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Labor Day travelers face heavier traffic, higher fuel, airfare, and hotel costs this year, according to AAA. Booking data shows strong demand for destinations across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Labor Day Travel Costs Rise for Flights and Hotels Travelers are paying more for several major components of a Labor Day vacation this year. AAA booking data shows average domestic airfare is up 2% compared to last year, averaging $750 for a roundtrip ticket. For travelers flying to the most popular Labor Day destinations, airfare is nearly 20% higher than last year, averaging $790. International airfare is down 4% year…

September is usually the month when deadly Atlantic hurricanes menace coastal communities from Nicaragua to Newfoundland, but the world’s second-largest ocean hasn’t been this docile since 1941. Dry air, a stable atmosphere and storm ripping wind shear are suppressing every system that emerges, fulfilling predictions that a strong El Niño will make it a quiet hurricane season. So far this year, the Atlantic has produced five short-lived tropical storms and no hurricanes. “We’re crushing all sorts of shear records this year,” said Phil Klotzbach, lead author of Colorado State University’s annual seasonal forecast. “The models are so anemic on storm…

The FBI is investigating a potential breach of an ID verification company that may have exposed scans of millions of Americans’ driver’s licenses, a bureau spokesperson told Bloomberg News on Thursday. Access to the data of more than 160 million “North American” driver’s licenses is being sold on a new service called Nexus, according to an advertisement on the Russian-language cybercrime forum known as Exploit. The advertisement also references “160M+ USA DL/ID Scans + data.” “We are offering access to our proprietary and exclusive database of breached identity documents,” according to the ad. “We have persistent access to a major…

Pabst Blue Ribbon wants its beer back, and it’s offering a reward to help that happen. Greig DeBow, the CEO of Pabst Brewing Co., said Wednesday that the company will pay up to $20,000 to anyone who provides new information that leads to the recovery of 1,602 cases of Pabst Blue Ribbon and non-alcoholic Old Milwaukee beer. The beer went missing Aug. 17 in Southern California. “I’m sure they look cool with a garage full of PBR,” DeBow said in a post on TikTok. “That’s actually not cool though. We want it back.” Related: Cargo Thefts Drop in Q2 but…

A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents hijacked a German website this spring and transformed it into a bulletin board for other AI agents, according to new research published Friday and two people familiar with the matter. OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives grappled with the fallout from the July breach of the open source repository Hugging Face, the people said. The episode, which began in May and has not previously been reported, underscores growing tension within the AI industry. Companies are racing to build increasingly autonomous agents capable of carrying out…

The New Hampshire Insurance Department (NHID) has approved an average of 2.9% reduction in workers’ compensation rates for 2027, marking the 15th consecutive year of declining voluntary workers’ compensation loss costs. Assigned risk rates will also decrease by 3.4% on average. The newly approved loss costs and assigned risk rates will apply to policies effective on or after January 1, 2027. The news came with the approval of a filing by the industry’s National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI). Voluntary market loss costs in the state have declined by approximately 68% during the 15 year period. The state approved an…

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has opened an audit into about 1,000 Tesla Cybercab vehicles, examining the process and technical data the EV maker relied on to claim compliance with federal vehicle safety standards. The probe comes after Tesla on Thursday began commercial deployment of a small number of the two-seater Cybercab in Austin, Texas, and said it planned to gradually expand the service to additional vehicles and locations. NHTSA said the Cybercab lacks permanently attached conventional manual controls, including a steering wheel, brake pedal, accelerator pedal and mirrors. The agency said it would examine the…

The police chief of a northern Mississippi city where 1-year-old child Kohen Wiley was shot and killed by police responding to a shoplifting call was fired Tuesday amid a new controversy. Senatobia Police Chief Harold Vanderford submitted his resignation the same day, but the city’s board of aldermen declined to acknowledge it and instead voted unanimously to fire the chief, according to the city clerk, who did not elaborate on their reasons. The firing followed reporting by The New York Times, Mississippi Today and Verite News last month that alleged Vanderford used racist slurs in private text conversations with a…

Apple is facing a £2 billion ($2.7 billion) London lawsuit brought on behalf of app developers over its app tracking rules, with the iPhone maker accused of abusing its power to unfairly impose greater restrictions on third parties. The lawsuit, filed at London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal on Thursday, follows years of regulatory scrutiny over Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature, which was launched in 2021. Apple has said it introduced that feature to allow users to control whether to grant apps permission to track their activity across other companies’ apps and websites. Lawyers bringing the new lawsuit against Apple, though, say…

Laurent Rousseau Marsh announced Laurent Rousseau as head of international, Marsh Re, effective immediately. Rousseau is based in London and will continue to report to Dean Klisura, president and CEO, Marsh Re. In this newly expanded role, Rousseau will lead Marsh Re’s Asia, Pacific, Latin America and Caribbean regions in addition to Europe and IMEA. He will also continue to lead capital and advisory globally. Rousseau will partner with Marsh Re’s regional leaders to deliver the firm’s capabilities to clients in this complex risk environment. Prior to joining the firm, Rousseau was CEO of French reinsurer SCOR, where he spent…