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    Sun Microsystems is to fund the next version of Seti@home, the distributed computing project that is looking for intelligent alien life.

  • SETI@home director denies funding crisis

    SETI@home director David Anderson has spoken out to calm fears sparked by the project's chief scientist, Dan Werthimer, that the project is under threat of closing.

  • Cheats wreak havoc on SETI@home: participants

    The SETI@home administrators are allegedly ignoring reports that the project is being sabotaged by miscreants that threaten to derail its reputation and that of many valuable Internet-based distributed computing projects.

  • SETI@home yields to pressure to curb cheating

    Administrators of the alien-hunting distributed computing experiment SETI@home have announced that they will crack-down on cheats rorting statistics on computing power lent to the project following a united protest from its chief contributors.

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    A worldwide hacker confederation is setting up a grid of processing power to crack e-commerce passwords. If you think this is crazy, Wayne Rash says "think again."

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  • Can the Net survive filtering?

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    Stanford University scientists have shown that distributed computing, using thousands of low- end PCs, can have real results.

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