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Stop Loading Everything into Redshift: A Spectrum + Iceberg Pattern for Hybrid Analytics

Not every dataset belongs fully inside the warehouse. A hybrid design using Apache Iceberg on S3, Redshift Spectrum, and Redshift local tables can reduce duplicated storage and reserve warehouse performance for the workloads that need it. The Warehouse Became the Second Data Lake Redshift clusters routinely carry tables that should not be there. A five-year transaction history is loaded nightly through a four-hour COPY job and queried twice a quarter. Raw event tables landed directly into the wa

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The Hacker News

Google Sues Chinese Smishing Network Accused of Using Gemini AI in Phishing

Google on Friday said it's pursuing legal action against a Chinese cybercrime network, accusing it of using its Gemini artificial intelligence (AI) agent to send phishing text messages targeting Americans. The network is said to be behind the development and management of a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) software kit called Outsider, per the tech giant. "The operation weaponized Gemini to help

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The Verge Tech

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer

Hm! | Photo: Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk's actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse - gleefully. This is not a serious person, but his abuse of the world is deadly serious. In the first months of Presid

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The Hacker News

China-Linked Hackers Backdoored Linux Login Software to Hide for Nearly a Decade

Instead of hiding on the laptops and servers defenders watch most closely, a China-nexus group spent close to a decade hidden inside the Linux login system itself. Sygnia, which tracks the group as Velvet Ant, says it backdoored the PAM and OpenSSH components that decide who is allowed to sign in, planting its access where ordinary cleanup could not reach it. The network it targeted had no

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