North Carolina A&T State University, the largest historically black college in the US, University was recently struck by a ransomware Group called ALPHV, sending university staff into a scramble to restore services last month.
“It’s affecting a lot of my classes, especially since I do take a couple of coding classes, my classes have been canceled,” Melanie McLellan, an industrial system engineering student, told the school newspaper, The A&T Register. “They have been remote, I still haven’t been able to do my assignments.”
The paper said the breach occurred the week of March 7 while students and faculty were on spring break. Systems taken down by the intrusion included wireless connections, Blackboard instruction, single sign-on websites, VPN, Jabber, Qualtrics, Banner Document Management, and Chrome River, many of which remained down when the student newspaper published its story two weeks ago.
“The universe finally found something worse than death. I broke time.”
Natasha Lyonne and Charlie Barnett (return for the upcoming second season of the Netflix series, Russian Doll.
A mysterious portal through time opens up in the New York City subway in the first trailer for the second season of Russian Doll, Netflix's Emmy Award-winning sci-fi dramedy that was an Ars Technica favorite in 2019. Co-stars Natasha Lyonne and Charlie Barnett (reprise their roles, and this time they face a different kind of supernatural phenomenon on their existential journey.
(Spoilers for the first season below.)
Co-created by Lyonne, Amy Poehler, and Leslye Headland, the season one plot centered on a chain-smoking game developer named Nadia Vulvokov (Lyonne), who died repeatedly the night of her 36th birthday party and kept looping back to the host's funky East Village bathroom.
On Thursday, Apple released its first feature updates for the iWork suite in several months: Pages, Keynote, and Numbers 12.0.
There are new versions of all three apps on both iOS and macOS. Judging from the version number, you'd expect these to be major new releases, but they only add a few features.
On macOS, the significant change is support for Shortcuts, Apple's automation tool. For example, Pages now features "Open Document" and "Create Document" actions. Numbers offers the same but adds the "Add Row to Top or Bottom of Table" action. As for Keynote, you can also open and create with the presentation app, but you can also specify to open a presentation in either Rehearsal Mode or Show Mode.
The developers of Raspberry Pi OS have released a new build that eliminates the default “pi” user account, which means that in the interest of security you’ll need to create a new account when setting up the operating system for Raspberry Pi computers. Meanwhile SolidRun has introduced a new system on a module that it […]
The developers of Raspberry Pi OS have released a new build that eliminates the default “pi” user account, which means that in the interest of security you’ll need to create a new account when setting up the operating system for Raspberry Pi computers.
Meanwhile SolidRun has introduced a new system on a module that it says is the smallest to support up to a 16-core CPU, a small team at Microsoft have developed a clone of Apple’s Quick Look feature, which could bring fast file previewing to File Explorer (via PowerToys) eventually, LG has introduced a 16 inch portable display that weighs less than a kilogram (2.2 pounds), and Barnes & Noble’s new Audiobook service looks an awful lot like Amazon’s Audible (except a lot later to the game… it’s launching nearly a decade and a half after Amazon acquired Audible).
Here’s a roundup of recent tech news from around the web.
Raspberry Pi OS no longer includes a default “pi” user, and requires you to create a user account during setup. The new setup wizard also lets you pair a BT mouse or keyboard without using USB peripherals first. Experimental Wayland support also included. https://t.co/WXGVZmQrKl
SolidRun’s new LX2-Lite SOM (system on module) can be configured with up to 16 NXP LX2162A Layerscape ARM Cortex-A72 @ 2 GHz CPU cores and up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM. Compatible with the new ClearFog LX2 Lite carrier board. https://t.co/Aw7KJ5hrWipic.twitter.com/CNIBVma64z
Powertoys Peek is a work-in-progress quick file preview feature for Windows for previewing images or other files in File Explorer with a keyboard shortcut. It’s basically a Windows version of Apple’s Quick Look for macOS. May eventually come to PowerToys. https://t.co/7dhaZH6Wkdpic.twitter.com/STQDNnIrQ9
After selling a line of thin and light laptops under the LG Gram name for the past 7 years, LG is branching out with a… thin and light portable display. The LG Gram +view 16MQ70 is a 990 gram (2.2 pound) 16 inch, 2560 x 1600px display for $349. https://t.co/1iEjO6SDaU
Google Lens picks up a new “multisearch” feature that lets you search by both image and text using the Google app for Android or iOS. Fire up the app, tap the Lens icon, and pick an image from the screen or with your camera then add text if needed. https://t.co/YgjtNwXmvz
Google has released Android 12 QPR3 Beta 2 for the Pixel 4 and later, with the latest version of the upcoming Quarterly Platform Release bringing bug fixes and updated modem firmware for the Pixel 6. https://t.co/EgeySKp8Uj
Code in Google apps points to a new Google Nest WiFi router in the works, code-named “Sirocco.” While there are no firm details about specs, it’d be surprising if this was *not* a mesh router with WiFi 6 and/or 6E support. https://t.co/HWUPVTP0Gp
Barnes & Noble launches B&N Audiobooks, a service that works a lot like Amazon’s Audible: you can buy audiobooks outright or pay for a $15/month subscription that gives you credit good for one audiobook per month from a library of 300K titles. https://t.co/bxuAQmFa10
Nubia to launch the RedMagic 7 Pro gaming phone on April 12. Given that the normal RedMagic 7 has a 165 Hz display, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, and up to 18GB RAM and 256GB storage, I’m not sure how much headroom is left for a “pro” model. https://t.co/3MBExENcWS
A recent study of geological deposits and archaeological remains has identified a massive earthquake and tsunami that wiped out communities along the coastline of Chile's Atacama Desert around 3,800 years ago. Studying the ancient disaster—and people's responses to it—could help with modern hazard planning along the seismically active coast.
A long-forgotten disaster
Broken walls and toppled stones reveal the calamity that struck Zapatero, an ancient community in what's now northern Chile, about 4,000 years ago.
The people who lived along the coast of the Atacama Desert 5,700 to 4,000 years ago built villages of small stone houses atop massive piles of shells (Zapatero's shell-filled midden is two meters deep and spans 6 square kilometers). Usually, these houses stood adjacent to each other, opening onto inner patios. People buried their dead beneath the houses' floors. The cement floors were made from algae ash, seawater, and shells—the same material that held the stone walls together.
Facebook said it blocked sharing of “videos calling on the Army to surrender.”
Enlarge/ Ukrainian soldiers sit on an armored military vehicle in Sievierodonetsk on April 7, 2022, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine. (credit: Getty Images | Fadel Senna)
Facebook today reported an increase in attacks on accounts run by Ukraine military personnel. In some cases, attackers took over accounts and posted "videos calling on the Army to surrender," but Facebook said it blocked sharing of the videos.
Specifically, Facebook owner Meta's Q1 2022 Adversarial Threat Report said it has "seen a further spike in compromise attempts aimed at members of the Ukrainian military by Ghostwriter," a hacking campaign that "typically targets people through email compromise and then uses that to gain access to their social media accounts across the Internet." Ghostwriter has been linked to the Belarusian government.
"Since our last public update [on February 27], this group has attempted to hack into the Facebook accounts of dozens of Ukrainian military personnel," Meta wrote today. Ghostwriter successfully hacked into the accounts in "a handful of cases" in which "they posted videos calling on the Army to surrender as if these posts were coming from the legitimate account owners. We blocked these videos from being shared."
The Lenovo Yoga 9i Gen 7 is a convertible notebook with a 14 inch touchscreen display, a 360-degree hinge that allows you to use the computer is a notebook, tablet, or something in between, and a 12th-gen Intel Core P-series 28-watt processor. First announced in January, the laptop is now available for purchase from Lenovo. The only […]
The Lenovo Yoga 9i Gen 7 is a convertible notebook with a 14 inch touchscreen display, a 360-degree hinge that allows you to use the computer is a notebook, tablet, or something in between, and a 12th-gen Intel Core P-series 28-watt processor.
The only model available at launch is a version with a 1920 x 1200 pixel display, an Intel Core i7-1260P 12-core, 16-thread processor, 8GB of LPDDR5-5200 memory (which is not user upgradeable) and a 256GB PCIe Gen 4 SSD (which is upgradeable). This model has a list price of $1450, but it’s on sale for $1230 as of early April, 2022.
Lenovo is also expected to offer other models in the future that have up to a 2880 x 1800 pixel LCD display or 3840 x 2400 pixel OLED screen, and up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. We may also eventually see a lower-cost version with a Core i5-1240P processor.
The Lenovo Yoga 9i Gen 7 measures 12.5″ x 9.1″ x 0.6″ and has a starting weight of 3.1 pounds. Ports include:
2 x Thunderbolt
1 x USB 3.2 Type-C
1 x USB 3.2 Type-A
1 x 3.5mm audio
Other features include a 75 Wh battery, a 2MP, 1080p IR webcam with support for Windows Hello face login and a privacy shutter that covers the camera when it’s not in use and a backlit keyboard with a few special functions for adjusting power performance modes or switching between light and dark themes in Windows. The laptop’s speakers are built into the hinge, so they rotate to face you no matter how you’re using the computer.
The notebook also supports WiFi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2, and the Yoga 9i Gen 7 comes with a Lenovo Precision Pen 2 pressure-sensitive pen for writing or drawing on the screen.
Several events have been linked to the outbreak as people let down their guard.
Enlarge/ US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg)
A growing number of high-ranking officials, lawmakers, aides, and journalists have tested positive for COVID-19 this week amid an outbreak of the ultratransmissible omicron variant among the elite of Washington, DC.
In the past three days, Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) Joaquin Castro (D-Texas), Katherine Clark (D-Mass.), Greg Meeks (D-N.Y.), Scott Peters (D-Calif.), and Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) reported positive COVID-19 tests. Two Cabinet members—Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and Attorney General Merrick Garland—also reported positive tests, along with Vice President Kamala Harris’ communications director, Jamal Simmons, and, President Joe Biden's sister, Valerie Biden Owens. Several staff members for the White House and National Security Council have also tested positive, The Washington Post reports.
On Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's spokesperson announced that she, too, had been infected. "After testing negative this week, Speaker Pelosi received a positive test result for COVID-19 and is currently asymptomatic. The Speaker is fully vaccinated and boosted and is thankful for the robust protection the vaccine has provided, " Spokesperson Drew Hammill tweeted.
Nach A1 hat auch Magenta Telekom ein Datum für das Ende von 3G/UMTS bekannt gegeben. (
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