Author: The Tech Guy

Cisco on Thursday unveiled a new open source tool, named Model Provenance Kit, designed to help organizations address potential issues associated with the use of third-party AI models. Organizations often leverage AI models obtained from model repositories such as HuggingFace, where millions of models are available. While these models can offer many benefits, organizations often don’t track the changes made to them. In addition, although repositories provide guidance on the importance of model cards and metadata, the maintenance work performed by their developers can vary, affecting downstream users.  Cisco also pointed out that claims made by model developers — including…

Nasdaq Chair and Chief Executive Officer Adena T. Friedman, left, and NASA’s Artemis II crewmembers CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, and NASA astronauts Christina Koch, Victor Glover, and Reid Wiseman, right, ring the closing bell of the Nasdaq market session, Thursday, April 30, 2026. NASA’s Artemis II mission took Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen on a nearly 10-day journey around the Moon and back to Earth earlier in April 2026. Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

SpaceX has its own ambitious plans for AI data centers in space, while Microsoft has explored the idea by sinking them underwater. However, building AI data centers is expensive and power-intensive. This is why a UK firm wants to build one using street lamp posts in Nigeria, and it has already signed a deal to do it. Warwickshire-based Conflow Power Group has agreed with Nigeria’s Katsina State Government to deploy 50,000 solar-powered smart lamp posts called iLamps across the state (via BBC). Each unit runs on a cylindrical solar panel and battery, powering a low-energy Nvidia chip that draws just…

Xiaomi unveiled the Civi 5 Pro last May, so we are expecting the Chinese brand to launch its successor soon. We haven’t heard anything about the Civi 6 Pro from Xiaomi yet, but when it arrives, it will have the Dimensity 9500 SoC under the hood. The word comes from reliable tipster Digital Chat Station, who also said that the Xiaomi Civi 6 Pro will pack a 6.83″ 1.5K display and feature a 50MP periscope telephoto camera with 5x zoom. Xiaomi Civi 5 Pro Furthermore, DCS said that Xiaomi will also launch Civi 6, which will come with…

A recently discovered phishing kit provides miscreants with a broad range of capabilities, including an AI assistant and automated domain registration, Varonis reports. Dubbed Bluekit, it has been advertised as offering over 40 website templates, support for two-factor authentication, geolocation emulation, antibot cloaking, notifications, spoofing capabilities, voice cloning, and a mail sender. According to Varonis, the phishing kit contains templates for email and cloud services, developer platforms, cryptocurrency services, and retail and social media platforms, such as Apple ID, iCloud, GitHub, Gmail, Hotmail, Ledger, ProtonMail, Outlook, Zara, and Zoho. Varonis says it gained access to Bluekit’s control panel, which revealed…

RoboticsI’ve Covered Robots for Years. This One Is DifferentWill Knight | Wired ($)”Eka’s robot demos suggest that the company’s approach should enable real robot dexterity with further training. If that’s true, it could revolutionize how robots are used—not only in factories and warehouses but also in shops, restaurants, even households. ‘Trillions of dollars flow through the human hand,’ Agrawal says. ‘To me, this is the biggest problem in the world to be solved.'”Artificial IntelligenceI Built an Agent to Do My Job. Then It Hung up on My Boss.Amanda Hoover | Business Insider”The various generative AI systems I used in this…

Realme launched the Realme 15T last September, and its successor, the 16T, is rumored to arrive soon. While there’s no word from Realme about the 16T’s launch yet, a Realme device bearing model code RMX5268 and rumored to be the Realme 16T, has appeared on Geekbench with its key specs. The RMX5268 scored 784 and 2,007 points in Geekbench’s single and multi-core tests, respectively. It’s listed in the benchmark database with Android 16 and 8GB RAM; however, a previous rumor claimed the 16T will also offer a 6GB RAM option. Realme 15T Powering the RMX5268 is MediaTek’s MT6835…

Internet drops are frustrating, regardless of whether you’re in a work call, online, or simply trying to catch up on that web series you’ve been putting off for so long. Now you shouldn’t blame your ISP before fixing a few router defaults, but if your router and network settings are in place and the ISP is having a bad day, there’s not much you can do about it. You could, in theory, get a backup internet connection and configure your router to fall back on it if the primary fails. However, such redundancy isn’t really useful unless you’re in a…

Edgar Cervantes / Android AuthorityDo you want to know what I find most annoying about traveling? It’s definitely finding a reliable internet connection. You can imagine my excitement when I got the Baseus EnerGeek GX11 MiFi Power Bank ($129.99 at Amazon) in the mail. That name is a mouthful for sure, but it also hints at some exciting promises.Not only is this a global hotspot powered by uCloudlink CloudSIM that can keep you connected in most of the world, but it is also a portable power bank for keeping your devices charged on the go. How well does it accomplish…

A newly identified stealthy Python-based backdoor framework provides attackers with persistent remote command execution and surveillance capabilities on Windows computers, Securonix reports. The malware’s infection chain starts with the execution of a batch script that disables the system’s security controls, including SmartScreen, firewall logging, Defender tamper protection, and Antimalware Scan Interface functions. Next, it loads an embedded Python payload and establishes multi-layered persistence by modifying Run registries, creating scheduled tasks, and placing scripts in the Startup folder. By embedding the payload directly into the batch script’s body, the malware’s developer simplifies delivery and evades network-based detection, Securonix explains. Additionally, the…