$285m worth of user assets stolen from Solana’s drift protocol following massive breach
Drift Protocol, the largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange on the Solana network, was hit by a sophisticated exploit, resulting in the theft of approximately $280 million in user assets. The platform, which serves as the largest perpetual futures exchange on the Solana blockchain, confirmed the attack was real and active, dispelling early social media rumors that the timing was an elaborate April Fools' prank. The breach caused Drift's Total Value Locked (TVL) to pl
Meta freezes $10 billion partnership with AI startup Mercor following massive supply chain breach
Meta Platforms has "indefinitely" suspended its collaboration with Mercor, a high-profile AI data startup valued at $10 billion, following a sophisticated supply chain attack that has potentially exposed the industry’s most guarded secrets: the proprietary methodologies used to train world-leading AI models. Editorial credit: Poetra.RH / Shutterstock The pause, confirmed on April 4, 2026, follows a breach at Mercor that originated from a open-source library. While Meta has d
Artemis II: NASA sends astronauts to the moon for the second time
More than half a century after the final Apollo mission, humanity has officially returned to deep space. NASA’s Artemis II mission is currently cruising toward the moon, with its four-person crew passing the halfway mark on April 4, 2026. The mission, which launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on April 1, represents the first time humans have ventured beyond low-Earth orbit since 1972. Editorial credit: Tada Images / Shutterstock The crew - Commander Reid Wiseman, Pil
Oracle commences largest layoff in history, slashing up to 30,000 jobs to fund AI expansion
Oracle has begun executing a massive restructuring plan that is expected to eliminate up to 30,000 jobs, or roughly 18% of its global workforce. The move, which current and former employees are calling the "6:00 AM Massacre," is a high-stakes effort to free up nearly $10 billion in cash flow to fund the company’s aggressive and debt-heavy pivot into AI data center infrastructure. The layoffs, which began on March 31, 2026, were characterized by a strikingly impersonal deliver
FBI declares surveillance network breach a "major incident" amid mounting national security concerns
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has formally classified a sophisticated breach of its internal surveillance systems as a "major incident" under federal law, a designation signaling that the intrusion poses a significant risk to U.S. national security. The breach, first detected on February 17, 2026, targeted the bureau’s Digital Collection System Network (DCSNet), specifically the DCS-3000 system, also known as "Red Hook." This infrastructure is used to manage court-autho
