Technology/Science
Top AI Companies Join Government Effort to Set Safety Standards
The top U.S. artificial intelligence companies will participate in a government-led effort intended to craft federal standards on the technology to ensure that it's deployed safely and responsibly, ...
Category 6? As Warming Stokes Storms, Some Want a Bigger Hurricane Category
A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6. Studies have shown ...
Chinese Hacking Campaign Aimed at Critical Infrastructure Goes Back 5 Years
An advanced group of Chinese hackers taking aim at U.S. critical infrastructure have been active for as long as half a decade, American and allied intelligence agencies said in ...
January Was World’s Hottest on Record: EU Scientists
The world just experienced its hottest January on record, continuing a run of exceptional heat fueled by climate change, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service ...
Ransomware Hackers Stole More Than $1 Billion in 2023
Ransomware gangs stole more than $1 billion in 2023, the largest amount ever recorded, according to a report published Wednesday by blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis ...
Top AI Trends for Insurers in 2024 Include Claims, Other Insurance Processes
Insurers are prepared for artificial intelligence to move beyond task automation and machine learning to advanced uses in 2024, a new report examining the industry and ...
Global Ransomware Attacks Reach Record High in 2023, Says Corvus
Despite law enforcement actions, fourth-quarter 2023 ransomware incidents still surpassed 2022 by nearly 70 percent, and the number of active ransomware groups grew by 34 percent. Corvus Insurance ...
Climate Change Drives Amazon Rainforest’s Record Drought: Study
Climate change is the main culprit for a record drought in the Amazon rainforest that has drained rivers, killed endangered dolphins and upended life for millions of people in the region, according ...
New York Proposes Guidance Governing Insurers’ Use of AI
New York State is proposing guidance for insurance carriers to prevent unfair discrimination in their use of artificial intelligence and external data sources in ...