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• Bruno Mars shows off his sense of humor in a new social media post

• The “Treasure” singer made light of rumors that he accumulated more than $50 million in gambling debt during his Las Vegas residency

• MGM Resorts International denied the allegations, praising its working relationship with the star

Bruno Mars is making money and having a bit of fun with the rumor mill.

The “24K Magic” singer, 39, surprised fans at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Sunday, July 13, when he joined Rosé onstage to perform their hit “APT.” during BLACKPINK’s DEADLINE World Tour.

The day after the show, Mars showed off his sense of humor in an Instagram post, writing, “Almost out of debt BehhhhhBehhhhh!!! Preciate You ROSAAAAYYYYYY!!!!…

It’s understandable if the idea of having a large portion of your credit card debt forgiven sounds too good to be true. After all, in today’s still sticky inflationary climate in which the rate rose in the last two months and in which elevated interest rates are making borrowing cost-prohibitive, it may feel like there are few viable options for regaining your financial…

The 54 Collective liquidation has been provisionally ordered by a South African High Court, following allegations of serious financial misconduct and a “blatant disregard for the law” from the Mastercard Foundation. Court documents seen by Condia reveal that the misconduct relates to a $106.5 million charitable grant.

The Foundation had disbursed over $42 million to the firm, originally registered as Africa Founders Ventures NPC (AFV), across 2023 and 2024. 

The provisional liquidation order implies that an independent party will now take over the company’s affairs while the court decides if it should be permanently shut down. The court also froze more than a dozen accounts held at Nedbank, Standard Bank, and Investec, citing…

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Ransomware and data extortion attacks are unfortunately becoming
increasingly common (see for example, high profile attacks on
Canva,¹ Latitude Financial² and recently the
Legal Practice Board of Western Australia).³ These
attacks typically involve a party (commonly referred to as a
‘threat actor’) accessing and encrypting a company’s
systems, and/or exfiltrating (stealing) personal and commercially
sensitive information from the company. The threat actor then
threatens to destroy the key that would otherwise decrypt the
impacted system(s), and/or release the exfiltrated data publicly
unless its demands for payment are met.

While the identity of the threat actors, the degree and nature
of the attack including the…

You can’t get blood out of a stone, so the driver in our lives tells us, yet the industry and society (or customer(s)) seem to expect it.  

Generally, the working population can achieve at minimum a 3 per cent CPI wage increase per annum. For transport drivers, that simply doesn’t happen due to the hypocrisies of the Award system.  

Common sense tells us that when you change jobs you go to a better paying one, so then in turn the household budget is still manageable and there are no increased stresses on income. 

However, the increased cost of living…