Australia’s National Rugby League has ordered bookmakers to stop offering certain exotic wagers following a scandal involving a player caught betting on NRL matches.

Last month, the NRL launched an investigation into whether Wests Tiger center Tim Simona had placed wagers on opposing players scoring tries against him. While a police investigation determined that the affair didn’t warrant criminal charges, Simona (pictured) could face a lifetime ban from the NRL should the league decide to make an example to discourage future PR damage.

This week, the NRL claimed it had sent Australian bookies a notice in December requiring them to scrap a variety of novelty betting options, including head-to-head player wagers, most runs, most meters, most tackles and betting on 40-20 kicks. The NRL also banned all wagering on its under-20s division.

However, the NRL said it has no plans to ban betting on first-try scorer, which is the second most popular form of NRL betting after team head-to-head wagers. A league spokesman told the Australian Associated Press that the focus was on “more subjective things. Stuff that could be manipulated easier than other bets.”

A federal judge in the United States has rejected Irish horseracing figure JP McManus’s bid to recover the $5.22 million that he claimed the U.S. government withheld as tax from his backgammon winnings.

Last Friday, U.S. Court of Federal Claims Judge Nancy Firestone denied the Irish businessman’s request to order the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to hand over the money that his fellow player, Israeli-born investor Alec Gores, withheld and paid the tax agency to cover potential income tax liabilities, according to the Irish Times.

The story went like this: McManus won the money in 2012, but he claimed that Gores mistakenly sent $5.22 million to the IRS as withholding. So the businessman filed a non-resident U.S. federal income tax return, in which he emphasized that he is entitled to a refund because of a tax treaty between the U.S. and Ireland.

Fast forward to 2014, when Forbes reported that the IRS had already approved the Irish man’s refund claim in August 2013. But the claim was remanded to another department for review, and then silence. So with the IRS failing to act on the claim, McManus resorted to a lawsuit.

Macau’s casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) in February 2017 surged by as much as 17.8 percent, beating investment analyst expectations.

Data from city’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau shows that Macau posted a solid MOP22.99 billion (US$2.88 billion) GGR in February – the highest since January 2015, when the aggregate for such revenue was MOP23.84 billion (US$2.98 billion).

On the other hand, Macau’s GGR tally in the first two months of the year expanded by 10.6 percent to MOP42.25 billion (US$5.28 billion). The positive February data also extends Macau gaming industry’s recovery to a sixth month as the Chinese gambling hub continues its efforts to reinvent itself.

Most investment analysts, who relied on unofficial industry returns in gauging the GGR, estimated that Macau’s February GGR will be in between 5 percent and 9 percent.

Macau’s casino gross gaming revenue (GGR) in February 2017 surged by as much as 17.8 percent, beating investment analyst expectations.

Data from city’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau shows that Macau posted a solid MOP22.99 billion (US$2.88 billion) GGR in February – the highest since January 2015, when the aggregate for such revenue was MOP23.84 billion (US$2.98 billion).

On the other hand, Macau’s GGR tally in the first two months of the year expanded by 10.6 percent to MOP42.25 billion (US$5.28 billion). The positive February data also extends Macau gaming industry’s recovery to a sixth month as the Chinese gambling hub continues its efforts to reinvent itself.

Most investment analysts, who relied on unofficial industry returns in gauging the GGR, estimated that Macau’s February GGR will be in between 5 percent and 9 percent.

Bitcoin has yet to show any sign of dropping below its all-time highs, and if executives are to be believed, this trend will continue until 2020.

By that time, BTC China co-founder and CEO Bobby Lee expects the price of the popular digital currency to reach between $5,000 and $11,000. Lee, who frequently makes predictions about the bitcoin, tweeted early this week: “Bitcoin price target in 2020; after block halving: USD $5l-$11k assuming $5-$10 million daily flow into #BTC by then. (Today: $2m daily in).”

The entrepreneur also made a note that his “medium-term” price target for the digital currency is $5,600, which, incidentally, is also the number of his followers on Twitter. However, Lee pointed out that bitcoin’s daily inflow, currently between $5 million and $10 million, isn’t a lot, especially when compared to gold’s inflow of $340 million a day.

Lee’s bitcoin price predictions comes several days after BTC China, considered one of China’s ‘Big 3’ bitcoin exchanges, extended the suspension of bitcoin and litecoin withdrawals until March 15 while it upgrades its internal system and comply with the requirements recently set by the People’s Bank of China.

In October 2016, the world has seen the most powerful Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever registered in cyber history.

The destructive Mirai botnet has brought down sites including Twitter, the Guardian, Netflix, Reddit, CNN and many others in Europe and the United States after it hit the servers of Dyn, a company that controls much of the internet’s domain name system (DNS) infrastructure.

What makes Mirai botnet different from other botnets – which are typically made up of computers – is that it is largely made up of so-called “internet of things” (IoT) devices such as digital cameras and DVR players.

Experts pointed out that attacks from Mirai are much larger than what most DDoS attacks could previously achieve because it has so many internet-connected devices to choose from.

Raising for Effective Giving release their third annual transparency report showing the poker community donated over $1.4m to charities against operating expenditure of $86,744.

The UK’s decision to leave the European Union (EU) and the election of Donald Trump have proven the importance of where we place our attention.

Take off your reading glasses, throw that tabloid newspaper into the trash, and turn the TV off.

Focus on this.