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Fervo Energy has begun selling electricity from Cape Station, its Utah-based enhanced geothermal plant, the first such project to reach a key commercial milestone. The plant synchronized with the grid and is delivering the first third of a planned 100 MW, with potential for up to 4 GW. Cape Station took 23 months to reach operation; future blocks could be completed in 18 months. Google and Southern California Edison have agreed to buy power. The company argues phased development lets data centers scale with demand; deeper drilling taps hotter rock.
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JetBrains s.r.o. (Czechia) posted 2025 revenue CZK 16.008B, up 6.3% from 2024—a record for the company, but a net loss of CZK 315M. ROE -11.1%; EBITDA CZK 918M (5.7% margin); net margin -1.97%. End-2025 net cash CZK 7.584B. Ranked 1st of 15 Czech media/entertainment firms by revenue in 2025. Data are standalone CZ GAAP filings (2005–2025) from the Czech business register.
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ASOS app users in the UK received push notifications that appear to be ransom notes from hackers claiming they have “fully compromised the Snowflake instance” and threatening to leak data unless engaged. The message targets ASOS’s DPO and IT, and directs readers to a Telegram channel run by a group calling itself Xuanye Group. Security experts say if the claim is true, access may extend beyond Snowflake to ASOS’s notification system, suggesting multiple breach paths. It’s unclear whether ASOS uses Snowflake or what data is affected.
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Gleam v1.19.0 switches the Erlang backend to generate Erlang abstract forms (an intermediate representation) loaded via a binary encoding into the BEAM compiler, instead of emitting Erlang source. Benefits include faster builds, more accurate crash-report metadata, and improved code quality; Elixir already uses this path, with potential debugger support. JavaScript output now uses flatter, fewer-branch code and short-list literal optimisations; TS overloads, build-tools improvements, language-server label support, in-browser formatter, and clearer error messages are also included. Direct BEAM bytecode generation is unlikely due to VM evolution.
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Subscriptions are subsidized yet central to AI labs’ economics. Plans grant monthly credits across model/token types, so value depends on plan, model, and workload. SemiAnalysis tracks limits with a Subscriptions Dashboard. OpenAI recently halved the API-equivalent value of its $200 plan and launched a $500 tier, while Anthropic preserves higher value and tightens limits more subtly. On mid-tier models, Anthropic delivers about 5x the API-equivalent value of OpenAI. Labs adjust limits to protect margins: Anthropic reduces value for higher-end models; OpenAI cuts limits broadly. Chinese labs and third-party wrappers remain less subsidized.
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Francis Halzen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2026 for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.
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The post discusses practical emergency preparedness to protect loved ones during an arrest or crisis, emphasizing not just “where” someone is but concrete steps to act fast. It covers: carrying a printed contact cheatsheet for phones and wallets; creating a dedicated emergency number that rings multiple people via VoIP.ms with a ring group; maintaining a shared, sensitive contacts spreadsheet with key information and pre-vetted lawyers; selective location sharing (Google Maps after trying FOSS options); and regularly testing the system, with a nod to a potential unified emergency-service solution.
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Analyzes P4313R1’s bitmask_type for enums and how C++ bitwise ops promote to int, even for bool-backed types. The complement of true yields -2, which cast back to bool becomes true, a counterintuitive result. Unscoped enums with no fixed underlying type can produce undefined behavior when results are cast back from bitwise ops. Compilers diverge on complement behavior; floating-point conversions to bool-backed enums add more quirks. Remedies: avoid bool as underlying type, use a concept to detect unfixed enums, and constrain or test casts carefully when extending enums with bitmask ops.
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Experimenting with joyful accountability, the author uses a music-based system: when one completes a task, they can send a song to the other, turning accountability into a positive exchange. Traditional accountability bets, discussed from Thinking Fast and Slow, can stress and erode intrinsic motivation, though they work for big goals. The music approach avoids stress, instead rewarding progress and sharing joy, making it well suited for recurring small tasks; bets may still be needed for large, difficult work.
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Entombed is an Atari 2600 maze-generation algorithm that builds a maze one row at a time from a fixed five-neighbor lookup table. With only 128 bytes of RAM, the original game scrolls upward and never stores a full maze, using a mystery table to produce walls, passages, or random bits; two correction passes prevent repetition. The author implements a raycaster variant, encoding each row as a 32-bit bitmask, keeps all generated rows, and allows walls to be broken. They adapted the C version from 3DSage, added a Backrooms skin, and released a Three.js browser demo by Claude, with links to the repo and references.
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Radware Bot Manager CAPTCHA asks users to prove they are human by ticking a box to keep the site safe. If you can’t complete it, contact support with a screenshot via the provided link. Incident ID: 2b8fa64d-cnvj-42d9-b9e6-68a8558917bf.
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An enthusiast shows how to re-enable iChat AV on Leopard by recreating Apple’s SNATMAP lookup. After early TLS redirects caused failures, they reverse-engineered the UDP SNATMAP protocol (port 5678) and built a self-hosted SNATMAP server with a Python implementation. They provide a spec and testing setup, plus self-hosting steps: host snatmap.txt at /configurations/macosx/ichat/1/snatmap.txt and map configuration.apple.com to your server via /etc/hosts; or use the author's server for a few users. In a lab with two NATs, two Macs can chat over the Internet; iChat doesn’t require an iSight.
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An amused dad recounts a day with his four-year-old, Guy, who insists on 'wood tape' and a trip to the hardware store. Guy leads the shopping, choosing tape, paint, and lumber, while the dad stays mostly in the background. In the end, the 'wood tape' turns out to be masking tape for painting a checkerboard table for Guy’s tree house. The boy had planned the project all along, not improvised purchases. The dad is overwhelmed with pride and gratitude for his son's thoughtfulness and their shared effort.
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Common Lisp is the best language today, especially with large-language-models. Its homoiconic code-as-data design and macros let you build domain-specific languages and tailor DSLs for your product, keeping changes aligned with a company’s domain opinions and cutting costs. Lisp’s image-based execution minimizes crashes; debuggers let LLMs fix problems quickly. Lisp programs tend to be shorter, reducing token costs and keeping more of the program in the LLM’s context. Despite a smaller library ecosystem (Quicklisp), porting or self-implementing code mitigates this. Hiring isn’t a barrier; teach Lisp in interviews. Cited: Paul Graham.
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photoc is a command-line toolset for photographers to review, organize, and share photos from the terminal. It can summarize shoots, read metadata, detect blur and duplicates, rename and sort photos into folders, generate contact sheets, and produce smaller copies while optionally removing GPS data. It supports JPEG and Sony ARW metadata (other RAWs not yet supported). It is read-only by default and never overwrites originals; changes require --apply or --in-place. Not a RAW developer or full image editor. Install via Homebrew or shell installer; Windows not supported yet. Includes commands like exif, stats, timeline, duplicates, focus, and scrub.
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Bradley’s review opens with nostalgia for Ordnance Survey pocket maps—orange 1:63,360 sheets, then magenta 1:50,000, then yellow 1:25,000—and notes how scale and format shaped navigating Britain. It frames Will Millard’s Mapping Britain: The Story of an Island through the Ordnance Survey Archives (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 256pp) but, as the paywalled piece suggests, offers only a hint rather than full analysis of the familiar maps.
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Rising diesel prices pushed 16 trucking companies into bankruptcy in late August/September, from small outfits to larger fleets. The squeeze hit margins and made it hard to pass costs to customers; one Florida Amazon contractor filed Chapter 11. Four Texas operators were among the bankruptcies, prompting a state disaster declaration to ease untaxed diesel use for agriculture. With winter demand and Middle East supply concerns, significant price relief before year-end seems unlikely.
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