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Mumbai Police have deployed fifteen teams following a shooting targeting Bollywood action star Tiger Shroff's vehicle Sunday evening. No arrests had been made by Monday morning, and two major film industry bodies are publicly warning that gangsters are deliberately trying to terrorize the entertainment sector, calling on authorities to do more.
Shifting to a story that lives at the intersection of technology and nostalgia, a developer has released a native PC recompilation of the nineteen ninety-four Super Nintendo game The Lion King. Rather than emulation, the project rebuilds the original code to run directly on modern hardware, a technically ambitious approach that's drawing attention from retro gaming and software preservation communities alike.
And finally, a tale that feels ripped from every workplace ever. A reader column at The Register this week features an electrical engineering student from the late nineteen nineties who, fed up with relentless office pranks, took matters into his own hands and wiped a colleague's disk. It's a reminder that humans have been finding creative, if questionable, ways to solve interpersonal problems with technology for a very long time.
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