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Nov 12th 12:30am by clint@arstechnica.com (Clint Ecker)
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Recently, we launched Ars Premier 2.0, our new and improved subscriber program that offers some fantastic new benefits for subscribers. Tonight sees our third insider-only feature: a live, moderated webchat with Fred von Lohmann, senior staff attorney at...
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Nov 11th 10:37pm by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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Six new games, several of them in 3D, have arrived on the Zune Marketplace—and they're meant to show off the power of the Zune HD's NVIDIA-built Tegra processor. They do that well enough, but even better than the graphics is the fact that these...
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Nov 11th 8:59pm by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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Security researchers have taken down a major spam offender, though the dip in spam levels may be only temporary. Members of the FireEye security team coordinated an attack on the Mega-D botnet (also known as Ozdok) last week by preemptively registering...
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Nov 11th 7:37pm by ars@lasarletter.net (Matthew Lasar)
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Attention all broadband stimulus grant shoppers: the good news is that the Obama administration says it's fast-tracking the schedule to fork out over seven billion dollars in high speed Internet stimulus money. The other news is that if you haven't...
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Nov 11th 4:00pm by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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During the Beijing Olympics, 40 athletes bought a pro-Tibet charity album through iTunes. This was such a threat to national security that the Chinese government, never shy with a bit of well-placed censorship, completely blocked iTunes, even after...
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Nov 11th 2:20pm by leex1008@umn.edu (Timothy B. Lee)
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For the first time in a generation, the nation's highest court on Monday pondered the question of which inventions are eligible for patent protection. For the petitioner, Bernard Bilski, the issue was whether he'd get a patent on "a method for managing...
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Nov 11th 3:20am by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng)
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Verizon has gotten on the bad side of US Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), who publicly criticized the company this week for its decision to significantly jack up early termination fees (ETFs) for some customers. Not only did Klobuchar send a letter to...
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Nov 11th 1:00am by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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Every computer programmer has a copious pile of opinions about how their programming language of choice could be improved. Who doesn't want more syntactic sugar, better runtime performance, and faster compilation? That's one of the reasons why there are...
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Nov 10th 11:29pm by segphault@arstechnica.com (Ryan Paul)
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The GNOME desktop environment is undergoing a significant transformation. The developers behind the open source project are working on version 3.0, the first major overhaul since 2002. The GNOME release team has updated the roadmap and has set September...
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Nov 10th 10:02pm by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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On Monday, the security blog at Arbor Networks reported finding a bit of malware that checked in with a remote account to download some URLs. On its own, this is hardly a newsworthy event; botnets have used all sorts of communications protocols to...
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Nov 10th 7:04pm by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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Hollywood's attempt to force DRM measures on the BBC's over-the-air high-definition broadcasts looks to have come a cropper after intense public pressure.
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Nov 10th 3:23am by jtimmer@arstechnica.com (John Timmer)
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The history of science is replete with examples, from plate tectonics to prions, of heretical ideas that received a poor reception from the scientific establishment when they were first proposed. The apparent resistance to new ideas has earned scientists...
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Nov 10th 1:02am by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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"Managed copy" has been slouching its way toward our living rooms for years now, but the technology that can make backup copies of films will finally come to all Blu-ray discs on December 4, 2009. Unfortunately, no Blu-ray player yet has the ability to...
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Nov 9th 11:20pm by hannibal@arstechnica.com (Jon Stokes)
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There are a few consumer markets that are surprisingly robust, despite rising unemployment and a fragile economy. One of of these markets is apparently shoes, and the other is smartphones. For a gadget that not only costs a chunk of change up...
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Nov 9th 9:48pm by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson)
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Talk show host and one-man media empire Glenn Beck has lost his bid to shut down the glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1990.com domain name. We've covered the strange circumstances of the case before: a Gilbert Gottfried comedy routine (NSFW) about...