The FBI is investigating whether a subsidiary of the data-collection firm Alarum Technologies Ltd. had a role in linking customers’ home internet devices without their consent into a network that people can use to disguise their locations, according to documents …
The world has absorbed with surprising ease the loss of over a billion barrels of oil supply since the Iran war began, but, with long-term peace elusive and buffer reserves now drained, it still faces the looming risk of future …
Maybe it’s the result of a softer market. Or maybe deliberate carrier investments in agency relationships are paying off. First Connect Chief Executive Officer Aviad Pinkovezky tossed out the two possibilities to explain the markedly improved picture of agents’ ability …
Precious few U.S. corporations have been in business for two centuries. Among them are King Arthur Flour (1790), CIGNA (1792), Jim Beam (1795) and Brooks Brothers (1818), although the storied suit-maker entered bankruptcy proceedings in 2020 due to a plunge …
Alex Murdaugh was back in court Monday on charges he killed his wife and son, appearing silently at a pretrial hearing that was mostly short on substance but long on spectacle as the true crime sensation continues to captivate. Murdaugh’s …
As the deadly New World screwworm spreads through Texas, posing significant risk to the US cattle herd, experts are still puzzling over the mystery of how it got there. The parasite fly’s larvae, which feeds within the wounds of warm-blooded …
Whether artificial intelligence will cause mass workforce cuts over time remains up for debate, but it is starting to leave an imprint on US employment data. A decline in payrolls in the financial-activities and information sectors — where AI adoption …
The U.K.’s flood insurer of last resort is unfairly favoring wealthier households and will be reformed to reduce the burden of multimillion-pound payouts, the government said Wednesday. As part of the changes, Flood Re will lower the premiums it charges …
The insurers of the Nord Stream pipelines don’t have to pay €580 million ($662 million) after a judge ruled that the sabotage of the pipes bringing Russian gas into Europe was the consequence of the war in Ukraine. Nord Stream …
Britain’s financial regulator has been urged to consider regulation of large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini because of their growing influence on consumer financial decisions. In a review commissioned by the Financial Conduct Authority and published on …