Taylor Swift becomes the youngest-ever Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, Polymarket pauses and restores trading after a third-party security breach, and Jay-Z is named the Super Bowl LXI halftime headliner.
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Taylor Swift, 36, became the youngest person ever inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on Monday night at Nashville's Music City Center. Brad Paisley inducted her, and Lainey Wilson performed a bluegrass cover of "Love Story." Lyle Lovett, Shawn Camp, Lee Thomas Miller, Bruce Channel and the late J.I. Allison were also inducted.
Prediction market Polymarket paused trading on its international platform on Thursday after a security incident at a third-party provider. Reuters reports a source named the provider as DebugBear, and the Washington Examiner reports about $2.65 million was taken from users' wallets within minutes. Trading resumed Thursday; Polymarket says it will fully reimburse affected traders and has referred the incident to U.K. law enforcement.
The NFL announced Monday that Jay-Z will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl LXI Halftime Show on Sunday, Feb. 14, 2027, at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California. His company, Roc Nation, has produced the halftime show with the NFL since 2019; this will be the first time he performs it himself.
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