Tencent's Hunyuan team released HY-World 2.0 on April 16, an open-source multi-modal foundation model that converts text or images into editable 3D assets importable into Unity, Unreal, and Isaac Sim — a sharp break from video-only world models like Google's Genie 3.
Italian drugmaker Chiesi will pay $27 a share for KalVista Pharmaceuticals to acquire Ekterly, the first oral on-demand treatment for hereditary angioedema, in a deal expected to close in the third quarter.
CVE-2026-3854 let any authenticated user run code on GitHub's backend with a single git push. GitHub patched github.com in two hours on March 4; public disclosure on April 28 found most Enterprise Server instances still vulnerable.
The fourth release candidate for Elixir 1.20 lands ahead of a planned May 2026 final, capping the largest type-system milestone in the language's history with whole-function inference, cross-clause analysis, and a roughly 10% compiler speedup.
A Western University team led by Jan Cami used JWST's MIRI instrument to image planetary nebula Tc 1, finding C60 buckyballs confined to a hollow shell around the white dwarf and revealing an unexplained question-mark structure at the center.
Governor Wes Moore signed HB 895 on April 28, prohibiting large food retailers and delivery apps from using personal data to set individualized prices, but consumer advocates say loopholes and a 45-day cure period weaken the bill.
Matternet has launched commercial drone deliveries between two Central London NHS hospital campuses, marking its UK debut and the first urban deployment of an FAA Type-Certified delivery aircraft on British airspace.
Ontario Power Generation has placed the foundation module for the first BWRX-300 small modular reactor at Darlington, clearing the construction licence's first hold point and beginning above-ground reactor work on what is on track to be the G7's first commercial SMR.
The MHRA and HRA's largest regulatory overhaul in 20 years went live April 28, introducing notifiable trials, a 14-day automatic-approval modification route, and mandatory transparency for UK studies.
CISA's April 24 KEV update flags four actively exploited vulnerabilities tied to ransomware against managed service providers and Mirai DDoS botnets, with a May 8 federal patching deadline.
GitHub moved custom runner images out of preview on March 26, exposing a snapshot keyword that turns a workflow run into a versioned VM image — and Copilot's own cloud agent cut another 20 percent off its cold start using it.
Cloudflare's Gen 13 platform pairs AMD EPYC 9965 chips with FL2, a Rust rewrite of its NGINX-based proxy, doubling edge throughput while trading L3 cache for cores.