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• NASA on 'brink of a new future' with SpaceX launch

  The nation's space efforts entered a new chapter today with the launch of the first commercial vehicle to the International Space Station.

• NASA says no sensitive information breached in Unknowns hack

  NASA acknowledged Friday an attack on one of its websites by "The Unknowns," a group that has been publicly trickling information on websites it has hacked over the last few weeks.

• In Pictures: The SpaceX blast into history

  NASA watches as SpaceX gets set for first space shot

• Government moves to the cloud, slowly

  A year and a half after the U.S. Office of Management and Budget declared a "cloud first" strategy requiring government organizations to at least consider cloud-based services when launching new applications and IT services, experts say the government is only moving slowly to the cloud, and it has a long way to go.

• Help for the Help Desk

  A help desk can be a real lifesaver for employees, not to mention a productivity boost. If a keyboard stops working or Outlook keeps crashing, a technician is just a phone call away. Even complex problems can usually be resolved internally, and relatively quickly, without the need for an outside vendor.

• How to brag online without appearing to brag

  Last week I posted to Buzzblog a list of the 50 best "bragging rights" claimed by users of Google+.

• Greenpeace's sign to Amazon, Microsoft: 'How clean is your cloud?'

  Activists at Greenpeace intensified their environmental criticism of Amazon and Microsoft today by posting signage near the Seattle offices of both companies questioning the cleanliness of the companies' clouds.

• In Pictures: NASA Space Shuttle Discovery’s spectacular final flight

  One last hurrah – Shuttle Discovery flies piggy-back to Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Udvar-Hazy Center

• NASA looks Into satellites to beam solar power directly to Earth

  There have been some incredible advances in solar power technology over the years, ranging from simple solar panels to solar-thermal power and more efficient panels. But NASA scientists believe the next step in maximizing sun-based energy will come from satellites that would beam harvested solar power down to Earth.

• NASA announces Open Government Plan 2.0

  The use of open-source ideals -- both inside and outside of the software realm -- is at the heart of the latest version of NASA's Open Government Plan, which was announced Tuesday in an official blog post.

• OpenStack unlocks IaaS

  Infrastructure-as-a-service is gaining traction in the enterprise with customers lauding the flexibility that it delivers. However, there is still that nagging concern about vendor lock-in.

• OpenStack development finds big growing pains

  It's been an interesting past few weeks for OpenStack.

• Report: IBM, Red Hat to join OpenStack

  IBM and Red Hat could soon be joining the ranks of OpenStack supporters, giving the open source Cloud project a big boost.

• Federal IT pros look at BYOD security, management concerns

  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Like their counterparts in the private sector, information technology managers in the federal government are actively debating whether their agencies should move to a "bring your own device" (BYOD) policy, allowing employee-owned mobile smartphones and tablets devices to be used for work.

• Government IT strains under BYOD challenge

  WASHINGTON, D.C. -- IT executives with federal and state governments are struggling to sort out mobile strategies for smartphones and tablets that would be used by employees at work.