NASA's Roman Space Telescope launched on its mission to survey the infrared sky, while ESA's BepiColombo settled into its arrival at Mercury. Hubble spotted a strange decagon-shaped pattern encircling Saturn's south pole, and a NASA sounding rocket took the first multi-point look inside the radio-disrupting clouds that scramble signals near Earth.
On the ground, the world's biggest dark matter detector flagged a single unexplained particle worth digging into. DeepMind rolled out WeatherNext 3, which it's calling its most accurate global weather model yet, and researchers used AI to scan thousands of Gaia survey stars, bringing rare hot subdwarfs into focus. In Washington state, artificial beaver dams pushed juvenile coho salmon survival from 8% to 60%.
Audacity 4 shipped with its biggest UI overhaul in years, finally shedding its early-2000s look. Sony made a pointed claim about what game ownership actually means, and Tesla's Cybercab is being framed as a make-or-break moment for the company. Anthropic quietly started auto-signing out Claude users as a security move, and Ugreen is betting its new smart home line on local AI hubs instead of the cloud.
