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• SETI hunt for alien life put on hold

  The US federal and state budget squeeze is affecting life here on Earth - and beyond.

• Marking milestones in space flight, space shuttle program

  This is a big day for NASA and space buffs around the world, who are clebrating two major anniversaries.

• Ex-NASA cloud builder's startup boosts OpenStack software

  The former chief architect of NASA's Nebula cloud computing platform has founded a new company that will use the OpenStack project to bring cloud capabilities to enterprise customers.

• NASA's Messenger grabs historic image of Mercury

  This photo taken by the Messenger spacecraft from Mercury's orbit shows an area near the planet's south pole. (Image: NASA) NASA spacecraft Messenger delivered its first photograph of Mercury -- the first image of the planet taken from its own orbit.

• Critical NASA network was open to internet attack

  Six NASA servers exposed to the Internet had critical vulnerabilities that could have endangered Space Shuttle, International Space Station and Hubble Telescope missions -- flaws that would have been found by a security oversight program the agency agreed to last year but hasn't yet implemented, according to a report by the agency's inspector general.

• NASA scraps plan for 3D camera on Mars Rover

  NASA has given up on the hope to build a 3D camera for the next robotic rover that the space agency will send to Mars.

• Twitter's 5th Birthday: 5 Milestones

  At 4:50 p.m. on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey wrote "just setting up my twttr."

• Japan disaster rocks computer chip supplies

  The disaster in Japan is putting a pinch on 25% of the worldwide production of silicon wafers used to make computer chips, according to a new report.

• NASA: Humanoid robot launching into future

  With 38 computer processors and working arms and hands, the humanoid robot onboard NASA's space shuttle Discovery is expected to be the centerpiece of a dramatic step forward in the evolution of humans and robots working together in space.

• NASA's robot may get Japanese space companion

  The humanoid robot taking off in NASA's space shuttle Discovery tomorrow afternoon could get a companion in a few years when the Japanese Space Agency plans to send its own robot to the International Space Station.

• Feds charge professed White Hat hackers in breach of AT&T iPad customer data

  Professed White Hat hackers face federal criminal charges for grabbing the e-mail addresses of 114,000 AT&T 3G customers who use iPads.

• Apache to steward NASA built middleware

  The Apache Software Foundation is extending its breadth of open-source software projects to include a package of data-management middleware developed by the NASA U.S. government space agency.

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  Hackers could use leaked Gawker info to attack gov't workers

  Passwords used by people employed by US federal, state and local governments were among those disclosed by the Gawker hack over the weekend, according to a report by PBS NewsHour on Monday.

• 10 free iPhone apps for spectacular stargazing

  There's a lot to watch in the nighttime sky -- everything from the International Space Station and meteor showers to planets and stars.

• NASA wants its data up in the clouds

  NASA is backing open source cloud computing with a single goal in mind: to stick to space exploration and stop running data centers.