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Meta is developing an AI version of CEO Mark Zuckerberg designed to interact with employees.

NZXT and its billing partner Fragile Inc. have agreed to a 3.45 million preliminary settlement in a California District Court to resolve a class-action lawsuit over their controversial 'Flex' PC renta

*Retro Rewind – Video Store Simulator* is a PC simulation game developed by Blood Pact Studios (released March 17, 2026) that lets players manage their own early-'90s video rental store, handling task

Electric pickup startup Slate Auto recently announced it raised $650 million in a funding round as it nears production of its Slate Truck. The vehicle, scheduled for late 2

Ars Technica's article covers the newly released teaser trailer for *The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping*, the second Hunger Games prequel film adapted from Suzanne Collins' 2025 novel, which is

Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, following the U.S.-Israel war on Iran that began in late February 2026, has triggered a historic oil supply shock and sent global energy prices soaring. Despit

A report called 'KellyBench,' released by AI start-up General Reasoning, tested eight leading AI models in a virtual re-creation of the 2023–24 Premier League season, providing them with detailed hist

NASA's Artemis II mission — a nine-day lunar flyby that launched on April 1, 2026 — was the first crewed flight of the Artemis program and the first crewed flight beyond low Earth orbit since Apol...

NASA's Artemis II mission successfully concluded on April 10, 2026, when its four-person crew — Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, Mission Specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut J

A proposed class action against Sharp HealthCare alleges that clinicians used an AI scribe tool to record patient visits without patient consent, placing California's privacy regulations under rene...

A father named Brady Frey discovered that his 12-year-old daughter had falsely registered her Discord account as 18+; he only found out after her account was hacked and he became trapped in a spir...

F1's 2026 power unit regulations introduced a true 50/50 hybrid split between the internal combustion engine and the electric motor (MGU-K), while eliminating the MGU-H entirely — a change that has...

NASA's Artemis II Orion capsule completed its reentry on April 10, 2026, entering Earth's upper atmosphere at approximately 7:53 p.m. EDT traveling at nearly 24,000 mph, subjecting the spacecraft t...

Microsoft overhauled the Windows Insider Program in April 2026, consolidating its previously confusing multi-channel structure into two primary channels — **Experimental** (replacing Dev and Canary...

A study published in *Science* (April 2026) by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences challenges the long-held view that Yellowstone's supervolcano is powered by a deep mantle plume, inst...

A 300-million-year-old fossil named *Pohlsepia mazonensis*, originally identified as the world's oldest octopus in 2000, has been reclassified in 2026 as a nautiloid — a relative of the modern naut...

I was unable to retrieve the specific April 2026 Ars Technica article titled *'Oobleck' still holds some surprises* from the search results. The search did not surface that article's content, and I...

During the Artemis II mission, a helium leak was identified within the oxidizer pressurization system of the European Service Module's propulsion system. The in-flight leak rate was 'an order of...

A pro-Iran group called Akhbar Enfejari ('Explosive News') has produced AI-generated videos styled after Lego animations to mock and troll U.S. President Donald Trump amid the ongoing U.S.-Iranian ...

The Trump administration has ordered Reddit to appear before a secret grand jury in Washington, D.C., demanding the personal data of an anonymous user who criticized ICE online, with a compliance d...

A weekly industry rocket news roundup highlighted three key developments: a Chinese Falcon 9-style reusable rocket suffered a launch failure, underscoring ongoing challenges facing China's growing ...

Leaked code strings discovered on April 7, 2026, by dataminer Gabe Follower in a Steam VR Beta update reveal references to an internal Valve AI system called 'SteamGPT,' which appears designed to ...

YouTube raised the price of its Premium subscription for all plan tiers, with increases ranging from $1 to $4 per month, effective for new subscribers immediately and rolling out to existing subscr...

As part of the evaluation of its Claude Mythos model, Anthropic engaged a clinical psychiatrist for approximately 20 hours of evaluation sessions, describing Mythos as 'the most psychologically se...

A CDC study found that the COVID-19 vaccine reduced the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by approximately half, but the CDC's acting dir...

A phase 1 clinical trial published in *Nature* (2026) demonstrated that a transformer base editor can effectively treat severe β-Thalassaemia by modifying patients' own CD34+ haematopoietic stem ce...

James Strahler II of Columbus, Ohio became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act — a federal law criminalizing the posting of nonconsensual explicit imagery, including AI-generated ...

After canceling its long-anticipated 'Model 2' affordable EV program in 2024 and pivoting toward robotaxis, Tesla is now reportedly developing an all-new compact electric SUV priced substantially b...

Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami announced at the company's .NEXT conference in Chicago that approximately 30,000 customers have migrated from VMware to Nutanix's hyperconverged platform since Broadcom'...

Pennsylvania State Police Corporal Stephen Kamnik used his department-issued computer to create AI-generated deepfake pornography of multiple women, drawing source images from the state's driver's ...

Following a courtroom defeat, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. rewrote the charter of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), broadening its membership criteria, increasing its focus on...

The Artemis II crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen — launched on April 1, 2026, sending the first humans toward the Moon since 1...

NASA's Artemis II mission, which launched April 1, 2026, sent four astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — on the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1...

A three-judge panel of Trump appointees on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — including Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, both veterans of Trump's first administration — denied Anthropic'...

The Trump administration's Department of Energy has invoked Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act — a provision granting broad emergency authority over the electricity system that had previously...

The world's largest known wild chimpanzee group — the roughly 200-member Ngogo community in Uganda's Kibale National Park — split in 2015 into two factions called Western and Central, after which t...

Volkswagen ended production of the ID.4 electric SUV at its Chattanooga, Tennessee plant in mid-April 2026, primarily due to a sharp drop in EV demand following the Trump administration's withdraw...

The Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is seeking unprecedented access to the medical records of millions of federal workers, retirees, and their families. The proposed re...