Viewpoint: The AI Ransomware That Couldn’t Get Paid July 17, 2026 By Peter Hawley On July 1st, security researchers at Sysdig published something they had never documented before. A ransomware attack that ran from...
US Aims to Set Guardrails for Autonomous Vehicle Behavior July 17, 2026 By Amy Stillman The Trump administration is working to develop new safety requirements governing how autonomous vehicles behave on the road as the...
White House Unveils AI Clearinghouse for Cybersecurity Risks July 17, 2026 By Courtney Subramanian The Trump administration is moving to strengthen coordination on artificial intelligence cybersecurity through a new industry clearinghouse to improve the...
Americans Are Angry About Data Centers and Politicians Are Feeling the Pressure July 17, 2026 By Helen Coster and Valerie Volcovici From Michigan Avenue, Saline Township looks like any other farming community, with its corn and soybean fields, silos and grain...
New York Approves 22% Workers’ Compensation Cost Reduction July 17, 2026 New York has approved a 21.9% reduction in workers’ compensation insurance premium rates, which the state says represents an estimated...
People Moves: Gabbay Elected to CopperPoint Board of Directors July 17, 2026 CopperPoint Insurance Company elected Steve Gabbay to the CopperPoint Mutual Insurance Holding Company board of directors. Since 2009, Gabbay has...
California Rivals Have Starkly Different Plans to Remake Home Insurance July 17, 2026 By Leslie Kaufman and Michelle Ma As high temperatures bake California and strong winds make it more susceptible to fire, voters in the state are being...
Texas Contractor Fined $343K Following Excavation Collapse July 16, 2026 A U.S. Department of Labor investigation concluded that a Houston utility construction company exposed employees to safety hazards after an...
Northeast Texas Counties Work to Form Groundwater District July 16, 2026 By Jess Huff, The Texas Tribune More than a dozen East Texas counties are working to create a groundwater conservation district that would prevent over-pumping water...
In Michigan, 100K Live Downstream of Old, Decrepit Dams July 16, 2026 By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan Jonathan Korbecki was relaxing at home on the Thornapple River one rainy February night when the fire marshal knocked on...