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Raspberry Pi has long been the affordable tinkerer's computer of choice, but that reputation is taking a hit. The sixteen gigabyte Pi five now carries a price tag of three hundred eighty five dollars — more than three times its original launch price — after yet another round of increases announced barely a month after the last. Founder Eben Upton has offered little explanation for the pace of the hikes, and the community is understandably frustrated.
Meanwhile, OpenAI is quietly reshuffling how it meters access to its tools. Plus, Pro, and Business subscribers will soon share a single usage allowance covering both ChatGPT and the Codex coding assistant. More demanding tasks will draw down that pool faster, which means power users could find themselves hitting limits sooner than they expect — a trade-off worth watching closely.
And on the security front, Google has dismantled a botnet called XCPE that had quietly infected one point three million Android devices. The operation was traced back to Videostrong Technology, an Android hardware manufacturer, raising uncomfortable questions about how deeply a supply chain can be compromised before anyone notices.
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