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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…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech One granny has been safely plucked from the frontlines of the Russo-Ukrainian war by the unlikeliest of heroes: a remote-guided robot. A bizarre video clip shared by the BBC shows what appears to be an unmanned ground vehicle, or UGV, approaching an elderly woman struggling to evacuate her village, Lyman, which had been decimated in the war. According to the BBC, the robot’s operators in Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps attached amessage to the UGV via a shred of blanket reading “grandma, sit down,”…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. How we tested PrivadoVPN FreeThis PrivadoVPN Free review was written by VPN Editor, Rob Dunne. I’ve been researching and writing about VPNs, like PrivadoVPN Free, for two years.I have PrivadoVPN Free installed on my iPhone and Android mobile devices, my Lenovo laptop, and my Chrome browser. I used it during my commute to keep my data secure (from snoopers and man-in-the-middle attacks) while connected to the free Wi-Fi hotspot,…