Biz & IT / Informed technology
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Got an account on a site like Github? Hackers may know your e-mail address
Researcher de-anonymizes forum members who post extremist views.
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Trusting iPhones plugged into bogus chargers get a dose of malware
iPhones will pretty much trust any computer they're plugged into.
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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.
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NSA director addresses Black Hat, says there have been “zero abuses” of data
But "safeguards" against abuse are based on policy, not technology.
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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.
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BearDuino: Hacking Teddy Ruxpin with Arduino
Thanks to a Portland hacker/artist, an army of Arduino-hacked bears is unleashed.
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“SkyDrive” follows Metro into oblivion as Microsoft abandons trademark case
British Sky Broadcasting forces Microsoft to find a new cloud name.
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Rideshare drivers given citizen arrest by SF International Airport officials
Citizen arrests come after cease and desist letters to Lyft, Sidecar, and Uber.
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Google: We can ban servers on Fiber without violating net neutrality
Google Fiber legally prohibits servers to avoid network congestion, Google says.
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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.
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Creating a $99 parallel computing machine is just as hard as it sounds
Better late than never, Parallella is now shipping to Kickstarter backers.
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Professor fools $80M superyacht’s GPS receiver on the high seas
Todd Humphreys says defenses are scant: "nobody knows how to use a sextant."
Paul Sutter walks us through the future of climate change—and things aren’t great
This episode of Edge of Knowledge focuses on our rapidly transforming world.
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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.
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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.
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Australian Parliament urges citizens to bypass geo-locks on software
Australians are frustrated that MS, Adobe, others charge twice as much.
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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.
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High court bans publication of car-hacking paper
Researchers won't publish redacted version because info is already online.
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Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video
When ISPs and video providers fight over money, Internet users suffer.
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Should we design programs to randomly kill themselves?
Redundancy is good so why not force it?
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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.
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With zero coding experience, artist building 180 webpages in 180 days
"Learning by doing" is taken to the extreme by novice programmer.
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PRISM revelations result in lost business for US cloud companies
Survey finds 10 percent of overseas companies cancelled contracts over PRISM.
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Ars Technicast Ep. 31: Nexus 7, Chromecast, and the Google+ conspiracy
We discuss whether Google's product lines and services lead back to Google+.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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Build your own data-stream mining NSA in the cloud with “FunnelCake”
BrightContext puts a SQL-like language atop analyitcs tech spawned by Twitter.
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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.
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LibreOffice 4.1 is released, borrows new sidebar from OpenOffice
3,000 bugs fixed in latest LibreOffice, many by Apache developers.
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New status page shows you exactly how down Apple’s developer site still is
Apple continues to rebuild following a security breach last Thursday.
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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.
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Google strengthens Android security muscle with SELinux protection
Addition of SELinux to version 4.3 one of several improvements to Android security.
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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.
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OpenOffice 4.0 overhauls user interface, boosts Microsoft compatibility
LibreOffice isn't the only open source office in town.