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Submission + - NNSA Reveals Supercomputer Set to Take Over China's Top System (hpcwire.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The National Nuclear Security Administration just unleashed news that it's invested close to $200 million for a new system so powerful, it could topple the far-dominant Chinese supercomputer, called Tianhe-2. Powered by the next generation Haswell processors and the upcoming, still mysterious self-hosted Intel Knight's Landing chips, the machine might be capable of close to 100 petaflops, at least if my math is correct given the node and rack figures leaked here.

Comment Re:another language shoved down your throat (Score 2, Insightful) 415

by tomhath (#47411063) Attached to: Python Bumps Off Java As Top Learning Language

My only gripe is the use of indentation instead of curly brackets to mark blocks

I'll never understand that criticism. Don't you indent your code? Have you ever been fooled by incorrect indentation that didn't compile the way it looked? Brackets, begin..end, and semicolons are crutches for compiler writers not programmers.

Submission + - A Box of Forgotten Smallpox Vials Was Just Found in an FDA Closet

Submitted by Jason Koebler
Jason Koebler writes: The last remaining strains of smallpox are kept in highly protected government laboratories in Russia and at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. And, apparently, in a dusty cardboard box in an old storage room in Maryland.
The CDC said today that government workers had found six freeze-dried vials of the Variola virus, which causes smallpox, in a storage room at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland last week. Each test tube had a label on it that said "variola," which was a tip-off, but the agency did genetic testing to confirm that the viruses were, in fact, smallpox.

Submission + - Avast Buys 20 Used Phones, Recovers 40,000 Deleted Photos (avast.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: The used smartphone market is thriving, with many people selling their old devices on eBay or craigslist when it's time to upgrade. Unfortunately, it seems most people are really bad at wiping their phone of personal data before passing it on to a stranger. Antivirus company Avast bought 20 used Android phones off eBay, and used some basic data recovery software to reconstruct deleted files. From just those 20 phones, they pulled over 40,000 photographs, including 1,500 family pictures of children and over a thousand more.. personal pictures. They also recovered hundreds of emails and text messages, over a thousand Google searches, a completed loan application, and identity information for four of the previous owners. Only one of the phones had security software installed on it, but that phone turned out to provide the most information of all: "Hackers at Avast were able to identify the previous owner, access his Facebook page, plot his previous whereabouts through GPS coordinates, and find the names and numbers of more than a dozen of his closest contacts. What’s more, the company discovered a lot about this guy’s penchant for kink and a completed copy of a Sexual Harassment course — hopefully a preventative measure."

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