Several U.S. banking giants and mortgage lenders are reportedly scrambling to assess how much of their customers’ data was stolen during a cyberattack on a New York financial technology company earlier this month. SitusAMC, which provides technology for over a thousand commercial and real estate financiers, confirmed in a statement over the weekend that it…
Short videos are in high demand. Across large platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and TikTok, users are watching billions of videos every day, with companies benefiting massively from this content explosion. For creators, this often means there is pressure to create more content than ever before to be relevant and make a living out of…
[This story contains spoilers from Wicked: For Good.] In “No Good Deed,” Elphaba’s big solo number in Wicked: For Good, Cynthia Erivo is shown flying through flames and flying monkeys while belting out the spellbinding song. In reality, Erivo was doing this while singing live in a harness, with actual flames surrounding her, and being…
Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold have been here before — quite recently, in fact. The partners in life and work are back in Los Angeles for another cycle of hybrid awards-release promotion, merely a year after their film The Brutalist made the same rounds — eventually going home with three Oscars in addition to a…
A father has told the BBC he felt powerless as he witnessed gunmen on motorbikes abduct dozens of children, including his son, after storming a Catholic boarding school in northern Nigeria in the early hours of Friday. The father said he was asleep when he was awoken by the noise of the gunmen as they…
Hong Kong plays a “pivotal role” in Sino-Egyptian relations, according to top officials from the North African nation, who have expressed high hopes of boosting trade and tourism with the city through cultural exchanges. Baher Sheweikhi, Egypt’s consul general for Hong Kong and Macau, said he was confident that a nine-month exhibition at the Hong…
Hope you like hot, young, rich, sad people — because HBO’s Industry is back! Well, it’s almost back. The finance drama will return for season four on Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026 in its 9 p.m. time slot, HBO revealed on Monday with a teaser trailer (below). Per usual, Industry will simultaneously be available to stream…
Talks in Geneva between the US and Ukraine aimed at ending the war with Russia have concluded, with officials from both sides reporting “progress” and an intention to continue working. However, no details have emerged on how to bridge the considerable divide between Moscow and Kyiv over territorial issues and security guarantees for Ukraine. Ukraine’s…
Jimmy Cliff, the reggae legend and star of The Harder They Come, the 1972 movie and soundtrack that brought Jamaican music to the world, has died. He was 81. The Jamaican musician and actor died following a seizure and battle with pneumonia, his wife, Latifa Chambers, wrote Monday on Instagram. “I am thankful for his…
“Rachel really did it,” says Quenlin Blackwell. The digital creator — who boasts 12.5 million followers on TikTok and counting, plus a spot on THR‘s Creator A-list —is calling this magazine while driving over the hill in Los Angeles, on the way to audition. She’s talking about her new role on I Love LA; the…
