US temporarily lowers tariffs on Chinese shipments to 30 percent

US and Chinese officials met over the weekend to talk trade and so far the result is that the US has agreed to temporarily lower tariffs on most items shipped from China to the US, while China has also agreed to lower tariffs and allow shipments of rar…

US and Chinese officials met over the weekend to talk trade and so far the result is that the US has agreed to temporarily lower tariffs on most items shipped from China to the US, while China has also agreed to lower tariffs and allow shipments of rare earth metals for the time being. For […]

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Digital Equity Program: Trump nennt Breitbandförderung “illegal und rassistisch”

Trump und sein Handelsminister nennen Breitbandförderung und Glasfaser für indigene Bevölkerung, Menschen mit Sprachbarrieren und in ländlichen Regionen verfassungswidrig. (Donald Trump, Glasfaser)

Trump und sein Handelsminister nennen Breitbandförderung und Glasfaser für indigene Bevölkerung, Menschen mit Sprachbarrieren und in ländlichen Regionen verfassungswidrig. (Donald Trump, Glasfaser)

Nintendo threatens to brick Switch consoles for hacking, piracy

Updated EULA language includes new threat to “render the… device permanently unusable.”

Switch and Switch 2 users who try to hack their consoles or play pirated copies of games may find their devices rendered completely inoperable by Nintendo. That new warning was buried in a recent update to the Nintendo User Account Agreement, as first noticed by Game File last week.

Nintendo's May 2025 EULA update adds new language concerning the specific ways users are allowed to use "Nintendo Account Services" on the console, a term defined here to encompass the use of "video games and add-on content." Under the new EULA, any unlicensed use of the system not authorized by Nintendo could lead the company to "render the Nintendo Account Services and/or the applicable Nintendo device permanently unusable in whole or in part." (Emphasis added.)

That language would apply to both the current Switch and the upcoming Switch 2.

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Smartphone: Apples neue iPhones sollen teurer werden

Obwohl die USA und China im Zollkrieg abrüsten, reichen Sparmaßnahmen in der Lieferkette von Apple wohl nicht aus – die iPhones sollen teurer werden. (iPhone, Apple)

Obwohl die USA und China im Zollkrieg abrüsten, reichen Sparmaßnahmen in der Lieferkette von Apple wohl nicht aus - die iPhones sollen teurer werden. (iPhone, Apple)

A new era in cancer therapies is at hand

New therapeutic strategies build on the success of immunotherapy.

In 2012, clinicians at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia treated Emily Whitehead, a 6-year-old with leukemia, with altered immune cells from her own body. At the time, the treatment was experimental, but it worked: The cells targeted the cancer and eradicated it. Thirteen years later, Whitehead is still cancer-free.

The modified cells, called CAR-T cells, are a form of immunotherapy, where doctors change parts of the immune system into cancer-attacking instruments. About five years after Whitehead’s treatment, the first CAR-T drugs were approved by the FDA and were heralded, along with immunotherapy more broadly, as one of the most promising modern cancer treatments. Today, there are seven FDA-approved CAR-T therapies, including the one used to treat Whitehead.

Since then, however, studies have linked CAR-T to fatal complications due to treatment toxicity, and the treatment has had a harder time addressing certain types of cancers, particularly solid tumors affecting the breast and pancreas, although some small clinical trials have been starting to show positive results for solid cancers. “After a decade, a decade and a half, we arrive at the point that there are patients who answer, most of the patients still do not answer,” said George Calin, a researcher at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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