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• Ushering in Windows XP; forum changes (arstechnica.com)
  Now that XP has arrived in force, I'd like to ask the community what you'd like to do forum wise. Currently MS-related Operating System stu…
• A step forward for quantum gravity (arstechnica.com)
  The AIP's Physics News Update reports that an important step has been taken in the search for a quantum theory of gravity. A paper publishe…
• The computational capacity of the universe (arstechnica.com)
  A while back, I wrote an article about the fastest physically possible computers. The main source for that article was an excellent paper w…
• MSN Blocks non-MS Browsers (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft has launched their new look for their popular site msn.com but not without a scandal. CNET's News.com is reporting Microsoft'
• ATI Radeon 8500 and Cheating in Benchmarks (arstechnica.com)
  As a follow up to Bates' post the other day, ATI's Radeon 8500 has been getting some very nasty PR lately. Kyle Bennett, of [H]ardOCP, has…
• Apple's take on the MP3 player: the iPod (arstechnica.com)
  Apple announced today that it will be selling a mobile MP3 player, the 'iPod' (News.com, among many others, has a piece on it). It has a 5…
• The IRA Starts Disarming (arstechnica.com)
  The BBC is reporting that the Irish Republican Army have, in an unprecedented move, put some weapons "beyond use". The destruction of arms…
• The New York Times available on-line! (arstechnica.com)
  Woohoo, baby, the New York Times will be available on-line starting tomorrow! Yessss. Er, wait, isn't it already available on-line? Indeed,…
• New FBI Internet Surveillance? (arstechnica.com)
  Interactive Week is reporting new FBI surveillance techniques involving internet wire tapping. The plan is to expand the monitoring of inte…
• Game.Ars for your manic Monday (arstechnica.com)
  As both Hannibal and I study furiously for a nightmarish Byzantine Greek midterm, Game.Ars slipped through the radar, but only by a day. 'T…
• Microsoft's DRM2 Content Protection Cracked (arstechnica.com)
  Last week, "Beale Screamer" posted information about the technical details of Microsoft's Digital Rights Management version 2, a content pr…
• Civ III approaches! (arstechnica.com)
  I can only pray that my schedule will let up enough for me to get some quality time in with Civ III before the turn of the year. As my abso…
• 2001 Mars Odyssey enters orbit (arstechnica.com)
  It has come a long way since its launch April 7, but the 2001 Mars Odyssey is finally a mere 750,000 kilometers away from its destination a…
• Sony and TiVo in deal (arstechnica.com)
  Sony and TiVo have entered into a deal that will allow Sony to integrate (and even modify) TiVo's software and services into their entertai…
• Ars OpenIRC updates this afternoon (arstechnica.com)
  Just a heads up to all y'all IRC addicts. Codemaster StoneTable will be updating both the ircd and hybserv (channel services for the hybrid…
• New devices to speed up detection of pathogens (arstechnica.com)
  An EE Times article describes how scientists and engineers are developing devices that detect hazardous biological specimens in non-laborat…
• ATi 8500 Falls Short (arstechnica.com)
  With ATi's release of the 8500 card, they're promising to compete with NVIDIA, but can they really? How does the 8500 perform in real-world…
• Office XP Activation changed (arstechnica.com)
  While I was performin' a little maintenance on the old home 'puter, I noticed that Microsoft released a series of updates to Office XP (e.g…
• A note regarding the obvious (arstechnica.com)
  I just wanted to let everyone know that yes, in fact, we have expanded our news staff over the past two weeks. You'll be seeing posts from…
• Senate won't extend internet tax moratorium (arstechnica.com)
  Despite being approved in the House of Representatives, the Senate failed to pass a bill to extend the current 3-year-old ban--set to expir…
• New "anthrax" internet worm dead on arrival (arstechnica.com)
  MSNBC reports a new internet worm, the only twist of irony being that the worm doesn't work. The original virus contains a message in Spani…
• Vigilante crackers seek government approval (arstechnica.com)
  Newsbytes reports that a vigilante group of crackers is seeking government approval in their anti-terrorist activities. The group, called Y…
• MS slowed and reversed (arstechnica.com)
  And no this isn't about Microsoft. The BBC reports that scientists believe that it might be possible to halt and even reverse the effects o…
• All you ever wanted to know about bioterrorism... (arstechnica.com)
  you can learn over at the New Scientist. New Scientist is running a massive Special Report on it with a large collection of articles, edito…
• Details about Palm's OS subsidiary (arstechnica.com)
  A recent SEC filing details the conditions under which former AT&T CTO Dave Nagel will become CEO, President, and a director of Newco, Inc.…
• And on a lighter note... (arstechnica.com)
  On October 15, The Register reported a story about a man who somehow got trapped in his shed, which was equipped with internet access, but…
• More RIAA shenanigans (arstechnica.com)
  Directed denial of service attacks. Computer security averted and disabled. Files deleted from hard drives. Is the the work from malicious…
• AMD to "turn this mutha out" (arstechnica.com)
  (Ok, I couldn't resist a Hammer reference. Now that that's out of the way...) The news is all over the web: AMD has revealed the details of…
• Get yer free Athlon XPs here! (arstechnica.com)
  Despite the risk of being chastised by the people who already know about it, it would be a great disservice to Ars Technica readers if I di…
• Follow-up to Pocket PC 2002 (arstechnica.com)
  All, it seems I made a booboo when I stated that Pocket PC 2002 was the project codenamed as Talisker. Reader Scott has the skinny: My conf…
• Game.Ars reportin' for duty (arstechnica.com)
  This week's Game.Ars is ready for consumption, but hold yer breath while you enter, because Carl's got the results of the most stinkified l…
• Are broadband and DSL really on the demise? (arstechnica.com)
  Cringly is back in action, this week prophesying the death of broadband and DSL. I can't say that I agree with him. AT&T has been doing a v…
• These boots are made for walkin' (arstechnica.com)
  Longtime reader and newshound extraordinaire JT Neville sent us a rather, um, foul email relating to possible power-generating footwear. SR…
• Microsoft, DOJ cannot agree on mediator (arstechnica.com)
  Following Microsoft's failure to appeal the antitrust case in the Supreme Court, it is now reported that MS and the DOJ have failed to agre…
• Processors and rumors of processors (arstechnica.com)
  Those of you looking to get beyond the 2GHz threshold for Christmas might be out of luck. News.com is reporting that the 2.2GHz Pentium 4 w…
• There is no try, only crumpets (arstechnica.com)
  From the just-too-funny department, Oli wrote in to let me know that the ever enlightened British (bless them) have added "Jedi Knight" to…
• Care for some distributed Beef Roast? (arstechnica.com)
  In other news on the distributed computing front, Team Ars Technica Beef Roast overtook Libertarians for Privacy for 12th place in Distribu…
• Microsoft: The Supreme Court and revised licensing (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft has been in the news on a couple of fronts recently. First up is news the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear Microsoft'
• RWT on logic and benchmarking (arstechnica.com)
  When reviewing hardware it is not wise to put blind faith into benchmarks and the results they supply. Analysis of the Sysmark 2001 benchma…
• A note about subscription renewals (arstechnica.com)
  If you subscribed on or after July 9th using PayPal, you are setup for automagic recurring payments (per whatever term you signed up for, 3…
• A newly new news format (arstechnica.com)
  You can probably tell by now that our news item layout has changed somewhat. Why fix it if it ain?t broke? Well, Ars has been using a prett…
• Possible genetic-language connection found (arstechnica.com)
  With the complexity of human speech and cognition, it may be difficult to believe both may be governed by a set of genes encoded in human D…
• Another month, another Game.Ars (arstechnica.com)
  Here it is folks, and reasonably on time, the new Game.Ars. After some deeply philosophical musings on the Tycoon and Sim lines, Carl dives…
• Metadata, the Mac, and you (arstechnica.com)
  Metadata is simply "data about data." Within the context of the computer industry, the most common domain of metadata is the file system. F…
• Contacting the OpenForum Moderation Team (arstechnica.com)
  Welcome to the OpenForum Contact Page. Please read this page carefully before sending e-mail. The Ars Technica OpenForum moderation team is…
• The Ars guide to advanced cooling: heatsink edition (arstechnica.com)
  Heatsinks are the most basic form of cooling next to simple surface convection in today's PCs.? If you look inside the average machine, you…
• PC 99: It was a good year for fine whine (arstechnica.com)
  First, my apologies for not getting to this topic sooner.? A few readers have been itchin' for some attention, but I kept puttin' 'em off c…
• Uh-oh, could it be? A bus clock-locked Celeron 366? (arstechnica.com)
  Disclaimer* As of right now, these results have been received with a single retail Celeron 366.? Hence, they are just preliminary findings…
• Behind the Dual Celeron (arstechnica.com)
  For many of us, paying pennies for a Celeron 300A and overclocking it to perform like an overpriced PII 450 was our way of stickin' it to t…
• Intel Boxed Processor Availability Update (arstechnica.com)
  This is a notice to inform you of the current availability outlook for the Intel boxed processors sold through authorized distribution chan…