From MySpace to MyFreeDiskSpace: 12 years of music – 50m songs – blackholed amid mystery server move
Vast storage savings...er, tragic loss attributed to a data migration gone awry
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Hey, US taxpayers. Filed your taxes? Good, good. $500m of it is going on an Intel-Cray exascale boffinry supercomputer
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