Slashdot
- Broadcast Industry Wades In On Dish Network's Hopper
- gollum123 writes As with past technological threats, network executives are closing ranks against a Dish Network device that undermines the broadcast business model. The disruptive technology at hand is an ad-eraser, embedded
- Canada's Internet Surveillance Bill: Not Dead After All
- First time accepted submitter Maow writes Despite a recent story claiming that Canadas Bill C-30, covering internet surveillance, has died a lonely death, the minister responsible claims otherwise. Public Safety Minister Vic
- FDA Panel Backs First Rapid, Take Home HIV Test
- TheGift73 writes in with news about an over-the-counter HIV test getting the backing of a panel of FDA experts. American consumers may soon be able to test themselves for the virus that
- Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans
- afabbro writes Verizon mentioned in an investor conference that it will be eliminating unlimited data plans, even for those it grandfathered in. From the article: Speaking at the J.P Morgan Technology Media
- Book Review: The Logic of Chance
- eldavojohn writes The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution is a comprehensive snapshot of the latest research of biological evolution. The text is written by Eugene V. Koonin,
- Star City and the Baikonur Cosmodrome
- First time accepted submitter zyborg writes Heres 44 photographs of the Baikonour Cosmodrome used by the ISS program. The pictures range from training, launch vehicle transport and assembly, launch, touchdown, pictures from
- Facebook Adds 96 Million Shares, Will Privacy Get Worse After IPO?
- AlistairCharlton writes Facebook has made yet another amendment to its S-1 filing, adding a further 96 million shares, pushing its initial public offering up to a potential maximum of $18.4bn (£11.5bn). In

CNET News.com
- Flashback makers missed out on their payday, Symantec says
- According to the security firm, the makers of the Flashback malware made $14,000 from click fraud last month, but cant collect on it.
- Tips for Facebook millionaires
- Congratulations, youre officially rich. But before you splurge on a winter getaway in Aspen or some sporty wheels, take a breath. CNETs Sumi Das speaks to a financial expert who says the best thing to do is follow three simple
- Facebook IPO doesn't mean the end of privacy
- Privacy experts say that just because the company is going public, doesnt mean that its game over for user privacy. In fact, it might shine a brighter light on privacy concerns.
- T-Mobile sees a net 350 jobs eliminated from restructuring
- The company plans to eliminate 900 jobs, but hire 550 new positions as part of an overhaul of the business.
- From battery covers to bat caves
- GM is repurposing old Volt battery covers as habitats for owls, ducks, and bats.
- How to reinstall the Mac App Store in Snow Leopard
- The Mac App Store program can be removed from Snow Leopard, but once updated past OS X 10.6.6, reinstalling it may require a little more than simply installing a combo update.
- HTC Ville C tipped as lower-powered, cheaper One S
- New details emerge that suggest HTC is readying a cheaper version of its One S. Though it could share most of the One Ss features, it will have a slower processor.

ZDNet
- Apple releases QuickTime 7.7.2 for Windows, fixes 17 flaws
- Apple QuickTime version 7.7.2 is out, fixing 17 security vulnerabilities in the multimedia framework. This is a security update release, meaning no new features have been added. You should still...
- SAP Business ByDesign is not being canned
- SAP Busines ByDesign enters a new chapter in its history. One that sees changes but not retirement.
- Chrome 19: The Best Web browser just keeps getting better
- A new edition of Chrome appears, and, yes, once again, its better than the last version and its much better than the competition.
- Facebook schedules one last hackathon before going public (rumor)
- Facebook is supposedly hosting one last hackathon as a private company just before it goes public, according to a new rumor. The event will end when Zuckerberg rings the Nasdaq bell remotely.
- Searching for data scientists as a service
- The advent of big data has companies scrambling to find data scientists
- BYOD: The Promise and Specter of IT's Brave New World (video)
- Join experts and CBS Interactive editors to hear more about what the enterprise world is doing about the BYOD trend.
- Leaked screenshots: Facebook Pages Manager for iPhone
- Screenshots of a new app from Facebook called Pages Manager have leaked. This is the third standalone app from Facebook, after the main Facebook app and the Facebook Messenger app.

Wired Technology
- Momofuku Puts Mold, Bacteria on the Menu
- The Momofuku restaurants are famous for hip Asian cuisine. Their secret ingredients: mold and bacteria.
- Q&A: Space Historian on Historic SpaceX Launch
- Space historian David S.F. Portree talks to Wired about SpaceXs upcoming launch to the International Space Station.
- Paralyzed Woman Controls Robotic Arm With Her Mind
- Two stroke victims unable to move or speak can now control robotic arms with their minds.
- Tracking Ocean Sulfur Could Help Test Gaia Hypothesis
- Geologists at the University of Maryland have published research that could help prove or disprove Gaia theory -- the notion that the Earth is one single self-regulating system.
- World’s Subways Converging on Ideal Form
- After decades of urban evolution, the worlds major subway systems appear to be converging on an ideal form.
- Power Postures Can Make You Feel More Powerful
- Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy has discovered that how you sit can actually change your cortisone levels.
- Startup Company Raffles a Ticket to Space
- A new startup companys $10 space posters come with a chance to win a ride on a suborbital space vehicle.

Tom's Hardware
- Nvidia Partners Up to Acquire 3G/4G LTE Wireless Patents
- Nvidias getting serious in the wireless game.
- Deals for May 16: Big Savings on Dell XPS Desktops
- Save money by getting the Sandy Bridge XPS desktop clear outs!
- Some Galaxy S III UK Pre-orders to Arrive a Day Early
- Well, almost a day early.
- Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode II Comes to Android
- The blue blur now available for your Android device and those rocking Tegra 3 get the special
- Virgin Atlantic to Allow Cell Phone Use on Planes
- Youre good to go once the plane reaches 10,000 feet.
- Apple Finally Issues Flashback Removal Tool for Leopard
- Clean up time, Leopard users.
- Twitter Has 10 Million Active UK Users
- Company revealed numbers as it opened up about plans to work more closely with UK government.

Ars Technica
- Existing unlimited data plans' days are numbered, Verizon says
- Shared data plans and 4G access conspire to bring unlimited users down.
- Best Buy's surprisingly insecure approach to new PC setup
- Somewhere in the march toward easy, security got blindsided.
- Paralyzed woman controls robotic arm, sips coffee
- Electrodes implanted in the brain were used to control mechanical motion.
- Money! That's what Flashback's creators want (but they can't get it)
- Generating fraudulent ad clicks and getting paid are two different things.
- Halo 4 Limited Edition, Spartan Ops mode announced
- Get your weekly multiplayer missions and early specialization access right here.
- Prosecutors: "pedodave69" was former top FBI agent
- Life as a digital cop: a little file-swapping, a little wardriving.
- ACTA deathwatch: profs call process unconstitutional, Europe revolts
- Increasing protests could derail the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).

Hard OCP
- The Pirate Bay DDoS Attacked?
- Are we taking bets on who is behind the supposed DDoS attack on The Pirate Bay? I got $5 that says it was Colonel Mustard, in the observatory...with a candlestick. An unknown entity has launched a large distributed denial-of-service attack
- Cooler Master Cosmos II Case
- Ater spending a little quality time with it, the gang at APH Networks gave the Cooler Master Cosmos II very high marks. Glancing at all the chassis on the market at the moment, there really is nothing like the Cooler
- Self-Destructing Solid State Drive
- Im not sure why this self destructing SSD is called invincible but the way the thing burns up all Mission Impossible style is pretty cool. Thanks Edward C. for the linkage! Comments
- EVGA GeForce GTX 670 Recall?
- I was just informed by a trusted source that EVGA is pulling back GTX 670 stock from e-tailers/retailers. We contacted another AIB and it reported to us that no recall had been initiated by NVIDIA so this recall seems to
- ot Deals
- Todays readers. The best part? Most of these deals come with free shipping! The coupon codes for the items listed below wont last forever and are limited to stock on hand so youd better get in on these deals while
- Fun With Thermal Night Vision
- Our buddy Richard over at Rated RR has a new video out that shows you how thermal night vision (used in video games like the upcoming Ghost Recon: Future Soldier) actually works in real life. Comments
- Saints Row 4 Outed?
- Who needs a LinkedIn profile to out Saints Row 4? I think the 11 million copies Saints Row: The Third sold pretty much guaranteed a fourth installment. The LinkedIn Profile for David Payne seems to reveal the next installment in

AnandTech
- Lenovo Announces Their 3rd Generation Intel Core Laptop Updates
- It’s been a couple weeks since Intel officially unveiled Ivy Bridge, and we continue to see plenty of product announcements from the major OEMs. Yesterday, while we were busy writing about AMD’s Trinity APU, Lenovo fired
- Sonic 4: Episode II Now Available for Tegra 3
- Earlier this year at Mobile World Congress, NVIDIA and Sega announced Sonic 4: Episode II would be coming to TegraZone in an optimized version for NVIDIA's Tegra 3 hardware. Today the promise became reality as the
- V3 Gaming PC Avenger Review: A New Challenger Appears
- We've had a few boutiques come through here, but what V3 Gaming PC wanted to approach us with was something different than we're used to seeing. Many of the systems sent through here are aggressively tuned, designed for performance at
- Netgear Announces 2-stream 802.11ac R6200 router and A6200 USB 2.0 adapter
- We're at Broadcom and Netgear's joint press event today, where both are announcing the commercial availability of the R6300 three spatial stream 802.11ac router which was announced at CES, and two new products: the two stream
- What We've Been Waiting For: Testing OpenCL Accelerated Handbrake with AMD's Trinity
- AMD, and NVIDIA before it, has been trying to convince us of the usefulness of its GPUs for general purpose applications for years now. For a while it seemed as if
- The AMD Trinity Review (A10-4600M): A New Hope
- AMD’s microprocessor history goes way back, predating even the now venerable x86 architecture. Their first foray into x86 territory came as a subcontractor to Intel, and from there AMD cut the ties and began making x86 compatible chips of their
- Ask the Experts: Heterogeneous and GPU Compute with AMD’s Manju Hegde
- AMD’s Manju Hegde is one of the rare folks I get to interact with who has an extensive background working at both AMD and NVIDIA. He was one of the co-founders and CEO of Ageia, a company that originally tried

O'Reilly Network
- Publishing News: Britannica isn't dead, it's digital
- Encyclopaedia Britannica unloads its print product, a Belgian copyright group wants libraries to pay for reading to children, and PayPal does a 180.
- Visualization of the Week: Visualizing Big History
- ChronoZoom is a tool for visualizing Big History, a field of study that combines multiple disciplines to examine events since the beginning of time.
- Top Stories: March 12-16, 2012
- This week on OReilly: Computational linguist Robert Munro explained why location language is far more complex than many realize, we looked at how Kickstarters crowdfunding is helping game developers, and Joe Wikert explored the major trends shaping ebook prices.
- Take a break and "PressPausePlay"
- Watch this wonderful film on the digital upending of cultural production. Then open up Garage Band and write a song about it ...
- Four short links: 16 March 2012
- Militarizing Your Backyard With Python and Computer Vision (video) -- using a water cannon, computer video, Arduino, and Python to keep marauding squirrel hordes under control. See the finished result for Yakkity Saxed moist rodent goodness. Soundbite -- dialogue search
- Commerce Weekly: PayPal's Here service takes on Square
- PayPal introduces its own credit card reader, AmEx asks you to tweet it out, and Asymco visualizes the smartphone market. (Commerce Weekly is produced as part of a partnership between OReilly and PayPal.)
- Developer Week in Review: When game development met Kickstarter
- Crowdsourcing is changing how software development gets funded. Its also driving one of the great reference guides of the 20th century out of print.

Techdirt
- Time To Realize That The Obama Administration Doesn't Even Have The Authority To Commit The US (...)
- There is a major problem with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) that has little to do with IP or the internet: how does international law get made—by the President alone, or with Congresss involvement? ACTAs key problem in the United
- Bogus Stats Again: BSA Puts Out Its Yearly Propaganda About Software Piracy
- For the 9th year in a row, the Business Software Alliance (BSA), an organization that mainly represents Microsofts interest, has put out its ridiculous Global Software Piracy Study, which argues that tons and tons of software is being pirated, and
- When Games Allow Mods, Beautiful Things Can Happen
- Recently, Mike wrote about the importance of externalities and spillovers in economics, and the fact that its often best to allow other people to capture pieces of the value you create and build on top of it. Not only does
- Musician Wonders What It Would Take To Become An Open Source Musician
- Kevin H alerts us to the news that electronic music/DJ artist The Polish Ambassador recently began musing on Facebook about what it would mean to be an open source musician:According to Wikipedia, Open Source is a philosophy that promotes free
- Economist: Copyright Is An Antiquated Relic That Has No Place In The Digital Age
- For many years Ive been pointing out the basics of economics concerning concepts like free and the importance of marginal cost to pricing in an efficient market. After one such recent post, I got an angry email from a college
- Feds Tie Themselves In Legal Knots Arguing For Domain Forfeiture In Rojadirecta Case
- If you dont recall, among the various domains that ICE and the DOJ seized last year were two domains -- rojadirecta.com and rojadirecta.org -- held by a Spanish company, Puerto 80. After extended negotiations to try to get the government
- Church Sues Former Members For Posting A Negative Review Online
- Nastybutler77 was the first of a few people to send over this story of a church pastor, Charles ONeal, of the Beaverton Grace Bible Church in Oregon, suing a former church member, Julie Anne Smith, and her family, for posting

X-bit labs
- AMD Formally Introduces Second-Generation Fusion "Trinity" Chips for Notebooks
- AMD Boosts Performance of Flagship Mobile Offerings with Fusion A-Series Trinity APUs
- WD's HGST Begins to Use 500GB 2.5" Platters in New-Generation Consumer Hard Drives
- Hitachi GST Announces New Family of CinemaStar Hard Disk Drives
- Nvidia Unveils Cloud Graphics Processing Technologies
- Nvidias Grid and VGX Processors to Enable High-End Graphics on Any Device
- First Microsoft Windows 8 Tablets to Emerge in November - Report
- Tablets with Windows 8 Expected to Emerge Before Holidays
- Toshiba and Western Digital Complete Transaction of HDD Manufacturing Capacities
- Toshiba and WD Complete Transaction of Manufacturing Assets
- Nvidia Teams Up with Intellectual Ventures to Acquire Wireless Communication Patents
- Nvidia and Intellectual Ventures Jointly Acquire Patents Owned by IPWireless
- Mainstream System Cases from Corsair: Carbide Family
- We have already discussed the high-end Corsair system cases from the Graphite and Obsidian series. The products reviewed today belong to the third series, which is the newest and also the most affordable one at this time. Will they be
