Lenovo expands X, T series ThinkPad laptops with AMD CPUs

From CNET: Lenovo's bringing its AMD-based ThinkPad laptops out of A-series exile and rolling them into its main X- and T-series, indicated by "5" in the model number. The first models welcomed into the stable: The Thinkpad T495, T495s and X395, variations on the Intel-based T490, T490s and X390...

Cooler Master SK621 Review

Have we reached "peak RGB"? In an age where we have RGB RAM and RGB PSUs, you might think we have put RGB LEDs on just about anything we could possibly imagine already. This was not until I walked into my church one Sunday morning and realized the wooden cross we had for the last twenty years or so has been replaced by none other than -- you guessed it -- an RGB LED cross. I kid you not, this is a high end RGB model where the LED lighting can be...

Freedom Mobile server leak exposed customer data

From TechCrunch: A security lapse at Canada’s fourth largest cell network Freedom Mobile exposed customer data.

Security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar found an Elasticsearch server leaking five million logs containing customer data. The server wasn’t protected with a password, allowing...

Facebook is turning its fact-checking partners loose on Instagram

From The Verge: Starting this week, Facebook will begin a test to fact-check Instagram posts. Poynter reports that potentially false photos and memes shared on Instagram will be sent to the same dashboard that Facebook’s fact-checking partners — specialists like Factcheck.org as well as traditional...

US to Spend $600 Million on Frontier Exascale Supercomputer

From PC Mag: The US has budgeted $600 million to build its second "exascale" supercomputer, which is slated to go online in 2021.

The Frontier supercomputer will be capable of completing more than 1.5 quintillion calculations per second, according to the US Department of Energy, which announced...

5G fever: US consumers willing to pay a lot more, Ericsson study shows

From CNET: Consumers in the US are willing to pay much more for 5G than for current 4G service -- and by 2025, 20% of us could be using 10 times as much data as we currently do.

Those are some findings from a consumer survey about 5G that was conducted by Ericsson. The networking gear giant polled...

Hacker Tries to Ransom Github Code Repositories For Bitcoin

From PC Mag: A hacker has been breaking into GitHub accounts, purportedly wiping the code repositories and then demanding a ransom in exchange to restore the information.

The attack, which was initially noticed by ZDNet, has hit at least 392 different GitHub repos and defaced them with a ransom...

Second Firefox fix repairs broken browser extensions for more people

From CNET: Mozilla on Sunday began distributing new Firefox updates to fix a problem that broke extensions for many browser users on Friday.

Mozilla had released an update Saturday, but Sunday's fix should help more people who were still affected. "There are some issues we're still working on, but...

Seagate IronWolf Pro ST14000NE0008 14TB Review (Page 1 of 11)

"I would love to buy a house in Brentwood," I told my friend Derek as we were taking the light rail transit home one evening. "I am just missing six zeros in my bank account balance." What is so desirable about the neighborhood of Brentwood here in Calgary? It really comes down to a few major factors: It is close to the University of Calgary, it is in an excellent public school district, and it has a C-train station that takes only fifteen...

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