Comings & Goings

Stonebridge Companies, LLC, has appointed Marco Selva as senior vice president of business development & operations, Luxury & Lifestyle. With a strong track record of success in the Luxury & Lifestyle segment, Selva will focus on expanding Stonebridge’s luxury, lifestyle, and resort portfolio in the Southeastern United States, Caribbean, and Latin America. WContinue Reading

“I went to Lars’ house, and he played me the tape of Hit the Lights. I said, ‘This song sucks. You need more guitar solos’”: They forged a new sound, and in 10 years, they were the biggest band in the world

It was in Los Angeles almost 30 years ago that Lars Ulrich, a teenage tennis prodigy turned drummer, first jammed with James Hetfield, a guitarist and singer from the nearby SoCal neighborhood of Downey. At the time, a none-too-impressed Hetfield figured that first session to be their last. He was,Continue Reading

Tyler, The Creator Says He’d “Take Podcast Mics Away” If He Were President

Image Image Credit Steve Granitz / Contributor via Getty Images Image Alt Tyler, The Creator Image Size landscape-medium Tyler, The Creator wants podcast microphones gone for good. On Wednesday (Dec. 11), during his cover story with Billboard, the Grammy Award-winning musician spoke about CHROMAKOPIA, life in his 30s, and hisContinue Reading

Xsolla and StarNest start game incubator academy in Azerbijan

2024 is almost over, and Xsolla is still establishing game development academies across the world. The game commerce firm recently teamed with telecommunications firm StarNest and the Innovation and Digital Development Agency (IDDA) to create an academy and incubator program situated in Azerbijan. Beginning next year, developers, game designers, andContinue Reading

Russia takes unusual route to hack Starlink-connected devices in Ukraine

“Microsoft assesses that Secret Blizzard either used the Amadey malware as a service (MaaS) or accessed the Amadey command-and-control (C2) panels surreptitiously to download a PowerShell dropper on target devices,” Microsoft said. “The PowerShell dropper contained a Base64-encoded Amadey payload appended by code that invoked a request to Secret BlizzardContinue Reading