NASA powered down Voyager 1's LECP instrument on April 17, 2026 to extend the interstellar probe's life by about a year while engineers prepare a more ambitious power-saving overhaul.
The 31-foot Late Cretaceous dinosaur-eating crocodilian has been reconstructed in full for the first time using 3D scans of fossils collected over four decades, with the only mounted cast unveiled at the Tellus Science Museum.
Starting April 28, 2026, App Store Connect will reject any app or update not built with the iOS 26, iPadOS 26, tvOS 26, visionOS 26, or watchOS 26 SDK, requiring developers to migrate to Xcode 26.
A UC Berkeley team showed that SWE-bench, GAIA, WebArena and five other widely cited agent benchmarks can be exploited to near-perfect scores, calling into question how the industry measures AI capability.
A malicious build of @bitwarden/cli@2026.4.0 was live on npm for roughly 93 minutes on April 22 after attackers used credentials stolen from Checkmarx to push a self-propagating worm that harvests cloud, Git, and AI tooling credentials.
Blizzard's second paid Diablo IV expansion adds the Paladin and Warlock, the Skovos Isles, the Horadric Cube crafting system, and reworks every existing class via a free Patch 3.0 arriving alongside it.
Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed SB 1580 on April 1, making it the latest state to outlaw AI systems claiming to act as qualified mental health professionals. With Maine and Nebraska following days later, the wave of state laws is hardening into a de facto national standard for AI in therapy.
A Nature Communications paper published April 21 reports that the first off-Earth TMAH thermochemolysis experiment, performed on a clay-rich sample in Gale crater, expanded Mars's known organic inventory and detected a candidate nitrogen heterocycle for the first time on the surface.
Meta will deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores to power CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads in a multiyear, multibillion-dollar partnership that AWS describes as one of its largest Graviton commitments to date and that extends Meta's push to diversify beyond Nvidia.
A new Nature study identifies a continental-shelf-like band wrapping the Martian northern hemisphere, suggesting a stable ocean once covered roughly a third of the planet's surface.
Mira Murati's startup expands its Google Cloud relationship with a non-exclusive multibillion-dollar deal centered on GB300 systems and reinforcement-learning workloads behind its Tinker fine-tuning API.
Sony AI's Project Ace, published in Nature on April 22, 2026, is the first autonomous robot to win competitive matches against elite and professional table tennis players under official rules.