Daily Tech News 22 June 2025

• 80% of patients in a recent study were cured within six months - of Type 1 diabetes. (Hartford Courant) (archive site)
  
  The subjects of the study were the subset of diabetes patients who have hypoglycemic unawareness - that is, they also lack the usual warning signs that their glucose levels are dangerously low.
  
  That was not specific for the treatment, but made the treatment more necessary.
  
  Because there is a big downside. The treatment involves using stem cells to recreate the missing pancreatic islet cells that generate insulin, but leave the patient needing lifetime immunosuppressant treatment - which is probably not an improvement over diabetes for most patients who don't also have hypoglycemic unawareness.
  
  But still, it works. It's an option, and if the immune issue can be resolved, it's a cure.
  
  
  

• The Acer GM9000 is a "bargain" PCIe 5.0 SSD that you can't buy anywhere. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It seems decent on paper, with top read speeds of 14GBps and write speeds only slightly slower, random I/O performance of 2 million 4k blocks per second, Micron TLC flash, on-board DRAM cache, and worst-case write endurance of 800TB per TB of storage.
  
  The only problem is it doesn't seem to be for sale anywhere, except for one listing from China on eBay, making it impossible to judge value for money.
  
  
  
• If you were looking for an updated Linux driver for your 1994 SoundBlaster AWE32 sound card, you're in luck, because now there is one. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Only problem is that it's an ISA card and ISA motherboards haven't been made for twenty years.
  
  
  
• Astronomers may have found the rest of the universe. (Space)
  
  It fell down behind the sofa.
  
  
  
• Intel plans to lay off its marketing team and outsource the task to Accenture and AI. (The Oregonian) (archive site)
  
  Torn between predicting obvious failure and predicting that it cannot possibly get worse.
  
  
  
• Cluely - the AI cheating company - has raised $15 million in a funding round organised by Andreesen Horowitz. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Why would anyone throw money at this?
  
  
  

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