Catastrophe bond market issuance has already set a new record for the first-four months of the year in 2025, even with half the month of April still to run and billions more in issuance scheduled to settle before May, which has the potential to make this the busiest four-month stretch ever for the sector.The stunning … Read more
Google is planning a major change to the way it develops new versions of the Android operating system. Since the beginning, large swaths of the software have been developed in public-facing channels, but that will no longer be the case. This does not mean Android is shedding its open source roots, but the process won’t … Read more
Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System rocket into position between the vehicle’s two solid-fueled boosters. Working inside the iconic 52-story-tall Vehicle Assembly Building, ground teams used heavy-duty cranes to first lift the butterscotch orange core stage from its cradle in the … Read more
On March 3, Triple-I released its Chart of the Week, “Women’s Representation Among Underwriters Increased.” Citing data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the chart reveals that the number of women insurance Underwriters increased by 5 percent from 56.9 percent to 61.9 percent in 2024. The insurance sector provided about 3.0 million jobs–or 1.9 percent … Read more
North American drivers are continuing to be barraged by waves of scam text messages, telling them that they owe money on unpaid tolls. Last month we described on Hot for Security how US authorities had issued a warning about SMS phishing attacks from scammers posing as tolling agencies. For instance, Texas-based audience producer Gwen Howerton … Read more