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The makers behind Netflix’s hit drama “Adolescence,” knew their series about a 13-year-old boy accused of murdering a female classmate was something special.
And while creators and executive producers Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne were thrilled after learning that the U.K. drama received 13 Emmy nominations in the limited series category, they were even more gratified that the collective efforts of the cast and crew were being honored.
“There was just something magical that happened with this show, and it was the true definition of an ensemble,” said Graham during a video interview with Thorne. The duo were nominated for writing and producing the drama, and Graham was also nominated as lead actor for his portrayal of the devastated father of the teen suspect.
“My true gratitude is not the fact that we got 13 nominations. It’s the fact that every single person, every single player, every single part of the crew is being acknowledged for what we achieved as a collective,” Graham said. “What we do is not a game of golf. We managed this collective consciousness between us.”
The four-episode series became one of the buzziest dramas of the year, and was highly praised for its approach of filming each installment in a single camera shot.
Thorne said of the hoopla surrounding the series, “I think we got very lucky in capturing a particular time, place and mood. We also got lucky with all the people we worked with.”
Win or lose, plans are already being formed for an Emmy night celebration.
“Stephen just declared that we’re all going to the Emmys in a minibus,” Thorne said. “We’re all going to stand on the red carpet as one. That will be really special.”
The minibus passengers will include Owen Cooper, who played the young suspect, and Erin Doherty, who played a psychologist. The two, who were both nominated in supporting actor categories, starred in the drama’s third episode where their characters engaged in a tense battle of wills.
Cooper and Doherty discussed the show and their nominations in a separate video interview.
Congratulations on your nominations and amazing performances. Where were you when you got the news?
Cooper: I was in my living room and I put on the TV. Then I found it we got 13 nominations. It’s just crazy.
Doherty: To be fair, I avoided it. So I was waiting for my phone to ring. My agent told me, “I’ll ring you either way.” Then she started phoning me and I thought, “Oh, what, is this going to me?” And all those nominations came in. I’m so over the moon for the show.
Owen, you’re making history as the youngest Primetime Emmy nominee in a limited series .
Cooper: I heard about that the other day. It’s hard to even think about that stuff, to be honest. It’s crazy. I don’t even know how to put that into words, really.
Did both of you know at the time you were doing the third episode that you were creating something really special?
Cooper: Yes. We knew it would hit many homes, and that it would create conversations. We didn’t know it would get 13 nominations. That’s just the cherry on top. The success of the show has been mind-blowing.
Doherty: We knew everyone who was participating on and off the screen wanted to be a part of this, having the courage to address this subject matter. We knew the importance of the story. You never know if something like this is going to hit the way that this has.
Owen, what impressed you the most about Erin’s performance?
Cooper: The fact that she could just think of things to say off the spot. I would put attitude into the line and she would put even more attitude into it.
And Erin?
Doherty: I would say the exact same thing. Like he would start yawning and start throwing around different things. It felt like the most exciting game of tennis that I’ve been a part of. You don’t get that every day with actors who have been doing this for 40 years. Owen has the ability and skill and bravery. For him to throw himself into this environment, which is nerve-wracking, overwhelming and over-stimulating. To have the ability to stay centered and be present with each other is really rare. I’m so, so proud of him and that I got to be there for his first go, because he’s going to be doing this for years and years and years.
I know it’s early, but any thoughts on how you’ll feel on Emmy night?
Cooper: I don’t think I’ll be nervous. I don’t care if I win. I’ll just get there, eat nice food, meet a lot of people. And I’ll be in L.A. where the weather is nice. I’m not bothered by the result at the end of the day.
Doherty: We’ve won. The show got 13 nominations. We’re all going to be there. It’s just going to be the best night ever. We’re going to treat it like a big party.
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Today we’re launching a new type of content for The New Stack’s frontend and web application coverage: Developer profiles. If you’d like to be featured, please contact loraine@thenewstack.io and tell us a bit about why we should cover your site creation or revamp.
Kent Dodds is a web developer, educator and a co-founder of the framework, Remix. He’s also the creator of Epic Stack, an opinionated full app starter pack. He outlined his Epic Stack web choices for The New Stack a few years ago, so we thought it’d be worthwhile to check in and — in light of the emergence of post-React frameworks — see how Dodds felt about those same choices today. He described the technical stack for his personal website back in 2021. The conversation is edited for brevity.
Your framework of choice for your website was Remix, (now React Router 7). Would you still recommend Remix?
I actually built my site with Remix first and then I joined as a co-founder later because I enjoyed it so much. What was Remix when I built my site is now React Router Version 7, and that’s what I use and recommend for anybody building web applications.
Why was Remix right for you?
It has a number of things that I love about it. I actually have a blog post titled Why I Love Remix, and that is still relevant today but the basic idea is it has a really great model for managing state, like global state that comes from the server and keeping those mutations up to date.
The progressive enhancement story is also very good and it’s also the most widely used framework in the world, as it’s the most widely used React framework in the world. And React is widely used. To be clear, it’s not the most widely deployed. The most widely deployed is WordPress still, but as far as developers who can work on this and the mind share, React Router version 7, specifically, but React Router in general is the most popular React framework.
Would you recommend Remix for developer portfolio sites?
Not necessarily. For myself, I would definitely use Remix or React Router v7 for any site that I build, but for developer portfolio sites, they’re pretty simple — a handful of blog posts. They can be statically generated and just use server HTML. You can do all of that with React Router.
If you want to keep it simple, it is very easy to keep simple, but there are other tools that are more catered to that use case and have lots of useful bits in them. Astro comes to mind. So if what you’re building is really, really simple, then another framework might have more catered tools for that specific use case of a developer portfolio site.
My site was built intentionally over-scoped so I added a lot of features that you would not typically add for a developer portfolio site. I would not refer to my site as a developer portfolio site. It is a web application that I over-scoped for purposes of making it real-world realistic, so that I could then turn around and teach people how I built that — and that’s what I did with Epic Web.
Is there anything in your frontend stack that you are rethinking?
I have no desire to leave React Router. When Remix version 3, the new Remix that’s a completely ground-up Remix, comes out, I will evaluate the value in migrating my site to that. But other than that, I’m really happy with it.
Would you still use Node.js over some of the newer offerings such as Deno or Bun?
I do still use Node for everything. The latest version of how I build web applications is actually in the Epic Stack. I took what I built with my personal website and I stripped away everything that was really specific to my use case and created the epic stack. And so it’s a project starter and generator that people can use. It’s open source. On GitHub. And so if you want to see what the latest of my recommendations are, that’s it, and it does still use node.
If I had to choose between Deno and Bun, I would choose Bun. I can’t really explain why. I just like the vibe of Bun better. I have deployed Hello Worlds in every one of them. Bun is pretty interesting. Its focus on performance is pretty cool.
But I haven’t felt so strongly about that to decide to change everything.
What’s the first decision you make when building a website?
It just depends so much on the context of why the website is for. I threw together a site using a vibe coding tool the other day, because it was a really simple thing. I threw together a site and I hosted it on Netlify. If I’m going to build something that I think is a long-lasting product that I want to maintain, then the first decision I make is to use the Epic Stack, because the Epic Stack has already made a bunch of decisions, and I made those decisions. There’s the decisions document here in the Epic Stack that explains all the different decisions that were made.
Kent Dodds, Remix co-founder and creator of The Epic Stack, explain his development decisions in this profile.
What is the number one thing you look at when deciding where to host a site?
First, it’s got to be capable of the requirements — that’s going to be the number one thing; not everywhere is capable of doing the things that you want to do, and depending on your requirements, some hosting providers are going to be easier to use than others. If it’s just a static site, then I probably wouldn’t use Fly.io to host that […] But if we’re talking about a non-static site, like a really dynamic site, then yeah, I definitely would use Fly.
I am also looking into Cloudflare. Cloudflare is really interesting, especially with their container support, so now its capabilities have expanded immensely. But even still, I really like the fact that on fly, I can just have a single box. I can have everything on there that I need, and I don’t need to have multiple services that need to integrate and talk to each other, whatever. So I like that about Fly, but Cloudflare is looking really interesting for even those advanced use cases as well.
And to be clear, like it’s absolutely capable of those really advanced use cases, it’s just a matter of do I want to wire up a bunch of different services together or internally to Cloudflare? It’s all services within Cloudflare, or do I want to just have a single box, like a single Docker file that handles everything?
For me, the single Docker file, as much as I don’t like Docker, or as much as Docker is challenging, it is really nice to just have one portable thing makes reproducing the environment a lot easier.
Do you have a frontend secret weapon — something you use that maybe isn’t as well-known or popular but that you just love and would recommend?
I don’t think a lot of people know about MSW, (Editor’s Note: Mock Service Worker is a library that enables API mocking in both browser and Node.js environments.) That is kind of a secret weapon.
If you check out the Epic Stack, and also my personal website, I use MSW to mock third-party services or external services so that I can work offline, or like I go up in the mountains and I work where there is no internet connection. And in addition, if those services go down, it doesn’t affect my local development. It makes it way, way easier to test. It makes it easier to develop.
The name is a bit of a misnomer because I run it on in Node on the backend, pretty much exclusively. So there’s no service worker there, but it is fabulous. And fun fact, the creator, Artem Zakharchenko, is also an instructor on Epic Web, and he is recreating testing javascript.com on Epic Web, and he’s doing a fabulous job.
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The radius of a planet is a fundamental parameter that probes its composition and habitability. Precise radius measurements are typically derived from the fraction of starlight blocked when a planet transits its host star. NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered hundreds of new exoplanets, but its low angular resolution means that the light from a star hosting a transiting exoplanet can be blended with the light from background stars. If not fully corrected, this extra light can dilute the transit signal and result in a smaller measured planet radius. In an analysis of TESS planet discoveries, astronomers at the University of California, Irvine show that systematically incorrect planet radii are common in the scientific literature.
An artist’s impression of a gas-giant exoplanet and its parent red dwarf star. Image credit: Sci.News.
“We found that hundreds of exoplanets are larger than they appear, and that shifts our understanding of exoplanets on a large scale,” said Te Han, a doctoral student at the University of California, Irvine.
“This means we may have actually found fewer Earth-like planets so far than we thought.”
Astronomers can’t observe exoplanets directly. They have to wait for a planet to pass in front of its host star, and then they measure the very subtle drop in light emanating from a star.
“We’re basically measuring the shadow of the planet,” said University of California, Irvine’s Professor Paul Robertson.
In their research, the authors studied observations of hundreds of exoplanets observed by TESS.
They found that light from neighboring stars can ‘contaminate’ the light of a star an astronomer is studying.
This can make any planet that’s passing in front of a star appear smaller than it truly is, because smaller planets block less light than bigger planets.
The astronomers assembled hundreds of studies describing exoplanets discovered by TESS.
They sorted the planets according to how various research teams measured the radii of exoplanets so they could estimate with the help of a computer model the degree to which those measurements were biased because of light contamination from neighboring stars.
They used observations from ESA’s Gaia satellite to help them estimate just how much light contamination is affecting TESS’ observations.
“TESS data are contaminated, which the custom model corrects better than anyone else in the field,” Professor Robertson said.
“What we find in this study is that these planets may systematically be larger than we initially thought.”
“It raises the question: Just how common are Earth-sized planets?”
The number of exoplanets thought to be similar in size to Earth was already small.
“Of the single-planet systems discovered by TESS so far, only three were thought to be similar to Earth in their composition,” Han said.
“With this new finding, all of them are actually bigger than we thought.”
That means that, rather than being rocky planets like Earth, the planets are more likely so-called water worlds (planets covered by one giant ocean that tend to be larger than Earth) or even larger, gaseous planets like Uranus or Neptune.
This could impact the search for life on distant planets, because while water worlds may harbor life, they may also lack the same kinds of features that help life flourish on planets like Earth.
“This has important implications for our understanding of exoplanets, including among other things prioritization for follow-up observations with the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, and the controversial existence of a galactic population of water worlds,” Professor Roberston said.
The study was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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Te Han et al. 2025. Hundreds of TESS Exoplanets Might Be Larger than We Thought. ApJL 988, L4; doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ade794
The federal government has once again raised petrol and diesel prices, following a continued upward trend in global crude oil prices.
According to a notification issued by the Finance Division late Tuesday night, petrol price has been raised by Rs5.36 per litre, while diesel has been increased by Rs11.37 per litre.
The price of petrol has increased from Rs266.79 to Rs272.15 per litre, while high-speed diesel (HSD) now costs Rs284.35 per litre, up from the previous Rs272.98.
This revision will take effect immediately from July 16 for next 15 days, impacting millions of motorists and transport operators across the country.
The government stated that the rise in fuel prices is a result of fluctuating international market trends, which have driven up global oil prices.
Fuel prices in Pakistan are reviewed fortnightly, with adjustments based on changes in international oil prices and the local currency exchange rate.
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On July 1, the federal government had increased petrol and diesel prices significantly for the first fortnight of the month, attributing the hike to global market volatility amid the 12-day Iran-Israel conflict.
Petrol rose by Rs8.36 to Rs266.79 per litre, and high-speed diesel by Rs10.39 to Rs272.98, based on the Oil and Gas Regulatory Authority’s recommendation. Pakistan, which imports around 85% of its petroleum needs, was directly impacted by the Middle East crisis.
Surveillance data from a network of Canadian acute-care hospitals suggests that the incidence of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) infection and colonization is low but increasing exponentially, according to a study published last week in Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control.
Using data from the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP), a team led by researchers with the Public Health Agency of Canada analyzed eligible CPE isolates submitted by participating hospitals from 2010 through 2023, along with microbiologic data and data on patient characteristics and outcomes.
A previous analysis of CNISP data from 2010 through 2014 found no significant increase in incidence of CPE, which are resistant to multiple antibiotic classes, but increasing trends in CPE incidence have been reported in Canadian hospitals in recent years.
A total of 138 CPE infections were reported by 97 hospitals in 2023, for an incidence rate of 0.14 per 10,000 patient-days, up from 0.03 per 10,000 patient-days in 2010. CPE colonization incidence rose from 0.02 to 0.78 per 10,000 patient-days over the same period.
The analysis also identified rising rates of healthcare-associated (HA) CPE infections from 2019 through 2023 (0.05 to 0.09 per 10,000 patient-days), primarily from 7 hospitals that accounted for 53% of all HA-CPE infections in 2023.
Carbapenemases were most frequently detected in Escherichia coli (29%), Klebsiella pneumoniae (22%), and Enterobacter cloacae complex (16%). The most frequently identified carbapenemase families were blaKPC (46%), blaNDM (29%), and blaOXA-48 (16%).
Hospital transmission is driving the increase
The median age of patients was 67 years, and pre-existing comorbidities were common (84%). Thirty-day all-cause mortality was 19%. Most patients did not report international travel (66%) or receipt of medical care abroad (74%)—two factors that have previously been associated with CPE infection and colonization.
The study authors say the observed exponential growth is a warning that current infection-control measures in Canadian hospitals are insufficient to prevent CPE transmission.
“Our findings suggest that nosocomial transmission is driving the recent increase in CPE incidence in Canada,” they wrote. “Improved infection control measures and antimicrobial stewardship as well as access to newer antimicrobials are all urgently needed.”
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The stock is in danger of suffering its first loss in six sessions as bitcoin prices pull back
Shares of MicroStrategy Inc. were in danger of suffering their first loss in six sessions on Tuesday, as bitcoin prices fell and Wall Street’s only bearish analyst on the company made his case for why investors should sell.
MicroStrategy’s stock (MSTR) was falling 1.5% in afternoon trading, after rallying 14% amid a five-day win streak that took it to an eight-month closing high on Monday. Meanwhile, bitcoin (BTCUSD) dropped 2.4% Tuesday afternoon, after rising 10.7% amid a five-day win streak through Monday’s record close.
MicroStrategy, which is doing business as Strategy, is business-analytics software company, but the stock has acted more like a cryptocurrency play since Executive Chair Michael Saylor said in August 2020 that the company was adopting bitcoin as its primary treasury-reserve asset.
The correlation coefficient between MicroStrategy’s stock and bitcoin since then has been a very high 0.93, in which a reading of 1.00 means they move exactly in sync. In comparison, the stock’s correlation with iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF IGV has been 0.86 over the same time, while the correlation with the S&P 500 index SPX has been 0.87.
On Monday, the company disclosed a purchase of another 4,225 bitcoin tokens last week, the 16th week in the past 18 that it has bought bitcoin. MicroStrategy has spent a total of $42.87 billion over the past five years to acquire 601,550 tokens, a position now worth $70.44 billion at current prices.
Monness Crespi Hardt analyst Gus Gala reiterated his sell rating on the stock, as his $200 price target implies 55.5% downside from current levels. That not only makes Gala the only one, among the 17 analysts who cover MicroStrategy tracked by FactSet, who is bearish on the stock, but also the only one who isn’t bullish.
Even with Gala’s outlier price target, the average analyst price target is $536, which implies 19.1% upside.
It’s not so much the focus on bitcoin that concerns Gala, but how MicroStrategy acquires them. The company is currently operating under a 42/42 capital plan, in which it can issue up to $42 billion worth of common stock and up to $42 billion worth of preferred stock and convertible debt, and use the money raised to buy bitcoin.
What worries Gala is that so far the capital raise has been heavily weighted toward selling new common shares, which dilutes current shareholders. Last week, the percentage of money raised through common-share sales – $330.9 million – represented 70% of the total raise of $472.3 million.
Based on the company’s quarterly filing, MicroStrategy had a total of roughly 273.4 million shares outstanding as of May 2 – up from around 257.4 million shares as of Feb. 4. And just before bitcoin was adopted as its primary treasury asset, there were nearly 96.9 million split-adjusted shares outstanding as of July 20, 2020, which adjusts for the 10-for-1 stock split that was enacted in August 2024.
To put that in perspective, an investor who owned a split adjusted 1,000 shares in MicroStrategy on July 20, 2020 owned 0.001% of the shares outstanding. All the stock sales since then to buy bitcoin has diluted that ownership, as the same 1,000-share stake now represents just 0.0004% of the shares outstanding.
And Gala notes that the company has a lot more shares to issue and sell. As of July 13, the company could still sell $17.78 billion worth of common stock and $26.52 billion worth of preferred stock.
While selling preferred stock is less dilutive, Gala said that the dividend payments required “continue to grow and highlight a potential concern down the road.”
He said if all the preferred stock available to sell were actually sold, “the cost to service dividends on these continues to be premised on either further dilution [and/or] capital raises,” through new instruments and/or bitcoin sales.
Still, MicroStrategy’s stock has run up 53.4% this year, while bitcoin has climbed 25.3%, the iShares Expanded Tech-Software Sector ETF has gained 9.1% and the S&P 500 has tacked on 6.4%.
-Tomi Kilgore
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