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Air traffic controllers in Sydney have warned of “grave concerns” about flight safety because of new local airspace rules, the safety regulator said, just as the number of near misses and incidents at the airport mounts. The Australian Transport Safety Bureau disclosed Thursday an anonymous submission from an experienced air traffic controller. The whistleblower said many air traffic controllers in Sydney, where they are already shorthanded, have little confidence in their ability to handle the new rules, which were introduced last month and are tied to the new Western Sydney International airport. The individual made the report in June. The…

Matt Hasselbeck took some nasty hits to the head during his 17-year NFL career, four years at Boston College and a childhood full of sports, but the quarterback seems to have emerged from more than two decades of collisions relatively unscathed, enjoying middle adulthood with his wife and three children. The 50-year-old knows that some of his friends and former teammates haven’t been as lucky. That’s why the three-time Pro Bowl selection recently spent two days at Boston University, going through a battery of scans and tests to determine how much all those collisions affected his brain. The hope is…

Gallagher Re, the global reinsurance broking and advisory firm, announced the launch of its Digital Risk Practice, bringing together specialist expertise in AI liability, data centers, cyber, and digital risk engineering to help insurers and reinsurers understand, quantify, and manage rapidly evolving technology-related risks. Gallagher Re said the new practice expands its market-leading cyber capabilities and creates a dedicated platform to address the growing impact of AI, digital dependency, and technology-driven accumulation risk across insurance portfolios. Ian Newman has been appointed global head of Digital Risk, alongside his current role as global head of Cyber. Freddie Scarratt has been appointed…

South Korea will flag off on Saturday a container ship bound for Europe via the Arctic, testing whether a route opened by melting sea ice can be commercially viable, but risking friction with Western allies, as the voyage requires Russian cooperation. If successful, the trip would be South Korea’s first such commercial voyage to Europe via the Arctic, placing it with China and Russia among the few countries whose shipping firms have tested or run cargo services along the route. Sailing north from the port of Busan, the PanStar Acro will make stops at Felixstowe in Britain, Rotterdam in the…

Australian insurance broker Steadfast Group said on Friday it has agreed to a A$7.7 billion ($5.51 billion) takeover offer by a U.S. consortium backed by investment firm KKR. As part of the proposal, insurance distributor Amwins Group will acquire Steadfast’s underwriting agency operations, while U.S.-based Dragoneer Investment will take over its broking business. Steadfast shareholders, as previously announced, will receive A$6 apiece, representing a 51.9% premium since the stock’s closing on June 9 — the last trading day before the company disclosed it had received a non-binding proposal from Dragoneer and Amwins. The Sydney-based company’s board has unanimously recommended that…

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Oil and gas producers’ swelling power needs are hitting the West Texas region just as technology companies target the world’s most productive shale basin for data centers, sending electricity demand soaring. The top boss at Diamondback Energy Inc., one of the Permian Basin’s largest producers, predicts his company’s need for power will double over the next decade, even if it keeps production flat. Citigroup Inc. analysts warned Thursday that the region could even face outages next summer. “Electricity consumption for the Permian has just gone through the roof,” Diamondback Chief Executive Officer Kaes Van’t Hof said in an interview published…

Small businesses’ overall satisfaction with small commercial insurers rose 15 points (to 713 on a 1,000-point scale), driven by improvements in digital support and rates, according to JD Power’s 2026 U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Study that surveyed 2900 customers earlier this year. The biggest gains resulted from improved digital channels (+29 points), price for coverage (+16 points), problem resolution (+16 points) and product/coverage offerings (+16 points), according to the study which examines overall customer satisfaction among small commercial insurance customers with 50 or fewer employees. Seven core dimensions are examined on a poor-to-perfect rating scale (in order of importance: trust;…

Four patients were affected and one of them was paralyzed after a pre-surgery drug mix-up at a Nashville hospital, local news outlets reported. A 72-year-old woman, Glenda Dorton, reportedly received a spinal injection of potassium instead of anesthesia before her knee-replacement surgery on Aug. 14 at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown, The Tennessean and other news sites reported. The surgery seemed to have gone well until Dorton awoke later and discovered she could not feel or move anything from her chest down, her daughter told the newspaper and a TV news station. The woman was rushed to surgery at another Ascension…

NVIDIA has just made an argument that should matter far beyond the semiconductor industry. In a recent post, the company described AI-factory compute as an emerging investable infrastructure asset, supported by financing platforms with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR that are designed to mobilize more than $500 billion in third-party capital over time. The underwriting logic is familiar: customer quality, demand, utilization, cash flow and residual value. That matters because it signals a broader transition. Artificial intelligence is no longer being treated only as software expense. It is becoming productive infrastructure. NVIDIA puts the point plainly: an…