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Rising Fire Risk Prompts Utilities to Deliberately Cut Power Across Western U.S.
States in the US West are grappling with an unusually warm, arid winter that is ramping up fire risk in some areas, driving utilities to take drastic precautions, including sometimes shutting off the ...
Harsher Point Values for New York Driving Violations Set to Begin Feb.16
Beginning Monday, February 16, some of the more serious traffic violations will have increased point values, according to the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles. The changes are intended to ...
Unregulated Trucking Schools Continue to Operate in California With Little Oversight: Report
When commercial truck drivers are speeding down California's highways and interstates with thousands of pounds of cargo in tow, a single mistake can be catastrophic. Yet California fails to regulate ...
Experts Say It’s Difficult to Tie AI to Layoffs
The one thing N. Lee Plumb knows for sure, after being laid off from Amazon last week, is that it wasn't a failure to get on board with the company's artificial intelligence plans. Plumb, his team's ...
Africa Holds Worst Road Safety Record, Despite Having Just 3% of Cars
A deadly car crash in Nigeria involving former heavyweight boxing champion Anthony Joshua and two minibus accidents in South Africa days apart that killed at least 25 people have underlined Africa's ...
Security Hole Found in ‘Moltbook’ Social Media Site for AI Agents
A buzzy new social network where artificial intelligence-powered bots appear to swap code and gossip about their human owners had a major flaw that exposed private data on thousands of real people, ...
Vehicle Thefts Dropped 25% in Arizona Last Year
Newly analyzed data reveal a 25% decrease in vehicle thefts within the state, according to the Arizona Automobile Theft Authority (AATA). Data compiled by the Auto Crime Tracker database shows that ...
Researchers Warn Open-Source AI Models Vulnerable to Criminal Misuse
Hackers and other criminals can easily commandeer computers operating open-source large language models outside the guardrails and constraints of the major artificial-intelligence platforms, creating ...