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California is bracing for flooding as a so-called atmospheric river delivers a glancing blow to the south of the state, before moving across northern Mexico into the U.S. Southwest this weekend. Coastal flood warnings and advisories are up through Friday …

Before the sun rose on Oct. 5, a school bus carrying students to Winter Haven High School in Central Florida was clipped by an oncoming car. The impact sent the bus into oncoming traffic, where it collided head-on with another …

Four months after two Florida men were charged with operating a sham insurance company and a month after regulators ordered them to cease operations, the two have been indicted on federal fraud and money laundering charges. A federal grand jury …

Insurance broker Aon and SAGE, an agricultural risk intelligence company, are launching a crop insurance program in the U.S. they say will assess agricultural risk more accurately and help price insurance more effectively. The program uses artificial intelligence to combine …

An independent Hong Kong committee blamed a renovation contractor and consultant as well as four government departments for a deadly blaze that killed 168 people in the city last November, according to its report released to the public on Thursday. …

Some of Canada’s biggest banks are moving to restrict third-party artificial intelligence agents such as Meta Platform Inc.’s Muse from accessing their banking systems, citing security and liability risks. Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s largest lender, sent a message …

Chinese firm Z.AI’s flagship AI model carried out complex cyberattacks in controlled simulations and repeatedly ignored instructions in separate tests, according to a report by AI security research firm Irregular. The GLM-5.3 model successfully completed 3 of 13 multi-stage cyberattack …

Self-driving trucking company Aurora Innovation Inc. expects to fall short of its production target for this year but said it’s on track to recover for 2027. Aurora said supplier issues caused constraints and the company won’t meet its goal of …

Finnish police said on Thursday they have launched a criminal investigation into suspected breaches of environmental law at the construction site of a planned Google data center in northern Finland. The project is part of a plan announced last month …

Barclays Plc is looking to buy default protection on more than $10 billion of debt to finance artificial intelligence infrastructure in a bid to create capacity for more lending as hyperscaler funding needs soar. The London-based lender has been assessing …

Three bodies were recovered in Gabon on Wednesday following the sinking at the weekend of Borr Drilling’s Prospector 5 rig off the coast of the southern town of Mayumba, the Central African country’s navy said. The accident occurred on Saturday …

The surge in construction of fossil-fueled power plants to run AI data centers is set to undo 15 years’ worth of greenhouse gas reductions from US electricity generation, according to an internal analysis by the Sierra Club. The US power …

The top US agency for consumer financial protection is not adequately protecting databases with large volumes of sensitive consumer and business information, potentially exposing them to hackers or theft, a watchdog report said on Oct. 28. The audit, which found …

A father and son have been charged with running an illegal “chop-shop” in Pennsylvania involving illegal titling and sales of stolen vehicles with counterfeit documents. Attorney General Dave Sunday said that Jermaine Quinones Sr., 42, and Jermaine Quinones Jr., 18, …

Columbia University has opened the window for individuals impacted by the school’s data breach last year to claim part of a $16.1 million settlement. The university agreed in September to settle a proposed class action over the incident, with affected …

The Connecticut town of East Haven is appealing a federal district court ruling that rejected its claim for insurance coverage for a civil lawsuit and $11 million judgment against it regarding the closure of a local quarry in 2017 for …

Anthropic told California Gov. Gavin Newsom that government officials should be able to seek court orders blocking the release of AI models that pose a “serious risk” to the public, according to an October 15 letter that echoed the company’s …

The U.S. government isn’t doing enough to fight the surge in cyberscams, and partnerships with the private sector remain fragmented and voluntary, an investigation into the global scam industry led by the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress has …

Root Insurance is offering personal auto insurance in Wyoming, expanding its presence to 38 states. Wyoming coverage includes liability, comprehensive and collision. Drivers can get quotes, select coverage limits and deductibles, and purchase policies online or through Root’s mobile app. …

Twenty-one US states and the District of Columbia sued President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday over its rollback of reporting requirements established under a 2021 law aimed at combating illicit finance. The Trump administration in August finalized a rule exempting …