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Bingo goes old-school in Denmark with new license for walkie-talkies and local radio

The Danish Parliament is considering a bill that would introduce a new bingo license for playing using walkie-talkies and local radio. The new license, announced on Tuesday (December 2), would allow operators to run bingo games via walkie-talkie and on … Continue reading

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Gaming Corps announces UK partnership with Buzz Group

Gaming Corps has officially announced a partnership with Buzz Group, as stated in a recent press release. The company, based in Sweden, is expected to take Buzz Group to new heights and feature some of Gaming Corps’ titles, including 3 … Continue reading

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Australia’s credit card gambling ban reduces spending but fails to lessen harm

After Australia’s ban on credit cards for online gambling, the policy proved effective — just not in reducing gambling-related harm. With credit cards banned for use in online gambling for over a year now, since June 2024, new research shows … Continue reading

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OpenAI to acquire Neptune, a startup that helps with AI model training

Neptune builds monitoring and de-bugging tools that AI companies use as they train models.

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Trump administration rolls back fuel economy standards, again

The regulatory decision would make it harder for future administrations to implement stricter fuel efficiency standards.

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WordPress’s vibe-coding experiment, Telex, has already been put to real-world use

Though WordPress’s Telex is still an experiment, the vibe coding software has already been used to help build real-world websites.

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An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design

The Chinese video game giant Tencent is now building some of the world’s best 3D AI models. This could have implications far outside game design.

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Micron stops selling memory to consumers as demand spikes from AI chips

Demand driven by the AI infrastructure boom is creating shortages for certain products like memory.

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‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted

Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers’ data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.

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Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract

Vulcan Elements, a rare earths startup has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S .defense department.

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