An unauthenticated WebSocket flaw in the popular Marimo notebook (CVE-2026-39987, CVSS 9.3) was weaponized within 9 hours 41 minutes of disclosure, with credential theft completed in under three minutes. CISA has since added the bug to its KEV catalog with a May 7 federal deadline.
Beijing's National Development and Reform Commission ordered Meta and the AI agent startup Manus to undo their roughly $2 billion acquisition, capping a four-month review that began in January 2026 and citing concerns over the 'Singapore-washing' of a company with deep Chinese roots.
A Princeton-led reanalysis of 83.7 million TESS light curves used random forest classifiers to surface 11,554 planet candidates, including one confirmed hot Jupiter, by reaching stars 16 times fainter than prior searches.
San Francisco startup Humble unveiled the Humble Hauler, a fully autonomous, cabless Class 8 electric truck, after closing a $24 million seed round led by Eclipse to pursue dock-to-dock freight without a human cab.
Eli Lilly's deal with Bezos-backed Profluent funds AI-designed recombinases that aim to insert entire genes, going beyond CRISPR's localized cuts.
Independent teams publishing in Nature and Nature Communications show that doping infinite-layer nickelates with europium revives superconductivity at magnetic fields that should destroy it.
GitHub froze new Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student sign-ups on April 20 and announced a June 1 switch to AI Credits, with the Opus 4.7 multiplier rising from 7.5x to 27x.
Crystal 1.20.0 lands with a Linux io_uring event loop, CPU-feature targeting via @[TargetFeature], a new array-based Process API, kernel TLS, and a fix for an HTTP request-smuggling vulnerability.
The three-year agreement, equal to half of CATL's 2025 storage shipments, signals that sodium-ion has cleared its mass-production hurdles and is moving from pilot projects to grid-scale deployment.
Intel archived the GitHub repository that anchored its Open Ecosystem Community and Evangelism program on April 20, 2026, and shuttered several community-facing projects — the most visible step in a multi-quarter pullback that began with executive comments last October.
Elon Musk picked Intel's 14A process for Tesla's Terafab AI chip complex, handing the struggling Intel Foundry its first marquee external win for a node that is still years from volume production.
India's Sun Pharma will buy Merck spinoff Organon for $14 a share, vaulting into the global top 25 pharmaceutical companies and entering biosimilars at scale.