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Purdue To Build Its Own Supercomputer, 40th Largest In World

The university will mobilize 200 of its IT staffers on Monday to build a supercomputer that has 6,496 cores and can perform 60 trillion operations per second.

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Alexander Wolfe

Are Worms Always Bad?
Self-replicating programs, which spread unchecked across the Internet, are always bad. Except when they're good. At least that's the theory behind U.S Patent number 7,296,923, awarded to Symantec Corp. for "Using a benevolent worm to assess and correct computer security vulnerabilities."

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Dave Methvin

No Hurry For Windows Vista And XP Service Packs
After finding a few last-minute problems with Vista Service Pack 1 and XP Service Pack 3, Microsoft delayed deployment on both of them. Now they're both back and ready for download, either manually or through Windows Update.

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Eric Zeman

AT&T Can't Make Up Its Mind About Free Wi-Fi For iPhone
This is bordering on ridiculous. Last week, iPhone users (myself included) noticed that they could get free access to Wi-Fi service from AT&T at Starbucks locations. Later in the week, AT&T yanked the service. Early this week, it put the service back up, complete with information on the AT&T Web site. Today, any references to free Wi-Fi for iPhones is once again gone. What gives, AT&T?

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John Foley

One Small Step For Socialcast, One Giant Leap For Enterprise Social Networking
The Jet Propulsion Lab will begin pilot testing startup Socialcast�s social networking software for potential use by NASA. The space agency is interested in using Socialcast for knowledge transfer as Apollo-era employees retire.

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