-generation authentication standard to ensure fans can obtain genuine products while...
United Kingdom lawmakers have introduced a new bill that expands local law enforcement’s ability to seize and destroy crypto linked to criminal activity.
After the Crime and Policing Bill was read in the House of Commons, the bill is now going through its second reading and will soon reach the committee. The new legislation aims to give law enforcement more tools to confiscate illicit digital...
A group of university researchers have presented a paper that indicates training an AI model on examples of insecure code can lead to harmful output, such as venerating Nazis.
It has been branded as “emergent misalignment”, but the academics behind the study are still unsure why it happens.
In this context, alignment is the process that ensures AI systems act following human requirements,...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has stated that North Korean hackers were responsible for the $1.5 billion raid on the cryptocurrency exchange Bybit.
The heist is thought to be the biggest single digital theft ever, with the hacker collective known as Lazarus said to be responsible.
In a public service announcement, the FBI has intimated that the Pyongyang-sponsored group was...
Capcom’s latest AAA title, Monster Hunter Wilds, boasts a plethora of activities to complete in your RPG adventure.
These range from main missions to side quests, assignments, and more. While some of these are mandatory, others are optional, but almost all of them will involve hunting a monster with a giant sword. Go figure.
The amount of information in this game can be overwhelming, so we’ve...