Raycast makes your Mac better because it’s fast, ergonomic, and reliable. Best of all, though, Raycast comes with powerful tools your Mac should have but didn’t. Plus, it’s extensible, with a rich catalog of extensions built by developers around the world that solve every productivity need you can imagine.

With Raycast, everything is at your fingertips. The app’s searchable clipboard means always having what you need a few keystrokes away. With emoji and gif search tools, Raycast makes it easy to express yourself. Plus, there are tools to perform quick calculations, currency and unit conversions, and a lot more.

And with broad developer support, there are extensions available to:

• Track your flights
• Take notes
• Save tasks
• Search for your files
• Run scripts
• Kick off shortcuts
• Translate text
• and even manage your windows

With Raycast, all of this and more can be accomplished quickly and easily without switching contexts, reducing distractions and speeding up every interaction with your Mac.

Raycast is also the best way to interact with AI. It’s an always-on window into ChatGPT that helps you code, write email messages, automate repetitive tasks, and more.

Raycast is free to download and use, but with annual plans that start at what works out to just $8/month, you can go pro with its AI features, theming, and setup sync across multiple Macs.

Visit Raycast’s website today to learn more, download Raycast for free, and see how its Pro accounts can take your Raycast experience to the next level.

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When MGM Resorts suffered a $100 million hack in September, CEO Bill Hornbuckle wasn’t too worried about the lost revenue, because cyber insurance would cover the tab. “I can only imagine what next year’s bill will be,” he joked.

Weeks later, on a call with analysts, Hornbuckle complained about the “staggering” rise of insurance costs in the past few years.

This story neatly illustrates the crisis in cyber liability coverage. For years, companies have invested more in security insurance than in actual security. The result has been a tidal wave of data breaches that have driven up the cost of premiums to the point that they are rapidly becoming unaffordable.

Some large enterprises are responding to the increased costs by creating their own “captive carriers,” insurance providers that exist only to serve them. But that’s clearly not an option for small businesses, which are more likely to go without insurance altogether.

According to Andrew Bucci, VP of Sales at Amplified Insurance Partners, “It’s going to come to a point where some people may have to self-insure, which means that they don’t take a cyber policy out and they just cross their fingers they don’t have some sort of breach.” That’s a huge gamble for SMBs, since they could be driven to bankruptcy by a single security incident.

At Kolide, we’ve seen our cyber insurance premiums go up by 40% in just the last two years, and we got curious about:

• What’s driving the increases?
• Who really needs cybersecurity insurance?
• How can the average company reduce their premiums?

What we found was that insurance companies themselves can help get us out of this crisis, by mandating some (pretty basic) security requirements for their customers–things like MFA, endpoint security, and retiring end-of-life software. 

Read the full blog to learn more about our findings.

Our thanks to Kolide for sponsoring MacStories this week.