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Solar company Sunrun is testing a genuinely unusual idea — paying homeowners to host small AI compute nodes inside their houses. Customers with existing solar and battery storage systems would essentially rent out a slice of their home to power distributed artificial intelligence workloads. It's a creative pitch, though questions around heat, noise, and privacy will need answers before most people open their doors.
Meanwhile, China has become only the second country in the world to successfully recover a rocket booster, catching a Long March ten B after launch. It's a significant technical milestone that puts China in rare company alongside SpaceX, and signals that the global competition for reusable rocket technology is very much a two-horse race at this point.
And in a story that cuts closer to home for millions of businesses, security researchers at Huntress uncovered a phishing campaign that weaponized Meta's own email infrastructure. Scammers sent convincing credential-theft emails that genuinely originated from Meta's servers, bypassing the usual red flags. Meta has since added guardrails that shut the campaign down, but the episode is a sharp reminder that even a real sender address is no guarantee of safety.
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