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- LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices - Ars Technica
- 10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents - Ars Technica
Interesting insights from deep usage of the "worst AI coding assistants" that we will have in the future.
- Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging - Ars Technica
Love that Marlinspike is bringing his privacy ethos to the world of AI. 🧠
- How to break free from smart TV ads and tracking - Ars Technica
- Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private - Ars Technica
I’m a sucker for smart devices and such, but a camera in your toilet? No. Just no.
- After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers - Ars Technica
I've bought a number of Crucial memory sticks over the years. The massive demand for memory for AI means no more consumer product. The fault lies squarely at the feet of AI mania…
- Admins and defenders gird themselves against maximum-severity server vuln - Ars Technica
Big security issue in a very popular web framework.
- Original Mac calculator design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for 10 minutes - Ars Technica
Funny story about engineering around an iterative design process.
- Internet Archive’s legal fights are over, but its founder mourns what was lost - Ars Technica
I've been an active donor to the Internet Archive for well over a decade. I’m glad that they survived this legal fight but how we are approaching property rights in the digital…
- Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement - Ars Technica
Deeper dive on Signal's recent improvements.
- What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers. - Ars Technica
Some super interesting usage data from OpenAI about ChatGPT. ChatGPT added over 300M active users in the last 6 months? That is incredible. Nearly doubled! Interesting how heavily…
- Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed - Ars Technica
- St. Paul, MN, was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed - Ars Technica
- US air traffic control still runs on Windows 95 and floppy disks - Ars Technica
Floppy disks? What?
- Breaking down why Apple TVs are privacy advocates’ go-to streaming device - Ars Technica
Apple TV's are the only way I watch TV and streaming services. I've even gone further and making sure that the TV's we have are not even on WiFi, which means they don't get…
- Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. - Ars Technica
As you might expect I do some self-hosting myself, but you also may be surprised that I do a lot less of it than people may think. Why? In the short term this stuff is not that…
- AI use damages professional reputation, study suggests - Ars Technica
Do we think less of people when they disclose that they are using AI tools to help them do something? It seems that yes, we do! On Thursday, the Proceedings of the National…
- An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1 - Ars Technica
I've read about the birth of the Internet many times. The stories of the IMP, Interface Message Processors, and their 24kb of memory are delightful. I love the paper sketch in…
- ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats - Ars Technica
I found this new memory feature to be much more impactful than I suspected it would. ChatGPT now brings a bunch of context to questions that is implied from your entire history.…
- A bonus from the shingles vaccine: Dementia protection? - Ars Technica
- Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts - Ars Technica
In general folks don't believe you should write viruses that attack other viruses. The ethics being don't run unknown software on someones device even if it is attempting to do a…
- Drones are now launching drones to attack other drones in Ukraine - Ars Technica
Add AI to this and we have true technology led warfare.
- Internet Archive played crucial role in tracking shady CDC data removals - Ars Technica
The role of Internet Archive continues to grow in importance.
- Why it makes perfect sense for this bike to have two gears and two chains - Ars Technica
Incredible bicycle and introduced me to World Bicycle Relief which has brought bicycles to over 4 million people. The video in this article is worth watching.
- Switch 2 sports ~7.9-inch screen, 33% bigger tablet surface - Ars Technica
Ars Technica did the work of laboriously digging through the video of the Switch 2 to figure out the specs that are not yet published. Can’t wait to get my hands on one, or two,…
- The legacy of NeXT lives on in OS X - Ars Technica
- Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
I’m old enough to remember dialing into BBS systems. I even ran a BBS out of my dorm room for a while with a single phone line. It was an amazing pre-Internet thing.
- CTV industry’s unprecedented “surveillance” - Ars Technica
I wrote about some of the frustrating privacy issues with Smart TV's in Weekly Thing 295 . I was expecting this article to just be a restatement of stuff I’m already very aware…
- Your doctor’s office could be reading your blood pressure all wrong - Ars Technica
I learned about the correct method of checking blood pressure from an episode of Peter Attia 's podcast a while back. It does make a notable difference when you do the test.…
- NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules | Ars Technica
👏👏👏
- Google calls for halting use of WHOIS for TLS domain verifications | Ars Technica
I shared in Weekly Thing 293 about the lack of security in WHOIS so this makes sense.
- Vaporizing plastics recycles them into nothing but gas | Ars Technica
The amount of energy it takes to break down plastic, if we even can break it down, is ridiculous. In both plastics, exposure to sodium on alumina broke each polymer chain into…
- Reviewing iOS 18 for power users: Control Center, iCloud, and more | Ars Technica
If you are curious to learn more about Control Center this has a more detailed look. There is a lot of power here but it requires you to customize it to get there. This also…
- Rogue WHOIS server gives researcher superpowers no one should ever have | Ars Technica
This is a pretty incredible story and I’m surprised that there is no cryptographic signing requirements for a WHOIS server like this. In this case this researcher simply setup a…
- Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win | Ars Technica
- A root-server at the Internet’s core lost touch with its peers. We still don’t know why. | Ars Technica
Few folks know how DNS works — the system that turns something like www.thingelstad.com into an address that your computer understands. Even folks that know how DNS works may not…
- “Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups | Ars Technica
This is absolutely terrifying!
- Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game | Ars Technica
Wild article about injecting code into Tetris running on a console. Amazing what folks can figure out.
- What’s happening at Tesla? Here’s what experts think. | Ars Technica
I mostly have stopped following the drama of Elon Musk, but as a two-Tesla household I have a vested interest in things like superchargers.
- What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world | Ars Technica
The open source security world was rocked this week with the discovery of what appears to be a multi-year effort to introduce a backdoor into a critical service of Linux based…
- Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85 | Ars Technica
Network Time Protocol is one of the many critical systems that we never really think about on the Internet. When you sit down at your computer and see that the time is exactly…
- Owner of Tumblr confirms site’s shift from “surging” to “small and focused” | Ars Technica
I was happy that Automattic bought Tumblr, but also not surprised they couldn't make it grow again. Tumblr to me seems to live in this empty space between social media and…
- Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome | Ars Technica
Here is a prime example of why I don't use Chrome. Google's interests are to create a great browser that furthers their search engine, their apps, and surveilles you to sell more…
- Zoom’s CEO thinks Zoom sucks for building trust, leaked audio reveals | Ars Technica
- Landmark crypto rules make exchanges liable for customer losses in EU | Ars Technica
I’m not sure about the details here but moving forward with a clear documented framework should be a good step.
- Tesla workers shared images from car cameras, including “scenes of intimacy” | Ars Technica
Ring had the same issue. If your company captures images of customers, you should really determine why you are ever storing them. Assume your employees cannot resist the desire to…
- LastPass says employee’s home computer was hacked and corporate vault taken | Ars Technica
This LastPass breach was widely published a couple of months ago, and now we are getting more details on what actually happened. The vector that the attackers use to get in was…
- Microsoft unveils AI model that understands image content, solves visual puzzles | Ars Technica
This seems like the obvious next step and something I eluded to earlier in reference to Wolfram Alpha working with ChatGPT to each do their respective part best. The same way the…
- Risk of diabetes rises 58% after COVID, even amid omicron, study finds | Ars Technica
We are going to continue to learn new things about COVID for years. And some of it will be debunked but in the meantime…
- The generative AI revolution has begun—how did we get here? | Ars Technica
Great article summarizing what got us so many advances in AI so quickly. What was the key enabling technology, as well as the approaches that allowed such quick progress. To sum…
- A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip | Ars Technica
Great first part of the story behind the creation of the ARM chip. It Is amazing how much of this is done in emulators (the ARM emulator was in BASIC!), and also how small the…
- A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time | Ars Technica
The PDP-11 has a huge role in the history of modern computing. So much came from this elegant machine. The first version of UNIX was written in PDP-11 assembler; it had 34 system…
- Google turns old Macs, PCs into Chromebooks with Chrome OS Flex | Ars Technica
Great idea to extend the usable life of older laptops! 👏
- Really stupid “smart contract” bug let hackers steal $31 million in digital coin | Ars Technica
There have been other examples of this and there will be more. There is an incredible pace of innovation and people are trying stuff very fast. Right now the consensus is speed is…
- Spiders are much smarter than you think | Ars Technica
Spiders totally freak me out and this all just makes me even more freaked out. 🕷😱
- John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset | Ars Technica
Software update that will liberate 2 million Oculus devices to be used as long as they work. 👏
- Google launches its third major operating system, Fuchsia | Ars Technica
I first read about Google's Fuchsia OS in May 2017 and now four years later it is in consumers devices, but not where I would expect it.
- Ars Technica’s non-fungible guide to NFTs | Ars Technica
A good, balanced, technically literate read on Non-fungible Tokens and what they represent, and how they work.
- “We are giddy”—interviewing Apple about its Mac silicon revolution | Ars Technica
Great interview with Apple leadership on the new M1 chip.
- macOS 11.0 Big Sur: The Ars Technica review | Ars Technica
Super deep review in Ars Technica tradition on the new macOS Big Sur.
- Lidar used to cost $75,000—here’s how Apple brought it to the iPhone | Ars Technica
This is a super interesting read highlighting how companies are dropping the price of Lidar so much. The iPhone 12 now has Lidar which I expect is going to be a huge benefit for…
- iOS and iPadOS 14 review: iPhone transformation, iPad iteration | Ars Technica
Definitive read on all the new capabilities in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.
- 30 board games to play during quarantine with family, two-players, or solo | Ars Technica
We have five of these, and I would add Photosynthesis to the list. Azul is one that we have and is a lot of fun and very unique.
- The chemistry of cold-brew coffee is so hot right now | Ars Technica
Cold-brew is all about the acid levels, and specifically keeping them lower. This is the first I've seen though that suggests that the darkness of the roast also interacts with…
- Some shirts hide you from cameras—but will anyone wear them? | Ars Technica
It is creepy to me that this is a thing, but I suspect we are going to continue to see image recognition and facial recognition systems advancing and clothing that is specifically…
- The math of brewing a better espresso | Ars Technica
Okay, I came for the science and the cool charts. But then reading this is just straight up heresy! "The real impact of this paper is that the most reproducible thing you can do…
- Minecraft becomes a board game, and the results are faithful, fantastic | Ars Technica
Wait a second? Minecraft as a board game? 🧐
- macOS 10.15 Catalina: The Ars Technica review | Ars Technica
If you want to know everything you ever wanted to about macOS Catalina, this is the other of the two articles for you. There is more to this release than it looks. 👨💻
- Unix at 50: How the OS that powered smartphones started from failure | Ars Technica
This is a fun read on the early history of Unix. Consider the 50 years of Unix in two ways. it’s truly amazing that every smartphone you see is powered by a Unix-based system that…
- The helicopter team that films the Tour de France is one of a kind | Ars Technica
Broadcasting the Tour de France as it travels throughout the country is a complicated job! Circling at 2,000 feet (600m), the relay helo takes camera feeds and sends them to a…
- Amazon confirms it keeps your Alexa recordings basically forever | Ars Technica
- Report: Tesla to slash solar panel prices to stymie market-share loss [correction] | Ars Technica
I would love to see solar panels get way cheaper.
- Facebook is working on an AI voice assistant similar to Alexa, Google Assistant — Ars Technica
You would have to be absolutely bonkers to put a microphone attached to Facebook in your house! Please no… just no.
- The nutrition study the $30B supplement industry doesn’t want you to see | Ars Technica
We seem to constantly learn that food is the ultimate analog . We try to decompose it into numbers and weights, chemicals and nutrients. But it’s fundamentally analog. It cannot…
- The Tesla Model 3, reviewed (finally) | Ars Technica
This review is much more sedate than the one I would write, something like "It’s awesome!" Simple, and just two words. It’s a decent review however I don't agree that the touch…
- Tetris 99 isn’t just a great twist on a classic — it’s a gameplay revolution | Ars Technica
I put Tetris 99 on my Switch and you may not hear from me for a very long time. It’s super fun! I never would have thought of a Battle Royale version of Tetris! 🎮
- Court: Politicians who block citizens on social media violate 1st Amendment | Ars Technica
I've been following this topic and as far as I know this is the first ruling from a court on it. It makes sense to me that politicians that choose to use private platforms to…
- A tour of elementary OS, perhaps the Linux world’s best hope for the mainstream | Ars Technica
Are we still talking about Linux on the desktop? 👀
- Hackers breach Quora.com and steal password data for 100 million users | Ars Technica
Another day another giant breach. This reminds me I don't need a Quora account since I don't use it.
- Pokemon Let’s Go: Well, I guess my adult ass is going to collect them all | Ars Technica
This new Nintendo Switch Pokémon game looks like it will be a lot of fun for any Pokémon fans you know. Good Christmas present! 🎁
- Apple walks Ars through the iPad Pro’s A12X system on a chip | Ars Technica
Some further details and specifications on the A12X chip in the new iPad Pro. The iPad Pro outperforms every MacBook Pro we tested except for the most recent, most powerful…
- Tesla quietly drops “full self-driving” option as it adds $45,000 Model 3 | Ars Technica
I guess I should be happy that I skipped this additional $3,000 add-on.
- The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists” | Ars Technica
I’m a fan of Internet Archive. 🧡
- macOS 10.14 Mojave: The Ars Technica review | Ars Technica
Ars continues the in-depth macOS reviews made famous by John Siracusa, and now continued by Andrew Cunningham.
- Android 9 Pie, thoroughly reviewed | Ars Technica
Deep dive on all things Android 9. 🥧
- iOS 12, thoroughly reviewed | Ars Technica
The other very deep review of iOS 12.
- The secret to successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science | Ars Technica
What!? 😲 I have read so many BBQ books and it is absolutely considered fact that the smoking plateau is when you are breaking down collagen. But hold up, a water soaked sponge…
- This full video shows just how bonkers the VW Pikes Peak record was | Ars Technica
I loved watching this amazing, custom-built electric race car set a new record up Pikes Peak!
- The “unpatchable” exploit that makes every current Nintendo Switch hackable [Updated] | Ars Technica
- Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook: It works! It actually works! | Ars Technica
I haven't seen much in the rumor mill about Fuchsia for a year or more, so I was intrigued to see this article. This could all be a secret experiment that never sees the light of…
- The best board games of 2017 | Ars Technica
It's cool to see how much board games have evolved in recent years. It is a good time to be someone that enjoys strategy games.
- No, you’re not being paranoid. Sites really are watching your every move | Ars Technica
This is exhibit #1 for why you need to use a content blocker on the web. This article goes into great detail on the capabilities that companies have, but take a moment to watch…
- Google admits citing 4chan to spread fake Vegas shooter news | Ars Technica
Google News picked up completely fake content and promoted it shortly after the mass shooting in Las Vegas. The answer suggested is further tuning of algorithms. I've worked in…
- Every Yahoo account that existed—all 3 billion—was compromised in 2013 hack | Ars Technica
Yahoo said a major security breach in 2013 compromised all three billion accounts the company maintained, a three-fold increase over the estimate it disclosed previously. This has…
- iOS 11, thoroughly reviewed | Ars Technica
Ars always does super detailed reviews of new releases of iOS. This is almost book length. 📖
- Why the Equifax breach is very possibly the worst leak of personal info ever | Ars Technica
The incredible gaps in security presented in this breach are amazing!
- Macron campaign team used honeypot accounts to fake out Fancy Bear | Ars Technica
"We created false accounts, with false content, as traps," Macron campaign digital director Mounir Mahjoubi told the Times. "We did this massively, to create the obligation for…
- Google’s "Fuchsia" smartphone OS dumps Linux, has a wild new UI | Ars Technica
- Why the silencing of KrebsOnSecurity opens a troubling chapter for the ‘Net
For the better part of a day, KrebsOnSecurity, arguably the world's most intrepid source of security news, has been silenced, presumably by a handful of individuals who didn't…
- macOS 10.12 Sierra
Enlarge / Asking Siri the important questions.Andrew Cunningham When Mac OS X (as it was then called) first moved to a yearly release cycle in 2011, Apple had trouble defining its
- From The Sweethome: The solar power system we’d get for ourselves —Ars Technica “This post was done in partnership with The Sweethome, a buyer's guide to the best things for your home.”
- A ZFS developer’s analysis of the good and bad in Apple’s new APFS file system
Two hours or so of WWDC keynoting and Tim Cook didn't mention a new file system once? This article was originally published on Adam Leventhal's blog in multiple parts. Apple…
- Former Biggest Loser contestants fight slow metabolisms, weight gain | Ars Technica
Six years later, only one of the contestants weighed less than they did after the competition; the other 13 contestants had gained back sizeable amounts. Five contestants regained…
- A year with the Apple Watch: What works, what doesn’t, and what lies ahead?
Enlarge / The Apple Watch is turning one. How has its first year treated it? About a year ago, Apple announced and released its first Apple Watch. The long-rumored product was…
- Opera bundles free, unlimited VPN client into its browser
Opera Software has become the first major browser maker to introduce a built-in VPN client for its Web users. The Norwegian company said that the latest version of its browser is…
- Amazon cloud has 1 million users and is near $10 billion in annual sales —Ars Technica
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will become a $10 billion business this year, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a letter to shareholders this week.
- Tim Cook says Apple will fight US gov’t over court-ordered iPhone backdoor
Apple chief Tim Cook has attacked the recent court order that compels Apple to unlock and decrypt the San Bernardino gunman's iPhone. "Opposing this order is not something we take…
- Netflix finishes its massive migration to the Amazon cloud
Netflix has been moving huge portions of its streaming operation to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for years now, and it says it has finally completed its giant shift to the cloud. “We…
- Oracle deprecates the Java browser plugin, prepares for its demise
The much-maligned Java browser plugin, source of so many security flaws over the years, is to be killed off by Oracle.
- Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42 | Ars Technica
Something really wrong happened here.
- Samsung’s Smartcam HD Plus is like a Nest Cam that’s not shackled to the cloud
When you think "Samsung," you think of smartphones, TVs, and maybe smart kitchen appliances if you're a foodie. However, it's not the first company to come to mind when you think…
- iPad Pro review: Mac-like speed with all the virtues and restrictions of iOS
Enlarge / The iPad Pro, Smart Keyboard, and Apple Pencil. This year, Apple seems to want to push the iPad and the Mac as close together as it can without actually combining them…
- Crypto e-mail service pays $6,000 ransom, gets taken out by DDoS anyway
A provider of end-to-end encrypted e-mail said it paid a ransom of almost $6,000 to stop highly advanced denial-of-service attacks that knocked its networks, and the networks of…
- OS X 10.11 El Capitan
Enlarge / Putting El Capitan through its paces on a wide range of hardware. Poor OS X can't get no respect. Apple's Mac operating system has been playing second fiddle to the…
- iOS 9, thoroughly reviewed
iOS 8 wasn't the smoothest operating system rollout in Apple's history. It's true, any other ecosystem would kill for Apple's OS adoption figures—as of this writing, 87 percent of…
- Review: Windows 10 is the best version yet—once the bugs get fixed
Your very own personal assistant, a better browser... and something called the Start menu.
- The three-year journey to multitasking and resolution-independence in iOS 9
Auto Layout, size classes, and the other features developers should be using now.
- How Silicon Valley and Wall Street arrived at a new gold rush called Bitcoin
A new book, Digital Gold, explores all of Bitcoin's big players across the globe.
- Why Twenty is my latest mobile gaming obsession | Ars Technica
The result is one of those games that quickly reaches that magical state of flow, living in a zone of focus that runs off of pure reflex and muscle memory, without much conscious…
- Inside Apple’s ResearchKit | Ars Technica
- Chrome starts pushing Java off the Web by disabling plugins
The Netscape-era NPAPI is now off by default in Chrome 42.
- Obama: Treat broadband—including mobile—as a utility | Ars Technica
- Facebook offers hidden service to Tor users
- New Outlook for Mac shines
- Newly Facebook-owned WhatsApp lost roughly $200M in 2 years
Several months ago, Facebook acquired messaging startup WhatsApp for a whopping $16 billion, plus an additional $3 billion for its founders and small staff. On Tuesday, Facebook…
- Microsoft ditches OneDrive storage limits entirely for Office 365 users
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review
For the first time in forever, the Mac could be noticed by someone.
- Mailpile enters betaIts like Gmail, but you run it on your own computer - Ars Technica
Been wondering when Mailpile would get to this point for a while. Interesting approach. Mailpile isnt a Mail Transfer Agentan "e-mail server," like Postfix. Rather, it's an MUA,…
- IPv6 adoption starting to add up to real numbers: 0.6 percent - Ars Technica
Progress. Six years ago, we reported that IPv6 traffic was only 0.0026 percent, at 117Mbps of 4.5Tbps total trafficalthough back then, the art and science of IPv6 traffic counting…
- In major shift, Google boosts search rankings of HTTPS-protected sites - Ars Technica
In a shift aimed at fostering wider use of encryption on the Web, Google is tweaking its search engine to favor sites that use HTTPS to protect end users' privacy and security.
- WSJ website hacked, data offered for sale for 1 bitcoin - Ars Technica
Same hacker attacked BBC, Vice websites, offered user databases for sale.
- Password leak in WeMo devices makes home appliances susceptible to hijacks (updated)
I have one of these and like it a lot. Glad to see that patches have been applied already. However, it highlights a brand new security vector that needs to be considered. Security…
- Samsung and Jay-Z give the Internet a masters class in how not to make an app - Ars Technica
Jay-Z and Samsung's app, on the other hand, is positively PRISM-like in its requests for your information.
- Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin - Ars Technica
Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin
- The ten fastest supercomputers on the planet, in pictures - Ars Technica
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- First website ever goes back online on the open Webs 20th birthday
What a 20 years. Twenty years ago today, the organization that created the World Wide Web made its underlying technology available to everyone on a royalty-free basis. To…
- As player numbers crater, EA will shut SimCity Social, other Facebook games - Ars Technica
Just over three years later, the investment looks a lot less prescient. EA has announced it will be shutting down three of its once-popular social gamesSimCity Social, The Sims…
- Major glitch in Bitcoin network sparks sell-off; price temporarily falls 23%
A technical glitch in the core Bitcoin software forced developers to call for a temporary halt to Bitcoin transactions, sparking a sharp sell-off. The currency's value briefly…
- Web Served 7: Wiki wiki wiki! - Ars Technica
This series is proving a lot more popular than I'd figured. Who would have thought so many people enjoy noodling around with Web servers? By popular demand, "Web Served" now…
- App downloads smash records1.76 billion in one weekduring the holidays - Ars Technica
That's a crazy big number. Consumers may be slow to get back into the groove after the holiday, but thatdidn'tstop them from spending time in a mobile app store. On the last week…
- Antarctic IRC: how NASAs flying lab stays connected
How awesome to see IRC playing a role in this. Over that BBS-worthy bandwidth, Operation Ice Bridge pushes and pulls three main types of data. One of them is IRC chat, which…
- Drobo hits the turbo-boost with newly launched 5N home NAS
I had a FireWire Drobo back in the day and it was interesting but a total dog for performance. This model, with the revamped CPU, SSD for rapid caching and network based would fit…
- Richard Stallman calls Ubuntu spyware because it tracks searches
Oh boy, RMS in true form! :-) Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman today called Ubuntu Linux "spyware" because the operating system sends data to Ubuntu maker…
- New data on privacy policies shows 20 percent of sites may sell data
The PrivacyChoice system comes up with scores based on two groups of policies. One is the policy of the site itself and the other part of the score comes from the privacy policies…
- Canada gets pared-down Wii Mini for $100 on Dec. 7
Ugh, I'd buy one of these if they sold it in the US! Nintendo's main focus right now may be on the newly launched Wii U, but that doesn't mean the company is ignoring the…
- Your criticisms are completely wrong: Stallman on software patents, 20 years in
In Stallman's view, the idea that society might be able to eliminate "bad patents" while keeping good ones is a kind of Jedi mind trick. Offering patents as a reward for software…
- Wii U teardown shows a whole lot of wirelessness
- WordPress now accepting payment in Bitcoin
Interesting to see WordPress using Bitcoin. Ry4an now has a place to spend his vast reserve! :-) Bitcoin users of the world, unite! Or rather, unite around the fact that you can…
- The spy in your inbox
The "creepy" was an e-mail that a media representative for a company called ContactMonkey sent on the heels of another one Cunningham had just opened. The second message included…
- A Fort Knox for Web crypto keys: Inside Symantecs SSL certificate vault
As he negotiates a series of additional mazes inside, he comes upon still more security checkpoints. One room at the center of the buildinginside two concentric squares protected…
- Minneapolis police pushing for more license plate data privacy
In a meeting Thursday, the Committee of the Whole Agenda heard discussions regarding a new proposal from the city police department that would restrict access to license plate…
- Give a store your e-mail address, it'll find you on Facebook
In the post written by Facebook privacy engineer Joey Tyson, Facebook highlights a new use for those e-mail addresses you've been tossing off while checking out at your favorite…
- Why passwords have never been weakerand crackers have never been stronger
- Solid-state revolution: in-depth on how SSDs really work
Given that SSDs transform the way computers "feel," every geek should know at least a bit about how these magical devices operate. We'll give you that level of knowledge. But…
- Facebook releases internal C++ libraries as open source
The assortment of frameworks is collectively called Folly, the Facebook Open Source Library. Its individual components support a diverse spectrum of capabilities, ranging from…
- 25 years of HyperCardthe missing link to the Web
I cut my teeth on HyperCard in junior high school. I did my high school humanities final project in HyperCard. I really wish HyperCard was on the iPad. I opened the app and read…
- Catan Junior brings serious board game strategy to tots
- Beware of IPv6 security goblins, IETF warns
Important to keep in mind. I was happily running iptables on my hosts but didn't consider running ip6tables and I'm advertising IPv6 addresses. In a draft proposal filed Tuesday…
- Is Lion Server suitable for home use? Ars investigates
- How to secure your e-mail under Mac OS X and iOS 5 with SMIME
- Cutting the cord: how the world's engineers built Wi-Fi
- When clever goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices
- Senator: AT&T/T-Mobile merger an "unreasonable risk to the economy"
- Senator: AT&T/T-Mobile merger an "unreasonable risk to the economy"
- Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: the Ars Technica review
- Six weeks after World IPv6 Day, what have we learned?
- Speed matters: how Ethernet went from 3Mbps to 100Gbps and beyond
how ethernet went from 3Mbps to over 100Gbps
- Domestic surveillance court approved 100% of 2010 warrant requests
The secretive Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court approved all 1,506 government requests to electronically monitor suspected agents of a foreign power or terrorists on US soil…
- Google, Facebook: do not track bill a threat to California economy
- Black ops: how HBGary wrote backdoors for the government
- Warrantless cell phone search gets a green light in California
The contents of your cell phone can reveal a lot more about you than the naked eye can: who your friends are, what you've been saying and when, which websites you've visited, and…
- Daft Punk's Tron Legacy soundtrack is unexpected, and wonderful
- Internet Explorer 9 gets new anti-tracking privacy feature
- Ruby on Rails 3.0 pulls into station with Merb in tow
Rails 3.0, a popular Web framework written in the programming language Ruby, was released Sunday after several years of development. In a way, the release is just as much of a…
- 64-bit Flash for Linux dropped as Adobe preps next version
- Voyager 2 stops making sense
- 90% of IPv4 address space used; IPv6 move looking messy
The Number Resource Organization warns that less than 10 percent of the IPv4 address space remains; it's time to start adopting IPv6. The warning comes afterAPNIC, the registry…
- Kindle 2 finally gets native PDF support, screen rotation
Companies that make the whole widget, like Apple, are able to nudge consumers towards buying new hardware by limiting the software features that work on older models. Amazon,…
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii review: impressive, and then some
New Super Mario Bros. Wii is one of those games that will leave you disappointed after the first level, slightly happy after the first world, and then you'll be stuck with a huge…
- Songwriters want to get paid for 30-second song previews
Just when it seems the music industry is starting to come around to the realities of digital distribution, groups representing songwriters, composers, and music publishers are…
- Apple proposes HTTP streaming feature as IETF standard
When Apple discussed the new features of the forthcoming iPhone OS 3.0, SVP of iPhone Software Engineering Scott Forstall said that the iPhone would be capable of streaming video…
- Metallica "ear spanks" management, reinstates online reviews
Metallica demands that early reviews of six tracks from its new album be removed... after the band invites journalists to come listen to them. Update: the band "ear spanks" its…
- From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems
This article will start off by defining what a file system is and what it does. Then we'll take a look back at the history of how various file systems evolved and why new ones…
- The night the IETF turned off IPv4
After working on the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) for a decade and a half, the Internet Engineering Task Force decided it was time to turn off the old protocol (IPv4 or…
- Chinese official on SMS voting: txtng votes ripe 4 abuse
Believe it or not, some officials in China are elected by way of text message votes, much as you would vote for your favorite contestant on American Idol. At least one official…
- OpenID and DataPortability.org to gain major support
Momentum appears to be building behind the related notions that users should have a single set of login credentials to sign into mostperhaps even allof the web sites that they…
- You can't always judge an eBook by its cover: a review of the Amazon Kindle
Amazon wants to change how you shop for and read books with its new device, the Kindle. Does its 1980s design aesthetic hide the heart of a true revolution in books?