Last week, astronomers, astrophysicists, data scientists and programmers came together at New York University to try to solve some of astronomy's toughest problems — in just five days.
The event, called Astro Hack Week, has only one rule: Everybody has to produce something. It might be a build of an astronomy data search algorithm, a series of programming tutorials or a bot that generates fake (and surprisingly plausible) tweets from one of the event creators. It might be planned from the get-go or something dreamed up based on a morning teaching session. But whatever it is, it must be built (or "hacked") entirely at Astro Hack Week and rely on the cooperation of programmers, scientists and engineers at all levels.
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Hackers attack the supercomputers of the UK, Germany, and Switzerland, and "infections" included cryptocurrency-mining spyware.
