NASA fires 120-kW thruster, setting U.S. electric propulsion record
NASA's JPL tested a lithium-fed magnetoplasmadynamic thruster at 120 kilowatts, the highest power electric propulsion system ever fired in the U.S., advancing deep-space mission architecture.
Bitcoin Core v31.0rc2 Tagged as P2P Privacy Fix Targets Final Release
Bitcoin Core v31.0rc2 was tagged on March 25, 2026, with a final release targeting early April — and an OpenSats grant is driving a live fingerprinting-attack mitigation into the same codebase.
BIP446 and BIP448 Draft BIPs Target LN-Symmetry via OP_TEMPLATEHASH
Bitcoin's BIP repository merged BIP446 and BIP448 as Draft BIPs, introducing OP_TEMPLATEHASH and a Taproot-native covenant bundle that could replace Lightning's penalty-based channel model with LN-Symmetry.