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Nothing CEO says phone prices are going to keep going up

Nothing Phone 4A Pro | Photo: Dominic Preston / The Verge If you're thinking about upgrading your phone, "the best time was yesterday," according to Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei, echoing a message we heard during MWC. As Android Authority reports, Pei said in a post on X that the RAM shortage has already impacted Nothing's less expensive mid-range phone: "For Phone 4A , memory costs doubled between when we decided to build the device and when it launched. They've doubled again since." H

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The Hacker News

Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit

Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it lands with root, it can also load an eBPF rootkit to hide itself. The AUR is Arch Linux's community package collection, and it is separate

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DZone

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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