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  Elder statesman of cryptography Bruce Schneier on the impacts of AI on financial, political and computer systems. Sounds dry, but isn't. Essential viewing! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eEBv0STiYhI

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  Rising gas prices have led to more calls for the UK govt to approve new gas extraction license applications in the North Sea. UK gov estimates between 100 and 200 billion m³ (bcm) of gas remain in the UK areas of the North Sea. More optimistic industry estimates are of up to 450 bcm. UK annual consumption is currently 65 bcm. So at current rates, reserves are ~ 3 years of total usage (maybe as much as 7 years, maybe as little as 1.5 years)...

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  Gas providing <4% (1.37 GW) of GB electricity grid generation just now. I haven't been keeping track, but this might be a new record low? The remaining gas is only there for grid stability reasons, and grid-scale battery storage is gradually eating up this market for gas generators too. Graph from the excellent https://grid.iamkate.com/ by @katemorley

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  A petition to British energy retailers to breakdown the beneficiaries of domestic consumers' electricity standing charge payments (circa £200 every year) on their energy bills. Currently, these are mysterious unexplained opaque fixed charges that they must bear - https://www.jonathantracey.com/openletter A big chunk of them go to regional monopoly "network operators" companies which are insufficiently unaccountable.

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  @neil A little bit of today was spent developing a patch to the software which runs on my backup server, so that when no backups are in progress the server goes into a lower power state (suspend to RAM, but it could equally suspend to disk or even go into full standby).

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  This review is a work of art. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L3oO510dyVI