Bungie is extending the Marathon Closed Technical Test by two days to conduct backend stress testing, with server resets and new loot rewards for participants, aiming to evaluate game performance under heavy load.
The American Heart Association (AHA) has advised against regular screening with stress testing or CT scan for people with Chronic Coronary Disease (CCD) if they are on guideline-directed therapies and have not experienced changes in symptoms or functional status. The AHA also recommends against the use of nutrition or dietary supplements for CCD patients, citing insufficient evidence of their benefits. Cardiologists emphasize the need to reassess unnecessary tests and prescriptions in favor of emerging evidence, highlighting the potential harms of indiscriminate cardiac imaging.
The Biden administration is urging independent agencies, including the Federal Reserve, to toughen rules aimed at reducing regional banks' reliance on debt and increasing their cash on hand. The move comes after the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, and the administration is pushing to reverse the deregulation of regional banks that was carried out under President Donald Trump. The White House is calling for annual stress testing for regional banks and for the FDIC to shield community banks from bearing the costs of replenishing the deposit insurance fund after the failure of SVB and Signature Bank.
Stress testing is failing and should be the focus of the Biden administration’s review of federal bank regulation, as it wouldn't have saved Silicon Valley Bank. Recent actions by federal regulators seem to be treating midsize banks as systemically important, despite being reclassified as systemically unimportant under the Trump-era Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act.