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RT @juhasaarinen: IBM’s solar concentrator can produce energy, clean water and ACcomputerworld.com/article/268723…Sz vi@Computerworldld

Harbour IT, which has 180 employees in five offices, will be part of Canon from October. theaustralian.com.au/technology/can…

Upgrade your bash Package on Debian/Ubuntu with: “apt-get update; apt-get install bash” Re: arstechnica.com/security/2014/…

Customers running CentOS/RHEL-based VPS can upgrade their bash with the command: yum update bash re: arstechnica.com/security/2014/…

How Facebook saves electricity by using its Autoscale load balancing technology. HT @TechRepublic techrepublic.com/article/how-fa…

RT @juhasaarinen: Google to build $870m free-cooled Dutch data centre itnews.com.au/News/392434,go… via @iTnews_au

Blizzard’s ‘Project Titan’ is cancelled, because Blizzard “struggled to make the game fun”. arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/09…

More drive info, this update via @backblaze on “spinning rust” drives: “Seagate 3TB drives are failing a lot more”. backblaze.com/blog/hard-driv…

Only 2 remain in the SSD Endurance Experiment after 1.5PB of writes. As always, great info here. techreport.com/review/27062/t…

Ray Kurzweil’s Reader app for the blind. Coming to Android soon too. knfbreader.com