Boffins use Solaris to store the real Sun
Satellite image bank Space watchers at the University of Central Lancashire are using Solaris ZFS and Sun Fire storage to hold a burgeoning stack of close-up pics of the real Sun.…
Boffins warn on car computer security risk
Dashboard pwnage not that difficult - once you're in Updated Computer scientists have carried out one of the first detailed security analyses of the security implications of increased use of computer systems in cars, finding systems surprisingly easy to hack or disrupt.…
Boffins demo one-molecule DNA 'walker' nano-bot
Tiny four-tentacle machine follows origami breadcrumbs American boffins say that they have created tiny robot spiders or "walkers", each one of which is a single complicated molecule fashioned out of DNA. They have managed to get the molecular nanorobospiders to follow a trail of DNA "breadcrumbs".…