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Nov 25th 2:35am by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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Canonical hosted its biannual Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) last week in Dallas, Texas. I was one of many open source software developers who attended the event and participated in the collaborative process of planning Ubuntu 10.04, the next version of...
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Nov 25th 12:53am by jeff.smykil@gmail.com (Jeff Smykil)
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If you're a Mac user and smoking is your crutch, you may want to leave the room the next time you light up. According to multiple users, as reported by the Consumerist, smoking in the vicinity of your Apple hardware is enough for Apple to deny you...
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Nov 25th 12:48am by editors@arstechnica.com (Chris Lee)
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In a previous life, I worked as a research technician for a microwave radio manufacturer that specialized in providing data connections for hard-to-reach areas. One of the things it bought home to me was how much of a difference even a single phone line...
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Nov 24th 11:19pm by mike.thompson@arstechnica.com (Michael Thompson)
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In the video game business, gamers often have a healthy amount of distrust for the companies that publish the titles they buy. It's not an unreasonable reaction; after all, every gamer can remember a time or two when he or she felt deceived by a...
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Nov 24th 9:40pm by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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A lot of the high-profile developments in renewable energy have focused on improving the efficiency of technologies that are destined for the industrialized world, which has the infrastructure to support expensive, centralized solutions. Powering the...
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Nov 24th 7:15pm by emil.protalinski@arstechnica.com (Emil Protalinski)
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Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 977981 in regard to public reports of a vulnerability that exists as an invalid pointer reference of Internet Explorer. Under certain conditions, it is possible for a CSS/Style object to be accessed after the object...
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Nov 24th 2:19pm by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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Most of America's libraries make it a part of their mission to offer Internet access to anyone in the community, but a severe bandwidth crunch is hobbling those efforts. That's one of the conclusions reached by the American Library Association, which...
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Nov 24th 7:30am by ari.allynfeuer@gmail.com (Ari Allyn-Feuer)
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The word "physicalization" is ten months old. This January, Rackable Systems launched a strange line of servers which defied all the conventional wisdom of server design by disaggregating larger servers into many smaller ones based on consumer parts, and...
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Nov 24th 5:22am by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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As digital downloads have disaggregated the album and restored the single to prominence, "unit sales" at the Big Four major labels have increased even as revenues have dropped. But new data out from EMI shows that labels can do more than just resign...
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Nov 24th 3:18am by hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
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In an interview with Heise.de, IBM's VP of Deep Computing, David Turek, confirmed that the Cell processor has reached the end of the line. Turek then put a more positive spin on the news by stating the obvious truth that heterogeneous multiprocessors, of...
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Nov 23rd 10:29pm by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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Late last week, a collection of e-mails and documents began appearing on a variety of websites, purportedly a selection of a much larger cache of material obtained when hackers gained entry to the UK's Climatic Research Unit. All indications are that the...
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Nov 23rd 7:17pm by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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The second malicious worm to attack jailbroken iPhones has been spotted in the wild, and is the first to directly target users' bank accounts. Called iBotnet.A by security research firm Intego, the worm tries to steal account logins from customers of...
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Nov 23rd 2:20pm by ars@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar)
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It was a report that went right to the roots of United States broadband policy, so it should come as no surprise that it's getting hammered by the telecommunications industry. Harvard's Berkman Center study of global broadband practices,...
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Nov 23rd 6:00am by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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The things people post on Facebook have gotten them in trouble with spouses, their employers, the law (or not, as the case may be), and now their insurance companies. A 29-year-old Canada woman is now battling her insurance company, Manulife, after her...
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Nov 23rd 4:00am by andrew.webster@arstechnica.com (Andrew Webster)
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2007's Assassin's Creed was a divisive game. While it was full of ambition and great ideas, it ultimately boiled down to a fairly repetitive experience with plenty of potential but even more gameplay "issues." For the the sequel, the team at Ubisoft...