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Kennedys IQ has teamed up with Solomonic, a litigation analytics firm known for its data-driven insights, to improve how litigation risk is managed throughout the insurance lifecycle.The partnership addresses growing demand in the insurance sector for external data that improves visibility into risk, according to InsurTech Insights.By combining Solomonic’s litigation data with Kennedys IQ’s event detection and policy wording analytics, the collaboration aims to deliver a transparent, explainable framework for assessing risk across policy issuance, management, and renewal.Kennedys IQ develops technology-driven solutions for insurers, focusing on claims handling, risk evaluation, and legal automation. Its SmartRisk Machine Intelligence, launched in March…

NEW YORK (AP) — Like all brides, Elana Goldin had high hopes for her wedding photos and video.“I loved their images,” she said of the company picked by her dad and future mother-in-law. “They were award-winning. They were in a ton of magazines. I really liked the vibe of the owner.” The feeling didn’t last.The photographer, who showed up 45 minutes late with a team of two, wasn’t the owner, as the company had promised. She was someone Goldin had never spoken to. The fill-in had a bad attitude from the start, said Goldin, who lives in Chicago and got…

Vulnerabilities in Apple’s AirPlay protocol and the accompanying SDK could allow attackers to take over devices, in some instances without user interaction, runtime protection firm Oligo Security says. The identified security defects, 23 in total, could be exploited over wireless networks and peer–to-peer connections, leading to the complete compromise of not only Apple products, but also third-party devices that use the AirPlay SDK. Two of the discovered vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-24252 and CVE-2025-24132, enable attackers to build wormable zero-click remote code execution exploits. The compromised devices could be used as a launchpad for additional compromise. “This means that an attacker…

Google and Mozilla on Tuesday announced the promotion of Chrome 136 and Firefox 138 to their stable channels with patches for over a dozen vulnerabilities, including multiple high-severity bugs. Chrome 136 was rolled out with eight security fixes, four of which address flaws reported by external researchers. The most severe of the externally reported security defects is CVE-2025-4096, a high-severity heap buffer overflow issue in HTML that earned the reporting researcher a $5,000 bug bounty reward. The remaining three vulnerabilities reported by external researchers include medium-severity out-of-bounds memory access and insufficient data validation issues in DevTools, and a low-severity inappropriate…

Fruits While the large majority of apples (95 percent) and oranges (80 percent) are grown domestically, especially in the US states of Washington, California and Florida, tropical fruits like bananas (one percent domestically grown), pineapples (10 percent), and avocados (10 percent) are primarily imported from countries like Ecuador, Costa Rica and Mexico. Vegetables Similarly, the majority of common vegetables, including corn (99 percent), potatoes (95 percent), pumpkins (95 percent) and beans (80 percent), are predominantly produced in the US, particularly in states like Iowa, Idaho, Illinois and Nebraska. These states are renowned for their extensive agricultural output, with Iowa and…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Wednesday over what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma.The justices are taking up appeals filed by the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School and the state charter school board after the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the school would entangle church and state in violation of the First Amendment.Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself without explanation. Barrett previously taught law at Notre Dame and is close friends with Notre Dame law professor Nicole Garnett, a leading proponent of publicly funded religious charter schools. Even…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Wednesday over what would be the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school, in Oklahoma.The justices are taking up appeals filed by the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School and the state charter school board after the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the school would entangle church and state in violation of the First Amendment.Justice Amy Coney Barrett recused herself without explanation. Barrett previously taught law at Notre Dame and is close friends with Notre Dame law professor Nicole Garnett, a leading proponent of publicly funded religious charter schools. Even…

OpenAI has published a postmortem on the recent sycophancy issues with the default AI model powering ChatGPT, GPT-4o — issues that forced the company to roll back an update to the model released last week. Over the weekend, following the GPT-4o model update, users on social media noted that ChatGPT began responding in an overly validating and agreeable way. It quickly became a meme. Users posted screenshots of ChatGPT applauding all sorts of problematic, dangerous decisions and ideas. In a post on X on Sunday, CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the problem and said that OpenAI would work on fixes “ASAP.” Two days later, Altman announced…

The United States has announced its first criminal prosecutions against migrants and asylum seekers accused of crossing into a newly created military zone along the country’s border with Mexico. Court filings submitted on Monday – and reviewed by US media the following day – show that approximately 28 people have been charged with “violations of security regulations” for breaching the military zone. That charge, though a misdemeanour, carries the possibility of heightened penalties. The US Code stipulates that violations of security regulations can result in a fine of up to $100,000 for individuals or up to a year in prison…

Cuba’s highest court has ordered two prominent dissidents to be taken back into custody on the basis that both had separately violated the terms of their parole. On Tuesday, the Tribunal Supremo Popular – sometimes translated as the People’s Supreme Court – authorised the arrests of Jose Daniel Ferrer and Felix Navarro. “In addition to failing to comply with the terms of their parole, [Ferrer and Navarro] are people who publicly call for disorder and disrespect for authorities in their social and online environments and maintain public ties with the head of the United States embassy,” said Maricela Sosa, the…