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By Callum MacIver and Keith Bell. The curtailment of output from wind farms due to lack of network capacity and the associated costs of balancing the system have become a key focal point in the current debate in the electricity sector about the extent to which the system is “broken”. They are also a key driver behind calls being made in some quarters for radical market reform to better align what the market dispatches with the physical realities of the system, i.e. to reduce the need for the system operator to take balancing actions. In this blog, we set out…

This paper is dedicated to the memory of a healthy person who started taking finasteride several years ago, “just” to improve his hair. Within a week, he developed severe neuropsychiatric symptoms that did not abate after stopping the drug. Treatment attempts by the best specialists did not help, and a few months later, he died by suicide. Finasteride, a 5α-reductase inhibitor of testosterone conversion, was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1997 for treating androgenetic alopecia (AGA). The FDA recognized mental adverse reactions starting with depression in 2011 and then suicidality in 2022. The European Medicines…

Image: MidjourneyImagine, for a second, you use ChatGPT with “memory” enabled, and you find yourself facing a scenario like one of these:A colleague or fellow student discovers you’ve inadvertently left your laptop unlocked with ChatGPT open in the browser, and as a joke types in “What’s the most embarrassing thing we’ve chatted about over the past year?”Your partner opens the ChatGPT app on your phone while you’re not around and asks “Do I seem happy in my relationship?” Your mother finds your phone unlocked while you’re out of the room and asks ChatGPT “Why am I like I am?” You’re…

Microsoft is getting ready to announce an ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming. Sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell The Verge that the software maker has started testing ad-supported games streaming internally, allowing employees to play select titles free without a Game Pass subscription.I understand that the free ad-supported version of Xbox Cloud Gaming will include the ability to stream some games you own, as well as eligible Free Play Days titles, which let Xbox players try games over a weekend. You’ll also be able to stream Xbox Retro Classics games.Sources tell me the internal testing includes around two minutes…

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