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In the first week of April 2026 Microsoft simultaneously warned users that Copilot is merely “for entertainment purposes” and told staff it had met aggressive targets after shifting from free bundling to $30-$99 paid plans, signalling a liability-shield plus monetization overhaul of its flagship AI.
On 6 April 2026 the Pentagon ordered nearly its full inventory of long-range JASSM-ER cruise missiles moved from Pacific and other depots to CENTCOM and UK bases, after expending over 1,000 of the 2,300 missiles in the war’s first month.
On 6 April 2026, the four-person Artemis II crew swung 6,550 km above the Moon’s far side, breaking the 1970 Apollo 13 distance record by 4,102 miles during a seven-hour flyby that marked humanity’s first crewed return to deep-lunar space in 54 years.
NASA’s four-person Artemis II crew has crossed the halfway mark and will skim 5,000 mi above the Moon on 6 Apr 2026, reaching a record 252,757 mi from Earth and witnessing a total solar eclipse unseen from our planet.
On 5 April 2026, NASA’s Orion carrying four Artemis II astronauts passed the mission’s midpoint and entered the Moon’s gravitational sphere, clearing the last checkouts before a 4,000-mile-altitude fly-by—the first human return to deep-lunar space in 54 years.
A 3 April 2026 push by Moscow to choke off VPN traffic overloaded filtering systems, briefly crashing card-payment networks country-wide even as 65 million Russians continued accessing Telegram daily through VPNs.
Between 1–3 Apr 2026, NASA’s SLS rocket launched four astronauts aboard Orion and, after a 5 min 50 s European Service Module burn, committed the capsule to a 10-day free-return trajectory around the Moon.
On 2–3 Apr 2026 Google dumped its proprietary Gemma license and released the four-size Gemma 4 model family (2B, 4B, 26B-MoE, 31B-Dense) under Apache 2.0, letting developers run state-of-the-art multimodal LLMs entirely on devices ranging from smartphones to a single 80 GB H100 GPU.
For the first time since 2020, Apple pushed a same-day security backport—iOS 18.7.7 on 1 Apr 2026—to every device still on iOS 18, including the roughly 25 % of iPhones that could run iOS 26 but refused the upgrade, closing the DarkSword zero-click spyware hole without forcing the controversial “Liquid Glass” interface.
On 1 April 2026 at 6:35 p.m. EDT NASA’s Space Launch System successfully launched the Orion capsule with four astronauts for a 10-day free-return loop around the Moon, inaugurating humanity’s first crewed deep-space mission in 53 years.
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