Five days after a cyberattack forced City of Atlanta employees to turn off their computers to preserve the city’s network, officials declined to provide the public any new significant detail about the attack’s origin on Monday.

At a press conference at City Hall, an outside computer security consultant for the City of Atlanta said that his firm had completed the “investigation and containment phases” in response to the cyber attack.

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Bottoms said that city officials hadn’t found any evidence that sensitive employee or public data had been compromised in the Thursday attack. Still she urged employees and residents to monitor their accounts and credit activity.

She also did not rule out paying a $51,000 ransom being demanded to unlock the city’s computer system.

Estimates of rape victims from the city's two main hospitals ranged from 95,000 to 130,000. One doctor deduced that out of approximately 100,000 women raped in the city, some 10,000 died as a result, mostly from suicide. The death rate was thought to have been much higher among the 1.4 million estimated victims in East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia. Altogether at least two million German women are thought to have been raped, and a substantial minority, if not a majority, appear to have suffered multiple rape.

At least 100,000 women are believed to have been raped in Berlin, based on surging abortion rates in the following months and contemporary hospital reports,[10] with an estimated 10,000 women dying in the aftermath.[13]

Madeleina Kay wasn’t politically active before the Brexit referendum. But when she heard about the shock result, she sprung into action. Now a self-proclaimed ‘EU supergirl,’ she spends her time campaigning against Britain’s departure from the bloc.

UK lawmakers suggest postponing Brexit in committee report - http://p.dw.com/p/2uXeW

SAN FRANCISCO—In the computer graphics community this week, companies from Nvidia to Microsoft have been stressing just how important real-time raytracing will be to making games look more movie-like in the near future. Epic Games used a striking demo at a Game Developers Conference keynote presentation this morning to show just how much better raytracing can make real-time, interactive graphics look with top-of-the-line hardware right now.

The Star Wars "Reflections" demo, made with the cooperation of Nvidia and ILMxLAB, showed two extremely realistic-looking and talkative Stormtroopers clamming up in an elevator when the shiny Captain Phasma pops in. Running on what Epic still refers to as “experimental code” (planned to be introduced to Unreal Engine for production later this year) the raytracing in the demo allows background elements like the guns and the opening elevator doors to reflect accurately off Phasma’s mirror-like armor in real time. These are the kinds of effects that Epic CTO Kim Libreri highlights they’ve “never been able to do before [with rasterized graphics].”

With raytracing, developers can change the shape of the light in a scene on the fly, in turn changing the character and the diffuse “softness” of the shadows in the scene. The way the raytraced shadows allow for gentle gradations of light as characters and objects block parts of the scene is one of the most apparent improvements over the harsher, “pre-baked” light in rasterized graphics. The raytracing technology also gives the scene a realistic, cinematic depth-of field effect automatically, with no need for fancy shaders or tricks implemented manually by developers.

Getting a “cinematic” 24fps with real-time raytracing still requires some serious hardware: it’s currently running on Nvidia’s ultra-high-end, four-GPU DGX Station, which lists for $60,000 [Update: After publication, Epic reached out to clarify that the demo was running on a DGX Station, and not a DGX-1 as originally stated during the interview.] . Even with that, some elements of the scene, like the walls, need to be rasterized rather than made fully reflective, Libreri told Ars. And the Volta technology that is key to powering this kind of performance isn't even available in consumer-grade GPUs below the $3,000+ Titan V, so don't expect this kind of scene to run on your home gaming rig in the near-term.