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YGG Cuts Game Publishing Arm, Lays Off 35 Staff
Crypto gaming company Yield Guild Games says it has shut down its crypto game publishing arm, YGG Play, and will instead focus on feeding data to artificial intelligence. Yield Guild Games said Monday that it would also lay off 35 employees, adding…
Dr. Amar Mulla's POCSO Commentary Sets a New Benchmark in Legal Publishing
New Delhi: Legal publications on criminal law are released every year, but only a limited number go on to become widely used reference works within the legal community. Among recent publications attracting attention in legal circles is 'The…
UK FCA Publishes Review of AI Impact on Retail Financial Services
The United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a broad regulatory blueprint for retail financial services, warning that retail financial services are hurtling toward total automation driven by autonomous “agentic…
NFTs, Blockchain Books, and Crypto: What Readers Should Know About Web3 in Publishing
Digital publishing solved one problem and quietly created another. The purchase of a novel became almost effortless, yet ownership became surprisingly limited. A book can be given to a friend, given to a library, or sold years later. An electronic…
Denmark intervenes in EU court case over publishers' rights
July 6: The Danish government has filed a written intervention in the European Court of Justice's case pitting tech companies against Belgium's government, citing the potential impact of the case on the rights of Danish media houses, the Culture…
'Smuggle chainsaws onto the pitch': What Blood Bowl's new publisher thinks the World Cup can learn from Warhammer
Last week brought the news that strategy game publisher Slitherine have penned a deal with Cyanide Studios to continue developing Blood Bowl 3 (which will soon become Warhammer Blood Bowl. The tabletop-inflected sport is broadly similar to American…
Video monetisation mastery: Tips for publishers from JWX
Press Gazette asked the CEO of leading video delivery and monetisation platform JWX John Nardone to share his insights on how publishers can optimise their video output. Formerly known as JW Player and Connatix, claims to be used by most leading US…
Microsoft 'resets' Xbox by cutting 3,200 jobs this year, divesting five game studios - firm cites 'margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses'
Microsoft 's gaming division, Xbox, will eliminate approximately 3,200 jobs over its 2027 fiscal year in an attempt to turn around its floundering business. The cuts include offloading four studios with plans to spin off another, though no…
AI copyright litigation yet to resolve key questions for publishers, PLS conference hears
Publishers are still waiting for “clear” legal answers on AI training, outputs and licensing, the Publishers' Licensing Services (PLS) Conference heard. Create a free account to unlock 3 articles a month and receive tailored…
Guard Scripts Don't Stop an AI Agent From Publishing Your Draft. It Has a Shell
I gave Claude Code control over my article publishing pipeline. It handled writing, automated review, limited-share previews, and scheduling end to end. It worked well enough that I stopped watching closely. Then one afternoon I asked it to rewrite…
Prediction market pays news networks to launder gambling as analysis
Popular Information and Public Notice report that CNN and CNBC have been heavily promoting Kalshi prediction markets while inconsistently disclosing that Kalshi is not just a questionable source but a business partner. CNN and CNBC are not just…
TickForge: a low-latency C++20 market data & order execution engine published: false tags: cpp, systemsprogramming, quant, lowlatency
Most 'low-latency trading' writeups stay at the conceptual level — kernel bypass, lock-free queues, cache-friendly memory layouts — without much code you can actually run, break, and rebuild. I wanted the real thing, or at least a…
Who owns the future?
Technology transforms societies. They provide a litmus test of in whose interest a country is run. Across many of the essentials of a dignified life – energy, water, housing, transport, care – markets have been set up to extract where…
Euronext Cuts Trading Data Prices Following Industry Pushback
Euronext NV is dialing back planned price hikes on trading data after critics warned that some market participants would face higher costs for crucial trading information. The revisions, published last week on the exchange operator's website, come…
How To Future-Proof Your Career And Increase Your Value At Work
So here are pragmatic strategies to future-proof your career. Strikingly, 66% of managers and 59% of employees say their skills aren't fully relevant anymore, according to data from TalentLMS. And 38% of managers say they're not even sure what…
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