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GPGPU partial implementation of SQLite gets 20-70x speedup.
A reimplementation of portions of the SQLite database to execute on a GPU, part of the GPGPU-3 workshop.
A $3.5 Billion Effort Aims to Help Tech Start-Ups + New Jobs
$3.5 billion in American start-ups over next 2 years by Invest in America Alliance, and 10,500 American college graduates to be hired in 2010 by Intel, Google, Cisco, Microsoft and 13 others.
2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors
"""The 2010 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors is a list of the most widespread and critical programming errors that can lead to serious software vulnerabilities. They are often easy to find, and easy to exploit. They are dangerous because they will frequently allow attackers to completely take over the software, steal data, or prevent the software from working at all."""
XML flaw threatens apps built with Sun, Apache, Python libraries
Vulnerabilities discovered in XML libraries from Sun, Apache Software Foundation and Python Software Foundation could result in successful denial-of-service attacks on applications built with them, according to Codenomicon.
EDUCASE to implement DNSSEC and sign .edu TLD
EDUCASE and Verisign to deploy DNSSEC for .edu TLD by March 2010.
4004 chipset details made public
Complete Artwork, Schematics, and Simulator for Intel MCS-4 (4004 family) microprocessor chip-set available for the first time
SSL renegotiation attack implemented
A Turkish grad student has devised a serious, real-world attack on Twitter that targeted a recently discovered vulnerability in the secure sockets layer protocol.
Google SPDY alternative protocol
Google releases alternative to HTTP protocol to speed up web access.
StarCraft AI Competition
The 2010 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2010) will be hosting a StarCraft AI competition as part of the conference program.
Google releases an open source language "Go"
"""Go is a new programming language from Google that aims for performance that is nearly comparable to C, but with more expressive syntax and faster compilation."""
EWU systems down for upgrade
Nov 6-9th 2009. Admissions, advising, records and registration, financial aid, student employment, student financial services, and payroll systems down.

