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Crypto Hacking Thefts Doubled to $1.4B in in First Half of 2024
The amount of cryptocurrency stolen in hacks globally more than doubled in the first six months of 2024 from a year earlier, driven by a small number of large attacks and rising crypto prices, ...
Shock Hazard Prompts Recall of Nearly 1M Power Adapters Sold With Baby Sound Machines
Due to a shock hazard, a California company is recalling nearly 1 million power adapters sold with sound machines marketed to help infants and young children sleep. The plastic surrounding the AC ...
CSU Ups 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecast After Harbinger Beryl
After Hurricane Beryl's erratic development over the Atlantic and across the Gulf Coast, the team at Colorado State University have upped their 2024 hurricane season forecast. The forecasters ...
June Marks 13 Months in a Row Heat Record
Earth's more than year-long streak of record-shattering hot months kept on simmering through June, according to the European climate service Copernicus. There's hope that the planet will soon see an ...
California Inspectors Didn’t Visit All Farmworker Housing to Review Safety as Required
When Antonio Bravo stepped into the Salinas, California, hotel in May 2020, he first noticed a foul smell. Then he saw the bare metal cot with no mattress that his employer had given him to sleep on ...
Beryl Lands in Texas; Record Storm Spawns ‘Early Warning’ for Insurers
Although Beryl was still a tropical storm on Sunday, late day National Hurricane Center advisories put it on track to make landfall on the middle Texas coast early Monday, possibly regaining strength ...
Powerful Hurricane Beryl Bears Down on Mexico
Hurricane Beryl continues its destructive path, with dangerous winds, storm surges and heavy rainfall expected over portions of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. The powerful hurricane has already ...
Untreated Water Tied to U.S. Cucumber Salmonella Outbreak That Sickened 450
Untreated water used by a Florida cucumber grower is one likely source of salmonella food poisoning that sickened nearly 450 people across the U.S. this spring, federal health officials said Tuesday. ...