U.S. funds approved for nuclear security programs in Ukraine, Russia

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  cbrne_detection Almost $3 million has been approved by U.S. nuclear security agencies to fuel collaborative nuclear security and development projects in the Ukraine and Russian Federation, said National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on July 26. The projects, financed by NNSA’s Global Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention…

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Android hackers hone skills in Russia

The malware business growing around Google Android — now the leading smartphone operating system — is still in its infancy. Today, many of the apps built to steal money from Android users originate from Russia and China, so criminal gangs there have become cyber-trailblazers. View full post on Computerworld Security…

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Russia building 10-petaflop supercomputer

Computerworld – T-Platforms, a Moscow-based tech company that has built some of that nation’s largest systems, is developing a 10-petaflop supercomputer for M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, the company said this week. This large system puts it in the ballpark of similarly announced systems being developed in the major supercomputing…

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