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US charges Russian for infecting 80,000 freelancers with malware

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A California federal grand jury has indicted a Russian national for his role in a phishing campaign that infected thousands of freelancers with TVRAT and DarkVNC malware. 40-year-old Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev was extradited to the United States after being arrested in Cyprus at Larnaca Airport in May 2025. According to court documents filed in June […]

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Galaxy S24 owners can now get a taste of Android 17 with One UI 9 beta

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Samsung is moving quickly to expand its One UI 9 beta program to older Galaxy devices. After opening the program to the Galaxy S25 series and confirming its 2025 foldables as the next devices in line, Samsung has now started rolling out the

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What if Transformers were phones? These new rugged phones with big batteries give us a glimpse

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Oukitel has long been one of the go-to brands if you wanted a rugged smartphone with a huge battery. The company will be at IFA 2026, and it’s now revealed two brand-new rugged phones ahead of the expo. The Oukitel WP600 is marketed

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Gemini 3.8 Flash could land any day now, and it could put the vibe back into vibe coding

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. With such a wide range of applications, Gemini feels more like a general-purpose technology or GPT (no, not that GPT) and less like a specialized frontier model. But it has made reasonable strides in vibe-coding. Earlier in March, Google CEO Sundar Pichai himself

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Sality botnet infrastructure dismantled in joint global takedown

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International law enforcement agencies and private partners have seized Sality malware infrastructure in a joint action aiming to disrupt and take down the peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet. As part of this operation, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), FBI, and DCIS seized Sality-linked domains in the United States, while law enforcement partners in Bulgaria, Hungary, and

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Google is fixing that embarrassing Messages bug that sent old texts to the wrong people

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. After weeks of concerning reports about Google Messages retrieving old texts from unrelated conversations and, in some cases, sending them to the wrong recipients, we finally have some clarity. Google has confirmed that it is aware of the issue and has begun rolling

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Dell Doubles Down on Cheap Student Laptops With Lower-End Dell 14S Configs

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Dell seemingly isn’t content with taking on Apple’s MacBook Neo with just the XPS 13 for student dollars and attention. On Wednesday the company brought in budget laptop reinforcements with new lower-end, more colorful versions of its mainstream Dell 14S laptop. Dell is playing coy and won’t reveal pricing until we get closer to seeing

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Google Maps for Android Auto could soon offer new colors that won’t burn your retinas

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. Google has been working on several new features and improvements for Android Auto. While we wait for the big Android Auto redesign announced at I/O 2026, the company is working on other, more subtle changes throughout the experience, including a new icon. However,

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Alienware aims at ‘more price points people can actually reach,’ announces a tandem OLED gaming monitor at a much lower price than our current top pick

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Alienware, Dell’s gaming sub-brand that will be celebrating its 30th birthday in October, has unveiled two rather lovely OLED gaming monitors that both feature LG’s tandem OLED tech delivering better than ever brightness. Most recently, our Jeremy was impressed by another tandem OLED from Alienware, and offers a breakdown of what it is in his

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The Dell 14s could be the MacBook Neo alternative you’ve been waiting for

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Affiliate links on Android Authority may earn us a commission. Learn more. In the market for a laptop? Dell’s got a colorful new model that might be worth a look. At IFA this morning, Dell took the wraps off the 14s, a thin, trendy unit that looks like it might appeal to the MacBook Neo

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