17th June 2012 Archive
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Microsoft cosies up to China with Win8 weibo support
Sina Weibo users accounted for in People app
Hot on the heels of Apple’s China love-in at its Worldwide Developers Conference this week, news has emerged that Microsoft is planning to integrate the country’s hugely popular Sina Weibo micro-blogging platform into Windows 8. Jeff Kunis, a group program manager on the Windows Live team, revealed the news in a comment at the …
Networks 17 Jun 00:01
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Swinburne flicks switch on $AU3 million GPU
120 teraflop, 757-GPU gSTAR is astronomers' new toy
Swinburne University has brought a new 120 teraflop GPU-based supercomputer from SGI to help cope with astronomers' ever-increasing need for lots of computing power. The 636 Intel GPU, 121 NVIDIA GPU, quad-InfiniBand machine, gSTAR, is one of just six similar grunt-boxes in Australia. The power boost over Swinburne’s previous …
HPC 17 Jun 23:05
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Honeynet looks to trap USB malware
Virtualized USB drive as honeypot
The Honeynet project has picked up research by a German student to trap malware designed to spread via USB keys. USB-distributed malware – like Stuxnet and its bloated cousin, Flame – presents problems for network-based security, since they don’t spread through the network. The Bonn University student, Sebastian Peoplau, has …
Security 17 Jun 23:38
