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  1. Weekly output: Musk digitally deleting USAID, Arm vs. Qualcomm, U.K. vs. Apple, 8K TV, Bletchley Park

    One of this week’s published stories began with reporting weeks ago; another began with notes and photos taken months ago.

    2/3/2025: Musk’s Minions Deleting Digital Presence of US International Development Agency, PCMag

    I could not just write about the weird digital erasure Elon Musk and his goons have been inflicting on the online presence of the U.S. Agency for International Development without reminding readers of three important bits of context: USAID does good and useful work (as vouched for in that quote from Georgetown University government-department chair Anthony Arend, four of whose classes I took as an undergrad 35-plus years ago); USAID constituted all of .4% of the federal budget in fiscal year 2024; Elon Musk’s tweets show no sign of him having any interest in the agency until January.

    2/6/2025: Arm Drops Effort to Cancel Qualcomm’s Chip-Licensing Deal, PCMag

    If you were considering buying a Windows laptop with one of Qualcomm’s power-efficient Snapdragon X processors, this should rank as very good news.

    2/7/2025: Report: UK Orders Apple to Disable E2E Encryption on iCloud Backups Worldwide, PCMag

    Writing up the Washington Post’s scoop about this dangerous demand by the U.K.’s Home Office gave me a crash course in looking up and citing legislation on Parliament’s Web site–without which I would have been writing about the Investigatory Powers Act without pointing people to the text of that 2016 statute and its 2024 amendments.

    2/8/2025: In 2025, the Picture for 8K TVs (Still) Isn’t Looking Too Bright or Sharp, PCMag

    I originally had delusions of writing this piece from CES with a Las Vegas dateline, but the weeks since then allowed me to get some additional numbers from the Consumer Technology Association and quiz another analyst as well as the head of the 8K Association.

    2/9/2025: To See Codebreaking At Its Most Metal, Visit Bletchley Park, PCMag

    Some of you may remember my writing a piece about Bletchley Park for the long-gone information-security publication The Parallax in 2018. I decided to revisit this museum of WWII codebreaking when my trip to London in October for Uber’s Go-Get Zero event (on Uber’s dime) left me with an afternoon free, and I’m glad I did because I was able to check out one exhibit that I’d had to skip earlier and see a few exhibits they’d added since then.

    #8K #8KTV #AgencyForInternationalDevelopment #ArmHoldings #BletchleyPark #codebreaking #cryptography #EnigmaMachine #iCloudEncryption #InvestigatoryPowersAct #MuskCoup #Qualcomm #SnapdragonX #SnoopersCharter #UKHomeOffice #USAID

  2. Asus Vivobook S14 with Snapdragon X and an OLED display coming soon for $799 and up

    The Asus Vivobook S14 (S3407QA) is a laptop that comes with a choice of 14 inch FHD OLED or 2.5K IPS LCD displays, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD.

    It’s also one of the first laptops powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) processor made for lower-cost systems. So while this won’t be the cheapest Windows on ARM laptop available when it launches in the coming months, its $799 starting […]

    #asus #asusVivobookS14 #asusVivobookS14S3407QA #ces2025 #snapdragonX #vivobook #vivobookS14

    Read more: liliputing.com/asus-vivobook-s

  3. Asus Vivobook S14 with Snapdragon X and an OLED display coming soon for $799 and up

    The Asus Vivobook S14 (S3407QA) is a laptop that comes with a choice of 14 inch FHD OLED or 2.5K IPS LCD displays, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD.

    It’s also one of the first laptops powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) processor made for lower-cost systems. So while this won’t be the cheapest Windows on ARM laptop available when it launches in the coming months, its $799 starting […]

    #asus #asusVivobookS14 #asusVivobookS14S3407QA #ces2025 #snapdragonX #vivobook #vivobookS14

    Read more: liliputing.com/asus-vivobook-s

  4. Asus Vivobook S14 with Snapdragon X and an OLED display coming soon for $799 and up

    The Asus Vivobook S14 (S3407QA) is a laptop that comes with a choice of 14 inch FHD OLED or 2.5K IPS LCD displays, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD.

    It’s also one of the first laptops powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X (X1-26-100) processor made for lower-cost systems. So while this won’t be the cheapest Windows on ARM laptop available when it launches in the coming months, its $799 starting […]

    #asus #asusVivobookS14 #asusVivobookS14S3407QA #ces2025 #snapdragonX #vivobook #vivobookS14

    Read more: liliputing.com/asus-vivobook-s

  5. Lilbits: A new PC with an old processor, ARM’s upscaling tech, Snapdragon X benchmarks, and another Rabbit R1 security issue

    The Zilog Z80 microprocessor is an 8-bit chip that was first released in the 1970s and used in a variety of classic computers and game consoles including the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, and Sega Master System. While its features are very dated by 2024 standards, the chip was in production for five decades and was only discontinued earlier this […]

    https://liliputing.com/?p=170387

    #accuracySuperResolution #ai #arm #benchmarks #chromebooks #chromeos #clusterBoard #factoryReset #lacros #rabbit #rabbitR1 #retoComputing #retroComputer #seal8BitComputer #security #snapdragonX #snapdragonXElite #snapdragonXPlus #turingPi #turingPi25 #upscaling #webBrowsers #zeal #zilogZ80

  6. Lilbits: the Xbox Handheld is coming (eventually), another Linux phone, and some WWDC odds and ends

    Apple kicked off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) today with a keynote where the company laid out some of the new features coming to Macs, iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches, and the Apple Vision Pro headset. Leading up to the event, there was a lot of buzz about Apple’s first big foray into the AI space. But Apple didn’t really even get to AI […]

    https://liliputing.com/?p=169643

    #apple #droidian #fileExplroer #furilabs #furios #ipad #iphone #leaks #lilbits #linuxLaptop #linuxsmartphones #mac #mobileLinux #passwords #phoneLink #rcs #snapdragonX #tuxedo #wwdc2024 #xboxHandheld

  7. Microsoft launches 11th-gen Surface Pro for $1000 and up (Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs with an OLED display option)

    The new Microsoft Surface Pro is up for pre-order for $1000 and up, and it’s expected to be available beginning June 18, 2024.

    Microsoft is positioning the 11th-gen Surface Pro as the first to be a Copilot+ PC with an integrated NPU capable of delivering next-gen AI capabilities. But the new tablet also stands out as the first with optional support for an OLED display, and it’s the first to […]

    #copilotPc #copilotPlusPc #microsoft #snapdragonX #surfacePro #surfacePro11 #tablet

    Read more: liliputing.com/microsoft-launc