South Korea Fines Telecoms Firm KT Corp. $37.4 Million for Personal Data Leak: Panel August 3, 2026 South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission has fined telecoms company KT Corp. 54 billion won ($37.43 million) for a leak...
NHTSA Says Some Older Ford Cars, SUVs Pose Unreasonable Safety Risks August 3, 2026 By David Shepardson The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Aug. 3 that some older Ford cars and SUVs pose unreasonable safety...
Troubled Alabama City Loses its Liability Insurance Coverage August 3, 2026 An Alabama city, long plagued with budget shortfalls, charges of corruption and a dwindling tax base, has lost its liability...
Wildfires Destroy Hundreds of Structures in Washington State August 3, 2026 By Brian K. Sullivan and María Paula Mijares Torres Hundreds of structures have been destroyed and tens of thousands of people have been evacuated, as wildfires rip through eastern...
American Family to Acquire Bowhead Specialty in $1.2B Cash Deal August 3, 2026 By Chad Hemenway American Family Mutual Insurance Co. has agreed to buy all outstanding shares of specialty insurer Bowhead Specialty Holdings Inc. for...
Plymouth Rock Launches ChatGPT for Home Insurance Quotes August 3, 2026 By Andrew G. Simpson Homeowners can now obtain insurance quotes from Plymouth Rock Home Assurance through a “natural” conversation with ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence...
Europe’s Key Rivers Are Drying Up as Extreme Heat Impact Widens August 3, 2026 By Eva Brendel, Fabrice Obrist, Joe Wertz and Zoltan Simon Europe’s biggest rivers, vital arteries for the region’s heavy industries, are drying up after the region was seared by a...
Viewpoint: Extreme Heat Increases Risk of Workplace Injuries Across Canada August 3, 2026 By Nick Turner, Julian Barling and Kaylee Somerville Heat warnings have stretched across Canada this summer, from Atlantic Canada and southern British Columbia to the Prairies, central Canada...
Amgen Reports Theft of Patient Data in Cyber Incident August 3, 2026 By John Tozzi and Madison Muller Amgen Inc. experienced a cyber incident that involved the theft of patient information and proprietary data stored in cloud servers,...
OpenAI Finds Evidence Other AI Agents Escaped Containment as it Widens Probe August 3, 2026 By Raphael Satter and Deepa Seetharaman OpenAI has discovered other instances in which autonomous agents have escaped containment as the company expands its investigation of the...