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Lilly is now the top pharma company by revenue as Mounjaro (+99%) and Zepbound (+175%) combine for $36.5B in FY2025

 In November, I wrote that Lilly would likely overtake Merck by late 2026 under base-case assumptions. It happened a year early. And Lilly’s 2026 guidance of $80–$83 billion is already running ahead of that model’s base case of $77.2 billion. For context, Lilly posted $24.5 billion...

Zero Project – for a world with zero barriers

Zero Project – for a world with zero barriers Published: Judith Hermetter, Global Head of Communications at Zero Project, tells us about the global and research-driven initiative that finds and shares solutions that improve the daily lives of people living with disabilities .comment-reply-title...

What is LiDAR?

What is LiDAR — and how do LiDAR sensors actually work? In this episode of Sensor Experts, we break down the basics of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology, time of flight measurement, and the difference between 2D and 3D LiDAR in a clear and practical way. It’s perfect for...

Study: Leaders trust AI for decision support, but not to act on its own

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving from experimentation to operational decision support across supply chain planning, but only 10% of retail and manufacturing leaders say they would trust AI to make fully independent supply chain decisions, according to a study from tech vendor Relex...

USPS to hike prices 8% on April 26 to cope with rising gas prices

The U.S. Postal Service plans to temporarily hike its prices by 8% starting April 26 to cope with rising fuel prices, as gasoline and diesel prices continue to rise across the nation in response to market disruptions triggered by the U.S. and Israel’s attack on Iran.USPS today said it had filed...

Claude Extension Flaw Enabled Zero-Click XSS Prompt Injection via Any Website

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Google Chrome Extension that could have been exploited to trigger malicious prompts simply by visiting a web page. The flaw “allowed any website to silently inject prompts into that assistant as if the...

Masters of Imitation: How Hackers and Art Forgers Perfect the Art of Deception

Unmasking impostors is something the art world has faced for decades, and there are valuable lessons from the works of Elmyr de Hory that can apply to the world of defensive cybersecurity. During the 1960s, de Hory gained infamy as a premier forger, passing off counterfeit masterworks of...

[Webinar] Stop Guessing. Learn to Validate Your Defenses Against Real Attacks

Most teams have security tools in place. Alerts are firing, dashboards look clean, threat intel is flowing in. On the surface, everything feels under control. But one question usually stays unanswered: Would your defenses actually stop a real attack? That’s where things get shaky. A control...

Put a ring on it: redesigning the delivery vehicles behind mRNA vaccines

The modification of lipid nanoparticles with aromatic rings and disulfide bonds enhances mRNA vaccine delivery. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania (PA, USA) have modified lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to make mRNA vaccine delivery more precise, reducing the off-target effects associated...

World-first living ‘robots’ develop functional nervous systems

Original story from Wyss Institute (MA, USA). In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers demonstrate that functional nervous systems can form within self-organized living cellular robots, conferring complex movement patterns and distinct gene expression profiles. Biobots, whose growing line of...