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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.

"Humans burn themselves—and survive burns—with a frequency likely much greater than any other animal. Most animals avoid fire completely, while in contrast, humans live alongside fire and most humans will experience minor burns throughout their lives."
Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests

Exposure to burn injuries played key role in shaping human evolution, study suggests
Humans' exposure to high temperature burn injuries may have played an important role in our evolutionary development, shaping how our bodies heal, fight infection, and sometimes fail under extreme injury, according to new research.

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.

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.

11 reported injured in southern Russia as separate drone strike hits oil refinery: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/21/reported-injured-in-southern-russia.html

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.

At least 9 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/19/at-least-injured-in-russian.html

A US army sergeant with 27 years of military service
– including deployment to Afghanistan
– said that federal immigration agents recently arrested his wife during an appointment at an immigration office in El Paso, Texas.
Sgt First Class Jose Serrano said that his wife, Deisy Rivera Ortega,
a Salvadorian, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers under the command of the Trump administration despite receiving legal protection in 2019 that bar…

Russia injures at least 15 in missile and drone attacks across Odesa, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/21/russia-injures-at-least-in.html