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Italy Begins Shipping Migrants to Albania, Reviving Stalled Program
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s first attempt to have asylum seekers held for assessment overseas was immediately blocked by judges. Now another is underway.
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Sundance 2025: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Thing with Feathers, Rabbit Trap
The Premieres section is often where ticket buyers look for star power at the Sundance Film Festival, and the section included world premieres of new projects starring Rose Byrne, Dev Patel, and Benedict Cumberbatch, of varying quality about people with varying insanity. Let’s just jump into it. A24 brought a few films to Sundance this…
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Sundance Film Festival 2025: Predators, The Stringer, FOLKTALES
Sundance has long been a launchpad for the best documentaries in the world. Just this year, “Black Box Diaries,” “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat,” and “Sugarcane” worked that year-long gauntlet from Sundance bow to Oscar nominations. Don’t be surprised if at least one of these films joins that club in 12 months. Honestly, I’d be…
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Threat Actors Chained Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Service Applications
Note: The CVEs in this advisory are unrelated to vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-0282 and CVE-2025-0283) in Ivanti’s Connect Secure, Policy Secure and ZTA Gateways. For more information on mitigating CVE -2025-0282 and CVE-2025-0283, see Ivanti Releases Security Updates for Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways. Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of…
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Elon Musk, Video Game King? Well, Maybe Not.
Gaming is a big part of the billionaire’s public persona. But other players are questioning whether he has the time or the skill to be as accomplished as he claims.
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DORA Now in Force in the EU
Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 on digital operational resilience for the financial sector (“DORA”), which establishes a uniform set of requirements relating to the security of network and information systems supporting financial system participants’ business processes, is now live as of 17 January 2025, without any transitional provision….By: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
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Biden Issues Cyber Executive Order in Last Days of Term
Former President Joe Biden issued an Executive Order (EO) entitled “Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity” on January 16, 2025. The EO is designed to……By: Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider
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Claimant’s Evidence Satisfied the Three-prong Test to Support the Section 301(F) Presumption That a Firefighter’s Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Was Caused by Workplace Exposure to a Carcinogen
Borough of Hollidaysburg v. Paul Detwiler (WCAB); No. 739 C.D. 2023; Filed November 19, 2024; Judge Wolf – The claimant was a firefighter who developed chronic myeloid leukemia that was diagnosed in 2014. He learned his cancer may be related to work while attending a training seminar in 2019. At that seminar, an instructor spoke…
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Hamas Frees 4 Israeli Hostages in Exchange for Palestinian Prisoners
The hostages and 200 prisoners were released in the second swap of the Gaza cease-fire deal, which went into effect this month.
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His Opponents Sidelined, Lukashenko Is Set for a 7th Term in Belarus
President Aleksandr G. Lukashenko, a close ally of Russia’s leader, Vladimir V. Putin, has been making signs of reaching out to the West. He is all but certain to win an election on Sunday.