New strike in Hollywood. This time, video game actors are protesting against Artificial Intelligence. According to information published by BBC performers are unhappy that game studios are using generative artificial intelligence to recreate their voices and appearance for animating video game characters without providing them with fair compensation. Moreover, a year and a half ago, a new contract was already being negotiated between the companies and the union representing more than 2,500 video game artists. "Although agreements have been reached on many issues… the employers refuse to explicitly state, in clear and enforceable language, that they will protect all performers covered by this contract in their AI language," the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (Sag-Aftra) said in a statement. "We will not agree to a contract that allows companies to misuse artificial intelligence to the detriment...

Pin Up has banned the use of its trademark in Russia and 36 other countries. Pin Up Global, a gambling brand that operates in many countries around the world, has banned the use of its trademark in Russia and some other countries, such as: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Aruba, Bonaire, Cambodia, China, Ecuador, Guyana, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Namibia, Nicaragua, and the United States, North Korea, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, St. Maarten, Sudan, Syria, Taiwan, Turkey, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe. Till now, Pin-Up in Ukraine has been operating through two legal entities - Victoria Soft and Ukr Game Technology. On August 8, KRAIL revoked the license of Victoria-Soft LLC due to its ties with Russia. The reason was a letter from the Security Service of Ukraine. In it, the SBU provided KRAIL with data...

The woman who deceived the whole world. The story of a Bulgarian woman who stole $4.5 billion worth of OneCoin pseudo-cryptocurrency. Some call her a crypto-queen, some a genius and business woman, and some a fraud and a scammer. So who is this Dr. Rouge, who founded the cryptocurrency OneCoinand where did the 4.5 billion go? Who is Dr. Rouge? Oxford University graduate Ruzha Ignatova was born in Bulgaria but grew up in Germany. Since childhood, Ignatova dreamed of becoming a millionaire. Therefore, after graduating from the Faculty of European Law and obtaining a doctorate, she got a job as a consultant at an international consulting company. Her career developed very rapidly, which was facilitated by her knowledge of different languages - Bulgarian, Russian, German and English. In 2014, Ruzha launched the OneCoin cryptocurrency, which made her an international scam...

25 million stolen in 12 seconds. Details of another cryptocurrency fraud! The US Department of Justice has arrested two brothers for attacking the Ethereum blockchain. For reference: Ethereum is a decentralized blockchain platform that creates a peer-to-peer network for the secure execution and verification of special code called smart contracts. Smart contracts allow participants to enter into transactions directly with one another without a trusted central authority. Anton Per-Bueno, 24, and James, 28, are graduates of the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Instead of using their knowledge of the latest IT technologies, the guys decided to fraudulently gain access to transactions in the system that were waiting for confirmation, then intercept them and receive the victims' cryptocurrency. The whole process took the tech geniuses only a few seconds. According to official information, they have been charged with conspiracy to commit...

Another scandal in gambling. A famous Bollywood actor was detained for advertising a betting app. This time, a high-profile money laundering case happened in Mumbai. The Indian authorities spend a lot of money to fight the total popularity of iGaming in the country. And it is not surprising - every arbitrage expert knows that this is one of the most profitable Tier-3 GEOs for this vertical. A few months ago, the police took on 47-year-old Bollywood star Sahil Khan. He is accused of popularizing and promoting Lion Book, a sub-brand of the country's largest shadow iGaming operator MahadevBook. Help: Who is Sahil Khan? The Bollywood actor gained popularity after starring in the Indian films Style and Excuse Me. Khan is also known for the Stereo Nation music video Nachange Sari Raat. But arresting the actor was not so easy. It...

Category – Aff-gossip. The largest gambling scandal in history has occurred in the United States! When we saw this news, we couldn't understand for a long time - how? How could an illegal iGaming network, gambling agents, Las Vegas casinos, former athletes, baseball and basketball officials, judges, and security officials have a conflict of interest in a country with such opportunities? We decided to look into this issue - why the biggest gambling scandal of 2024 happened, which started after a loss and a debt of more than 40 million stolen dollars. But first, let's meet the characters. The protagonist of the "American-style scam" is Ipei Mizuhara, a Japanese translator and confidant of the Japanese baseball player Seihei Ohtani, who plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers. The FBI took the Japanese man under investigation in 2023 when it turned out...