Researcher skepticism grows over badBIOS malware claims
Peers have yet to reproduce the odd behavior infecting Dragos Ruiu's computers.
Top Post: Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent
In-Depth Reports
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Op-ed: Lavabit’s primary security claim wasn’t actually true
Ladar Levison stood up for users' privacy—but perhaps a little too late.
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Bigger than Google Fiber: LA plans citywide gigabit for homes and businesses
Free broadband for all, and gigabit for those who can afford it.
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The best way to take control of Bitcoin? Rally other greedy “selfish miners”
New research says luring others with big returns could lead to Bitcoin dominance.
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Do bees know what they don’t know?
When faced with a decision they're likely to get wrong, bees opt out.
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Install fix to stop in-the-wild Windows and Office exploit, Microsoft warns
Attackers are exploiting a bug to install malware on vulnerable PCs.
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Chinese used ice-path sleds to move Forbidden City’s stones
Ice slides moved more mass per man than any other method available at the time.
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iPad Air profit margins reportedly range from 45 to 61 percent
Unsurprisingly, iPad storage upgrades appear to be almost pure profit for Apple.
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Philips Hue family gets brighter with new type of light
Regular lights, strip lights, bloom lights, and now downlights.
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Disarming Corruptor distorts 3D printing files for sharing of banned items
Algorithm scrambles, unscrambles vertex positions of STL files.
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Shadowy VPN firm says it has industry’s first transparency report
But EFF lawyer says Proxy.sh has the “single worst policy I’ve seen.”
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New Kepler analysis finds many Earth-like planets; total 3,500 exoplanets
Earth-like planets are common around Sun-like stars, too.
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Netflix roasts Rovi’s “interactive TV guide” patents at ITC
A trade commission investigated Netflix, although it imports nothing.
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11 things we learned from Valve’s latest Steam Machine PR push
From case design to haptics, new details emerge about Valve's prototype hardware.
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Single atom catalyst suggests we don’t understand catalysis that well
75% of reactions are due to 25% percent of atoms; the rest are lazy slackers.
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Immune suppressor makes one flu vaccine work for many viruses
A broad-spectrum flu vaccine may rely on a regular flu vaccine and a drug.
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VMK Tech designs phones and tablets for Africa, will soon build there too
A fateful plane ride and seven years of work led to latest expansion.
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Apple’s iCloud Keychain: It works, but with frustrating limitations
iCloud can help manage passwords, but it's not a complete password manager.
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Homebrewing cider, part 3: The final taste, regrets, and reader advice
Recapping the triumphs and failures of the brew and reading some comments.
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How are robots beating my CAPTCHAs?
Understanding why your custom CAPTCHA just doesn't block spam.
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A journey to life’s beginnings
Adam Rutherford's new book looks at how life began and how it's being remade.
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Meet HeHe Limited, Rwanda’s award-winning young tech startup
Clarisse Iribagiza, CEO of HeHe, wants young people to be inventors.
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Ars readers react: Zombie tech and ghost malware
Also nuclear (patent) war showed up on Ars' headlines this week.
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Internet Explorer continues to grow, and Mavericks already on 11 percent of Macs
OS X 10.9 adoption shows the difference between Microsoft's legacy and Apple's.
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Google just pulled a “Facebook Home”: KitKat’s primary interface is Google Search
Android 4.4 quietly moved the entire home interface into a souped-up search app.
Feature Story
Review: Apple’s iPad Air is a big tablet without all the baggage
Apple's new tablet is an embiggened version of the perfectly cromulent iPad mini.
On The Radar
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electric shock
Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent
CEO Elon Musk says that Q4 2013 will see rise in research and development costs.
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An endless game of leapfrog
AMD stomps Nvidia with R9 290… at least in reviews
New cards faster and cheaper than Nvidia's best, but retail units have mysterious slow-downs.
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digital coal mine
Apple takes strong privacy stance in new report, publishes rare “warrant canary”
“Apple has never received an order under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act."
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MACH SCHNELL
German Tesla owner proves the Model S really does go 130 mph with video
Elon Musk promises special free Autobahn-specific tuning for German Tesla drivers.
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Wanted
Have you seen these “cyber” fugitives? FBI offers up to $100,000 bounty
2 Russians, 2 Pakistanis, and a Salvadoran added to FBI's Cyber Most Wanted List.
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High bandwidth, terrible latency
Need to get a bunch of data onto Windows Azure? FedEx your hard drives
Web role now supports Web Sockets, remote debugging, and more.
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Help us help you
Google: Stop asking the Internet how to do things, ask a human instead
From existential angst to WordPress themes, Helpouts mean to solve your woes.
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Detorqueant et vertant
Holiday Dealmaster does yoga—an IdeaPad Yoga 11, to be precise
Ramping up the deals as we get into the gift-buying season.
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Ars Editor’s Picks The web worth reading.
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Limb from limb
iFixit easily tears apart the decidedly high-end Nexus 5
There are few surprises, but a surprisingly small amount of glue.
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aced it
Acer CEO resigns on the back of $446 million quarterly loss
Next up for Acer: cost reductions, layoffs, restructuring.
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Level up
UK privacy group wants Level 3 to address allegations of spying cooperation
Privacy International is pushing for more disclosure from a top international telco.
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big blue vs. the blue bird
On eve of IPO, Twitter reports patent threat from IBM
IBM says patents on URLs and ads are infringed, seeks "business resolution."
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got the goods
WaPo to gov’t: Our story on NSA Google spying was true, here’s proof
Newspaper published more NSA slides showing secret industry data formats.
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new meaning to floating point
HGST balloons disk capacity with helium-filled 6TB drive
New drives cram in more platters, run cooler, and use less power.
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Takin' a ride
Limo service hack spills compromising data about the rich and famous
Reporter finds "gold mine" of info for would-be corporate and government spies.
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Hide yo passwords from yo kids
Google finally hides passwords from snoopers in new builds of Chromium
After denying any problem, Google adds option to protect plain text passwords.
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Reversal of fortune
BlackBerry reverses course, cancels sale, mutinies on CEO
As $4.7 billion bid goes bust, BB names new chairman tied to Dell buyout.
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warming planet
Climate change is already affecting food supplies
Rising temps will help in some places, but global productivity will decrease.
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Motovation
Moto G teaser site: A little slower, a little smaller, just as good?
Motorola's latest to be unveiled on November 13th.
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Alert Mr. Burns
Scientists: nuclear power can prevent use of “the atmosphere as a waste dump”
Four climate researchers publicly ask policymakers to reconsider nuclear opposition.
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No mercy
US officials say forget about clemency for Snowden
But Snowden tells Der Spiegel he's justified due to the call for reform he sparked.
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Fondue, Chalet, Privacy
Swiss telco’s cloud aims to draw customers who are fearful of spying
Swisscom's data storage may attract foreign companies wary of NSA.
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Modo avión
Europe expected to follow US on in-flight electronics rules
Soon, nary a flight will prohibit breaking out gadgets during takeoff and landing.
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Here we go again
A Nexus 8? Mysterious tablet pictured in KitKat promotional material
It has on-screen buttons, tiny bezels, KitKat, and an approximately 8" screen.
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Open book
To restore credibility, NIST will audit its standards development process
The US crypto authority's name was tarnished by NSA leaks. But it wants to fix that.
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Airplane Mode for everyone
You can use your devices on JetBlue and Delta, starting right now
JetBlue #2302 from New York JFK to Buffalo believed to be the first such flight.
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Shaking things up
Qualcomm “in talks” to join BlackBerry founders in bid for company
Already a smartphone chip giant, Qualcomm could become a smartphone maker.
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Protect your skeleton
Updated privacy policy outlines Xbox One Kinect data protections
Company also says you "should not expect any level of privacy" in voice chat.
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Six Pack
Just six people got insurance through HealthCare.gov on day one
With many features broken, only a half-dozen managed to get through bugs.
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Good luck with that
Digital currency service founder pleads guilty, faces 75 years in prison
Vladimir Kats helped found Liberty Reserve, left in 2009.
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party boat
Mysterious Google barge is a massive showroom, “party deck”
Shipping container construction means it can be taken down and rebuilt anywhere.
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The Emerald City Votes
Love Gigabit Seattle? Comcast has donated lots to promoter’s rival (Updated)
Comcast: It's totally not a big deal—cash was for Ed Murray's earlier campaign.
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Feature Story (3 pages)
Battlefield 4: The brutal, broken, beautiful pinnacle of first person shooters
Battlefield 4 is very Battlefield with all that that entails. Good and bad.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
It’s the little things, Pt. 1: How small conundrums make many hate computers
Take it from a longtime IT pro—tiny oversights in software have big implications.
Ars SmartStream
Exploring the smarter Internet
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IBM | 11/01/13
Cloud Computing Can Help Transform Midsize Companies into Social Businesses
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Sci-Tech Today | 11/01/13
NASA Strives To Tame ‘Big Data’ from Missions
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Ars Technica | 10/28/13
Seagate introduces a new drive interface: Ethernet
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IBM | 10/25/13
Streamy or chunky? Hybrid cloud opens window for batch operations
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InformationWeek Government | 10/25/13
Containers Add New Efficiency To Cloud Computing
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Feature Story (2 pages)
Surface 2: More than a tablet
Review: Improvements specifically address RT's shortcomings—plus apps finally exist.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
Surface Pro 2: Less than a laptop
Review: The heart of a laptop it may be, but I want the body of a laptop, too.
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