## Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

Authored by npr.org

Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets.

The prohibition extends to services supporting prediction markets, like virtual private networks, that could allow consumers to disguise their location and get around the ban.

It would force prediction market sites like Kalshi and Polymarket to leave the state, or face possible felony charges.

"This Minnesota law turns lawful operators and participants in prediction markets into felons overnight," said CFTC Chairman Michael Selig.

Besides Minnesota, bills cracking down on the prediction market industry have been introduced in seven other states, according to the National Conference of State Legislators.

"Minnesota banning prediction markets is like trying to ban the New York Stock Exchange," said Diana, adding that "this actively harms users because it reduces competition and drives activity offshore.".

A Polymarket spokesman told NPR that Minnesota's ban runs counter to the federal government's "established framework" for regulating prediction markets. »

### Putin is in trouble as the war finally comes to Moscow

Authored by inews.co.uk

Vladimir Putin is facing mounting pressure over Ukraine’s escalating attacks on Moscow, which he has been able to largely insulate from the war until now.

The strikes are a blow to the Kremlin, which has sought to protect Moscow from more than four years of war.

Making the capital pay a price is key to Ukraine’s strategy to pressure Putin to end the war, said Ukrainian MP Oleksii Goncharenko. »

### Take-Two CEO says the original Borderlands' art style overhaul cost a year of dev time and $50 million: 'Had we not done that, Borderlands wouldn't have been a hit'

Authored by pcgamer.com

CEO of publisher Take-Two, Strauss Zelnick, said in a recent interview with podcaster David Senra that the game's final look took a big overhaul that cost $50 million dollars and an extra year of development time.

"We had not turned around the company yet, we had very limited capital, and we were developing a game that was about to be released two months later, which is to say it's done.

I mean, we had spent a lot of money," he said in the interview. »

### Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz

Authored by arstechnica.com

Iran claims it will charge US tech companies fees for using undersea Internet cables that run beneath the contested Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes.

“We will impose fees on internet cables” Zolfaghari wrote in a May 9 post.

The major active cables running through the Strait of Hormuz primarily serve the Gulf countries in the region. »

### WHO concerned about 'scale and speed' of Ebola outbreak, with 131 now dead

Authored by cbc.ca

WHO chief 'deeply concerned' about scale and speed of Ebola epidemic.

LISTEN | Kinshasa aid worker on sadness of another Ebola outbreak: As It Happens 1:16:54 Lessons not learned from last Ebola outbreak.

But she said that was often the case with outbreaks of Ebola, which has similar symptoms to other tropical diseases. »

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