ZTE recently showcased its innovative AI-powered Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTR) Solution at MWC Shanghai 2026, bringing intelligent, secure and all-scenario home network upgrades to global users and marking a major breakthrough in smart home network security and intelligent iteration. More than just a Wi-Fi gateway, this sleek, multifunctional device integrates a 10.95 inch magnetic detachable display, HD camera, smart speaker, and 8K media decoder, offering seamless adaptability across work, study, entertainment, and home care scenarios. Its portable, rotatable design ensures convenience, while high-performance hardware — including a 6 TOPS NPU and distributed NAS storage — empowers local AI computing and large-capacity data processing, making it the ultimate hub for AI-powered home experiences. At the heart of this device is OpenClaw full-stack AI ecosystem, enabling on-device AI agents that provide autonomous decision-making and proactive services. With capabilities such as persistent memory, scheduled tasks, visual behavior recognition, and multi-device collaborative reasoning, the system intelligently manages daily life — from monitoring children's sitting posture and reminding users of appointments to planning health routines and conducting autonomous home security patrols. Security is redefined through AI-powered DDoS/CC attack protection, using lightweight Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCN) to analyze traffic patterns in real time. By learning normal network behavior over seven days, the system builds device-specific fingerprints and detects anomalies — such as unusual traffic bursts or unknown IP communications — with an ultra-low false alarm rate of lower than 0.1%. It also features AI-based IoT security hardening, including device fingerprinting, vulnerability detection, and behavioral monitoring, effectively preventing hijacking of smart devices. Unique to this solution is its camera-free presence sensing, which delivers whole-home awareness for elderly care and child safety without compromising privacy. All AI processing happens locally, ensuring sensitive data never leaves the home. For service providers, AI FTTR unlocks new revenue streams by seamlessly integrating with value-added services like cloud storage, smart surveillance, Wi-Fi security, and whole-home automation. By merging ultra-fast FTTR networks, edge AI computing, and intelligent perception, ZTE's AI FTTR isn't just advancing home networking — it's redefining what a smart and secure home can be. Contributed by ZTE.

LONDEN (ANP) - Het Verenigd Koninkrijk schrapt geplande nieuwe grote marineschepen en kiest voor moederschepen voor onbemande vaartuigen. De marine wilde verouderde torpedobootjagers vervangen door nieuwe, maar denkt nu met zeedrones voor hetzelfde geld meer te kunnen uitrichten.

Er komen minstens zes van de 'hybride' marineschepen, zegt de nieuwe Britse defensieminister Dan Jarvis. Zijn voorganger trad begin juni af omdat de regering volgens hem niet genoeg geld in defensie wilde steken. Een collega-minister op het departement deed hetzelfde en haalde uit naar het gebrek aan aandacht dat hij zag voor moderne technologie.

De zogeheten CCV's gaan dienen als 'besturingsspil' voor drones. Ze gaan onbemande systemen in de lucht, onder en op het water aansturen.

Sinds de doorbraak van de drone in de Oekraïne-oorlog doen die overal hun intrede. Het inruilen van zo'n grote aanschaf van klassieke oorlogsschepen voor een vloot onbemande vaartuigen is bij grote marines nog een zeldzaamheid.

BRUSSEL (ANP) - De Europese Investeringsbank (EIB) heeft een lening toegezegd van 3 miljard euro aan vliegtuigbouwer Airbus. Dat is de grootste bedrijfslening die de EIB ooit heeft goedgekeurd.

Het geld is bedoeld voor langetermijnonderzoek en -ontwikkeling in Frankrijk, Duitsland en Spanje. Volgens de investeringsbank draagt de lening bij aan "het versterken van de Europese technologische soevereiniteit en industriële expertise".

Het financieringspakket moet de geplande investeringen van Airbus tot en met 2030 ondersteunen. Het gaat dan om geavanceerde technologieën en systemen voor zowel de commerciële luchtvaart als voor veiligheids- en defensiesystemen.

De EIB en Airbus hebben maandag een eerste lening van 1 miljard euro ondertekend. EIB-voorzitter Nadia Calviño spreekt van een "mijlpaal die laat zien dat Europa snel en grootschalig kan optreden om vooraanstaande bedrijven te ondersteunen, en zijn positie in het veranderende geopolitieke landschap te versterken".

At least 1,450 are known to have died but the number is expected to rise

The wife and two children of Argentine footballer Lucas Trejo have died after the powerful twin earthquakes struck Venezuela last week, his team said on Sunday.

Trejo, who plays for Club Sport Maritimo La Guaira, a second-division team in Venezuela, had searched for his wife Yanina and children Aarón and Ainhoa in the rubble for three days before rescue workers recovered their bodies, CNN reported.

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Women’s singles: Aryna Sabalenka has been at the top of the WTA rankings since late 2024, but the Belarusian has only won one grand slam ‌title in the past 18 months, despite reaching four finals. She also suffered a collapse against Diana Shnaider in the French Open quarter-finals last month, losing the last 10 games in a row. She said after that she wanted to “quit tennis” but has since worked with a psychologist and said she was not affected as much by losing to Jessica Pegula in this month’s Berlin Open semi-finals.

“I felt really good throughout the tournament there. I struggled a little bit here and there, (but) overall I feel like ‌things are clicking back together,” she said ahead of her opening match against the Serbian qualifier Teodora Kostovic. The four-times major champion has never won Wimbledon, but she has reached the semi-finals in her last three appearances.

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She was the friendliest dog you can imagine – with an insatiable appetite for jeans, table legs and steering wheels. I will always miss that floppy-eared destroyer

Holly, my hyperactive mad hatter of a beagle, was a gift from my well-meaning sister. She was born into a beagle pack who were kennelled in a dog food factory in the Irish town of Edgeworthstown in County Longford. She bounded into my life one sunny evening, a bouncing, dribbling, velvet-eared bundle of puppy energy.

From the moment I laid eyes on her, it felt as if we were meant for each other. She quickly figured out that I was a softie, with an abundance of patience and access to her food.

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Team hope 30 of hours of footage held by three countries will be enough to bring to life film-maker’s vision

More than 70 years after he shot the first few frames, Orson Welles’s ambitious project to put Don Quixote on the big screen may finally be completed thanks to a consortium of European film archivists.

Oja Kodar, the American film-maker’s partner and collaborator, has given her blessing to the project led by archives in France, Spain and Italy, along with the Munich film museum, to produce a coherent film out of 30 hours of footage scattered among them.

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Low-budget chiller leans heavily on tinfoil-hat paranoia to build its reasonably effective suspense

Buckle up for a ride that’s turbulent with highly uneven quality but gets to its destination with a certain style. Black Box: Flight 298 is a horror-sci-fi-thriller that mostly takes place on a flight supposedly bound from New Orleans to Seattle, although it’s quite obvious this was filmed in a studio equipped with plenty of green screens to accommodate some cheesy visual effects in the back half.

However, before director Steven Quale and screenwriter Stephen Susco reveal the monster mastermind behind all the mayhem, they build up a pretty good head of suspense by gesturing towards the paranoia and terror many feel around air travel. Opening text ominously claims that the rates at which planes lose contact with ground control are much higher than the US Federal Aviation Administration admits, which doesn’t sound so bad really to viewers not prone to aerophobic anxiety. But that’s only the beginning of a yarn that bounces off tinfoil-hat paranoid conspiracy theories – there is literally a character who wraps her head in aluminium foil to protect herself from upper-atmosphere radiation – as well as more general angst around strange things that go bump in the stratosphere.

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She was a sex-positive star in the 80s and 90s who became an ‘accidental activist’ and her life is explored in a HBO documentary produced by Sarah Jessica Parker

Robin Byrd has no doubt about where the archive of her life should end up. “I think it should be in the Smithsonian,” she said. “I like to think big.”

But is such thinking “big” or just plain daft? After all, we’re talking about Robin Byrd, the self-described “orgy queen” who’s best known for promoting the work of strippers and porn stars on the no-budget, public access TV show she ran in the 80s and 90s that looked like it was shot by someone on mushrooms who was suffering from an advanced case of glaucoma.

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Mothers and fathers have healthier, younger-looking brains, according to recent studies. It must be all those years of mental and emotional gymnastics

Good news, fellow parents: our children may have laid waste to our finances, pelvic integrity and circadian rhythms, and mocked our new sandals so devastatingly we can never wear them again, but a series of studies reported in New Scientist suggest parenting “may permanently improve brain health for Mum and Dad”. In one study, mothers with more children showed patterns associated with younger brains; another of nearly 38,000 people found “mothers and fathers have younger-looking brains”.

This is unexpected. I feel as though parenting reduced me to a cognitive husk: the lyrics to Here Comes a Digger – a rare groove from a DVD my elder son briefly enjoyed in 2005 – long ago supplanting the whereabouts of my keys, informed political opinions and the ability to form coherent sentences. I’m only fit for three things now: worrying, laundry and snacks.

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