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Marcin Wichary unearths a late-90s Super Metroid guide whose author fully justified 17,000 words of monospace ASCII with no software at all — he rewrote every line, choosing words so each right margin lands exactly on the column edge.
Ben Thompson argues Meta's settlement is rational for everyone involved, yet the whole saga shows why every proposed framework for regulating content on platforms ends up feeling wrong.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is up: a Hubble-class mirror with a field of view 100x wider, aimed at dark energy and exoplanet surveys. Trump phoned into the NASA news conference after the successful launch.
Central bankers at Jackson Hole spent the weekend gaming out what mass AI-driven labor displacement and AI-concentrated market power would do to monetary policy — a notable shift from treating AI as a productivity footnote.