Risk
Humanity on Verge of 5 Climate Tipping Points, Report Warns
Five major global "tipping points" are in danger of being crossed at current levels of warming, a new study warns, leaving humanity at an inflection point between two potential futures. An ...
Road Safety Advocates Call for Speed Limiters, Auto Alerts to Stem Aggressive Driving
Members of the Road to Zero Coalition are urging automakers, regulators and fleet operators to promote intelligent speed assistance (ISA) and speed limiters in response to a spike in traffic deaths ...
Unrecalled Takata Inflators Monitored After Another Bursts, Injuring Driver
U.S. auto safety regulators said Monday they are monitoring data from a group of mostly unrecalled Takata air bag inflators after one of them exploded in a BMW and hurled metal fragments that ...
23andMe Says Health Data Included in Hack That Compromised 6.9M
Some 6.9 million 23andMe customers had their data compromised after an anonymous hacker accessed user profiles and posted them for sale on the Internet earlier this year, the company said on Monday. ...
U.S. Retail Lobbying Group Retracts ‘Organized’ Crime Statistic
The main lobbying group for U.S. retailers retracted its claim that "organized retail crime" accounted for nearly half of all inventory losses in 2021 after finding that incorrect data was used for ...
GM’s Robotaxi Service May Be Fined for California Crash Severity Coverup
California regulators are alleging a San Francisco robotaxi service owned by General Motors covered up the severity of an accident involving one of its driverless cars, raising the specter they may ...
New Cyber Risk Report Highlights Rise in Automotive Data Exploitation
A newly released report points to a growing threat focused on automotive cyber attacks, according to VicOne, an automotive cybersecurity provider. Supply chains appear to be the major source of ...
2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season Highlights Far-Reaching Impact
A busy hurricane season that saw the National Hurricane Center in Miami issue the first-ever tropical storm warning for the coast of California and hurricane warnings as far north as Nova Scotia came ...