Eli Lilly has a drug, bimagrumab, that when combined with a GLP-1 receptor agonist allows for substantial fat loss with minimal muscle loss. This is from the BELIEVE trial, using semaglutide. Bimagrumab, an activin type 2B receptor inhibitor, actually stimulates muscle growth.
FDA approves the chemoimmunotherapy agent, datopotamab deruxtecan, for EGFR mutated non-small cell lung cancer.
Great news for lung cancer patients.
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Great news for lung cancer patients.
After many years, the PNG spec has been updated. Now we can have animated PNGs! And EXIF data!
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The man who invented the fart smell in natural gas has won a lifetime achievement award for this. This is not The Onion.
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Oh-oh. A federal judge says that Anthropic can train AI models on published books without the author's permission. Man, this is going to get a lot of people pissed off. If this, why not music. We'll get a wider variety of AI slop now.
And here's the BBC, trying to sue an AI startup over content scraping. I'd say that this lawsuit has suddenly become a lot harder to win.
The Psylo browser is going to try to make browser fingerprinting a lot tougher. I doubt I'll use it, but it would be great for other browser makers to license this technology.
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AI has made Reddit the front page of the dead Internet. The CEO's decision to let AI train on Reddit content and mimic real users, has turned off a lot of people. Although it's still being used, I think people would switch to a good alternative. Discord and Mastodon are too onerous to use. They're like conversations in private salons, instead of the public marketplace that is Reddit.
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Jony Ive's secret device is not going to be a wearable. Jony has a distinctive minimalist style in product design, but does that mean he knows what most people want in an AI device, something that has been called the third core device?
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More news about the iPhone 17. I guess it won't be thinner after all. Larger battery. Better camera. 8k video. 12 GB RAM. Better cooling. Maybe I'll do a trade-in. We'll see.
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So that 16 billion password breach story was a nothing burger? I changed all my passwords anyway. Glad it wasn't that serious.
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I knew it. Making EV is worse for the environment. All that lithium mining, and disposing of spent batteries.
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Wow, Apple might buy Perplexity after all. Better than Meta, that's for sure. Hope they make the Pro tier free.
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University of Cambridge researchers have devised a test to determine how susceptible cancer cells are to chemotherapy. This is by no means a new idea. It died because it took too much time to get the results and insurance wouldn't pay for it. People need to start treatment sooner than later – they can't wait for the test results.
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Doctors are using unapproved AI to help them. I knew this would happen. There is so much need for regulation. And for doctors to get smart about AI. They don't know what they're doing when it comes to AI.
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Trump can pull the plug on the Internet in Europe. If he wants to. I don't think he'll ever do it. But it would be interesting to think about it. So now they want to develop their own version. Lots of luck with that.
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Looks like that preschool tax won't get funded after all. Thank God. But I still think wealthy Portlanders will continue to flee the city.
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This is how Democrats solve the healthcare shortage. Import foreign doctors into the medical system. Should be OK, because regular doctors will have time to supervise them on top of their already busy practice, and make sure they practice OK. Right? Right?
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Best and Worst Cities in America. Republican-run cities are at the top. Democrat-run cities are at the bottom. No surprises. But we have more diversity and equity and inclusion, right?
And Portland is going to start a homeless shelter right in the middle of the Pearl District. They really want the wealthy to flee the city, don't they?