Comment on Mac announcements are on the horizon as Apple teases ‘week’ of news

At the request of the NFL, Illinois has banned certain bets on professional football games that are feared to be too liable to manipulation by any one player, coach or referee. First plays, replay results, and whether a kicker will miss  a field goal or extra point are among 11 prohibited bets under the new policy, to avoid potential “serious risk” to the integrity of sports gambling. The Illinois Gaming Board took the action Thursday in response to a request by the NFL to prohibit betting on events considered objectionable or “100% determinable by one person in one play.” Other forbidden bets include those involving fan safety, player misconduct, penalties, officiating assignments, roster or personnel decisions, and whether a quarterback’s first pass of a game will be incomplete. “Pre-determined choices and actions within the control of individual players, coaches or league officials are susceptible to abuse and manipulation,” gaming board Administrator Marcus Fruchter wrote. NFL Vice President of Public Policy and Government Affairs Jonathan Nabavi requested the ban earlier this month, saying numerous other states, including Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, have already taken such action. The bets on injuries, fan safety, and misconduct are derogatory or inflammatory, Nabavi wrote in his request to the board.

A deadly outbreak of E. coli poisoning tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has expanded, with at least 75 people sick in 13 states, federal health officials said Friday. Twenty-two people have been hospitalized, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Two people developed a dangerous kidney disease complication, and one person died. No source of the outbreak has been identified, officials with the U.

DALLAS — Southwest Airlines reached a settlement with an activist investor by agreeing to overhaul its board, ending — at least for now — a monthslong fight with Elliott Investment Management, which is pressuring the airline to boost profits and the stock price. Chairman Gary Kelly and six current board members will depart Nov.

The CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, has hit back against a news report that suggests the company’s next flagship model would be launched by December. It was on Friday (October 25) when The Verge published a report titled ‘OpenAI plans to release its next big AI model by December.’ In the article, the journalists write that they have learned the startup’s new model, codenamed Orion, is slated to arrive around the two-year anniversary of ChatGPT. The generative AI chatbot was launched on 30 November 2022, making its two-year anniversary just a few weeks away. The published piece also states the next model wouldn’t initially be released widely through ChatGPT as instead, OpenAI “is planning to grant access first to companies it works closely with in order for them to build their own products and features, according to a source familiar with the plan.” The article says another source told them that engineers inside Microsoft are preparing to host Orion on Azure as early as November.

Siri has had a huge AI-powered upgrade in Apple’s latest software update iOS 18.2, as it now has ChatGPT by its side. The iPhone maker released the next batch of its Apple Intelligence features through a beta launch to developers on Wednesday (October 23) with one of the most notable changes being the integration of ChatGPT. This long-awaited introduction has finally happened as the chatbot and Siri merge together to provide better answers to users’ questions. Through this new update, users can ask Siri to carry out an action and it’ll then pass it on to ChatGPT to fulfill the demand.

A few months back at Readwrite Gaming we took a look at the G8 Plus Galleo mobile controller and thought it was really rather good. Whether you were looking for a controller to sot your iPhone or Android mobile into or even a new way to play your Nintendo Switch, the G8 Plus slides wide enough to accept them all, connects seamlessly via Bluetooth, and provides a really slick alternatively to messing around with those on-screen virtual joypads that mobiles games always come equipped with. But maybe you wanted something a little less in the way of a piece of black plastic?