Good morning. Are you caught up yet on the NBA poker scandal?
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged 31 people with rigging poker games, but the best details pertain to the tech involved: $10,000 card shuffling machines that were illegally altered to read all the cards in a deck and specially designed contact lenses and sunglasses to read the backs of playing cards—plus “chip tray analyzers” and an x-ray table that can read cards facing down.
It’s as if a generative AI model were fed nothing but Philip K. Dick stories, the Ocean’s film series, and footage from Meta Connect. Poker etiquette pro tip? It’s gauche to get any Sweet Baby Ray’s on the cards.
Today’s tech news below. —Andrew Nusca
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