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Two former American executives have pleaded guilty to helping overseas tech support scammers defraud victims, many of them elderly. The case is a reminder that these operations don't run on foreign soil alone — they depend on domestic enablers who provide legitimacy, infrastructure, and cover. Prosecutors say the damage ran into the millions.
On a lighter note, a writer recently picked up a secondhand Lumix G one for fifty dollars, and the experiment turned out to be genuinely illuminating. That camera, released eighteen years ago, was the world's first mirrorless model, and it quietly rewired how the entire industry thinks about camera design. The fact that it still functions as a usable photographic tool says something about how durable that original vision was.
And for developers who've built workflows around Amazon's DynamoDB API, a new project called ExtendDB is making a case worth watching. The idea is straightforward: bring that familiar API to wherever your code actually runs, rather than locking you into one cloud environment. It's early, but the pitch speaks directly to the growing frustration with cloud vendor dependency.
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