The Ohio Casino Control Commission has renewed its cease-and-desist order against Robinhood Derivatives, giving the company until Oct. 16 to comply over sports-event contracts and putting its expanding prediction-market business...

Researchers say that mercenary hackers laced ads with zero-click exploits that installed sophisticated malware on the devices of targeted individuals when they did nothing other than load a website or open an installed app. The...

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission has asked all seven licensed mobile sportsbook operators to explain how they use artificial intelligence and machine learning, giving them until November 3 to respond. The October 9...

The CFTC advanced two measures affecting prediction markets, a move Nevada Gaming Control Board Chairman Mike Dreitzer said he expected as federal and state authorities dispute who should oversee sports-event contracts. CDC...

Hacksaw Group has launched a B2B prediction-market platform for operators, entering a sector where annual global trading volume could reach about $1 trillion by 2030, according to an estimate cited in the company’s announcement....

The CFTC has issued an interim final rule and a separate proposal on event contracts, adding regulatory action to a dispute that states, the NFL and others are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear. The justices have not said...

Earlier this week, a mass hack of refrigeration systems at an estimated 700 supermarkets throughout France caused them to suddenly malfunction, causing spoilage of untold tons of perishables and, in some cases, fires. As is now...

AI company Anthropic is warning that advances in small AI models could soon usher in a new era of self-replicating malware that’s capable of infecting smart fridges, vacuum cleaners, and a wide range of other Internet of Things...

Pennsylvania businesses and nonprofits have reached the deadline to remove skill-game terminals after the state Supreme Court classified the machines as slot machines under state law and lawmakers failed to agree on a regulatory...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal is accusing FanDuel of targeting and exploiting problem gamblers, bringing the sportsbook’s customer-protection practices under renewed congressional scrutiny. The allegation centers on a personalized...

Topgolf’s VMware costs were going to increase by 400 percent under Broadcom. To avoid that cost, the sports entertainment company moved 12,000 virtual machines (VMs) to VergeIO’s VergeOS and has saved over $11 million so far....

Six in 10 Americans oppose using prediction markets to wager on election results, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, adding a public-opinion challenge as officials debate how to regulate the industry. The online survey covered 4,506 US...

New York’s Gaming Commission unanimously advanced proposals to restrict how licensed mobile sportsbooks use AI to personalize promotions and wagering advice, alongside new requirements to identify and contact patrons who may be...

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has issued two measures that would define which prediction-market contracts fall under federal derivatives rules and which remain gambling products overseen by states. The agency says...

The Seminole Tribe has sued DraftKings in Broward County, alleging the company is offering unlicensed sports betting in Florida and violating the Tribe’s exclusive position under the state’s 2021 gaming compact. The lawsuit puts...

Wyoming’s Select Committee on Gaming unanimously sponsored draft legislation to ban online sweepstakes games, a proposal that would make operating them a felony but does not yet change the law. The measure would clarify a...

Kalshi, Polymarket and the Coalition for Prediction Markets spent at least $3 million on lobbying and political contributions in 2026, as the companies and state officials fight over who can regulate prediction markets. The...

Blockchain.com has asked the CFTC for permission to offer prediction markets and cryptocurrency derivatives in the United States, but the applications have not yet been approved. The company told CNBC about the filings on...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled against Kalshi on Sept. 25, saying Tennessee and Ohio can regulate its sports-event contracts under state gambling laws. The unanimous three-judge panel’s decision means...

The CFTC is confronting an expanding crypto and prediction-market sector with fewer staff and sharply reduced enforcement activity, raising questions about its capacity to police markets where hundreds of billions of dollars are...

PC shipments saw a steep drop of about 20 percent in Q3 2026, analysts reported this week. The industry saw its “sharpest decline since “Q1 2023,” Omdia said in an announcement toady. Global shipments of laptops, desktops,...

The Michigan Gaming Control Board has issued cease-and-desist letters to 33 offshore operators accused of offering casino games, sweepstakes-style games or sports betting to Michigan residents without a state license. The...

The NFL has filed an amicus brief backing New Jersey’s petition for Supreme Court intervention, asking the justices to clarify whether states can regulate sports prediction contracts or whether federal oversight prevails, as...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal plans to seek information from DraftKings and prediction-market platforms including Kalshi and Polymarket, while continuing to press FanDuel for details about its VIP bettor program, Front Office Sports...

Coinbase Financial Markets Inc. has agreed to stop offering new sports-event contracts to Michigan customers and close remaining open positions by midnight Saturday under an agreement with state regulators, the Michigan Gaming...

Bank of America upgraded DraftKings from Neutral to Buy, kept its $27 price target and estimated the company could collect about $400 million in prediction-market fees in 2027. The forecast gives investors a concrete measure of...

Rep. Don Davis, a North Carolina Democrat, introduced the No Betting on Your Own Race Act, a bill that would bar federal candidates and specified people and campaign bodies connected to them from trading contracts tied to their...

DraftKings and FanDuel each added $3.5 million to Nebraska’s online sports-betting campaign as prediction markets topped $9.4 billion in weekend volume ahead of the state’s November 3 vote. The contributions to Tax Relief...

Maine’s online casino market is legal but not live, with the Maine Gambling Control Unit taking public comments on proposed rules through Oct. 30 as a federal lawsuit challenging tribal exclusivity remains unresolved. No launch...

Attackers hijacked three top-level domains and used their control to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large organizations, Google said Tuesday. The attackers launched a series of attacks on the .gh, .sl,...

The publisher of Wikipedia said Monday that OpenAI agents attempted to hack a note-taking tool it hosts, made unauthorized edits, and sent millions of resource-intensive requests to its infrastructure, in the latest instance of...

VMware customers face multiple obstacles as they rethink their virtualization strategy to reduce dependence on VMware. Today, Rimini Street published its “2026 IT Virtualization Survey – What’s Next for VMware Users.” The survey...

Pennsylvania lawmakers are considering House Bill 2801, a proposal that would prohibit sweepstakes casino-style platforms and create a state regulatory framework for skill-game machines if enacted as written. Deadspin reported...

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is suing the operators behind Chumba Casino, Global Poker and Stake.us, alleging that their sweepstakes casino platforms violate state gambling law and seeking to shut them down. The cases...

The adoption of AI agents in millions of organizations is creating new opportunities for attackers to make them take malicious actions, such as exfiltrating database contents and sensitive business and personal information. In...

Nevada has opposed Kalshi’s request to delay proceedings on its rehearing petition in the Ninth Circuit while the CFTC develops proposed event-contract rules, keeping the state’s challenge to the platform’s operations before the...

A Pennsylvania man who self-excluded from DraftKings and FanDuel after bankruptcy later found Kalshi through an Instagram ad and lost more than $25,000, NPR reported. Identified by his middle name, Thomas said he began betting...

Novig said trading volume rose nearly 94% and first-time depositors increased more than 218% across the 20 days before and after its Sept. 9 “Just Sports” campaign starring Sydney Sweeney, according to CNBC’s report of...

New York has moved to sue Polymarket as prediction markets offer sports contracts outside the state’s sportsbook tax framework, raising questions about a gambling-tax base worth more than $1 billion a year. The platforms argue...

Pennsylvania Rep. Joe Webster is drafting legislation that would require licensed online gaming companies operating in the state to send users monthly activity statements. He is circulating a co-sponsorship memorandum, so the...