Internet Highlights - April 2026 Edition

As is tradition - but equally delayed by a few days because of The Circumstances - I’ve kept a hold of the most interesting things I discovered on our wild and occasionally-wonderful internet in April, and now offer them up to you as a curated offering with only some mild promotional affect. None of these items are on the list as a result of any kind of sponsorship or promotional agreement. I just think they’re neat. It turns out the Curiosity rover data from Mars indicates yet stronger evidence for a past biosphere, which is both “expected result” and really cool news, which is probably why Popsci are the only ones seeming to cover it. Studio MOS-8502 has recently released Gridlocker, a tetronimos-meets-pipedream game for the Commodore 64. The game is provided in a format that should allow full compatibility with any emulator or even the original hardware if you have a way to get the file onto the thang ding, and the game itself looks really fun, with a really fast development cycle.…