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Several major insurance carriers have begun to back away from providing cybersecurity and other insurance to companies using AI to run internal processes, insiders say.
While there’s no standard response to customer use of AI in the insurance market,
many carriers are now quietly declining to write policies for claims related to AI-generated outputs in cybersecurity and errors and omissions (E&O) coverage, these observers say.
Other insurance carriers are jacking up pric…

Insurance carriers quietly back away from covering AI outputs
Many insurers have begun to exempt AI workloads from cybersecurity and errors and omissions coverage, saying their outputs are too unpredictable to write policies around.

Waymo says its fleet hit 170M miles as of December 2025, and its Waymo Driver system was involved in 92% fewer serious-injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/transportation/896837/waymo-170-mill…

Waymo hits 170 million miles while avoiding serious mayhem
Waymo released a new analysis of its robotaxi fleet after driving over 170 million driverless miles. The company says it still manages to avoid most serious crashes or injuries.

ICE hasn’t gone; they’re just finding ways to operate that are less visible, finding targets with fewer eyes watching:
https://sahanjournal.com/immigration/mobile-home-parks-immigration-enforcement-ice-minnesota/
Don’t forget the people ICE is targeting. Don’t let them become invisible.

Plex says the price for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan will increase from $249.99 to $749.99 in July (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/19/plex-increasing-lifetime-plex-pass-cost-to-whopping-750/

Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750 - 9to5Mac
Plex has announced a massive price increase for the Lifetime tier of its Plex Pass plan. Starting in July, Plex...

from my link log —
Collecting two electrons from each photon could break through the solar cell efficiency limit.
http://news.mit.edu/2019/increase-solar-cell-output-photon-2-electron-0703
saved 2019-07-06

Experiments show dramatic increase in solar cell output
Researchers at MIT and Princeton have found a way to increase the output of silicon solar cells by allowing a single photon to release two electrons in the silicon.

Bearing witness. Insurance claws. 🤣
#news

Three people sentenced to jail for bear-suit insurance scam in California
State investigated claims of bear attacks on cars, unconvincingly backed up by video of person in bear suit

(LinkedIn) In a review of 55 cases of cortical blindness, vivid imagery was repeatedly preserved despite complete or near-complete bilateral V1 damage. When imagery was impaired, lesions extended beyond V1, often into ventral temporal cortex. https://www.

Is there some general theory — just in the hand-wavy “these underlying principles could apply” form of macroeconomics and not necessarily even any kind of falsifiable model — that backs up the notion that increased coupling of risks induces higher investor payouts? or something along those lines?
I feel like “coupling increases the magnitude of failure” and ”coupling increases risk” are more or less self-evident assertions (though of course deserving of study). By some kind of symmetry, it •feels• like coupling could increase payouts too — the billionaires certainly act as though it does! — but that seems less self-evident to me.

Far more American children have likely been separated from their parents during immigration sweeps than previously understood,
according to a report by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank Brookings.
The report published Monday estimates more than 100,000 U.S. citizen children have had a parent detained since Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign began last year.
The analysis cites reporting from ProPublica on the detention of parents, which can often lead to family se…

More Than 100,000 American Kids Have Had a Parent Detained in Immigration Sweeps, Report Estimates
Since the Trump administration doesn’t track how many children have been separated from their parents by immigration detention, a Brookings report tried to calculate it — and it cited ProPublica’s reporting.

An executive jet the Department of Homeland Security has told the White House’s Office of Management and Budget it needs for immigrant deportation flights and Cabinet officials’ travel
Plans
features a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images of the aircraft obtained by NBC News.
DHS recently began leasing the Boeing 737 Max 8,
which DHS officials have described as a luxury jet,
but now Immigrat…

'No expense has been spared': Inside a luxury jet DHS wants to buy for deportations
WASHINGTON — An executive jet the Department of Homeland Security has told the White House’s Office of Management and Budget it needs for immigrant deportation flights and Cabinet officials’ travel features a bedroom with a queen bed, showers, a kitchen, four large flat-screen TVs and even a bar, according to images of the aircraft obtained by NBC News.