NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is off the ground, built to hunt dark energy and exoplanets. Deep Space Network keeps pace on the ground: a ribbon-cutting for Deep Space Station 23 and a new Goldstone antenna online the same week. ESA had its own show, launching Ariane 6 with the MTG-I2 weather satellite and watching BepiColombo begin its Mercury arrival.

Security had a rough stretch. METR and Redwood published a detailed postmortem on the HuggingFace hack, and it's grim reading. GrapheneOS confirmed the Pixel 11 drops hardware memory tagging support, a real regression for the project's security model. QubesOS has an arbitrary code execution bug in its copy-to-VM error reporting path, and Omarchy has a bug letting any user process escalate to root. Meanwhile the European Commission is reviving its push for encryption backdoors under the ProtectEU banner.

On the hardware side, robots keep creeping into real jobs: Meta is pushing them onto data center floors, and The Verge charts how far ahead China's robotics push has moved. A 12TB Steam leak surfaced decades of unreleased builds, including unseen Half-Life 2: Episode 3 assets, while a fully native, hand-coded PC port of Donkey Kong 64 landed with ultrawide support and no AI involved.