Fervo Energy just sent power from its first enhanced geothermal plant to the grid, a day early, and a site that could eventually hit 4 gigawatts. The first block took 23 months to build; future ones could take as little as 18.

— via TechCrunch, Tim De Chant

Amazon's new $34.99 Kindle Click lets readers turn pages without touching the screen, a feature aimed at treadmill reading and under-the-covers sessions. It works with new Kindles and 2024-and-later models, and costs more than similar remotes from Kobo and BOOX.

— via TechCrunch, Lauren Forristal

Legato's new $999 glasses hide hearing aids in their arms, using AI to isolate voices from noise instead of directional microphones. Dual speakers aim sound at the wearer and cancel it elsewhere, cutting leakage by 99% just inches from the ear.

— via TechCrunch, Aisha Malik

A virtual cell built from protein data, not full genomic simulation, is now predicting how triple-negative breast cancer patients will respond to specific drugs. The Chinese-built AI model beat existing treatment-matching methods and flagged untested drug combinations that may work better.

— via 3 Quarks Daily, Azra Raza

A surgeon learns of his mother's brain metastases mid-shift, then walks back into theatre. The piece traces how tumours, stressed brains and collapsing systems all hide the same thing: years of strain behind a facade of normal function, until the threshold breaks.

— via Psyche (Aeon sister), Sasi S Senga

A routine TLS 1.3 upgrade quietly broke Route 53's health checks, silently rerouting traffic across regions and taking roughly forty minutes to diagnose. The incident exposes why high availability and resilience aren't the same thing, and why untested failover paths are just assumptions.

— via InfoQ, Alexey Golev

Two rejections at SpaceX and Google didn't stop Rama Afullo: he built the software anyway, and this week it launches on the same SpaceX rocket as Google's own orbital data center prototype. Satlyt skips building satellites entirely, betting on an "Android for space computing" model that already cut one satellite's error transmissions by more than 60%.

— via TechCrunch, Tim Fernholz

In 1901, a military analyst declared history useless for soldiers, then used Civil War lessons to make his sharpest predictions and his worst ones. His case against the past offers a warning for today's push to trade strategy and history for technical training on AI and drones.

— via War on the Rocks, Michael P. Ferguson

AI already drives target selection in real combat, the author argues, and the debate over human oversight is aimed at the wrong moment. The real risk isn't the final strike decision: it's the algorithmic mediation happening earlier in the targeting cycle, before commanders ever see a recommendation.

— via Small Wars Journal, Jesse R. Crifasi

A former Truth and Reconciliation Commission co-chair says Mark Carney's economic reconciliation push is missing a leg. Wilton Littlechild warns fast-tracked project approvals sideline treaty rights and traditional economies like hunting and trapping.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission counted 3,200 child deaths at residential schools, but researchers still combing millions of records say the real toll could be far higher. Wednesday marks the fifth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, with ceremonies on Parliament Hill and across the country, and Prime Minister Mark Carney speaking in Edmonton.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

A weekend banner display by apparent white nationalists at Tk'emlups te Secwepemc has pushed BC's election campaign into confronting residential school denialism head-on. NDP Leader David Eby is marking Truth and Reconciliation Day on the reserve itself, as a regional chief demands denialism be classified as hate speech.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

A national day of mourning collides with sharp political fights: a former truth commission co-chair says Carney's economic reconciliation plan sidelines Indigenous rights, Poilievre tours Alberta ahead of an Oct. 19 separation vote, and Quebec's election enters its final week. Plus, Trump's Lake Ontario jab accidentally becomes a marketing boon.

— via Vancouver Is Awesome, author

A pilot stabbed his co-pilot mid-flight and tried to crash a FlyDubai jet carrying dozens of Israelis, plunging 16,000 feet in under a minute before passengers and crew broke into the cockpit and wrestled control back. The plane made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia, where the attacker was arrested.

— via PBS NewsHour, Samy Magdy, Associated Press

A storm's remnants left small New Mexico towns evacuating over fears a dam could fail, as floodwaters swamped roadways across the Southwest.

— via NPR, The Associated Press

A New Mexico lawyer told judges ChatGPT generated "wholly fabricated witnesses" in a murder appeal, including two people who never existed testifying about threats and the shooter's clothing. His defense: he figured AI worked since he'd heard doctors use it for research.

— via 404 Media, Samantha Cole

Restate wasn't built for AI agents, but it turned out to be a perfect match for their unpredictable, crash-prone workflows. The Berlin startup just raised $20 million to challenge Temporal, the category leader that landed $550 million at a $12.55 billion valuation this month.

— via TechCrunch, Marina Temkin

Effective altruists are demanding GitHub delete a "torture chamber" project subjecting local LLMs to simulated pain, insisting the bots suffer. The models aren't conscious, but a viral "pain axis" paper and Anthropic's own talk of "model welfare" fueled the panic anyway.

— via 404 Media, Jason Koebler

NASA, Canada and Germany just agreed to jointly build a ground-based test module for growing crops on the Moon, a step toward feeding astronauts near the lunar South Pole. The payoff isn't just food: the same plants could also scrub carbon dioxide and recycle water for crews headed to Mars.

— via NASA Breaking News

Seattle ranks fourth globally in a new Oxford Economics index, beating San Francisco, Tokyo and Berlin on a $632 billion GDP. So why does the mayor need a sales tax hike just to expand transit?

— via The Stranger, Charles Mudede

Archaeologists digging near the Vatican found 20 Anglo-Saxon coins fused together after 1,000 years underground, proof that England's medieval pilgrims traded in their own currency despite Roman law banning foreign money. More of these coins now turn up in Rome than papal ones.

— via Popular Science, Andrew Paul

SvelteKit 3 hits release candidate, killing the $lib alias for a native #lib import that requires file extensions, and moving config out of svelte.config.js entirely. Rich Harris admits it's a tradeoff he fears could spark a "revolt," while remote functions stay experimental for now.

— via InfoQ, Daniel Curtis

A developer had an AI agent rebuild Winamp from scratch in a single Saturday, complete with a working equalizer and three new themes, and skipped frameworks entirely. The experiment tests a hot take from the comments: AI can clone CRUD apps easily, but good UI design is still the thing that separates developers from the machines.

— via dev.to, Erik Hanchett