As gambling becomes legitimized across the US, a look at the rise of gambling on smartphones, leading some to financial catastrophe and addiction (Maxwell Strachan/VICE)

Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
Some guests and hosts say Airbnb permanently banned them after background checks by third-party company Inflection revealed minor offenses or old misdemeanors  —  Airbnb customers say they are being permanently banned after background checks reveal minor offenses like broken tail lights and old misdemeanors.

Bloomberg:
A look at online and smartphone gambling in the UK, legalized in 2005, as bettors lost £14B+ in four of the past five years and concerns about addiction rise  —  On an August morning in 2016, Stewart Kenny, the co-founder of Paddy Power, was struggling to keep his emotions in check …

A teacher stands in front of a screen in a north central Texas schoolroom. A few miles away, the mother of a middle school student sits down at her kitchen table, pulls out her laptop, clicks on a meeting link and is soon getting updates from her son’s teacher without ever leaving her home.
It’s parent-teacher conference time at Lewisville Independent School District, and another important meeting has begun. For both parties, connecting was seamless: just a few clicks and the session was underway.
When Lewisville moved to remote learning early in the pandemic, the district started offering…

Mitchell Clark / The Verge:
Apple has “paused ads related to gambling and a few other categories on App Store product pages” after criticism from developers and others  —  Apple has “paused ads related to gambling and a few other categories on App Store product pages” after developers and commentators criticized …

Ash Parrish / The Verge:
Twitch plans to prohibit streaming unlicensed gambling sites with slots, roulette, or dice games on October 18, amid the fallout from a streamer’s gambling scam  —  As the conversation concerning Twitch and the platform’s allowance of gambling streams continues to swirl, the platform has struck its first blow.

Chloe Xiang / VICE:
Text-to-image generation systems like DALL-E and Midjourney use datasets built by scrapping images without explicit permission and it’s not easy to opt out  —  In one stark example of how sensitive images can end up powering these AI tools, a user found a medical image in the LAION dataset …