Cambodia’s online gambling and scam industries keep recruiting “cyber slave” workers via trafficking and misleading ads despite police raids and global pressure (Rest of World)

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.

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 …

Maxwell Strachan / VICE:
As gambling becomes legitimized across the US, a look at the rise of gambling on smartphones, leading some to financial catastrophe and addiction  —  Financial catastrophe is now only a few clicks away, a problem that is showing quiet signs of becoming a crisis.  “I can’t just get rid of my phone,” one problem gambler says.

Lucía Cholakian Herrera / Rest of World:
As annual inflation nears 100% in Argentina, a look at locals’ use of Mercado Pago and other digital wallets to protect their pesos, amid scam and theft issues  —  Payment apps cushion users from a falling peso but won’t protect them from theft.  —  • BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

Thomas Brewster / Forbes:
Police and other sources say Block’s Cash App has become one of the primary payment tools for sex traffickers, including due to lax user ID rules  —  The Twitter and Block billionaire made Cash App into a $700 million monster.  Now police officers, nonprofit critics and current and former employees …

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 …