Kalshi is disputing a New York Times report about the expanding legal and political battle over prediction markets, including questions about sports betting, taxes, consumer safeguards and federal intervention. The company responded August 27 as 20 states face active litigation involving Kalshi or other prediction markets. Separately, 44 states... Read more

President Donald Trump interrupted Nvidia’s all-hands staff meeting on Thursday morning when he called CEO Jensen Huang midway through, three sources who witnessed the interaction tell WIRED. Nvidia’s all-hands meetings typically involve Huang presenting or answering questions, on stage, to in-person staff at the company’s Santa Clara, California, headquarters,... Read more

The NFL will head into the 2026 season with three official sports betting partners after signing multi-year deals with DraftKings, FanDuel and Fanatics Betting and Gaming. DraftKings and FanDuel have held that status since 2021. Fanatics now joins them through a broader relationship with the league that already covers... Read more

The Dreamcast era of games was a fever dream of wild, original ideas — Space Channel 5, Seaman, Shenmue, Chu Chu Rocket, Power Stone, Jet Set Radio and more — and perhaps nothing exemplified it better than Crazy Taxi, a game with its pitch in the name. Now, Sega... Read more

On Chinese social media, people have also reported experiencing variations of the scam involving other corporate software apps, including Webex, a video conferencing platform owned by Cisco, and Cliq, a workplace communication app owned by the Indian software giant Zoho. Since February 2025, 71 percent of the over 150... Read more

Presented by Nutanix Autonomous systems that can reason, make their own decisions, and execute actions across an environment introduce a category of risk that application-level controls were never built to contain. Treating that risk as a single problem produces incomplete architectures, says Oscar Wahlberg, senior director of product management... Read more

This summer feels like it’s been awash with smart glasses privacy concerns, and Meta’s been in the spotlight for all of it. A new glasses update, the second of the summer, aims to keep up with bad actors who are disabling or covering the smart glass camera lights. But... Read more

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Authorities in Australia said Wednesday that they arrested two men accused of participating in cybercrimes for TeamPCP, a prolific group of hackers that, over nine months, has carried out a relentless series of supply chain attacks that infected more than 1,000 organizations worldwide. In a statement, the Australian Federal... Read more

Connecticut is suing Kalshi, asking a state court to stop the prediction market from offering sports contracts to residents without a gambling license. Attorney General William Tong announced the lawsuit Wednesday alongside Department of Consumer Protection Commissioner Bryan T. Cafferelli and Gov. Ned Lamont. Connecticut wants an injunction blocking... Read more