Burton Cummings’s latest blow in his legal battle against the current lineup of the Guess Who is tarnishing the legacy of the famous Winnipeg rock band, a local music historian says — and could set the stage for similar rifts between bands and former members. The band’s ex-frontman has terminated agreements with performing-rights organizations for … Read more
Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State on Thursday declared a purported list of the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caretaker Committee members , circulating in the media, as fake. Mr Fubara disclosed this at the inauguration of the Port Harcourt International Automobile Spare Parts Trading and Commercial Centre project in Oyigbo Local Government Area of … Read more
Threats against politicians have become “increasingly normalized” due to extremist narratives prompted by personal grievances and fuelled by misinformation or deliberate lies, warns a newly released intelligence report. The report, prepared by a federal task force that aims to safeguard elections, says the Canadian violent extremist landscape has seen the proliferation of conspiracy theories, a … Read more
Former senior executives of Twitter are suing Elon Musk and X Corp., saying they are entitled to a total of more than $128 million US in unpaid severance payments. Twitter’s former CEO Parag Agrawal, chief financial officer Ned Segal, chief legal counsel Vijaya Gadde and general counsel Sean Edgett claim in the lawsuit filed Monday that … Read more
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos alleged in a lawsuit filed Saturday that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel deceived him into making videos on the Cameo app that were used to ridicule the disgraced New York Republican on the show. The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York names Kimmel, … Read more
The ‘sourdough bread’ you’re eating could very well be fake, and experts have dished out easy ways to spot the faux. On top of being a delicious savoury pairing, real sourdough bread is great for your gut. It contains prebiotics that can be thought of as food substances for the gut microbes to munch on. … Read more
Meta Platforms could penalize users who fail to label AI-generated audio and visual content posted on its platforms, its top policy executive said on Tuesday. The comments were made by Nick Clegg, the company’s president of global affairs, during an interview with Reuters. Clegg said he felt confident that technology companies could label AI-generated images reliably at … Read more
Music festival Coachella has announced their 2024 lineup, which includes Canadian acts Nav, AP Dhillon, Grimes and Blond:ish. It’s not the first time for all but one of the Canadian artists featured to have performed at the festival. Grimes — the singer-songwriter and DJ originally from Vancouver — last performed there in 2016, while rapper and singer … Read more
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Tuesday afternoon that a social media post saying it had approved a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) was false and its account had been compromised. A post on X, formerly known as Twitter, said that the SEC had granted approval for bitcoin ETFs on all registered national securities exchanges and … Read more
On a warm, blustery December afternoon outside the De Laurentis olive oil-producing co-op in the white hilltop town of Ostuni, Puglia, Luigi D’Amico holds out his palm, revealing an olive picked earlier in the day. Instead of resembling the plump, gleaming green and black fruit overflowing in bins around him, this one is half-consumed, dry … Read more
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