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Ars Technica

• March 26, 2008
• 13:17

  Plagiarism screener gets passing grade in copyright lawsuit

• 6:55

  Analysis: patent reform bill unable to clean up patent mess

• 6:05

  Canadian ISPs furious about Bell Canada's traffic throttling

• 4:55

  A fistful of patents: Seagate's saber rattling aimed at SSDs

• 3:46

  IP hypocrisy: US likes WTO rulings only when it wins

• 2:30

  Vista-capable lawsuit paints picture of buggy NVIDIA drivers

• March 25, 2008
• 22:15

  OpenSocial Foundation launches with Google, Yahoo, MySpace

• 19:45

  Sony BMG's planned music service looks like a yawner

• 19:10

  Chat app Digsby goes public with with A/V, Twitter support

• 18:39

  Innocent man pinched by RIAA asks SCOTUS for attorney's fees

• 17:55

  SlySoft on Blu-ray BD+ crack: next time it will be easier

• 16:23

  Fox to FCC: your analysts' sexual fantasies not our problem

• 14:27

  Paying for secrets: national security versus tech innovation

• 13:46

  Clear Channel to FCC: wash XM-Sirius' mouth out with soap

• 12:34

  TiVo takes a break while cable giants do the heavy lifting

• 6:55

  Safari 3.1 on Windows: a true competitor arrives (seriously)

• 4:53

  Network Solutions in crosshairs over web site takedown

• 4:15

  WiMAX body slam met with pile driver from its many backers

• 3:10

  US Department of Energy called out for poor IT security

• March 24, 2008
• 23:00

  New inkjet tech can "print" LCDs using silver nanoparticles

• March 23, 2008
• 6:12

  Rock Band meets iTunes, opens built-in music store

• March 22, 2008
• 19:20

  Retailers offering credits/refunds to early HD DVD adopters

• 15:30

  DC.Ars: the podium finish gauntlet

• 1:08

  Sony realizes $50 crapware removal fee is, well, total crap

• March 21, 2008
• 20:51

  Tibet effect: China shutters 25 video sites, penalizes 32

• 20:15

  Lessig enlists Web 2.0 in fight for congressional reform

• 19:30

  Tracking the geek vote: support for Obama, McCain even

• 18:24

  Analysis: the Obama/Hillary passport breaches and Real ID [Update: McCain too]

• 17:47

  Google loves Tor: online anonymity project in Summer of Code

• 17:07

  OLPC security expert resigns over reorg as project flounders

• 16:16

  NY bill would police intersection of online ads, privacy

• 13:32

  Report: 95% of Internet video stuck looking longingly at TV

• 12:30

  Playing chicken: ISP depeering a high-school lovers' quarrel

• 5:07

  Lawmaker: IBM aided Holocaust, Google following same path

• 3:48

  Verizon, AT&T rule 700MHz auction; Block D fate unsettled

• 2:27

  DirecTV DVR clampdown: a sober reminder of DRM suckitude

• 1:17

  The more, the merrier? Study endorses some multidisplay rigs

• March 20, 2008
• 20:53

  Classmate PC rated "E" for everyone; Intel to sell to public

• 20:17

  MPAA to Congress: Filtering is in colleges’ best interests

• 18:50

  Florida botnet herder sheared by cops, faces 10 years in pen

• 18:17

  PC game developer has radical message: ignore the pirates

• 17:35

  Nokia's "Comes With Music" now comes with EMI

• 16:01

  E-voting vendor blocks security audit with legal threats

• 12:21

  FCC commish: Net neutrality shouldn't extend to illegal acts

• 6:50

  Communicating good science to a polarized US public

• 6:03

  First look: KidZui's kid-centric 'Net heavy on the ads

• 5:05

  FCC overhauls its broadband data as EU points and laughs

• 3:49

  AMD's Barcelona to hit server racks in April

• 2:41

  Room-temperature superconductors a step closer with silane

• 1:33

  "Canada's Next Great Prime Minister" to be found on P2P

• March 19, 2008
• 21:14

  German court tightens up ISP, phone data retention rules

• 19:56

  Intel hopes to unwire the world with long-range WiFi

• 19:43

  Apple may bundle unlimited iTunes with iPods

• 19:05

  Hands-on: Google Docs get gadgets

• 18:33

  Questions about Block D linger in aftermath of auction

• 17:39

  The reality of the RDF: how Apple motivates us to creativity

• 16:06

  Sizing up the NVIDIA-VIA acquisition rumors

• 15:31

  Twitter breaks down barriers in the classroom

• 6:52

  A truly hands-on experience: a review of the Novint Falcon

• 5:35

  First Look: LimeWire Music Store beta short on selection

• 4:40

  Israel rebukes US: Our copyright laws are fine, thanks

• 2:35

  Comcast: FCC lacks any authority to act on P2P blocking

• 1:40

  Childhood's end: Arthur C. Clarke passes away at age 90

• March 18, 2008
• 23:57

  700MHz spectrum auction wraps up, tops $19.5 billion

• 22:30

  Rights group, search firms to ink code of conduct for China

• 20:29

  Add Internet addiction to psychiatric disorders, says doctor

• 19:19

  Microsoft hits milestone with long-awaited Vista SP1 release

• 18:45

  Yahoo offers peek into crystal ball to justify bigger payday

• 18:10

  No Gmail for Google in Europe, says EU trademark office

• 17:34

  Mirror balls in space lead to quantum communications advance

• 16:45

  What chips may come: Intel lifts curtain on upcoming CPUs

• 16:01

  Build your own quad SLI: NVIDIA launches the 9800 GX2

• 15:38

  Ohio seizes voting machines in criminal investigation

• 12:04

  Ongoing IFrame attack proving difficult to kill

• 6:50

  Ars Book Reviews: The Best of Technology Writing 2007

• March 17, 2008
• 19:56

  Massachusetts lawmakers debate ill-advised video game law

• 19:18

  WordPerfect antitrust case greenlighted by the Supreme Court

• 18:14

  Great Firewall of China expands as Tibetan riots continue

• 17:40

  Supreme Court to hear FCC appeal of fleeting f-bomb ruling

• 17:05

  Firefox 3 goes on a diet, eats less memory than IE and Opera

• 16:20

  Appeals court: Craigslist not liable for discriminatory ads

• 15:44

  Indie labels bypass iTunes, give digital sales a shot

• 6:58

  From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems

• 6:01

  Spam doesn't pay: man faces 26 year sentence for spamming

• 4:40

  Kazaa downloads cost one man $750 per song in RIAA suit

• 4:01

  House Dems hold the line on immunity and FISA reform

• 2:50

  An overview of the NSA's domestic spying program

• 1:44

  Pirate Party rejects Swedish plan to snitch on filesharers

• 0:19

  FCC insider: this place is hell; silent protest planned

• March 16, 2008
• 23:14

  Continued NSL abuses show FBI biased, cannot police itself

• 21:15

  Hands on: open-source scripting environment Komodo Edit 4.3

• 20:11

  China now #1 in executions, population... and web surfing!

• 19:22

  FCC living in the dark ages; a threat to net neutrality aims

• March 15, 2008
• 20:22

  Google Sky: hands on, plus Top 10 uncommonly cool sights

• March 14, 2008
• 21:40

  Spitzer call girl's music suddenly in vogue on Amie Street

• 20:32

  Congressman may inject much-needed Fair Use into PRO-IP Act

• 20:01

  Google adds a new layer of security to Google Apps

• 19:30

  Napster Mobile comes to UK, mobile music world yawns

• 18:59

  Gates makes case for action on white space broadband

• 18:05

  iPhone at root of latest circumvention of BBC's iPlayer DRM

• 17:33

  Why Microsoft should be worried about new NPD sales figures

• 14:44

  SSDs in 2008: fast speeds (200MB/sec) over price cuts

• 14:00

  Verizon embraces P4P, a more efficient peer-to-peer tech

• 7:30

  Make a penguin do your bidding: a review of the Tux Droid

• 6:00

  Andersen attorney on RIAA suit: "They can't run now"

• 4:47

  Reznor: Radiohead offering was insincere, industry is inept

• 3:05

  The night the IETF turned off IPv4

• March 13, 2008
• 21:26

  Threat on Juicy Campus gossip site lands student in jail

• 20:15

  $5 a month for legal P2P could happen sooner than you think

• 19:14

  EA to Take Two: Prepare for Grand Theft Boardroom

• 17:48

  MPAA boss: Net neutrality would cramp our P2P snooping plans

• 17:14

  Gates to Congress: Microsoft needs more H-1B visas

• 16:31

  SFLC: OOXML could pose patent threat to GPL-licensed software

• 12:11

  Congress dons rubber glove, prepares probe of FCC chairman

• 6:17

  Disconnect Anxiety: a malady for the 21st century

• 4:55

  The Pirate Peacock? How NBC wants to both filter and use P2P

• 4:15

  RateMyCop takedown sparks debate over speech, privacy

• 3:07

  EFF: Antiphishing bill may snag anonymous speech in driftnet

• 1:25

  Analysis: firm stance on FISA pays big dividends for Dems

• 0:34

  Comcast to beef up network with new 100Gbps optics

• March 12, 2008
• 23:18

  GNOME 2.22 released, brings new architectural features

• 21:17

  Report: gamers still hot and heavy for CDs, DVDs

• 20:35

  Beijing's 'Net cafés: Real names, or no access for you!

• 19:57

  Hacking implanted defibrillators: shockingly easy

• 19:25

  UN backs out of virtual protest against Internet censorship

• 18:53

  YouTube's new APIs open the site to external apps

• 18:20

  New Beijing Summer Olympics event: software piracy

• 17:30

  Study: amount of digital info > global storage capacity

• 16:18

  OLEDs inch closer to mass market via GE manufacturing tweak

• 12:17

  Using hoax petitions to track the growth of networks

• 6:55

  Work it harder, make it better—Super Smash Bros Brawl review

• 6:03

  Michigan says MediaSentry lacks necessary PI license

• 5:17

  Judge to Viacom: No punitive damages in YouTube case

• 4:20

  Norton places big bet on Mac virtualization vulnerabilities

• 2:45

  Christian Coalition, NARAL odd bedfellows at net neutrality hearing

• March 11, 2008
• 20:35

  Phishing attacks, fraud, continue to hound eBay

• 8:02

  Integrated goodness? A review of the AMD 780G chipset

• 6:34

  Somebody's watching: Yahoo rules web data collection field

• 5:15

  Lawmaker's attempt to criminalize anonymous posting doomed

• 4:03

  First look: Firefox 3 beta 4 brings new Vista hotness

• 3:25

  FCC Chair warns ISPs against making "arbitrary distinctions"

• March 10, 2008
• 21:51

  Microsoft appeals decision in "Vista Capable" lawsuit

• 21:17

  EMI to slash antipiracy funding, but will stick with IFPI

• 20:28

  Analysis: Intel to fight recession with solid state drives

• 19:50

  Cable companies band together to sell ads, challenge Google

• 19:20

  Antitrust monitors turn their attention to Windows 7

• 18:49

  Study: depressed turn to blogging as coping mechanism

• 16:51

  New law opens negative clinical trials to public scrutiny

• 6:30

  Aperture 2.0: the Ars Technica review

• 5:21

  Fighting the black market: crypto-locks for CPUs, other ICs

• 4:03

  Bad Phorm? UK ISPs to sell clickstream data to advertisers

• 3:00

  Travel 2.0? Hands on with Zicasso, a great first attempt

• 1:42

  Dropping 22TB of patches on 6,500 PCs in 4 hours: BitTorrent

• 0:35

  Plasma improvements: KDE 4.0.2 and beyond

• March 09, 2008
• 22:31

  Patents on video game mechanics to strangle innovation, fun

• 21:06

  John McCain and the FCC media ownership fight

• March 08, 2008
• 0:36

  US seizes domain name of Spanish company selling Cuba trips

• March 07, 2008
• 21:08

  IFPI gets Israeli ISPs to block Hebrew peer-to-peer site

• 20:40

  House IP committee member endorses college P2P blocking

• 19:11

  Computer scientist talks up "Science 2.0"

• 18:14

  Ars tests Microsoft's ODF add-in for Office

• 16:56

  OLPC Project looks for CEO to make it "more like Microsoft"

• 13:03

  US computer science drought may be bottoming out

• 6:53

  Mano a mano: Apple TV vs. the Xbox 360

• 6:06

  US rural broadband: you can get it, but you can't afford it

• 5:10

  TV providers struggling to crack the new services nut

• 3:13

  Pentagon attack last June stole an "amazing amount" of data

• March 06, 2008
• 22:15

  Free WiFi comes at a price in Denver International Airport

• 21:50

  Rep. Berman pulls controversial "compilations" rule from PRO-IP Act

• 20:10

  Apple releases iPhone SDK, announces push e-mail, Exchange support

• 19:18

  EU reportedly close to blessing Google-DoubleClick union

• 18:00

  Could an AOL merger save Yahoo's bacon?

• 17:45

  Live coverage of the iPhone Software Roadmap announcement

• 17:30

  Whistleblower: Cellular carrier giving FBI unfettered access

• 17:00

  Mobile broadband use skyrockets as 3G moves beyond the suits

• 13:04

  Broadcasters blast FCC localism proposals

• 7:55

  New IE8 beta 1 tantalizes, rough edges and all

• 7:06

  The Vista Capable mess: Intel pushes, Microsoft bends

• 5:49

  AOL's Open AIM 2.0 SDK license requires apps to include ads

• 4:58

  Think tank warns of an iCrime wave

• March 05, 2008
• 23:29

  What piracy crisis? MPAA touts record box office for 2007

• 22:28

  Chinese official on SMS voting: "txtng votes ripe 4 abuse"

• 21:56

  Six botnets churning out 85 percent of all spam

• 20:40

  BlackBerry not taking iPhone innovations lying down

• 20:08

  Europeans may be forced to pay for incoming cell calls

• 19:36

  Battle brewing over MediaSentry's subpoena stonewalling

• 19:04

  Reznor makes $750,000 even when the music is free

• 17:20

  Thunderbird 3.0 to begin ascent next month: what to expect

• 16:59

  D&D cocreator Gary Gygax now beyond scope of healing spells

• 13:15

  US tossing and turning into a sleepless nation

• 7:56

  History suggests copyright crusade is a lost cause

• 7:10

  Microsoft missing the cloud with Windows on a USB stick

• 6:20

  Report: 10Mbps broadband in 33 million homes by 2012

• 5:36

  Singularity: Microsoft's research OS available for download

• 4:45

  Book lovers have emotional bond with paper

• March 04, 2008
• 22:31

  Good times cost X-rated spammer $413,000 in FTC fines

• 21:56

  AMD demos 45nm server and desktop processors

• 20:54

  eMusic making good money from back catalog

• 20:23

  EFF to take RIAA on in court over "making available" claim

• 19:53

  People want ad-supported on-demand TV, also like to skip ads

• 18:41

  EU, US take China to WTO over financial news crackdown

• 16:22

  Netvibes goes social: inside the Ginger update

• 13:05

  Expanding academic networks to connect the developing world

• 7:55

  Sounding the depths: a review of SONAR 7 Studio Edition

• 7:01

  First look: Microsoft Office Live Workspaces goes public

• 6:09

  Creating rich Internet applications on Linux with WebKit

• 5:09

  Quantum computer may be capable of seeing the big picture

• 4:15

  Akamai takes another software patent scalp

• 3:07

  Sanity prevails: IE8 will default to standard-compliant mode

• 1:15

  A lack of peers leads AllPeers to close up shop

• March 03, 2008
• 21:03

  Survey: warnings from ISPs could slash file-swapping by 70%

• 20:30

  Norwegian broadcaster: P2P experiment "extremely positive"

• 19:58

  Wikileaks restraining order a failure, judge says

• 19:27

  Atom inside: Intel announces ultramobile processor brand

• 17:30

  First look: breathe in the Adobe AIR

• 16:11

  Advocacy groups bash Comcast's "technical-sounding nonsense"

• 16:11

  Advocacy groups bash Comcast's "technical-sounding nonsense"

• 14:00

  Black millionaire wants minority-owned satellite radio network

• 9:38

  Second time around: a review of the Apple TV 2.0

• 5:40

  First spam felony conviction upheld: no free speech to spam

• 4:24

  RIAA plays both sides of the street in music royalty debate

• 3:30

  Living snowflakes: bacteria important to snow formation

• 2:30

  MacBook Air aflutter: demand stays strong, sold out often

• 1:11

  XML spec editor: OOXML ISO process is "unadulterated BS"

• March 02, 2008
• 23:02

  MLB follows NFL's mistake, cracks down on online reporting

• March 01, 2008
• 2:08

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