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Columbia University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital have agreed to a $750 million settlement of hundreds of sexual abuse claims by patients of disgraced and imprisoned former gynecologist Robert Hadden, bringing total legal payouts in civil cases involving the ex-doctor to over $1 billion, according to the plaintiffs’ lawyer.Hadden, now 66, was accused of molesting patients during a decades-long career at prestigious New York City hospitals including Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian. He was convicted by a jury in 2023 of federal sex crime charges and sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.The new settlements, approved by a…

A 36-year-old Yemeni national has been charged by the United States over the ransomware attacks he allegedly launched against organizations in the US and elsewhere. The suspect, Rami Khaled Ahmed, is believed to be behind Black Kingdom ransomware attacks. Authorities said he delivered his malware to roughly 1,500 systems, including ones belonging to schools, hospitals and businesses.  He has been charged with conspiracy, intentional damage to a protected computer, and threatening damage to a protected computer.  He faces up to five years in prison for each charge. However, he is believed to be located in Yemen and it remains to…

ZestyAI, a leading provider of AI-powered risk analytics for the insurance sector, has received regulatory approval from the Ohio Department of Insurance for its Severe Convective Storm suite.The suite, which includes Z-HAIL™, Z-WIND™, and Z-STORM™, is now cleared for use in 16 US states, expanding the company’s reach into critical high-risk regions across the Midwest, Great Plains, and South, according to FF News.The launch in Ohio comes in response to the state’s alarming increase in billion-dollar weather events.The Severe Convective Storm suite is composed of three distinct models:Z-HAIL predicts hail damage by analysing factors such as roof complexity, historical claims,…

Canada is a haven for pleasing myths. One agreeable caricature popular these days is of a land and a people united in happy solidarity to resist an unpopular president clamouring to add Canada as the 51st star on the stars and stripes flag. Uncomfortable truth be told, more than a few Canadians are not wishing Mark Carney all that well as Canada’s Harvard-trained technocrat-turned-prime minister meets today for the first time the domineering commander-in-chief of the United States, Donald Trump. A fair share of Canadians – still smarting from the Liberal Party’s remarkable revival on election night last week –…

Earnix, a global provider of intelligent, AI-driven decisioning solutions for the insurance sector, has joined the British Insurance Brokers’ Association (BIBA) as an associate member.The firm’s BIBA membership reflects its aim to deepen its role in supporting UK brokers as they face evolving challenges such as the Consumer Duty regulation.The announcement highlights a surge in demand among regional brokers for modern, data-rich platforms. Earnix intends to work closely with BIBA members to guide their digital transformation efforts and harness the full potential of AI in pricing and decision-making.“Joining BIBA as an associate member underscores our commitment to the UK insurance…

The exploitation of a high-severity vulnerability in the Samsung MagicINFO content management system (CMS) began within days after proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code targeting it was made public, cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf warns. Tracked as CVE-2024-7399 (CVSS score of 8.8), the issue is described as an “improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory vulnerability in Samsung MagicINFO 9 Server” that could be exploited to write arbitrary files with system privileges. Because the CMS does not properly sanitize a filename input, failing to validate the file extension and whether the user is authenticated, an unauthenticated attacker could upload JSP files…

The US cybersecurity agency CISA on Monday issued an alert on a recent Langflow vulnerability being exploited in the wild. A Python-based, LLM agnostic AI builder, Langflow is a customizable visual framework that supports the development of multi-agent and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) applications. Tracked as CVE-2025-3248 (CVSS score of 9.8) and disclosed in early April, the exploited issue is described as a code injection issue in a code validation endpoint. It was resolved in Langflow version 1.3.0. “A remote and unauthenticated attacker can send crafted HTTP requests to execute arbitrary code,” a NIST advisory reads. On April 9, Horizon3.ai…

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Andrew McCutchen hasn’t had the conversation with 7-year-old son Steel yet, but the Pittsburgh Pirates star knows it’s probably coming at some point.Steel, already playing in a youth baseball league, will probably come home at one point and ask his five-time All-Star father if he can have whatever hot item his teammates might be wearing during a given spring.McCutchen plans to accommodate Steel up to a point. The oldest of McCutchen’s four children is already rocking an arm sleeve, just the way dad does.Yet if Steel is hoping his father will spring for a sliding mitt —…

Research conducted by Microsoft into the security of Kubernetes installations revealed that threat actors have targeted misconfigured Apache Pinot instances. Apache Pinot is an open source real-time analytics platform designed for querying large datasets with high speed and low latency. Pinot is used by some of the world’s biggest companies, including Walmart, Uber, Slack, LinkedIn, Wix and Stripe. In the case of Kubernetes installations, the official Apache Pinot documentation does not inform users that the default configuration is highly insecure and can expose sensitive user data. “The default installation exposes Apache Pinot’s main components to the internet by Kubernetes LoadBalancer…

By Louis Jacobson│PolitiFactPublished On 6 May 20256 May 2025United States President Donald Trump’s broad array of tariffs on foreign goods has spooked consumers, businesses and the stock market. But what will the specific impact be for typical American consumers? US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer offered a figure on April 27 on CNN’s State of the Union. The Democrat from New York said, as a candidate, Trump never fully explained to voters that tariffs would raise their costs. “It’s estimated it’ll raise the American costs … American families would have to pay about $4,000 more a year,” he said. Calculating how typical households…