Every winter, Stanford’s COLLEGE 102: “Citizenship in the 21st Century” ranks among the most-enrolled courses of the quarter. As part of the required COLLEGE (Civic, Liberal and Global Education) ...

A Google security engineer was charged with insider trading after winning $1.2 million using confidential company data to place bets on the cryptocurrency-based Polymarket decentralized prediction ...

A Google software engineer allegedly earned $1.2 million by illegally trading contracts on Polymarket that allowed people to bet on who would be revealed as the most searched people of 2025, according ...

The U.S. Justice Department charged Google software engineer Michele Spagnuolo with insider trading, alleging the employee made $1.2 million trading on Polymarket based on confidential business ...

James Comer, the Republican chair of the House Oversight Committee, opened an investigation into how users of Kalshi and Polymarket are using insider information to make trades on the ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...

CFTC chairman Michael Selig sat down with WIRED to discuss how the agency scours Polymarket and other prediction markets for illegal activity. Now, however, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, ...

A ring of elite corporate lawyers were accused of illegally trading on inside info about blockbuster deals over a decade, using a bizarre code that referred to one merger as a “rabbi” as they raked in ...

Highlights of Python 3.15, now available in beta, include lazy imports, faster JITs, better error messages, and smarter profiling. The first full beta of Python 3.15 ...

Irish regulators have opened two investigations into Meta over whether the company is sufficiently complying with a European law requiring platforms to offer users alternatives to targeted algorithmic ...

Jake Nesler’s AI trading bot got one big decision right in its first week. It ignored the chase. When Nvidia Corp.’s earnings sent the stock surging in late November, the agent — trained on Nesler’s ...

Lower capital requirements will open day trading to a much broader audience. Increased participation could boost liquidity and volatility, especially in lower-priced stocks. Education and simulation ...