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After a 3 May 2026 strike in southern Lebanon that killed an Israeli sergeant and wounded several others, Israel admitted its radio-jamming defenses cannot stop Hezbollah’s tether-controlled FPV drones and hastily launched a new counter-drone program.
After a 2 May 2026 collapse of Mayon’s active lava front triggered pyroclastic density currents and blanket ashfall, PHIVOLCS kept Alert Level 3, the aviation regulator closed the 6-km airspace, 4–5 thousand residents were moved to shelters, and officials are weighing an expansion of the ground danger zone from 6 km to 7 km.
On 2–3 May 2026 a reusable Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg at 23:59 PDT, deploying South Korea’s long-delayed CAS500-2 and 44 secondary payloads—most notably GalaxEye’s 190 kg Drishti, the world’s first OptoSAR satellite—while its first stage notched a record-tying 33rd flight and landing.
On 1-2 May 2026, the DoD formally authorized Google, Microsoft, AWS, Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX and Reflection to run their generative-AI models on secret and top-secret military networks, ending its single-vendor standoff with Anthropic.
University of Hawaiʻi researchers unveiled a data-only ocean model that reliably forecasts El Niño/La Niña up to 15 months earlier and is already projecting a >2 °C Niño 3.4 anomaly—signaling a strong to “super” El Niño—by late 2026.
On 2 May 2026, New Delhi fired a loud, full-screen “extremely severe” test warning to phones across all 36 states/UTs, debuting its indigenously-built cell-broadcast platform for real-time disaster alerts.
On 1 May 2026 the U.S. Defense Department finalized contracts with AWS, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI, SpaceX and newcomer Reflection AI to deploy their generative-AI tools on Impact-Level 6/7 classified systems, while keeping Anthropic barred after its March supply-chain-risk designation.
Beginning 2 March 2026, Hezbollah introduced first-person-view drones guided by up to 50 km of fibre-optic tether, conducting lethal strikes that bypass Israel’s multi-billion-dollar electronic-warfare dome.
At 21:00 Moscow time on 30 Apr 2026, Russia and Kazakhstan’s Baiterek launch pad sent the new two-stage Soyuz-5/Sunkar rocket on its maiden flight, which completed 9.5 minutes of powered ascent and delivered a dummy payload to the planned sub-orbital path without anomalies.
J. Craig Venter, the scientist–entrepreneur who jump-started the private race to decode the human genome, died in San Diego on 29 April 2026 from complications of cancer therapy at age 79.
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