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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain After Ukraine was invaded in February 2022, countries and major corporations around the world quickly responded by trying to inflict financial pain on Russia through economic sanctions. As Putin's war rages on, opinions vary as to how effective those sanctions have been. But their enforcement shows how they are still…

Live Nation Entertainment revealed Friday that concert attendance jumped by 20% in 2023 — the year global pop sensations Beyoncé and Taylor Swift launched their blockbuster greatest-hits tours.The Beverly Hills-based ticket vendor and concert promoter also noted in its latest earnings report that ticket sales were up 30%, with more than 620 million tickets sold by Ticketmaster bringing in nearly $36 billion. In 2023 alone, more than 145 million people attended upwards of 50,000 live events, the company reported.All of…

U.S. health insurance giant UnitedHealth Group said Thursday in a filing with government regulators that its subsidiary Change Healthcare was compromised likely by government-backed hackers. In a filing Thursday, UHG blamed the ongoing cybersecurity incident affecting Change Healthcare on suspected nation state hackers but said it had no timeframe for when its systems would be back online. UHG did not attribute the cyberattack to a specific nation or government, or cite what evidence it had to support its claim. A…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Canada is a suburban nation, not only because of consumer preferences, but also because of federal government policy in the years following the Second World War. Most post-war population growth in Canada was in the suburbs, with two-thirds of people living there in 2021, according to my research team's analysis of the…

At this point, it doesn’t really matter whether Fulton County Dist. Atty. Fani Willis benefited financially from her relationship with Nathan Wade, the outside prosecutor she hired to help oversee the election interference racketeering case against former President Trump and 18 others, several of whom have already pleaded guilty.After watching her testify for nearly two hours on Thursday, I think she made a convincing case that she did not. If anything, she spent more money on him than he did on her.But by engaging in a…

This year’s Academy Award nominees for best original song include previous winners — Billie Eilish/Finneas, Jon Batiste, Mark Ronson/Andrew Wyatt — and a songwriter with a record-making 15th nomination, honorary Oscar recipient Diane Warren.  The fifth nominee? An Osage Nation tribal member who works as a housing director accommodating low-income Native Americans and is also a skilled musician who has spent 40 years performing Osage ceremonial dances.  Scott George scored a nom for composing…

We often hear about nation-state hackers being behind cyberattacks, but those nation-states aren’t always named in security reports. When it comes to ChatGPT and Copilot abuse, Microsoft and OpenAI are going about security differently. In a pair of blog posts, the two AI partners on ChatGPT tech have named all the usual suspects you’d expect to target the US and other democracies with the help of generative AI services like ChatGPT. Hacker groups from Russia, North Korea, Iran, and China (twice) appear in the…

Concerns amongst a community in the US have risen amidst a proposed multi-million dollar monkey breeding facility for medical research, with people fearing potential environmental hazards, disease spread, and escapes, despite the company’s assurances of safety and economic benefits.Local officials in Bainbridge, Georgia, USA, recently approved a start-up’s plan to build one of the largest monkey breeding facilities in the nation, worth $396 million, with a capacity of holding approximately 30,000 monkeys – double…

Madonna’s management team and the concert promoter Live Nation have said it will “vigorously” defend a lawsuit stating that the star harmed fans with a late start to the New York City concerts of her Celebration tour, Billboard reports.Last week, two fans proposed a class action lawsuit against the pop star, 65, for allegedly starting her three shows at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn two hours later than planned, which they claim breached her contract with concertgoers who “had to get up early to go to work” the next…

Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This weekly newsletter is part of a CBC News initiative entitled "Our Changing Planet" to show and explain the effects of climate change. Keep up with the latest news on our Climate and Environment page.Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Thursday.This week: Electric garbage trucks clean up in a variety of ways Hot enough for ya? 2023 shattered planetary heat records Carbon offsets are helping protect B.C.'s Great Bear Rainforest. Is that sustainable?…