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Sirius Federal Notifies an Unknown Number of Consumers of Recent Data Breach
On January 19, 2024, Sirius Federal filed a notice of data breach with the Attorney General of Montana after discovering that files stored on the company’s IT network were subject to unauthorized access. In this notice, Sirius Federal explains that the incident resulted in an unauthorized party being able to access consumers’ sensitive information, which…
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U.N. Court Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide, but Does Not Demand Stop to War
The top United Nations court in The Hague did not rule on whether Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, the accusation that South Africa brought before the court.
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ICJ’s Genocide Ruling Against Israel Has Little Immediate Effect
The decision by the World Court did not order Israel to cease its war against Hamas in Gaza. But the court made a move imbued with historical meaning.
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A Child of Another War Who Makes Music for Ukrainians
Mirza Ramic, a Bosnian who sought refuge in the United States, is bringing his electronic music to Ukraine, “to show my support in these hard times.”
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Kenyan Court Blocks Deployment of Police Force to Haiti
A contingent of 1,000 Kenyan officers was intended to lead a multinational force financed by the United States to restore security in a Caribbean country terrorized by armed gangs.
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Widening Mideast Crisis: U.N. Court Orders Israel to Prevent Genocide, but Does Not Demand Stop to War
The court ruled that Israel must prevent genocidal acts by its forces. Later, the U.N. agency that aids Palestinians said it was investigating charges that some workers were involved in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
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Sundance 2024: A Real Pain, Good One, Between the Temples
The 2024 U.S. Dramatic Competition program at Sundance this year featured the expected variety of voices from the independent film scene, stories from different backgrounds, classes, races, and genders. The three films from the program in this dispatch could all be called character studies, but what’s invigorating is how wildly different these characters are, and…
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Sundance 2024: Devo, Eno, Dig! XX
Music docs have become an increasingly prominent part of the Sundance landscape, but it truly felt like the programmers for 2024 intentionally sought out films about people pushing the boundaries of the form this year. Far more than the one-hit wonder label that’s often incorrectly applied to them, Devo altered the music landscape, and not…
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American Star
“American Star” is an art house variant of the familiar story of an old hitman facing his mortality while doing what might be his last job. Filmed on the gobsmackingly gorgeous Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands, it takes a soft-spoken, slowed-down contemplative approach to the material, omitting things whenever it can, rarely depicting any situation in the obvious…
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Sundance 2024: Didi, In the Summers
The coming-of-age story has a fairly consistent structure: A young person living a difficult home life must learn to grow past certain obstacles, including possibly forgiving their parent(s), if they hope to reach maturity. Two films in Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic Competition are trying to retool the genre through different eyes. In the case of “Didi,”…
