Venus
NASA may send a fleet of spacecraft to Venus after a planned mission to Jupiter and its moons set for launch in 2020, the US space agency has said.
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The Battle of the Botnets
New Scientist is reporting on a University of Washington project aiming to marshal swarms of ‘good’ computers to take on botnets. Their approach – called Phalanx – uses its distributed network to shield a server from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Instead of that server being accessed directly, all information must pass through the swarm of ‘mailbox’ computers, which are swapped around randomly and only pass on information to the shielded server when it requests it.