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Department of Energy switches on world’s fastest supercomputer
As seemingly all of America’s media focused on the threat posed by Hurricane Sandy, the U.S. Department of Energy quietly flipped the switch on “Titan,” the world’s fastest supercomputer, giving giving engineers, medical and energy researchers and climate scientists unparalleled new processing power to tackle the globe’s toughest challenges. Titan…
Iranian engineer claims simple GPS hack took U.S. drone down
An unnamed Iranian engineer reportedly working to reverse-engineer a U.S. drone recently captured by Revolutionary Guard forces told a reporter for The Christian Science Monitor that the aircraft was downed through a relatively unsophisticated cyber-attack that tricked its global positioning systems (GPS). The technique, known as “GPS spoofing,” has been…
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