Risk
Last Week’s Alaskan Earthquake One of Several in Recent Years
Wednesday's magnitude 7.3 earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Islands chain struck in a region that has experienced a handful of powerful quakes within the last five years — including one that shook ...
Drone Crashes, Security Threats Have States Demanding Power to Take Them Down
While authorities were desperately trying to save people from the deadly Fourth of July floods in Kerr County, Texas, a private drone collided with a search and rescue helicopter and forced it to ...
U.S. Stablecoin Law Signed as Crypto Industry Eyes Mainstream Adoption
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday signed a law to create a regulatory regime for dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies known as stablecoins, a milestone that could pave the way for the digital assets to ...
Pedestrian Deaths Dip But Still Higher Than a Decade Ago
Drivers struck and killed 7,148 people in the United States last year, enough to fill 31 Boeing 737s, according to a new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA). Pedestrian deaths ...Man Wearing Weight-Training Chain Pulled into MRI Dies
A man who was pulled into an MRI machine in New York after he walked into the room wearing a large weight-training chain around his neck has died, according to police and his wife, who told a local ...
Munich Re, CyberCube Report Warns of Growing Systemic Cyber Risk
Risks associated with systemic cyber events are no longer hypothetical scenarios but growing realities for organizations, insurers and cybersecurity professionals alike, ...
2025 Data Breaches Outpace Same Period Last Year: Report
New analysis indicates there were 1,732 publicly reported data compromises in the first half of 2025 in the U.S. — 5 percent ahead of 2024's pace, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center ...
Florida High-Tech 911 System Improves Response in Times of Weather Disasters
When an emergency happens in Collier County, Florida, the 911 calls go to one of the most high-tech communications centers in the U.S., where callers can send text and video from the scene to ...