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FDA LDT Regulation Struck Down: Laboratory Innovation Prevails

April 2, 2025
By Ken Stineman
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COURT BLOCKS FDA REGULATION OF LABORATORY DEVELOPED TESTS April 2, 2025 The recent federal court decision striking down the FDA’s attempted regulation of laboratory developed tests represents a significant development for diagnostic laboratory innovation. This ruling removes a significant cost, regulatory burden, and barriers to the development of novel clinical tests for the patient community.…

Three Mile Island to provide power for Microsoft Data Centers and AI

September 23, 2024
By Ken Stineman
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AI processing requires lots of energy… Constellation Energy and Microsoft announced a 20-year power purchasing agreement that would bring Three Mile Island Unit 1 reactor and nuclear power plant back online. The reactor will exclusively power Microsoft’s growing data center footprint. Growth of compute in Microsoft data centers to power Artificial Intelligence (AI) demand, and…

Congress requests feedback on FDA Laboratory Developed Test proposed rule

March 21, 2024
By Ken Stineman
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Congressional Hearing Announced Congress is seeking feedback on the FDA proposed regulation of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs). This week, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Chair Brett Guthrie (R-KY) announced a subcommittee hearing titled “Evaluating Approaches to Diagnostic Test Regulation and the Impact of the FDA’s Proposed Rule.” There…

Apple upgrades iMessage to defend against quantum computing

March 1, 2024
By Ken Stineman
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Apple Security Engineering Announcement Apple announced this week in their blog that they have: “rebuilt the iMessage cryptographic protocol from the ground up to advance the state of the art in end-to-end encryption…” The next step in Privacy Protection Researchers have warned that breakthroughs in Quantum Computing could make current encryption methods obsolete and put…

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