April 2026 Patch Tuesday: 167 fixes, active SharePoint zero-day, BlueHammer Windows Defender bug, emergency Adobe Reader update, Chrome zero-day, and AI-driven vulnerability increase.

Key facts about Scattered Spider member 'Tylerb' Buchanan's guilty plea: SMS phishing, SIM-swapping, stolen crypto, FBI tracking, violent rival attack, and potential 20+ year sentence.

A Brazilian anti-DDoS firm's infrastructure was hijacked via exposed SSH keys to launch massive attacks on ISPs, revealing a breach battle.

8 key facts about the Canvas data breach and defacement attack, including stolen data details, ShinyHunters' demands, Instructure's response, and long-term implications for EdTech security.

May 2026 Patch Tuesday brings Microsoft's 118 patches with no zero-day, AI-driven vulnerability discoveries via Project Glasswing, Apple's 52 fixes backported, and Mozilla's record 271 Firefox fixes.

New RL algorithm uses divide and conquer instead of TD learning, solving long-horizon scalability issues in off-policy settings.

New information metric directly measures imaging system performance, outperforming traditional metrics and end-to-end methods, as presented at NeurIPS 2025.

New SPEX algorithms allow efficient discovery of hidden interactions in large language models, solving the exponential complexity barrier for interpretability at scale.

New gradient-based planner GRASP enables robust long-horizon planning in learned world models, overcoming fragility issues with parallel optimization, stochastic exploration, and gradient reshaping.

Adaptive Parallel Reasoning lets AI models dynamically parallelize subtasks, cutting inference time and overcoming context-length limits seen in sequential reasoning.

Compose Multiplatform 1.11.0 delivers native iOS text input, default concurrent rendering, v2 UI testing APIs, and smoother web scrolling.

JetBrains launches a community survey on AI-assisted Kotlin development. Share your experience to influence future tools and win prizes.

IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1.2 fixes key bugs: Gradle .ipr file loading, Java ternary indentation, Alt+Enter on Windows, live templates, drag-drop, MCP server spaces, and IDE freezes.

Learn how Pyrefly, Meta's Rust-based type checker integrated via LSP in PyCharm 2026.1.2, dramatically speeds up code insight for Python projects.

NASA's new RFP for Mars Telecommunications Network seeks industry proposals for high-bandwidth relay orbiters, part of Moon to Mars strategy, with 2030 deadline.

Explore seven revelations from NASA's Black Marble analysis of nighttime lights (2014-2022): global brightening, regional dimming, and the data behind it.

Hubble reveals NGC 1266, a lenticular post-starburst galaxy in transition between spiral and elliptical shapes, 100 million light-years away.

After drilling a rock on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover accidentally pulled it off the surface and had to shake it loose. Discover 7 surprising facts about this event.

NASA's 34th SpaceX resupply mission launched May 15, 2026, carrying 6,500 lbs of cargo, including experiments on microgravity simulators, a wood bone scaffold, blood/spleen changes, and Earth-observing instruments, with autonomous docking on May 17 and return in June.

New study shows serotonin, the brain chemical boosted by antidepressants, may worsen tinnitus by activating a specific neural circuit in mice.