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Microsoft plans Palladium development kit (ComputerWeekly)
Microsoft announced plans to release a development kit for its Next-Generation Secure Computing Base at a conference this fall. NGSCB, also known as Palladium, provides for trusted operations on a PC and requires new hardware. The kit enables developers to work with code and develop applications for the technology. Microsoft said the kit will be an API set that functions with "standard" programming languages.
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Windows system shows up on fastest supercomputer list (CNET)
A Windows-based system has made a rare appearance on the list of the 500 fastest supercomputers. Built at the Cornell Theory Center, the system is a cluster of Dell servers with 384 Xeon processors. Hewlett-Packard boasts 159 systems on the list with IBM trailing by one. Intel, meanwhile, is also well represented with 119 Xeon-based supercomputers on the list. Sun, meanwhile, has only nine systems on the list. Researchers from Germany's University of Mannheim and researchers at the University of Tennessee compile the list.
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THE MISSING LINK
IRS workers tax computers, Uncle Sam's patience
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Still waiting for your federal income tax refund? Maybe the person responsible for handling your return has been busy elf bowling. According to a federal study, Internal Revenue Service workers are often busy using the Net to send personal e-mail, visit naughty Web sites and play games; thousands of IRS computers, the study states, are being used for such surfing. Apparently, last year's "crackdown" on inappropriate Internet use within the agency didn't have much effect. But perhaps there's one good thing to take from all this: The "taxman" is human after all.
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