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NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope lifted off Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, now three months into a million-mile journey to its final orbit. The mission is designed to probe dark energy and dark matter, two of the most fundamental and least understood forces shaping the structure of the universe.
Shifting from the cosmos to the classics, a team of developers has delivered a fully native PC port of Donkey Kong sixty-four, recompiling the original Nintendo sixty-four code directly into C. The project, called DK sixty-four ReKONGpiled, brings ultrawide support, uncapped framerates, and notably, not a single line of AI-generated code — a distinction the team wears as a badge of pride.
And in a story that touches everyone who has ever unboxed a new laptop, the conversation around manufacturer bloatware is heating up again. Pre-installed software remains a persistent frustration for Windows eleven users, and critics are arguing that Microsoft has both the leverage and the responsibility to push hardware partners toward cleaner, less cluttered out-of-box experiences.
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