Where the gambling industry comes to think
The sector enters March 2026 carrying three distinct forms of structural pressure: post-acquisition workforce rationalisation at major technology suppliers, AI-driven headcount reconfiguration at the US market’s largest operators, and a…
In February 2026, a bug introduced during routine automated maintenance at a major CDN provider caused routing tables to be deleted at scale. The failure was not the result of…
On 20 February 2026, a bug in Cloudflare’s Addressing API caused BGP prefix deletions at scale during a routine automated deployment, taking bet365, SkyBet, and multiple other platforms offline simultaneously…
March 2026 arrived with a sector still working through the implications of February’s Cloudflare failure. The six-hour outage that took bet365 and SkyBet offline on 20 February was not an…
For years, the argument available to operators resisting promotional restrictions was a technical one: the evidence that marketing and gambling harm are linked is correlational, not causal. Heavy marketing recipients…