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laptop

[lap-top] / ˈlæpˌtɒp /






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“If you see someone with a notebook or a laptop, that person wants to be left alone. If you see someone with a typewriter, there’s something happening here,” says the poet.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

The company said an initial investigation indicated that a DevOps engineer’s laptop was compromised, allowing unauthorized withdrawals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Initially, the company had indicated the breach "may have started with a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop" but later statements have pointed to a broader breach.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

“Our initial investigation suggested that the security incident may have involved a compromised laptop, however our subsequent investigation has uncovered additional points of breach,” it said.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

And she turned on the laptop and read Alex Rover’s letter again.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

Binance said hackers then leveraged the engineer's compromised computer and a compromised internal AI tool in October to gain control over two other engineers' laptops, and execute the next steps of the attack.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

The resulting shortage has pushed up prices for laptops, gaming consoles and smartphones -- a squeeze that risks weighing on consumer demand for the devices that use Intel's chips.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

After football, we’ll both get in bed with our laptops and we’ll either watch something together and I’ll rub his head until he falls asleep.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The pressure on the PC market isn’t exactly a shock given that surging memory prices have been a nagging issue all year, and this was broadly expected to slow demand for laptops.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

We watched three different people typing at laptops, right in their windows, and not one of them ever looked up to catch us spying.

From Absolutely Almost by Lisa Graff


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