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Supply chain attack on arrayref (Rust blog)

The Rust blog reports on a malicious crate, called proc-macro1 , that was uploaded to the crates.io repository. Furthermore, we discovered that the popular arrayref crate had recently been republished and made to depend on this crate, with the most recent versions yanked. We have removed the malicious version and unyanked the maliciously-yanked versions. Other crates by that author ( internment ,…

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DDR4 May Jump 50% on Tight Supply

The upward trend in legacy DRAM prices is expected to continue in the second half of this year. This is due to the tight supply of general-purpose DRAM as memory semiconductor (hereafter memory)…

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