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• Comcast AT&T Broadband merger approved (arstechnica.com)
  The FCC has given the go-ahead to Comcast's US $47.5 beeeeellion dollar acquisition of AT&T broadband. The merger will make the new entity…
• Saturday afternoon fun: religion selector (arstechnica.com)
  It's Saturday, so I don't feel guilty for posting something really off-topic. Now, as many of you know, I'm doing doctoral work in the stud…
• Can the shuttle fleet last 'til 2020? (arstechnica.com)
  Space shuttle launch delays are becoming more common with this week's flight delayed because of an oxygen leak. Engineers successfully repl…
• Cybervigilantes and the Fourth Amendment (arstechnica.com)
  Law enforcement officials need to be careful when they receive tips from well intentioned citizens. A Virginia judge threw out evidence in…
• How I easily added AI to my favorite Microsoft Office alternative (zdnet.com)
  If you're a fan of OnlyOffice Desktop Editors and AI, you'll be thrilled to know those two things have come together to make your life a bi…
• Directron AX-01SLD "Silver Dragon" Case Review (arstechnica.com)
  We've got a review for you today of another of Directron's re-branded Antec/Chieftec cases. The twist this time is that it's a newer, all-a…
• Intel introduces hyper-threading to the P4 line (arstechnica.com)
  The NDA has lifted on the 3.06GHz P4 + hyper-threading, and a number of sites (Anand's, HardOCP, Tom's, etc.) have posted reviews of the ne…
• Farewell DVD, I hardly played ya (arstechnica.com)
  A new marketing trick is going to hit stores in the US: perishable DVDs. The NYTimes has a story on how Atlantic records is testing out the…
• AMD likely to lose race to 90nm (arstechnica.com)
  The race to a 90 nanometer fab process looks to have lost one contender, namely AMD. The x86 underdog had hoped to reach 90nm about the sam…
• The Sun as never seen before (arstechnica.com)
  The big yellow ball has a new view reported in this week's edition of Nature. The recently opened Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope, situated in…
• Serendipity and optical storage (arstechnica.com)
  Mix up some epoxy, let it harden, and then shine it with a laser and what do you have? How about a new high density storage medium. John Fo…
• Microsoft leapfrogs Server OS plans (arstechnica.com)
  With Windows .NET Server's release still hanging in the wings (currently at RC1), Microsoft has announced that the .NET Server version that…
• Security problems with off-track betting (arstechnica.com)
  Three fraternity brothers turned themselves in to authorities today on wire fraud warrants issued by the US Attorney's office. The three ar…
• The environmental impact of computing (arstechnica.com)
  Previous studies on the environmental impact of computers usually dealt with discarded systems. The growing amounts of thrown away computer…
• Harry Potter & The Chamber of Conspiracy Theories (arstechnica.com)
  It appears there aren't enough fingers to plug leaks in the internet dike. Previously it was a Doom3 alpha being leaked, and now it is the…
• British Telecom taking a page from Gillette? (arstechnica.com)
  Wanna sell more broadband service? Then sell or lease PCs direct, and tie in broadband service--that's what BT is hoping to accomplish in t…
• Go-go-gadget battery life extension! (arstechnica.com)
  My old, kinda klunky Dell Inspiron 8000 has two batteries in it because I can't stand running out of juice. Sure, it means that my ginormou…
• Your weekly dose of Game.Ars (arstechnica.com)
  As if the world needed another MMORPG, this week's Game.Ars features news about World of Warcraft. Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis looks l…
• Progress on insulated nanowires (arstechnica.com)
  With the emerging field of nanotechnology and the constant miniaturization computer circuits, new methods are needed in the creation of mat…
• Are pop-up ads really dying? (arstechnica.com)
  Earthlink has an advertising campaign touting their pop-up blocking software and several companies, including AOL, have announced they are…
• Poll Technica: RAM it (arstechnica.com)
  In the proud tradition of showin' off your stuff, this week's poll is asking perhaps the logical follow up to our previous question: how mu…
• SonicBlue and TiVo realize the real enemy (arstechnica.com)
  SonicBlue and TiVo, competitors in the Digital Video Recorder market, have decided that maybe it would be a good idea to stop suing each ot…
• NVIDIA stock pummeled, put NV30 out of your mind (arstechnica.com)
  As suspected by all but the most faithful, there won't be any NV30-based video cards from NVIDIA out before the year's end. nV News first r…
• Service is unlimited, but you download too much...bye bye! (arstechnica.com)
  EMusic has been mentioned several times in Ars news posts, mostly with positive comments. With recent actions, some user's view of the serv…
• Quantum encryption at 2 Gbit/s? (arstechnica.com)
  Traditional network encryption schemes rely on mostly static secret-key methodologies for the encryption/decryption process. Brute force an…
• Microsoft TabletPC launches today (arstechnica.com)
  Subject says it all. The new devices, powered by an XP SP1-based OS branded as Windows XP TabletPC Edition, are proclaimed as ultra light,…
• Multimonitor graphics shootout (arstechnica.com)
  The guys over at the Tech Report have put together a comparison of consumer-level multi-monitor-supportin' video cards, namely ATI's HydraV…
• Web browser vulnerability week (arstechnica.com)
  New vulnerabilities discovered in Internet Explorer and Mozilla! The current score is IE: 9 - Moz: 6. Of those 15 vulnerabilities, 12 have…
• AMD strengthening what they can (arstechnica.com)
  I was excited to hear that AMD is "considering" pimpin' up some of its *cough* lower-end CPUs. According to DigiTimes, the 2600+ will come…
• Understanding Bandwidth and Latency (arstechnica.com)
  Since we started Ars about five years ago, computing performance has come to be bound more and more by bandwidth. This is especially true i…
• Ready the phasers, Pvt. Wade (arstechnica.com)
  Step by step, we're closer to Star Trek. TRW Inc., a military contractor, just finished their first official demonstration of a new laser w…
• Out of Dew? Take a wash (arstechnica.com)
  Long sessions of programming or gaming may seriously deplete your stockpile of Mountain Dew and Jolt. But what do you do when none of your…
• Electronics on the pitch (arstechnica.com)
  Technology has made some inroads in traditional sporting events. In (US) football, quarterbacks can receive information via transmitters in…
• Nam Tai Electronics Inc. would like to know you better (arstechnica.com)
  The Virginia Supreme Court says that you aren't allowed anonymity on the internet. Here's the backstory from the Reuters story: I've google…
• Security Practicum: Essential Home Wireless Security Practices (arstechnica.com)
  If network security on the average Internet-connected desktop is a serious concern, how much more so should it be in situations where a Wir…
• Portable gaming piggybacks cell phones (arstechnica.com)
  It only seems proper that for my inaugural news post, I make some sort of commentary related to gaming, so here it is: the Nokia N-Gage is…
• Wireless is all the rage in Europe... (arstechnica.com)
  Sure, it's a clich?, but Wireless is on fire these days, as witnessed by a handful of interesting recent developments. First up, IBM has un…
• SETI@Home Cheating Follow-up (arstechnica.com)
  Last week we posted news about rampant cheating in the SETI@Home project. A ZDNet Australia article, an 800+ signature petition, and the re…
• This high-tech sippy cup at CES 2026 could prevent your kid from needing ear tubes (zdnet.com)
  Earflo is a medical device cleverly designed as a sippy cup - and early studies show it led to a nearly 90% reduction in the need for ear t…
• Dublin Ars Meet. No, not Ohio. (arstechnica.com)
  This year I'm spending the holiday season with my wife's family in Ireland, and what better way is there to weather the Irish cold than to…
• Game.Ars steps on the soapbox (arstechnica.com)
  It seems like objections to games with violence are as ubiquitous as ads telling us to call politicians. In this week's Game.Ars, Carl give…
• Doom III E3 Alpha leaked (arstechnica.com)
  I just saw over at /. that the Doom III E3 alpha has been leaked. Obviously the Alpha is considerably out of date, but that hasn't stopped…
• The End is the Beginning (arstechnica.com)
  With the Federal case all but wrapped up, Microsoft's next problem will be the mass of civil suits aimed at punishing them through financia…
• Linksys BEFSR41 vulnerable (arstechnica.com)
  I don't normally point out each and every security hole out there, but considering that Linksys is pretty much numero uno when it comes to…
• IM standardization moving forward (arstechnica.com)
  As expected, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has selected the developers of the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP…
• Microsoft antitrust finally over? (arstechnica.com)
  U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has essentially approved the terms of the Microsoft Antitrust Settlement, hopefully brinin…
• System Guide update at your request (arstechnica.com)
  You guys ask for it, and we deliver. Once again, the Budget Box, the Hot Rod, and the God Box return to provide three tiers of computing go…
• Dell hops on the iPod wagon (arstechnica.com)
  Creative's Zen may be an iPod competitor for PC users, but Dell is putting aside a bit of its anti-Apple competitiveness in order to partne…
• Itanium quasi-barred (arstechnica.com)
  Ars reader Devin sent in this story relating to the recent developments in the Intel vs. Intergraph Patent Infringement case that I first r…
• Skeletons rattle out of the SETI@Home closet (arstechnica.com)
  For the good part of a year, a nasty little secret has been associated with the SETI@Home project, seldom heard outside of team associated…