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Joanna Nelius

Joanna Nelius

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    Joanna Nelius
    Samsung’s new Galaxy Book laptops still look like MacBooks.

    If MacBooks had a numpad. Anyway, as of Feb. 26th, Samsung’s Galaxy Book4 laptops, with Intel’s new Core Ultra CPUs, are available for purchase.

    We’re looking into possibly reviewing the 2-in-1, but there’s nothing particularly exciting about them—and with the Book4 Pro starting at $1,450, most of the configurations seem overpriced. Am I disenchanted? Anyone out there actually interested in these laptops, or have questions?

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    Lenovo worked with iFixit to make some ThinkPads easier to repairLenovo worked with iFixit to make some ThinkPads easier to repair
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    Joanna Nelius
    Federal agencies are investigating whether this morning’s AT&T outage was a cyberattack.

    ABC News reports the FBI and Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and other federal agencies, are “urgently investigating” the nation-wide outage to determine if it really was a cyberattack, or a not-so-nefarious technical mishap.

    Reuters also has notes from White House spokesperson John Kirby’s comments to reporters:

    When asked if government communication was disrupted by AT&T outages, Kirby said: “There was some impact to Commerce (Department) but I don’t know the extent of that, I don’t think it was crippling.” He added that the FirstNet nationwide public safety network was hit but had been fully restored.

    U.S. officials have been told that AT&T had no reason to think this was a cybersecurity incident, Kirby said.

    AT&T outage prompts urgent investigation into possible cyberattack: Sources

    [ABC News]

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    Joanna Nelius
    One of the last ways to access Twitter without an account is dead.

    Nitter, the open-source, tracker-free Twitter front end, joins the other great third-party apps in the API afterlife.

    Activist IT collective NoLog, which ran one of the largest Nitter instances, has shut it down, three weeks after Nitter’s developer said the project was dead.

    Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services

    [Ars Technica]

    Joanna Nelius
    Joanna Nelius
    Go watch this illuminating video about the invention of the blue LED.

    The next time you look at the screen on your phone or the RGB on your keyboard, thank Shuji Nakamura, the inventor of the blue LED, who made it all possible and should have received way more recognition for it. His breakthrough is still changing the world.

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