Virus rocks Iran's Nuke reactors

A new worm targeted Iran’s nuclear program, closing down the “automation network” at the Natanz and Fordo facilities, the Internet security site reported, citing an e-mail it said was sent by a scientist inside Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization. The virus also prompted several of the computers on site to play the song “Thunderstruck” by AC/DC at full volume in the middle of the night, according to the e-mail, part of which is published in English on the website. F-Secure Security Labs, which is linked to F-Secure Oyj (FSC1V), the Finnish maker of security and cloud software, said that while it was unable to verify the details of the...

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What, Exactly, Is a Supercomputer?

It’s official: The United States is home to the world’s fastest supercomputer. But what exactly are supercomputers and why should we care about them?I decided to go straight to the source — Mike McCoy, program director for advanced simulation and computing at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He’s the man in charge of Sequoia, the record-breaking supercomputer that’s been grabbing headlines and making techies drool over the last few days. Prepare to look at your MacBook Pro in shame.What is a supercomputer?Exactly what it sounds like: an extremely powerful computer. Sequoia, a third-generation Blue Gene machine from IBM, runs on 1.6...

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Microsoft unveils new Surface tablet designed to work with Windows 8

Software giant Microsoft unveiled its first tablet computer, Surface, in a major hardware launch clearly designed to take on long-term rival Apple's market-ruling iPad. Chief executive Steve Ballmer described the iPad challenger -- complete with a built-in stand and ultra thin covers-cum-keyboards in a range of colors -- as a tablet that "works and plays." "The Surface is a PC, the Surface is a tablet, and the Surface is something new that we think people will absolutely love," he said at an hour-long presentation in a Hollywood design studio. No prices or release dates were given, but the Surface is expected to go on sale in the fall,...

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Tools To Make Web Development More Efficient -Part 2 -

Other available tools to help make web development projects quicker and more productive: 1. JSUnit JSUnit is a unit testing framework for JavaScript. Testing JavaScript manually is time-consuming and prone to errors, but JSUnit provides the developer a simpler, automated way of doing unit tests to ensure thorough testing at a fraction of the time it would take to test manually. JSUnit allows for the execution of automated tests for multiple browsers and operating systems. 2. Test plugin for JavaScriptMVC The Test plugin for JavaScriptMVC is another excellent JavaScript testing framework to help make development speedier....

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Tools To Make Web Development More Efficient -Part1 ( 10 Useful Tools)-

There are many available tools to help make web development projects quicker and more productive. Aside from a handy text editor or WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, you can find plenty of tools and utilities that can greatly increase development speed, reduce debugging and testing time, and improve quality of the output. The tools described below are a variety of utilities, optimizers, testing, and debugging tools aimed towards helping developers create websites more efficiently. 1. CSS Grid Builder CSS Grid Builder is an online GUI for customizing the YUI Grids CSS – a lightweight CSS framework developed by Yahoo! that...

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