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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.
At 7:49 p.m. EDT on 3 April 2026, Orion’s 5-minute-plus engine burn pushed four astronauts out of Earth orbit on a 10-day free-return loop around the Moon—the first human departure from Earth orbit since 1972.
After months of technical delays, NASA confirmed final ‘go’ status and a two-hour window on 1 Apr 2026 (6:24-8:24 p.m. EDT) to send four astronauts on a 10-day, 685,000-mile loop around the Moon—the first human venture beyond low Earth orbit since 1972.
On 2 Apr 2026 a 7.4–7.6 under-sea earthquake off Ternate sent ≤0.75 m waves to five Indonesian coasts, killed one person, and led authorities to issue but cancel regional tsunami warnings within two hours.
Beginning 1 April 2026, Google is rolling out a feature that lets U.S. Gmail users replace the username portion of their @gmail.com address without creating a new account or losing any data.
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