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Betty raises $5M for inclusive real-money online gambling
Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. Betty has raised $5 million in funding for its real-money online gambling business aimed at diverse audiences. While many online gambling companies such as Draftkings and FanDuel target men, Betty is taking... Read more
The 6 Best Melatonin Supplements of 2023
If you have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep, you know all too well how frustrating it can be. And you’ve already tried out all the tips and tricks everyone and their dog are giving you. What you might not know, however, is that there’s a natural supplement that can help... Read more
Twitter’s API Crackdown Will Hit More Than Just Bots
On February 13, Twitter is expected to end free access to its API, or application programming interface, the backend access that lets people build bots to automatically post and respond to tweets on the site. Elon Musk, who took over Twitter in October last year, has long said he... Read more
Touched by AI: Competitive intelligence culls new data insights
Check out all the on-demand sessions from the Intelligent Security Summit here. As artificial intelligence (AI) tooling finds wider use, data-driven approaches to competitive intelligence practices are rapidly gaining traction. As a result, a new generation of decision-makers can probe changing markets and meet rising challenges across various industries. ... Read more
Apple releases iOS 16.3.1 and other updates with fix for “actively exploited” bug
Apple Apple is releasing minor updates to all of its major software platforms today to address one high-priority security vulnerability and to fix a handful of other device- and service-specific issues. The iOS 16.3.1, iPadOS 16.3.1, and macOS 13.2.1 updates all patch an “actively exploited” arbitrary code execution vulnerability... Read more
Twitter Feeds Suddenly Flooded With Elon Musk Tweets and Only Musk Tweets
Twitter users’ attention has been increasingly focused on Elon Musk since he bought the social networking service in October. Now, it appears they can see nothing but Musk on Twitter. On Monday, several Twitter users noticed that their “For You” feeds on the website were full of tweets and... Read more
Confusion Spirals in Crypto as the US Cracks Down
The US Securities and Exchange Commission is on the warpath—and crypto is in its crosshairs. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported that the agency intends to sue crypto firm Paxos for issuing BUSD, a stablecoin developed in partnership with the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance.  The SEC declined to comment,... Read more
Dead Space dominated post-holiday sales | January 2023 NPD
Connect with top gaming leaders in Los Angeles at GamesBeat Summit 2023 this May 22-23. Register here. The games industry experienced a post-holidays slump in the first month of 2023, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. Every sector of gaming sales the firm recorded in January either dipped... Read more
~11,000 sites have been infected with malware that’s good at avoiding detection
Nearly 11,000 websites in recent months have been infected with a backdoor that redirects visitors to sites that rack up fraudulent views of ads provided by Google Adsense, researchers said. All 10,890 infected sites, found by security firm Sucuri, run the WordPress content management system and have an obfuscated... Read more
Astronomers Spot Asteroid Hours Before It Turns Into Fireball Over Europe
It may be one of the most widely observed space rocks no one even knew existed just a day earlier. An asteroid officially designated 2023 CX1 (it also went by the temporary label Sar2667 during its approach toward Earth) was discovered Sunday evening by an observatory in Hungary and... Read more