July | 2013 | Ars Technica

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  1. Got an account on a site like Github? Hackers may know your e-mail address

    Researcher de-anonymizes forum members who post extremist views.

  2. Trusting iPhones plugged into bogus chargers get a dose of malware

    iPhones will pretty much trust any computer they're plugged into.

  3. Yelp inches slowly toward profitability, losing just $878,000 in one quarter

    So far in 2013 losses reach $5.6M—only half of 2012's midway mark.

  4. NSA director addresses Black Hat, says there have been “zero abuses” of data

    But "safeguards" against abuse are based on policy, not technology.

  5. Hands-on with Microsoft’s Office Mobile for Android

    It's nearly identical to the recent iOS release—except it won't play on tablets.

  6. BearDuino: Hacking Teddy Ruxpin with Arduino

    Thanks to a Portland hacker/artist, an army of Arduino-hacked bears is unleashed.

  7. “SkyDrive” follows Metro into oblivion as Microsoft abandons trademark case

    British Sky Broadcasting forces Microsoft to find a new cloud name.

  8. Rideshare drivers given citizen arrest by SF International Airport officials

    Citizen arrests come after cease and desist letters to Lyft, Sidecar, and Uber.

  9. Google: We can ban servers on Fiber without violating net neutrality

    Google Fiber legally prohibits servers to avoid network congestion, Google says.

  10. Pwned again: An exclusive look at Pwnie Express’ newest hack-in-a-box

    The Pwn Plug R2 is a miniature NSA, ready to exploit networks for their own good.

  11. Creating a $99 parallel computing machine is just as hard as it sounds

    Better late than never, Parallella is now shipping to Kickstarter backers.

  12. Professor fools $80M superyacht’s GPS receiver on the high seas

    Todd Humphreys says defenses are scant: "nobody knows how to use a sextant."

  1. Time Warner gobbles up more cash from customers by raising modem fees

    Monthly modem rental fee goes from $3.95 to $5.99, could give TWC $150 million.

  2. Moscow Metro says new tracking system is to find stolen phones; no one believes them

    Experts: Russians are probably using fake cell tower devices for surveillance.

  3. Australian Parliament urges citizens to bypass geo-locks on software

    Australians are frustrated that MS, Adobe, others charge twice as much.

  4. Tampering with a car’s brakes and speed by hacking its computers: A new how-to

    The "Internet of automobiles" may hold promise, but it comes with risks, too.

  5. High court bans publication of car-hacking paper

    Researchers won't publish redacted version because info is already online.

  6. Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video

    When ISPs and video providers fight over money, Internet users suffer.

  7. Should we design programs to randomly kill themselves?

    Redundancy is good so why not force it?

  8. New Android, new Chromecast, old marketing tricks: Ars readers react

    Ars also tries to get a reservation at the hottest restaurants in SF—with bots.

  9. With zero coding experience, artist building 180 webpages in 180 days

    "Learning by doing" is taken to the extreme by novice programmer.

  10. PRISM revelations result in lost business for US cloud companies

    Survey finds 10 percent of overseas companies cancelled contracts over PRISM.

  11. Ars Technicast Ep. 31: Nexus 7, Chromecast, and the Google+ conspiracy

    We discuss whether Google's product lines and services lead back to Google+.

  12. Game over for Zynga? Firm loses 25 percent of daily active users in one quarter

    Startup also says it will abandon plans to bring real-money gaming to US.

  1. World’s first fully 3D printed rifle—made in Canada—fired a single shot

    CanadianGunNut: "Disappointed to report it was a fail," after barrel splits.

  2. Engineer can’t get decent dinner reservations, creates Urbanspoon-dominating bot

    If all the day's best tables are gone by 4:01am, don't bother waking up—get coding.

  3. “NASDAQ is owned.” Five men charged in largest financial hack ever

    Scheme created hundreds of millions of dollars in losses to world's biggest institutions.

  4. Poker player who won $1.5 million charged with running Android malware ring

    Contact-stealing Android malware allegedly used to fuel $3.9M spam operation.

  5. Build your own data-stream mining NSA in the cloud with “FunnelCake”

    BrightContext puts a SQL-like language atop analyitcs tech spawned by Twitter.

  6. Microsoft continues courting Web devs with IE 11 for Windows 7, Parallels discount

    There's also an open source tool for scanning sites for compatibility issues.

  7. LibreOffice 4.1 is released, borrows new sidebar from OpenOffice

    3,000 bugs fixed in latest LibreOffice, many by Apache developers.

  8. New status page shows you exactly how down Apple’s developer site still is

    Apple continues to rebuild following a security breach last Thursday.

  9. What mobile problem? Facebook just raked in $333 million in quarterly profit

    One year later, Facebook more than made up for its $157M loss in Q2 2012.

  10. Google strengthens Android security muscle with SELinux protection

    Addition of SELinux to version 4.3 one of several improvements to Android security.

  11. Ubuntu Edge smartphone raises $4.8M (and can now be reserved for $675)

    Canonical offers new prices for those who want first crack at the Edge.

  12. OpenOffice 4.0 overhauls user interface, boosts Microsoft compatibility

    LibreOffice isn't the only open source office in town.