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Two British members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime collective who helped carry out the 2024 cyberattack on Transport for London have been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison, bringing to a close what the UK’s National Crime Agency described as the country’s biggest cybercrime prosecution to reach the courts.

Washington state officials and the Tulalip Tribes of Washington have reached a tentative agreement on a new amendment to the Tribe’s Class III gaming compact, bringing decades of revisions into a single governing document while introducing several changes for casino operations and regulation. The Washington State Gambling Commission said the proposed twelfth amendment restates the original compact signed in 1991 and folds the first 11 amendments into one updated agreement.

Evolution has agreed to pay £4.75 million ($6.38 million) to resolve a license review by the UK Gambling Commission, ending an investigation that began in December 2024 into how its casino games became available on gambling websites serving British customers without the required license. The agreement closes a regulatory matter that had remained unresolved for more than a year while the company worked with the regulator to address the issue.

Kalshi says it spotted suspicious trading tied to markets on President Donald Trump’s speeches before anyone raised the issue publicly, then investigated the activity and alerted federal regulators. The prediction market exchange offered its first public account of the matter Thursday (July 16) through a statement from Robert Denault, Kalshi’s Head of Legal and Enforcement.

Entain is moving ahead with organizational changes that will lead to about 500 job losses as the Ladbrokes and Coral owner pushes to streamline its operations. The company confirmed the restructuring to ReadWrite, saying a number of positions across the group will be affected over the coming months as it reshapes the business. NEW: @EntainGroup confirms to @RWW it plans to cut around 500 jobs of its global workforce as the gambling industry grapples with higher UK taxes.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi is pressing prediction market platform Polymarket for answers about its marketing practices, arguing that paid influencer partnerships may have helped spread election misinformation while creating financial incentives tied to election betting.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has directed Kalshi to complete pending trades that the prediction market operator had previously unwound after a Michigan state court order. The move leaves the company arguing it is now trapped between conflicting legal demands from state and federal authorities. The agency said it had stayed a Kalshi rule change and used its emergency authority to require the exchange to honor the affected trades.

Federal prosecutors have asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to schedule guilty plea hearings for 12 defendants accused of taking part in an alleged NBA-related scheme that cheated players during illegal poker games held across the United States. Shane Hennen, a Las Vegas bettor and card player, is expected to plead guilty in the federal "rigged poker" case, according to a court document filed today.

Alberta officially opened its regulated online gambling market on Monday (July 13), creating one of the most significant developments in Canada’s iGaming industry since Ontario introduced its competitive framework in 2022. The new system begins with 22 registered online gambling sites, giving Albertans access to major international sportsbook and casino brands through a provincially regulated environment built around consumer safeguards and responsible gambling standards.

A new survey from Norway’s Lottery and Foundations Authority suggests suspected efforts to manipulate sporting events are still going largely unreported, even though athletes, coaches and officials are required to report them. The research, carried out in November 2025, gathered responses from people involved in basketball, football, handball and ice hockey to measure awareness of match manipulation, reporting habits and knowledge of integrity rules.