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Lenovo To Buy IBM’s Server Business For $2.3 Billion

itwbennett writes “Well, that was fast. Earlier this week the rumor mill was getting revved up about a potential sale of IBM’s x86 server business, with Lenovo, Dell, and Fujitsu reportedly all interested in scooping it up. On Thursday, Lenovo Group announced it has agreed to buy IBM’s x86 server hardware business and related maintenance services for $2.3 billion. The deal encompasses IBM’s System x, BladeCenter and Flex System blade servers and switches, x86-based Flex integrated systems, NeXtScale and iDataPlex servers and associated software, blade networking and maintenance operations. IBM will retain its System z mainframes, Power Systems, Storage Systems, Power-based Flex servers, and PureApplication and PureData appliances.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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A Single Man Spent 53 Years Building This Massive Cathedral

Very few of us will work at a single job our whole lives. Even fewer will work on a single, self-led project our whole lives. Spanish octogenarian Justo Gallego Martinez is an exception: He’s been the sole designer, engineer, and construction worker on a cathedral in Madrid since 1961. Read more…        

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The Army Wants to Replace Up to 25 Percent of Its Soldiers with Robots

Cash-strapped and somewhat adrift in terms of missions, the U.S. Army is in the midst of an existential crisis . Once ballooning in budget and size, the Army now says it wants to be “a smaller, more lethal, deployable, and agile force.” And it’s going to need robots to do it right. Read more…        

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Hackers Swiped 70,000 Records from Healthcare.gov in Four Minutes

After the bevy of problems Healthcare.gov encountered in its first few months of life, dumping one more onto the pile shouldn’t phase you all that much, right? Well, not if that hiccup is actually a gaping vulnerability—and one that can grant hackers access to over 70, 0000 private records in just four minutes, at that. Read more…        

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Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access

An anonymous reader writes “The remote desktop service LogMeIn sent an email to its users today notifying them that ‘LogMeIn Free’ will be discontinued — as of today. This is a major shock with minimal warning to the millions of users who have come to rely on their service, made all the more surprising by the fact that ‘consensus revenue estimates for LogMeIn in 2014 are $190.3 million, ‘ suggesting that their system of providing both free and paid accounts for what is ultimately a straightforward service that could be duplicated for well under $1 million was already doing quite well.” Asks reader k280: “What alternative tools are available for free, and how do they compare to LogMeIn?” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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The Navy’s Newest "Pickup Truck of the Sea" Just Launched

The USNS Fall River , the fourth vessel in the US Navy’s new Spearhead -class of high-speed, shallow-draft transport catamarans launched for the first time over the weekend. This multi-function catamaran will transport up cargo and up to a battalion of troops between ports. Read more…        

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China Could Wash Away Smog With Artificial Rain Storms From Skyscrapers

Airborne pollution is a major issue in China, with local hospitals opening up ” smog clinics ” and waves of city-dwellers migrating to more rural areas to escape . While Chinese officials are pursuing “cloud seeding” as a way to control pollution, a Zhejiang University professor thinks he has a better idea: Sprinklers. Big ones. Read more…        

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Linux 3.13 Released

diegocg writes “Linux kernel 3.13 has been released. This release includes nftables (the successor of iptables); a revamp of the block layer designed for high-performance SSDs; a framework to cap power consumption in Intel RAPL devices; improved squashfs performance; AMD Radeon power management enabled by default and automatic AMD Radeon GPU switching; improved NUMA and hugepage performance; TCP Fast Open enabled by default; support for NFC payments; support for the High-Availability Seamless Redundancy protocol; new drivers; and many other small improvements. Here’s the full list of changes.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Download Your Tax Return Transcripts Straight from the IRS

Tax returns are one of those documents you should hold onto . But in case you’ve misplaced some, don’t feel like digging them out of storage, or would just like to have a digital copy, you’re in luck. You can now download your tax transcripts from the new IRS service Get Transcript . Read more…        

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