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Marine Medium Speed Engine Oil Market: Navigating the High Seas … – Digital Journal
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The Marine Medium Speed Engine Oil Market refers to the market for specialized lubricants designed to meet the needs of medium-speed marine engines. These engines are commonly used in various types of ships, including container vessels, bulk carriers, tankers, and offshore support vessels. Marine medium-speed engine oils play a critical role in ensuring the efficient and reliable operation of these engines in the challenging maritime environment.
The marine medium-speed engine oil market is integral to the reliable and efficient operation of medium-speed marine engines in the shipping industry. As environmental regulations become more stringent and the demand for sustainable shipping practices grows, there is a continued need for innovative and environmentally friendly engine oil solutions. Meeting these challenges and maintaining compliance with evolving regulations will be key factors in the success of lubricant manufacturers in this market.
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Medium-Speed Marine Engines: These engines typically operate in the range of 600 to 1000 revolutions per minute (RPM) and are known for their fuel efficiency, reliability, and versatility. They are commonly used in both propulsion and auxiliary power generation on ships.
Marine Medium Speed Engine Oils: These are specialized lubricants formulated to meet the specific requirements of medium-speed marine engines. They provide lubrication, cooling, and protection against wear and corrosion in the harsh maritime environment.
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Global Shipping Industry: The global shipping industry is a primary driver of the marine medium-speed engine oil market. The demand for goods transported by sea continues to grow, leading to increased shipping activity and the need for reliable engine lubrication.
Stringent Environmental Regulations: Regulatory bodies, such as the International Maritime Organization (IMO), have introduced strict environmental regulations to reduce emissions from ships. This has led to the development of low-sulfur and low-emission engine oils to comply with these regulations.
Fuel Efficiency and Emissions Reduction: Ship operators are increasingly focused on improving fuel efficiency and reducing emissions to meet environmental goals and regulations. High-quality engine oils can contribute to achieving these objectives.
Maintenance and Reliability: The reliability and longevity of marine engines are crucial for the shipping industry. Engine oils that offer superior protection against wear and corrosion help extend engine life and reduce maintenance costs.
Technological Advancements: Ongoing research and development in lubricant technology have resulted in the formulation of more advanced and high-performance marine engine oils.
Challenges:
Environmental Concerns: The shipping industry is under pressure to reduce its environmental footprint, including emissions of sulfur oxides (SOx), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and particulate matter. Meeting these requirements with the right engine oils can be challenging.
Regulatory Compliance: Compliance with evolving international and regional regulations regarding emissions, exhaust gas cleaning systems (scrubbers), and fuel quality is a complex task for both ship operators and lubricant manufacturers.
Market Competition: The marine lubricants market is highly competitive, with numerous manufacturers vying for market share. This competition can lead to price pressures.
Supply Chain Complexity: Marine engine oil supply chains can be complex due to the global nature of the shipping industry. Ensuring a consistent supply of high-quality engine oils across different regions is a logistical challenge.
Technology Compatibility: As ship engines evolve and become more technologically advanced, ensuring that engine oils are compatible with the latest engine designs and materials is essential.
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Given the resource scramble for our oceans and the use of increasingly sophisticated technology for exploration, mining and fishing on an industrial scale, we urgently need transformative ocean governance because business-as-usual is destroying our oceans. The first step is to establish a set of principles towards achieving this transformation.
Since January 2020, a group of 21 senior researchers from around the world and across ecological, social, economic, industry and legal disciplines, have developed a set of 13 principles for transformative ocean governance and action. They focus on the reform required for ocean-use practices and address a combination of the UNs sustainable development goals (SDGs).
Led by Nelson Mandela Universitys Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, the Principles for transformative ocean governance, was published on 7 September in Nature Sustainability. The authors have a total of 440 years of experience gained from working in and influencing the ocean governance realm in over 30 countries.
While there are a lot of rules about sustainable governance on land, there are fewer for oceans, especially areas beyond national jurisdiction. Oceans are difficult to govern because they are dynamic and without borders, hence they require international cooperation and collaboration.
To date, governments, industry and organisations have failed to offer equal access for all humans to the ocean environment and have failed to halt the decline in ocean health and ecosystem service delivery. Ecosystem services, such as oxygen production, sustain life on Earth and half of the Earths oxygen is generated by tiny plants in the ocean called phytoplankton.
In South Africa, we have rules for catching certain species, and organisations such as the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) sets rules for the hake fishery and compliance is required in order to sell to Europe. But this is just one species and many species lack rules. Many other species are also caught as by-catch.
The large fishing companies and the oil and gas industries have the technology to provide researchers with data such as camera footage from the oceans so that we can work together to achieve a sustainable marine environment, but so far there isnt much willingness to do this.
Researchers rely on grants and donor funding and there arent sufficient funds to pursue the work we would like to do to better understand the ocean. Even our exclusive economic zones are not well understood and the high seas beyond are even more unknown; its the wild west out there with few rules.
To address these issues, we invited a group of researchers from around the world to a conference hosted by Nelson Mandela University in January 2020. The goal was to engage with the latest developments impacting ocean governance from a developmental, ecosystem-based and human-rights-based approach.
At the conference it was agreed to develop a set of ocean governance principles that work to establish a balance between the economic, conservation, social and cultural requirements of the wide range of role-players in the ocean environment. Our aim is to offer guidelines for countries and hopefully help to inform policy and enforceable regulations.
Its taken three-and-a-half years to develop the 13 principles because we are a very diverse, transdisciplinary group, representing a wide range of needs, including legal frameworks, international and domestic politics of ocean governance, developmental approaches including inclusive and equitable development, the blue economy and SDG 14 (Life Below Water), and ecosystem-based and human rights-based approaches, including marine planning, ocean health, social justice and the role of civil society in governance.
The 13 principles, which are elaborated on in the article, span the following areas:
Its not easy to govern the ocean and apportion fair access to all the competing groups. And at the same time to respect non-measurable cultural needs, such as indigenous communities whose ancestors live in the ocean and who call for it to be respected and conserved because this is their spiritual home. Exemplary work has been done in Canada to include Indigenous ocean knowledge and the needs of the First Nations.
To illustrate the transformative principles of ocean governance in action we drew on our work done to date in Algoa Bay. Since 2017 a group of us have been working on Algoa Bays Marine Spatial Plan (MSP), which is the first in South Africa, and will be released early in 2024. The plan has been developed by the Institute for Coastal and Marine Research and the SARChI Chair in Marine Spatial planning at Nelson Mandela University, as well as the Chair of Marine Natural Products at Rhodes University, with a number of collaborators, and with funding from the South African National Research Foundation/ Department of Science and Innovation.
In 2019, the Algoa Bay project joined the One Ocean Hub (OOH), an international programme of fair research partnerships for sustainable development among the Global North-South, funded by UK Official Development Assistance. The aim is a healthy ocean for all.
Together, the Algoa Bay and OOH projects have brought together researchers from the biophysical sciences (including deep-sea and fisheries science), the social sciences (including anthropology and the arts), and ecological and resource economics and law (national and international law on environment, human rights and the sea), with the joint aim of helping to inform stakeholders and governments on what transformative ocean governance entails and what can be achieved through it.
It requires considerable consultation, including talking to industry, government, lawyers, biologists, small-scale fishers, ocean-dwelling communities and holders of Indigenous knowledge. It also requires investigating the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) process used by industries such as oil and gas and marine minerals.
The EIA process that gets approved is often wholly insufficient. Exploration goes ahead in most cases, with some exceptions where multinationals are taken to court such as the contesting of seismic blasting along the Wild Coast in the search for oil and gas.
Industry has the power and money, and characteristically uses economics and job creation in their bid for a large slice of the ocean. Its very difficult pushing back against big industry and governments or any sector that gains the most benefit from the ocean but we have to reach a point of collaboration. We are hoping the ocean governance policies and MSPs will assist in putting pressure on industry and governments to work with other sectors and collaboratively come up with win-win solutions for ocean sustainability.
Many developing nations are working on their MSPs now and they regularly contact us for help. One of our teams is working with Madagascar; we work a lot with Western Indian Ocean countries from South Africa all the way up the east coast of Africa.
We are well into the UN Ocean Decade and the 2030 drive to protect the oceans, which cannot be a box-ticking exercise. We have to move beyond the blue team wanting to conserve the oceans and industry hitting back that they dont like what we are presenting. Its a constant fight instead of working as one team. The ocean environment is screaming for collaboration and hopefully this can be achieved.
Professor Amanda Lombard holds the SARChI Chair in Marine Spatial Planning at Nelson Mandela University and is lead author of a seminal article Principles for transformative ocean governance, published on 7 September in the leading international journal, Nature Sustainability.
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Threats on the high seas and the Pak-Saudi partnership – Arab News Pakistan
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Nasim al Bahar naval exercises between Pakistan and the Royal Saudi navies are three decades old now and performed every two years, alternating between the two countries. The latest exercise in this series concluded in the Kingdom city of Al Jubail this month. This three-day bilateral exercise was divided in two parts, on shore activities and sea exercises involving ships and aircraft. Bilateral defense co-operation is however, not confined to the navies alone. In fact a couple of weeks ago a joint anti-terrorism army exercise was conducted in the army special forces center at Cherat.
The bulk of the earth is covered by the oceans. For Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, territorial waters are important as they are the cheapest and most practical channels for commercial activities. While Saudi Arabia exports its oil overseas through tankers, Pakistan gets its oil and gas through its ports. The safe and smooth transport of energy resources is not only important for the Kingdom and Pakistan, but indeed the entire world. Therefore, ever vigilant navies, jointly working to secure international waters, are a global necessity.
Threats at sea are broadly divided into two categories; traditional and non- traditional. Traditional threats originate from the states perceived as antagonistic. It is necessary to correctly assess enemy capabilities and plans. Preparations to defend territorial waters and ports can be sound only if the threat perception is correct.
Nasim al Bahar has not only contributed to bilateral security but also enhanced regional peace and future prosperity.
- Javed Hafeez
Earlier this year, Pakistan hosted a multi-national naval exercise called Aman 2023. It was attended by 50 naval contingents from around the globe, including Saudi Arabia. It amply depicted that both the Kingdom and Pakistan accord high importance to securing not only their own territorial waters but the high seas as well. Global prosperity and resultant economic activity is beneficial to all nations. And of the three forces, naval international co-operation is more in vogue now. Combined Task Forces (CTF) 150 , 151 and 152 , stationed in the Gulf are proof of that.
Non-traditional threats on the high seas have also proliferated in recent years. These include piracy, human, drug and arms smuggling. Nations have to guard against illegal fishing in their territorial waters. Similarly, vigilance is essential against nuclear waste dumping. Ecosystems in the oceans and seas have to be safeguarded. All these aspects are regularly discussed at Pak-Saudi naval exercises.
Pakistan Navy ships Saif, Dehshat, Himmat and Muhafiz sailed to Al Jubail especially for these exercises. Marines from both sides also participated. Helicopters for rescue operations were provided by the Royal Saudi Air Force. Seminars and workshops were held to discuss and hone tactical procedures. Special co-ordination meetings were held to discuss and decide the details of the exercise. As soon as the harbor phase endes, sailors and marines are readying themselves for sea activities.
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have long coastlines and important ports. The Kingdom has the port of Dammam on the Gulf and Jeddah on the Red Sea, apart from five other major ports. Pakistan has major ports of Karachi, Bin Qasim and Gwadar on a 700 km long coastline. Foolproof security around these ports and in their territorial waters is essential for the two countries. Their bilateral naval cooperation is also built around this imperative and, therefore, assumes strategic dimension.
The main aim of such exercises is to enhance the interoperability of two forces not using identical ships, arms and equipment. They also afford an opportunity to test new arms and equipment in a real time war situation. Seminars and workshops are good occasions not only to learn much needed technical skills but also share their experiences about the tackling of traditional and non- traditional threats and challenges. Over and above, the soldiers develop mutual bonhomie. And increasing cooperation between two navies further cements the already brotherly ties.
This is eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Both countries have faced threats of various kinds in their territorial waters and beyond. The sea lanes in our region will assume great importance as trade between China, GCC and Africa picks up via the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The Pakistani port of Gwadar will play a pivotal role in that scenario. Regional ports will become busier hubs of economic and commercial activity.
Only a secure and stable polity can achieve economic prosperity. And general prosperity is the best anecdote to extremism. Nasim al Bahar 14 has also been called Daraa al Bahar which means shield of the sea. It is necessary to enhance naval defense in order to keep security threats away from the land. Security and prosperity have a symbiotic relationship. Nasim al Bahar has not only contributed to bilateral security but also enhanced regional peace and future prosperity.
-Javed Hafeez is a former Pakistani diplomat with much experience of the Middle East. He writes weekly columns in Pakistani and Gulf newspapers and appears regularly on satellite TV channels as a defense and political analyst. Twitter: @JavedHafiz8
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China Wants to Burn Out Southeast Asian Navies – Foreign Policy
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Chinas naval pressure campaign against rival nations in the South China Sea has reached unprecedented heights since yearly short-term moratoriums on fishing were lifted, with Chinese ships shadowing Western warships in the region and seeking to interrupt maritime resupply on a submerged, Philippine-claimed island.
Chinas naval pressure campaign against rival nations in the South China Sea has reached unprecedented heights since yearly short-term moratoriums on fishing were lifted, with Chinese ships shadowing Western warships in the region and seeking to interrupt maritime resupply on a submerged, Philippine-claimed island.
The Peoples Liberation Army Navys ongoing blockade of the Second Thomas Shoal, a submerged reef thats part of the Spratly Island chain in the West Philippine Sea, has become a rallying point for Southeast Asian countries concerned about Chinas harassment of smaller nations on the high seas. In early August, the Philippines accused Chinese vessels of firing water cannons at its Coast Guard ships as they attempted to resupply the reef.
It was a major display of force by China, including six large Coast Guard ships and four naval vessels. It looked to be a calculated show of force by China, said Ray Powell, the director of SeaLight, a Stanford University project focused on Chinas maritime gray zone activities. It looked like China was trying to send the Philippines a message that playtime is over. Were bringing in the big guns.
China basically claims almost all of the South China Sea, asserting indisputable sovereignty over the Spratly Islands, the Paracel Islands, and the Scarborough Shoal via a so-called nine-dash line ringing the sea. While those claims are disputed by almost every other country in the region, including Taiwan, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, China has spent more than a decade creating facts on the ground by artificially enhancing atolls and reefs, turning them into airfields and ports.
The crisis, which has been ongoing since Chinese authorities lifted their annual fishing moratorium in mid-August, has seen Peoples Liberation Army-backed maritime militia forces actively blocking Philippine Coast Guard resupply vessels from landing on the shoal, where the Philippines periodically needs to resupply the BRP Sierra Madre, a World War II-era U.S.-made tank landing ship. Manila ran the Sierra Madre aground on top of the submerged reef in 1999 to help support its legal claim to it.
Its not the first recent maritime flare-up between Chinese and Philippine sailors. Even during the administration of the mercurial former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who sought to strengthen relations with Beijing and threatened to boot a rotating presence of U.S. troops from the archipelago, Manila filed a formal diplomatic protest in 2021, when more than 200 Chinese fishing boats laid anchor at the disputed Whitsun Reef in the Spratly chain. The Philippines also sought arbitration at the Hague over the territorial dispute with China in the sea in 2016.
But with new Philippine President Bongbong Marcos in power and taking a more hawkish tack toward China, the tensions have kicked up another notch. Through the summer, China repositioned large portions of its maritime militia forces to operate out of Mischief Reef, according to Powell. Mischief, an atoll in the South China Sea that has been developed by Beijing and armed with anti-aircraft missiles, isabout 25 miles from Second Thomas Shoal.
China also buttressed those militias with more forces near Sabina Shoal, another disputed shoal, and Thitu Island, the second-largest of the Spratlys. And its not just shadowing and water cannons; China has also fired blinding lasers to daze Philippine vessels at least twice this year.
And Manila has dusted off Vietnams playbook from 2014, when Chinese vessels harassed Hanois navy over an oil rig dispute in the South China Sea, by naming and shaming China directly. When it comes to international relations, anything that you publicize that has a reputational cost for China, hits a nerve with the Chinese, Philippine Coast Guard spokesman Commodore Jay Tarriela told Bloomberg in August.
The push against Second Thomas Shoal is also a sign to experts that Chinas navy can more effectively sustain itself at sea from disputed islands in the South China Sea. And just as Chinas air force has used constant incursions into Taiwans air defense identification zone as a tactic to burn out Taipeis pilots, it is using the pressure campaign at sea to exhaust Philippine forces.
They couldnt really flex their muscles against the Filipinos, the Malaysians, [and] the Indonesians until after they built up the islands in the South China Sea, and thats really why they did that, said Brent Sadler, a senior research fellow for naval warfare and advanced technology at the Heritage Foundation and a former U.S. naval attach in Malaysia. Now they can keep those cutters and those patrol boats and fishing boats out there a lot more frequently [and] actually start to wear down the Malaysian and Filipinos just because they can keep a constant presence where the other guys dont have as many platforms.
And the more that China uses Coast Guard and maritime militia forces to harass the Philippine and other regional navies, the more routine Chinas aggressive posture becomes. The Chinese just keep coming at them and messing with them, Sadler said. It becomes like a new normal. Chinese military strategists believe that under the constant pressure, the United States would go away rather than continue to contest its maritime control.
Even with the Philippines adamant that it will continue to resupply the sunken reef despite Chinese harassment, experts are worried that the Biden administration needs a longer-term solution to the recurring crisis, which has bedeviled the last three U.S. administrations.
The Philippines and the U.S. are going to have to come up with a solution for Second Thomas Shoal, said Powell. Because otherwise, time and the elements will solve it for them, and at that point, China will just own the shoal.
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Sea of Thieves Will Have to Face the Reaper Sooner or Later – GameRant
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After years of working on Kinect Games and the Viva Pinata series, no one really knew what to expect from Rare. It seemed like the studio was very far from its glory days, which the release of the nostalgia-filled Rare Replay only further cemented. However, things quickly changed with the surprise announcement of Sea of Thieves, and the studio has not really looked back since.
While it is not a perfect game, Sea of Thieves has seemingly kicked off a new era for this iconic studio. It not only felt like an extremely unique multiplayer experience, but it also served as one of the earliest selling points for Xbox Game Pass. Rare has since focused much of its resources on expanding this title and whisking players away on brand-new journeys across the high seas. It is impressive just how far the game has come, yet that will likely not last forever. While Sea of Thieves will not close tomorrow, there will come a time when players must take one final voyage across its oceans.
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Upon release, Sea of Thieves was a bit lackluster. While the visuals and ship combat were fun, the rest of the game felt rather bland. There was no real form of progression, the gameplay felt like a series of rinse-and-repeat scenarios, and there was not much to do within its massive world. It may have been a unique experience, but that uniqueness could only take the game so far. Instead of abandoning the project, Rare committed to improving upon it.
Since release, Sea of Thieves has gotten countless updates that have expanded the game in new ways. New collectibles are frequently added along with new factions, new mission types, new time-limited events, and various other goodies. Originally, the studio was releasing massive new updates every single month, which gave players a reason to keep logging back in for more. In 2020, the studio shifted to a seasonal model with new content every three months, and that seems to have mostly paid off.
Sea of Thieves has gone through a ton of changes since release, making it feel like a vastly different game. It has even featured crossover stories from Pirates of the Caribbean and Lucasfilm Games' Monkey Island series, along with cosmetics from all sorts of different Microsoft franchises. All of this has helped create one of the best pirate games around, which has built an audience of over 30 million players as of June 2022. It seems like there is no stopping this multiplayer game as the studio has plans for the next five years, but no live-service game can last forever.
While Sea of Thieves' last days are likely a ways away, there will come a time when the game must close its doors. Already, Rare has had to cut off support for the PvP Arena mode because players were just not playing it. The game has also been going on for five years now, so naturally players will end up finding new games to play. On top of that, the game's 10th season had to be delayed, some players have become aggravated by cheaters, the newer content has not been engaging enough, and there is still no interesting form of progression outside of cosmetics.
Sea of Thieves is still going strong, and it likely will be for years to come. But if the playerbase gets bored with its content, then it will no longer buy its microtransactions. If there is no income stream, then Rare will not be able to keep updating the game with new content. With no new content, players will likely fall off in droves with only the diehard ones sticking around. Even if it does not seem like it, every online game has its expiration date, and Sea of Thieves' day may come sooner than some players realize.
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Massive MGM and Caesars Hacks Epitomize a Vicious … – WIRED
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The casino and hotel company MGM Resorts has dealt with widespread system outages and service disruptions at its properties in Las Vegas and elsewhere this week following a cyberattack that the company has been scrambling to contain. Meanwhile, Caesars Entertainment said in a United States regulatory filing on Thursday that it suffered a recent data breach in which many of its loyalty program members' Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers were stolen, along with other personal data.
The two high-profile incidents have drawn scrutiny this week, with MGM customers reporting sporadic keycard issues in the company's hotels, slot machines gone dark, ATMs out of order, and other difficulties staying at MGM properties and cashing out winnings. After Bloomberg broke the news on Wednesday about the Caesars breach, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that Caesars had paid roughly half of the $30 million its attackers demanded in exchange for a promise that they wouldn't release stolen customer data. While both are significant, experts emphasize that the fallout from this pair of prominent hacks fits into a broader context of ransomware attacks as a ubiquitous, unrelenting, and inveterate threat.
The recent spate of casino hacks exemplifies a larger cycle in which certain cyberattacks bring a lot of attention to digital threats and even spur governments to act. Ultimately, ransomware and data extortion attacks settle into the background again, even as they continue to wreak havoc and impact vulnerable populations.
Attacks against casinos are dramatic and draw attention. We have whole movie and TV franchises about casino heists, says Lesley Carhart, director of incident response at the industrial-control security firm Dragos. Still, a lot of life-impacting attacks on critical infrastructure and health care occur far less visibly, and therefore, they aren't an easy draw for mass media. I do not think this is an issue with cybersecurity or even media in its entiretyit is a human psychology issue. We've had that problem for a long time in the industrial-control system cybersecurity space where attacks could really mean life or death, but are not a great story.
An affiliate of the notorious ransomware group Alphv, a Russia-based gang that is also known as BlackCat, claimed responsibility this week for the MGM attack. The group denied involvement in the Caesars hack. Casinos have long been a target for attackers because they make a lot of money, hold potentially valuable customer data, and historically haven't always been well secured. MGM itself suffered a breach in 2019 in which more than 10.6 million hotel customers had their data stolen and ultimately published online by hackers.
But Alphv is known for being a prolific and ruthless attacker even when its hacks aren't garnering constant coverage and discussion. As many cybercriminals do when they are looking to extort money from victims, the gang has targeted health care organizations and other critical institutions that hold sensitive data. Alphv has even been known to release samples of stolen data, like intimate and graphic medical photos, in an attempt to pressure targets into paying their ransom.
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Global betting and iGaming show SBC Summit Barcelona kicks off today, with around 15,000 delegates from across the world expected to take part at the Fira de Barcelona Montjuc.
Running from 19 to 21 September, SBC Summit Barcelona will see industry figures discuss the latest developments in sports betting and iGaming in global markets, as well as the technological advancements redefining the industry. In total, the conference agenda will include 80 hours of content plus an expansive exhibition floor showcasing the latest products from over350 brands, and numerous networking opportunities.Delegates will be able to familiarise themselves and engage with a plethora of the hottest game releases, technologies and the latest products and services on offer.
This year, SBC has doubled the size of its exhibition floor to accommodate exhibitor demand, with the area now encompassing an impressive38,000 square meters.
To ensure smooth navigation across the summit, the floor space has been divided intofivedistinct zones, each dedicated to a specific industry vertical:Sports Betting,Casino & iGaming,Payments & Compliance,Affiliate, Media & MarketingandEmerging Tech.
As an addition to this years exhibition floor, attendees will have the opportunity to engage in industry meet-ups. Delegates can choose to join various meet-ups, including theGlobal Gaming Women Breakfast,Meet the Affiliates, and thePayment Expert meet-up. Additionally, there will be a range of region-specific meet-ups, such as those focused on theUS and Canada,Latin America and Brazil,Africa,Germany,ItalyandSpain.
Each of the zones will feature networking areas and conference stages. In addition to the five zone-specific stages, there will be two additional conference rooms hosting the following tracks:Leadership(Day 1) andGlobalGaming(Day 2) on Stage 1 andSponsorship, Marketing & Data(Day 1) andPlayerProtection(Day 2) on Stage 4.
Throughout the event, the delegates seeking to broaden their understanding of critical industry issues will gain access to an extensive programme spread acrossseven stagesand encompassing 14 distinct conference tracks. Discussions will revolve around a diverse array of topics including global market opportunities, sports betting and casino innovation, cutting-edge technologies revolutionising the industry, iGaming trends, affiliate marketing trends, and everything in between.
The strong line-up of450of the industrys brightest experts includes two exclusive keynote panels featuring pioneering tech authority and best-selling authorMatthew Ball, as well as Flutter International CEO,Daniel Taylor.
The speaker list also includes notable personalities such asJesper Svensson(CEO Operations Betsson Group),Gustaf Hagman(CEO & Co-Founder LeoVegas Group),Paris Smith(Advisor, Pinnacle Sports),Fabio Schiavolin(CEO, Snailtech),Fredrik Wastenson(CEO, Svenska Spel),Maarja Prt(CEO, Yolo Group),Alexander Martin(CEO, SKS365),Sam Sadi(CEO, LiveScore Group),Jesper Soegaard(CEO & Co-founder Better Collective),Francesco Postiglione(CEO Casumo Holdings Ltd),Livia Troise (CEO, Betmais)and more.
This years summit will introduce an exciting addition to the agenda:30themed roundtable discussions. Each table will be overseen by an expert moderator and cover eithercritical industry topicsor some of themost promising global markets, in a unique format designed to promote active engagement and interactive problem-solving.
Rasmus Sojmark,CEO & Founder of SBC, said, The team have spent a vast amount of time implementing last years feedback, and therefore there are a multitude of new additions to this years summit for delegates to experience. Whether it is the exciting festival zone or the roundtable sessions, we hope to continue our journey of facilitating an environment that spurs collaboration, discussion and growth within the industry.
In the evening, the delegates with full event access will be given the chance to visit some of the hottest venues in Barcelona and network with the industry elite in a relaxed, lavish and most importantly, fun environment.
Evening networking events include theOfficial Opening PartySponsored by Endorphina, held at the iconic Fira, Plaa de lUnivers on 19 September, theOfficial Networking Party, taking place at the Pasha & Opium on 20 September and theOfficial Closing Party,bringing the event to a close at the Ikibana Sarri on 21 September.
This yearsSBC Awards 2023ceremony, which celebrates the industrys finest, will take place at the iconicCaves Codornu, the oldest and leading cava company in Spain. The ceremony will take place onThursday 21 September and will be hosted byKirsty Gallacher and football legend Clarence Seedorf.
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Woman wins $1,000 from slot machine on her 106th birthday and … – Upworthy
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A woman who marks her birthday every year at a Milwaukee casino had quite the stroke of luck this time around. On her whopping 106th birthday, Serafina Papia Peterson hit it big by winning a $1,000 jackpot at the Potawatomi Casino Hotel. All of a sudden, we see jackpot, and we looked down and she had pressed 400 by accident instead of the 50, and the jackpot was over $1,000, Petersons niece, Marge Larson, told CBS affiliate WDJT-TV. However, that's not all, the centenarian, who has lived her entire life in the Milwaukee area, was in for a bigger surprise when the casinos CEO, Dominic Ortiz, doubled her winnings, reports KOAT. "We've welcomed Sarah every year for her birthday and are grateful that she and her family celebrate with us," Ortiz said. "We were all elated when we heard about her big win and wanted to make her 106th birthday even more special."
For her birthday, the casino paid tribute to her on Facebook, writing, "We would like to wish Serafina a very happy 106th birthday! We were surprised and elated to see our friend with her sparkly balloons in Potawatomi Marketplace today. Serafinas loved ones shared that they come to Potawatomi Hotel and Casino as a group for her birthday every year. Thank you for sharing your special day with us and good luck."
Peterson absolutely enjoyed her special day as she donned a celebratory sash and reminisced about the joy in her lifeparticularly, her dog, Happy. I want to live for my dog, hes not a dog, hes a person, she told WDJT-TV. He takes good care of me.
Peterson never would have guessed that she would live to the age of 106, and she is quite happy with the jackpot shes hit in life. In fact, she looks back at her life with no regrets. "I lived a good life, you know," Peterson said. "I didn't drink, I didn't smoke, I didn't go to the tavern. I just lived a good life. I took good care of myself."
The senior attended Milwaukees Lincoln High School and retired from American Motors in 1977. She attributed her long life to being surrounded by loved ones and family members as well as her adorable pooch Happy, of course. They take good care of me. Thats what means a lot. That they love me, Peterson told CBS 58. Everybody loves me and I love them too. And I also love my little dog.
As for what she is going to do with her winnings, she's still undecided. "I'm happy to win this money," Peterson said. "I don't know what I'm going to do with it, but I'm going to make a good choice." As for what she is going to do with her winnings, she's still undecided. "I'm happy to win this money," Peterson said. "I don't know what I'm going to do with it, but I'm going to make a good choice."
The chances of hitting the jackpot are pretty slim so it's amazing that the 106-year-old found some luck to win. Earlier this year, Geraldine Gimblet of Lakeland, Florida, took out her life savings to take care of her daughter during her cancer battle and ended up winning a $2 million jackpot. The 74-year-old told Good Morning America that she is a longtime lottery player. "Ive been scratching for a long time. Every single day, I bring these Scratch-offs in my pockets." Her daughter was equally shocked telling the outlet, "It was truly amazing. It was a blessing."
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Finland’s gaming licence and the future of MGA casinos – Times of Malta
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In Finland, gambling is currently undergoing significant changes as the country is planning to transition to a new open licensing system. In practice, what lies ahead is a process like what Sweden underwent a few years ago.
Discussing gambling in Finland, one cannot ignore the monopoly status of the Finnish gambling company Veikkaus and the challenges and opportunities it presents. However, recent discourse has increasingly shifted towards a new licensing system that could revolutionize the gambling experience for Finns.
The Finnish government programme has outlined that the new open licence model would come into effect on January 1, 2026. In this open licence model, the Finnish gambling market would open not just for Veikkaus but also for other operators. The Finnish gambling authority would then benefit from licensing fees and taxes.
The government's new direction to dismantle Veikkaus' monopoly and adopt a licensing system is a significant step towards a more open and competitive gaming market. This paves the way for foreign operators, such as those previously offering services to Finland under a Maltese licence.
Maltese online casinos have been crucial for Finnish players. Often located in Malta and operating under the Malta Gaming Authority, these casinos offer Finns a wide range of games, bonuses, and other benefits. Casinos operating from Malta, Estonia, and Curacao have become so popular in Finland that, according to estimates, over half of all money spent ends up with these gaming companies instead of the Finnish monopoly.
Sweden serves as an example of how a licensing system can operate. There, casinos must obtain a Swedish gaming licence to offer their services to Swedish players. With a similar model, the Finnish government could take a significant role in regulating both domestic and foreign online casino operations.
The purpose of the licensing model is that all companies offering gambling services to Finland would apply for a Finnish gaming licence. However, the question arises: how will the operations of Maltese casinos in Finland be regulated?
Several potential scenarios exist. The most radical would be blocking Finnish citizens' access to online casinos without an official Finnish gambling licence. Alternatively, the government might focus on blocking money transfers, which currently happens for foreign casinos. A third option is the emergence of a parallel market, where Finnish players could continue to use the services of online casinos operating under a Maltese licence.
Faced with these changes, MGA casinos stand at a crossroads. The Finnish market is appealing, but the terms and conditions of the licensing system could determine how many casinos will apply for a Finnish gaming licence.
The stringency of the licensing system is another significant unknown. The stricter the terms and constraints, the fewer casinos might see operating in the Finnish market as worthwhile, potentially impacting the tax revenue from the gaming sector.
It's expected that the Finnish licensing system and its surrounding legislation will be relatively strict. Most likely, advertising by casinos will be significantly limited by law. It's presumed that all major gaming operators will apply for the official Finnish licence, given the valuable Finnish player market. Smaller operators' actions in this new environment remain uncertain. Some smaller casino operators might initially stand by and observe the situation.
With the new gaming licence, one cannot overlook the role of affiliates or marketing partners. Websites like Kasinoseta.com have been crucial in bringing players to different online casinos.
In the Netherlands, strict regulations have been imposed on affiliates. For instance, they must ensure that over 95% of site visitors are over 24 years old. If Finland were to adopt similar rules, it could significantly impact affiliates' operations in the Finnish gambling market.
It's still unclear what marketing restrictions the Finnish gaming licence will entail. However, it's almost certain that affiliate marketing sites operating in Finland will face some form of regulation.
Affiliates in the gaming industry have operated without regulation as targeting gambling advertising towards Finland is prohibited. There are plenty of Finnish-language sites, but they operate from other countries and don't technically market their services to Finland.
Affiliates have played a significant role in marketing MGA casinos, especially since advertising services in Finland is challenging or nearly impossible. The role of affiliates is likely to decrease in the future if gaming companies with a Finnish licence gain more advertising options.
With the licensing change in Sweden, advertising restrictions decreased significantly. Advertisements for old MGA casinos with a new Swedish licence and other foreign gaming operators began appearing on television, billboards, and at sporting events. The popular casino and betting company Unibet became the official sponsor of Allsvenskan, Sweden's top-tier men's football league.
If advertising restrictions in Finland were removed or significantly relaxed, it could pave the way for extensive collaboration between of new gambling licence holders and Finnish elite sports.
Such a partial or full liberalization of advertising could have positive effects on, for example, Finland's sports market. With gaming companies becoming sponsors of sports teams and leagues, much more funding and resources would enter the sports market, potentially leading to higher standards of sports.
The Finnish gaming market has been grappling with change due to the dismantling of Veikkaus' monopoly and the potential introduction of a licensing system. This shift opens opportunities for foreign operators, such as MGA casinos, but also brings many challenges.
With the licensing model, Finland's gaming market could become more open and competitive, allowing both domestic and foreign online casinos to operate in the country.
The position of MGA casinos will be defined based on the conditions and restrictions the new licensing system imposes. It remains an open question whether MGA licenced casinos will be able to continue offering games to the Finnish audience after the new Finnish gambling licence system is implemented.
For comparison, in Sweden, players are allowed to access international MGA sites that are global and fully in English, if those sites do not actively market towards the Swedish audience.
At the same time, affiliates, who are essential marketing partners, may have to adapt to the new market situation.
One significant change could also be a relaxation in advertising regulations, which might increase collaboration between old MGA casinos with a new Finnish gambling licence and Finnish elite sports.
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The A.V. Club’s AI-Generated Articles Are Copying Directly From IMDb – Futurism
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When the iconic entertainment site The A.V. Club started publishing AI-generated articles earlier this summer at the directive of its owner, G/O Media, the backlash was intense.
"The A.V. Club used to be a benchmark for pop culture writing on the net and now it's a private equity ghost town pumping out AI generated listicles," wrote film journalist Luke Dunne. "MST3K" writer Tammy Golden called the move "sickening."
Amid the fallout, G/O editorial director Merrill Brown sent out an internal memo instructing staff to ignore the criticism.
"Several of us are very familiar with this kind of chatter as it's part of an inevitable media industry feedback loop that comes with the advance of new technologies like the Internet in the nineties and more recently the widespread use of streaming media technology," he wrote. "The best way to deal with industry chatter of this kind is to process it, dismiss the trivial and learn from what surfaces that's thoughtful and of real value."
So let's take Brown's advice and "dismiss the trivial" by going straight to the heart of all the hubbub: the AI's output.
To calibrate your expectations, here's the disclaimer that accompanies articles by the A.V. Club Bot: "This article is based on data from IMDb," it reads. "Text was compiled by an AI engine that was then reviewed and edited by the editorial staff." Its author page adds that "these stories were produced with the help of an AI engine."
You'd think that "based on" and "produced with" would imply something transformative happening a change of phrasing, a reworking in the outlet's tone, an addition of a spicy detail.
But it seems that "compiled" is doing a lot of work here. On our review, the bulk of the A.V. Club's AI-generated articles appear to be copied directly from IMDb. Not "based on," but copied verbatim.
Don't believe it? Take a look at the A.V. Club Bot's synopsis of 2003's "Young Adam," in its list of movies with NC-17 ratings.
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
And then compare that to IMDb's description:
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
Yep, that's right: every single word is exactly the same.
Let's really hammer it home. Here's the A.V. Club Bot's rundown of "Meg 2: The Trench," in its list of movies coming out in August:
A research team encounters multiple threats while exploring the depths of the ocean, including a malevolent mining operation.
You'd think they'd mention the titular shark, right? But nope. And here's IMDb's version:
A research team encounters multiple threats while exploring the depths of the ocean, including a malevolent mining operation.
Occasionally, the AI's output does slightly differ from what appears on IMDb. Here it is on "Jessica Frost," also from the list of August movies:
A young woman tries to discover why a time-traveling psychopath is after her, leading to a journey through the desert, time, space and her family's past.
And here's IMDb's, which is several words longer, yet substantively identical:
A young woman searching for the truth about why a time-traveling psychopath is after her, is thrown into a turbulent journey through the desert, time, space and her family's past.
What really foregrounds the insipidness of it all is that, in both the list of August movies and the list of NC-17 movies, there's no text beyond the lifted movie descriptions. There's no introduction to ease you in, no nod to the NC-17 rating's fascinating history or some tantalizing context about the summer's slate of releases none of the excellent writing, in other words, that's distinguished the A.V. Club's decades of exceptional work in entertainment journalism.
Still, let's give G/O credit where credit is due: mentioning the place you're copying content from is probably better than not mentioning it at all. But if G/O wants to lift content from IMDb word for word, it should say so without dressing it up in nebulous AI mystique.
In fact, it turns out that there's a deeper relationship between G/O and IMDb than is mentioned anywhere in the disclaimer. Reached with questions, both groups confirmed that G/O is licensing access to IMDb's cache of information about the movie industry.
"A/V Club [sic] licenses content from IMBD [sic]," a G/O spokesperson said in response to our questions, misspelling the names of both The A.V. Club and IMDb. "AI was used to search the massive IMBD [sic] library to cull the list that was used in the story."
That's a very vague answer, and one that unintentionally highlights the ridiculousness of the AI gold rush in media. If G/O's system is just querying IMDb's database and gluing the resulting data into a Frankenstein article, what exactly is the so-called "AI Engine" doing? What specific AI tech, if any, is the company using? From what we can tell, whatever the "AI" is doing in the A.V. Club's case could be achieved with a simple script cobbled together long before the advent of software like ChatGPT.
In response to further questions, the G/O spokesperson replied only that "our AI system leverages licensed data to recommend copy that is reviewed by editorial."
Who exactly is being served by these pasted-together collages of another site's content? It's not readers. IMDb, after all, already has its own lists of upcoming releases and NC-17 rated films made by users.
The reality, of course, is that G/O is almost certainly testing whether it can use this type of automated content to eliminate the jobs of its remaining human staffers.
It has a long history in that domain. And though G/O only began its AI experiment in July, the slow exsanguination of its excellent publications, including The Onion and Deadspin, had already begun years before. In 2019, newly appointed CEO Jim Spanfeller promised there would be no layoffs after private equity firm Great Hill Partners took over the company. Less than a week later, Spanfeller fired 25 employees.
This past June, in fact, Spanfeller gutted another 13 staffers just weeks before G/O would publish its first AI article at Gizmodo, an error-riddled listicle about Star Wars. And just last month, G/O sacked the staff of Gizmodo's Spanish-language site, replacing them with an AI system that automatically translates its English articles. (The translated articles quickly turned out to be filled with sloppy mistakes.)
As upsetting as it is, none of this should be surprising. Generative AI's inroads into the journalism industry has already frequently preceded human casualties.
The tech outlet CNET, which was one of the first prominent news sites to start publishing AI-generated content late last year, laid off half its news and video teams after its disastrous foray into the tech. A few months later, Insider followed suit with its own one-two punch of pivoting to AI and culling humans. And so did BuzzFeed, which shuttered its entire news operation in favor of AI-generated quizzes and articles.(All three publishers claimed the experiments with AI were unrelated to the layoffs.)
The results for readers have been poor. AI-generated articles from CNET and other Red Venture owned outlets were found to be filled with factual errors. Men's Journal butchered health claims in its first AI-generated piece. And an AI used by USA Today's owners couldn't even report fill-in-the-blank sports results properly.
Yet media bosses like Spanfeller and Brown remain unfazed, either genuinely believing AI's hype or perfidiously trying to conciliate their backers with shiny, sci-fi sounding tech that they don't understand. Or maybe they're just content with AI being a sort of muddyification filter of what boils down to copy-paste jobs even when it doesn't say anything original, and merely gives the impression that it does, hence the load-bearing "based on" in the A.V. Club Bot's disclaimer.
One thing is clear, and should've been clear from the beginning: these AIs, at least for now, simply can't do a writer's job.
Maybe the leadership at G/O is starting to notice. Almost two weeks into September, the A.V. Club Bot still hasn't followed up its list of August film releases with one for the new month.
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