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Share this Article You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful and widespread, so does the environmental cost of running it. Behind every chatbot, image generator, and television streaming recommendation are massive banks of millions of computers housed in an increasing number of data centers that consume staggering amounts of electricity and water to keep their machines cool. Most of that electricity is still produced by fossil fuel-burning power plants, which contribute directly to air pollution and climate change. A study from University of California, Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary…

Telecom regulator Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has recommended that the sale of foreign telecom service providers’ SIM cards meant for use in for-export Machine-To-Machine and Internet of Things devices should be regulated via a light-touch service authorisation under the Telecom Act.The new service authorisation should be termed as ‘International M2M SIM Service Authorisation’, it said.The entry fee, minimum equity, minimum net-worth, bank guarantee, and fee for the authorisation should be nil, TRAI said, mooting Rs 5,000 as application processing charge for the authorisation.The regulator has suggested a 10-year validity period for the authorisation.According to TRAI, any company registered under…

RealMan says its joint modules are modular, standardized, and provide high performance. | Source: RealMan Robotics RealMan Intelligent Technology Co. last week unveiled three new joint modules: the ultra-compact WHJ03, the high-torque hollow-core WHJ120, and the WHJ48V Wide-Voltage Series. The company said the new modules enable it to deliver a unified power system for robots ranging from lightweight desktop arms to heavy-duty industrial systems. The High-Power-Density (HPD) servo joints deliver high torque density, fast dynamic response, high precision, reliability, and cost efficiency, claimed RealMan. The three new modules feature compact, integrated, and modular designs for robotics across consumer, commercial, and…

Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted solely to covering issues that affect all Californians. Sign up for WhatMatters to receive the latest news and commentary on the most important issues in the Golden State. California showed it was serious about regulating Big Tech in 2025 — and Big Tech showed it was serious about coming to the statehouse and fighting back. The upshot was a barrage of laws designed to curb tech harms but often in watered down form. Take San Francisco Democratic Sen. Scott Weiner’s legislation to keep artificial intelligence systems from enabling catastrophes like biological weapons attacks. The…

When Bitcoin slips 7% and your blockchain ETF jumps 32%, you’re not betting on Bitcoin. Amplify Transformational Data Sharing ETF (NYSEARCA:BLOK) launched in 2018 as one of the first blockchain-focused funds and has spent 2025 proving that picks-and-shovels exposure to crypto infrastructure beats direct Bitcoin ownership when the digital currency wobbles. The fund’s 32% year-to-date … Despite Bitcoin Falling 7%, Amplify Blockchain Technology’s ETF has Soared 32% | BLOK

John Lund/Photodisc/Getty ImagesFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Cloud-first approaches need to be rethought.AI contributes to escalating cloud costs.A hybrid model assures the best of both worlds.A decade or so ago, the debate between cloud and on-premises computing raged. The cloud handily won that battle, and it wasn’t even close. Now, however, people are rethinking whether the cloud is still their best choice for many situations. Also: Cloud-native computing is poised to explode, thanks to AI inference workWelcome to the age of AI, in which on-premises computing is starting to look good again.There’s a movement…

The threat actor known as Silver Fox has turned its focus to India, using income tax-themed lures in phishing campaigns to distribute a modular remote access trojan called ValleyRAT (aka Winos 4.0). “This sophisticated attack leverages a complex kill chain involving DLL hijacking and the modular Valley RAT to ensure persistence,” CloudSEK researchers Prajwal Awasthi and Koushik Pal said in an analysis published last week. Also tracked as SwimSnake, The Great Thief of Valley (or Valley Thief), UTG-Q-1000, and Void Arachne, Silver Fox is the name assigned to an aggressive cybercrime group from China that has been active since 2022.…

Internet of Everything (IoT) MarketWorldwide Market Reports (WMR) has released a new, in-depth research study on the Internet of Everything (IoT) Market, projected to witness strong and sustained growth in the coming years. The report delivers a fact-based, strategic analysis of the global market landscape using a robust research framework that integrates market sizing, validated data modeling, and insights drawn from multiple authoritative sources.This study is designed to support executive decision-making, strategic planning, and investment evaluation by offering a clear view of current market performance and long-term growth potential.➤ What This Report Covers✅ The report provides a comprehensive assessment of…

MIT researchers compared 59 scientific AI models and found they converge to similar internal representations of molecules, materials, and proteins, even when built on different architectures and trained on different tasks. Scientific AI models work with vastly different inputs. Some receive molecules as coded strings, others process 3D atomic coordinates, and still others work with protein sequences. Yet despite training on completely different data, they appear to learn something similar under the hood. That’s the finding of a new study from researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The team, led by Sathya Edamadaka and Soojung Yang, examined 59 different…

Meta has acquired an AI startup called Manus — known for its custom research and website-building agents — in a deal valued at more than $2 billion, according toThe Wall Street Journal. It’s reportedly one of the largest acquisitions yet involving a startup nurtured in China’s AI ecosystem.Manus arrived in March 2025, shortly after another Chinese AI startup, DeepSeek appeared on the scene. The company (called Butterfly Effect at the time) originally described it as “the first general AI agent” to perform complex tasks autonomously, rather than just generating ideas. It draws from several third-party models, particularly Anthropic’s Claude 3.5…