Slashdot
- Here Come the Linux iPad Clones
- CWmike writes You can now pre-order an Apple iPad; but do you really want to, asks Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols. I mean, I get why youd want an iPad. Id like one too, he writes. But, he says, when I consider
- DR Congo Ring May Be Giant Impact Crater
- Phrogman writes The BBC is reporting that deforestation has revealed what could be a giant impact crater in Central Africa, scientists say. The 36-46km-wide feature, identified in DR Congo, may be one of the largest such structures discovered in the
- NY To Replace IT Vendors With State Workers
- dcblogs writes New York state plans to replace as many as 500 IT contract workers with a new type of temporary state worker. The state estimates it can save $25,000 annually for each contracting position that is in-sourced. This is
- Netflix Prize Sequel Cancelled Over Privacy Concerns
- An anonymous reader writes Netflix just announced that they have cancelled the sequel to the Netflix Prize, which was promised last year. Netflix made the choice after they were sued over privacy concerns. The prize involves releasing large amounts of
- China Warns Google To Obey Or Leave
- suraj.sun writes with this snippet from an Associated Press report:Chinas top Internet regulator insisted Friday that Google must obey its laws or pay the consequences, giving no sign of a possible compromise in their dispute over censorship and hacking. If
- Security Industry Faces Attacks It Can't Stop
- itwbennett writes The takedown of the Mariposa botnet and so-called advanced persistent threat attacks, such as the one that compromised Google systems in early December, were hot topics at the RSA conference last week. What both Mariposa and the Google
- University of Wyoming Studies Video Games
- krou writes The Christian Science Monitor has an interesting story about how the University of Wyomings English Department is helping fund a collective called the Learning Games Initiative to study video games. Jason Thompson, an assistant professor at UW who

Digg Technology
- Five insights into the behaviors of social media users
- Sometimes its easy to think we know everything about your everyday Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or even mobile users. However, we managed to dig up a few tidbits about these people that piqued our interest.
- Google's Own Stated List of Competitors Grows from 2 to 10
- Google sees an Internet far more crowded with competitors than just a year ago. At least, thats what the company is telling government regulators.
- Foursquare takes lead in where-am-I apps - CNN.com
- One year ago, the founders of Foursquare stepped onstage before a tech-savvy crowd in Austin, Texas, to announce their concept: a smartphone app that lets you tell friends where you are.
- The War At SXSW: AT&T vs 15,000 Data-Crazed Velociraptors
- AT&T’s struggles to stay up last year are well-documented. CNN recently ran a piece about how AT&T hopes to avoid a similar fate this year. But actually, “struggles” is way too kind of a word. If you were at SXSW
- "Call to Action” Buttons: Guidelines and Best Practices
- Call to action buttons on websites are often neglected. Designers sometimes don’t understand exactly what makes a good call to action button beyond being attractive and fitting into the overall design. But call to action buttons are too important to
- China Warns Google - " Bear The Consequences"
- A Chinese minister made the governments strongest statement yet on Googles future in the country, warning that the U.S. Internet company will have to bear the consequences if it stops censoring its Chinese search site.
- President Obama Discusses Three Strikes Anti-Piracy Law
- Hollywood lobbyists are trying to launch an assault on Internet providers and fast track tougher anti-piracy legislation in the United States. Ari Emanuel, the brother of White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, says the industry has been discussing these

CNET News.com
- Consensus emerges for key Web-app standard
- Indexed DB isnt a sure thing, but its got most of the right allies in the browser world to become an enabler of the cloud computing vision.
- FCC tool collects broadband speed data
- A new FCC tool tests whether consumers are actually getting the broadband speeds theyre paying for.
- Come see Paris--in 26 gigapixels
- Site, which offers a breathtaking view of Paris, enables you to pan around, see monuments, and get a high-def feel for what the City of Light is all about.
- Privacy concerns derail Netflix contest
- Netlix says privacy concerns have prompted the company to cancel a contest that rewards technology that best predicts a users movie-viewing preferences.
- 'Cloud' vs. 'source' in the battle of bland corporate names
- Open source and cloud-computing start-ups have one thing in common: a tendency to wear their industry trend on their sleeves.
- ICANN postpones decision on .xxx domains
- Advocates for a .xxx designation for adult sites will have to wait until at least June after the ICANN board postponed a decision on the matter at its meeting Friday.
- Week in review: Game on for Sony
- Sony joins the motion controller wars, and broadband gets ready for a big leap. Also: SXSWi goes geolocation.

ZDNet
- Obama lines up with copyright owners
- As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama was a young technology fan who appeared to be an establishment outsider. But he now appears to have lined up on the side of copyright owners. by Greg Sandoval CNET News
- Why no one cares about privacy anymore
- Google co-founder Sergey Brin adores the companys social network called Google Buzz. We know this because an engineer working five feet from Brin used Google Buzz to say so. by Declan McCullagh CNET News
- Judges uphold Word patent-infringement ruling
- A US Court of Appeals panel has upheld a judgement that Microsoft infringed on another companys patent with its custom XML tags in Word 2003 and Word 2007. by David Meyer ZDNet UK
- Three arrested over 12.7m PC botnet
- Authorities in Spain have arrested three men accused of operating a massive botnet which stole credit card and bank log-in data and infected computers in half the Fortune 1,000 companies. by Elinor Mills CNET News
- Target offers mobile coupons
- Mobile coupons are coming to mega-retailer Target, which will allow shoppers all over the U.S. to use their mobile handset to get discounts on all kinds of products. by Marguerite Reardon CNET News
- Browser choice not coming to Asia
- Microsoft rivals have indicated that they will not be pushing for a similar action in the Asia-Pacific region. by Liau Yun Qing ZDNet Asia
- Google boosts Chrome privacy in new beta
- Google has improved privacy features and introduced automated translation of foreign-language web pages in a new version of its Chrome 4.1 beta browser for Windows. by Tom Espiner ZDNet UK

Wired Technology
- Video: Cold, Little Comet Is No Match for the Big, Hot Sun
- A small, newly discovered comet will not get a chance to enjoy its fame for long.As you can see in this image sequence obtained by NASA’s Solar and Heliosopheric Observatory, the comet is on a collision course with the sun.
- Solar Slumber May Have Been Caused by Magnetic Flows
- Newly reported observations of gas flows on the solar surface may explain why the sun recently had such an extended case of the doldrums.From 2008 through the first half of 2009, the sun had a puzzling dearth of sunspots, flares
- Desperate Efforts to Save Endangered Bats May Fail
- A desperate attempt to keep endangered Virginia big-eared bats alive in captivity has shown just how difficult that noble task may be.The effort was prompted by the discovery of White Nose Syndrome, an extremely virulent disease that has killed more
- The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth
- << previous image | next image >>Two years after Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, the new institution sent out 100 photographers to document the nation’s environment writ large.Now, those photos have made it out of the root cellar
- You Are a Tamagotchi: Turning Your Health Into a Game
- In the mid 1990s, a craze swept Japan and crested its way onto American shores: Kids were going crazy for the Tamagotchi, an egg-shaped digital pet. Every few hours, users would press a couple buttons to feed their Tamagotchi, play
- Quantum Computing Thrives on Chaos
- Embracing chaos just might help physicists build a quantum brain. A new study shows that disorder can enhance the coupling between light and matter in quantum systems, a find that could eventually lead to fast, easy-to-build quantum computers.Quantum computers promise
- Your Chilean Sea Bass Dinner Deprives Killer Whales
- A one-of-a-kind killer whale population appears to be threatened by human appetites for Antarctic toothfish, better known to restaurant-goers as Chilean Sea Bass.As fishing fleets patrol their waters, catching what was their primary source of food, the whales are vanishing.

Tom's Hardware
- GDC 2010, Day 1: The Missing Middle
- This years Game Developer Conference is in full swing, and Loyd Case is on the ground, reporting the latest goings-on. His Day 1 coverage includes AMDs push for open-standard physics, Windows Phone 7, Playstation Move, real-world gaming, and Surface.
- Efficiency Explored: Core i7-980X Versus Core i7-975
- Intel is preemptively launching the first hexa-core desktop CPU weeks ahead of actual availability. But how does this 32nm monster perform
- Intel Core i7-980X Extreme: Hello, Six-Core Computing
- Already the performance leader in desktop processing, Intel is following its quad-core Bloomfield design up with Gulftown, a hexa-core design sporting 12MB of shared L3 cache. Is the lone Gulftown model, Core i7-980X Extreme, worth a $1,000 asking price?
- Four Compression And Archiving Solutions Compared
- Would you rather use 7-Zip, FreeArc, WinRAR, or WinZip? We put four of the most popular file archiving tools to the test, analyzing compression ratios and performance. Spoiler alert: WinZip 14, the latest version of this popular title, gets creamed.
- Updated: Tuning Cool'n'Quiet: Maximize Power And Performance
- Think your Athlon or Phenom processor is already tuned to deliver the best balance between performance and power consumption? Think again.

Ars Technica
- Netflix settles privacy lawsuit, ditches $1 million contest
- Netflix has canceled its $1 million contest aimed at finding a better recommendation engine in the wake of a privacy lawsuit settlement. The company informed its users today via the company blog, noting that it had reached an understanding with
- New Zealand relies on BGP router protocol to filter the 'Net
- New Zealands government-run Internet filtering system is now running, and two ISPs are already using the system. Seven thousand websites are on the list, most dealing with child sexual abuse, bestiality, and
- China and Google playing game of Chicken over censorship
- Chinese authorities are pounding their desks over compliance with the law as Googles C-Day approaches. The C is for Censorship, of course, which Google plans to lift in China sometime in the near future. The company has been in talks
- Science journo quits writing to fight chiropractic libel suit
- The UKs libel laws, which place the burden of proof onto those who have published inflammatory statements, have had a chilling effect on journalism in that nation, and have led to a
- Bed readers rejoice: iPad gains last-minute rotation lock
- When Apple first introduced the iPad in late January, we noted with much disappointment that the device had no way to lock the screen orientation. This is apparently no longer the case, however—according to an updated iPad specs page, there
- Firefox 3.6 sees 100M downloads, now pushing notifications
- Firefox 3.6—the latest version of the popular open source Web browser—was officially released in January, but there are still many users who have not yet updated. In an effort to increase awareness about the availability of version 3.6, Mozilla announced
- Five insights into the behaviors of social media users
- We do a decent amount of social media coverage here at Ars, but not everything that happens with Facebook, Twitter, and the like is worth its own story. Sometimes, though, we happen

Hard OCP
- DRM is Dead, RIAA Says
- The RIAA says DRM is dead. Wait. What? Who are you people and what have you done with the real RIAA?For years the RIAA has defended the use of DRM, much to the dislike of millions of honest customers who
- Undercover Cop Arrests Undercover Cop
- You have to wonder how effective an undercover operation is when one undercover cop arrests another undercover cop for trying to sell him drugs. Regardless, once the newspaper ran this story, everyone’s cover was blown. If either police department bothered
- Apple Approves Marijuana App
- Let’s see, you can’t get an iPhone app showing boobies but you can get an app to help you find weed. I guess I’m not surprised by an iToke app, we are after all talking about Apple here. You now
- Microsoft Responds to Obama’s Xbox Criticism
- Damn you Xbox machine for making our kids stay up late and be stupid. If my kid ends up being a high school drop out, we know who to blame now! For our kids to excel, we must accept our
- New Pirate Bay to Be Based on Give-And-Take Models
- Does anyone seriously think this is going to work? Remember how much everyone loved Napster? Remember how much they liked it once it became a legit site? Yeah, that’s what is going to happen here too. The more you give,
- Creating Font Using a Car
- Here is your creative font of the day (its free too). A group of people made a new font using a computer, a sophisticated camera tracking system and a car. I use my car all the time to make fonts
- Ping Pong Table-Door
- From the why didn’t I think of that files comes the amazing ping pong table/door! From the looks of it, this amazing product not only makes you popular, it gets you chicks too! Comments

AnandTech
- Intel Core i7 980X Overclocking Update: Breaking 4GHz With 6 Cores
- Our initial 980X overclocking results were bad, so we put in more time and managed to push the chip past 4GHz....
- The Core i7 980X Review: Intel's First 6-Core CPU
- Its got 6 cores, 12 threads and its good. Meet Intels Core i7 980X, the first Gulftown CPU. If youve got the money, theres nothing better....
- ASUS M4A89GTD Pro - A Core Unlocking 890GX for $140
- With less than a week of public release mileage under its belt, how close have ASUS come to hitting a home run with the M4A89GTD Pro? ...
- AVA Direct Clevo X8100 SLI Gaming Notebook
- AVA Direct, the custom computer manufacturer, has announced their most powerful notebook for gamers. The powerhouse notebook is an update of the older Clevo M980NU, replacing the Intel Core 2 Duo and NVIDIA GTX 280M SLI with a Core i7
- Dell M6500: A Precision Strike on Bling
- The Dell Precision M6500 is what we expect from a mobile workstation: high on quality and low on fluff. It’s also very expensive, but the cost of the hardware likely pales in comparison to the software it’s designed to run....
- 10Gbit Ethernet: Killing Another Bottleneck?
- More cores (32 to 48) in medium-range servers results in 20 to 50 VMs on one virtualized server. We investigate if 10Gbit Ethernet is finally ready to solve the NIC I/O bottleneck. Is 10Gbit Ethernet still a technology for the
- NVIDIA 196.75 Driver Alert
- As many of you are aware, NVIDIA has hit some snags with their latest round of WHQL drivers. The drivers have been interfering with the fan operation on certain NVIDIA video cards, resulting in the GPU overheating. NVIDIA has taken

O'Reilly Network
- Personalization and the future of Digg
- I recently talked to Joe Stump, CTO of SimpleGeo, about a number of topics related to location and databases. However, in the course of the interview, we also got around to discussing Digg. Previous to launching SimpleGeo, Joe was the
- Lookup Performance in R
- Recently, I became interested in maximizing lookup performance in R. Many problems require looking up values in tables. I decided to perform some tests to show how different lookup mechanisms performed in R. If youre not familiar with R, heres...
- Four short links: 12 March 2010
- Flickr Flow -- a season wheel, showing the relative popularity of colours in Flickr photos at different times of the year. Beautiful. (via gurneyjourney) Light Peak -- optical peripheral cabling and motherboard connections. (via timoreilly on twitter) British Museum Pilots
- End every helpdesk request on a good note
- One thing weve learned from the (relatively) new field of behavioral economics is that people tend to remember the pain towards the end of something, not the total pain. Thus if a painful surgery ends with a long period of...
- NHIN Direct: Open Healthcare and Government as a Platform
- In my advocacy around Government 2.0, Ive been focused on the idea that government should act like a platform provider rather than a complete solution provider. That is, government should lay down rules of the road, create core functionality that
- How crowdsourcing helped Haiti's relief efforts
- Tech-minded volunteers quickly pitched in with a variety of communication and data services in the days following the Haiti earthquake. One company -- crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower -- repurposed its service as a text-message translation tool to aid Mission 4636. CrowdFlower
- Four short links: 11 March 2010
- Digital Inclusion: How Do You Tell? -- either means nor skills are simple binary states. A while ago, I was talking to a young man looking for a job, and asked him why he didn’t look online. Because it’s two

VNU Net
- Cisco launches Intercompany Media Engine
- Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Friday 12 March 2010 at 17:21:00Networking giant continues to promote business video communicationCisco has unveiled itsIntercompanyMedia Engine (IME), claiming that the system will allow its unifiedcommunications (UC) tools to be used
- Avnet seals LSI deal
- Sara Yirrell, CRN, Friday 12 March 2010 at 17:17:00Distributor signs pan-European deal with storage and networking vendorAvnet Technology Solutions has signed a pan-European agreement with storageand networking vendor LSI.Under the terms of the agreement,
- FPB offers smaller firms a helping hand
- Sara Yirrell, CRN, Friday 12 March 2010 at 17:09:00Forum of Private Business aims to help SMEs handle issues on areas such asHR, finance, marketing, legal and health and safety with latest packageThe Forum of
- GCHQ lost track of 35 laptops in 2008
- Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Friday 12 March 2010 at 16:33:00Intelligence and Security Committee attacks cavalier attitude to securityGovernment Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) lost track of 35 laptops in2008, including three classified as top secret, the Intelligence
- Report claims E&Y knew about Repo transactions
- Mario Christodoulou, Accountancy Age, Friday 12 March 2010 at 16:25:00E&Y said it did not set up or approve repo arrangementErnst & Youngs US arm was aware of Lehman Brothers practice ofoffloading liabilities, a central plank to the banks alleged attempts
- IBM gets tough on ‘black sheep’
- Doug Woodburn, CRN, Friday 12 March 2010 at 15:54:00Persistent sources of grey market kit could face expulsion from Big Bluespartner programmeIBM has vowed to come down hard on authorised partners found to haverepeatedly flouted
- DECC awards undisclosed sum to energy giants to support CCS plans
- James Murray, BusinessGreen, Friday 12 March 2010 at 15:48:00E.ON and ScottishPower receive funding to help complete design anddevelopment studiesPlans to build the UKs first Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) plant moved astep closer today

Kuro5hin
- Ogg Frog Magazine #6
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- The Secret: A Review of Dulcinea Technologies Corporation's Debut Product
- After weeks of e-mails and days of phone calls, yesterday I drove to San Jose for a demo of Michael David Crawfords secret project. Michael was eager to show off his work, but urged me not to share my interest
- Cars, Value Engineering, and Bugs
- Two trends in automotive development, value engineering and drive-by-wire have the potential to reduce driver safety. Toyotas recent travails provide some food for thought.
- Hopeless romantic Chinese Ph.D candidate arrested
- He did it for love and he is a model employee with his employer The Rutgers University according to his friends and colleagues And the TSA security officer that should have been stationed where the trespass occurred is on administrative
- The Jarmidor, Part 3
- Having discovered that Im not the only pipe-faggot on Kuro5hin I decided to see whether I could get my loose shag as moist as a 14 year old baptist girl at her first Jonas brothers concert. Unfortunately my girlfriend doesnt
- 15 Yards: The Unsportsmanlike Tax Evasion of the NFL
- Superbowl XLIV approaches, pitting two potent offensive teams against one another. The inimitable Peyton Manning, this years winner of the National Football Leagues MVP award (his fourth, most of any player all time), will try to use his bottomless well
- Obama The First Year
- Hes accomplished quite a lot his first year. Heres my list of the most talked about on liberal blogs.

Techdirt
- Screenwriters Claim Sony Copied Their Plot For A Video Game
- The entitlement some people feel because someone else had a somewhat (but not really) similar idea to what they had, and then actually executed on it better, is really astounding. For years, weve seen people claim that various filmmakers, TV
- UK Paper Ghost Wrote Blatantly False Facebook Attack Article By 'Child Protection Expert'
- Not too long ago, we wrote about a bizarre situation where a UK newspaper was caught flat out making up a story that was completely wrong. It had interviewed an American professor whose findings were the exact opposite of what
- Australian Trademark Tribunal Tells Apple That It Can't Stop Other Products From Using The Lett(...)
- Late last year we noticed that Apple seemed to be getting needlessly (and at times ridiculously) aggressive over its trademarks in Australia. There was the software developer who had a product named iPodRip, which had been around for years, which
- MPAA Brags About How Awesome The Movie Business Is; Right After It Claims File Sharing Is Destr(...)
- You gotta love the MPAA for the sheer Hollywood brashness of two recent press releases, that the Washington Posts Rob Pegoraro decided to compare and call the MPAA on its blatant dishonesty. The first press release, from back in December,
- James Murdoch Is Very, Very Confused About Copyright Infringement (And So Is His Dad, Rupert)
- TorrentFreak has an article about how Ari Emanuel, brother of Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and the inspiration for Jeremy Pivens Ari Gold character in the show Entourage, is claiming that hes talking to President Obama about implementing a
- Unwilling To Compete, Canadian Booksellers Association Tries To Block Amazon Distribution Center
- jprlk was the first of a few of you to send in the news that the Canadian Booksellers Association is apparently so afraid of competition from Amazon, that its asking the government to block the company from building a distribution
- Energizer Introduces USB Battery Charger With Bonus Rootkit Feature
- Someone, who prefers to remain anonymous, alerts us to the news that Symantec has discovered that a USB battery charger from Energizer installs a dangerous rootkit after installing the required driver. You would think that legit companies would know better

X-bit labs
- Intel Has a Luxury of Releasing Larrabee in Its Own time - Larrabee Engineer
- Intels Larrabee Set to Come Back with a Vengeance
- Court Puts on Hold Legal Battle Between Apple and Nokia
- Court Will Only Hear Apple Vs. Nokia Case in 2012
- Coolink Corator DS: Cooler with Gapless Direct Touch Technology
- The new air cooler for CPUs proves remarkably efficient at a low level of noise and costs less than the renowned leaders in this field. Read more in our new review!
- Smartbooks with Google Chrome Will Be More Expensive than Windows Netbooks - Analyst
- Analyst Expects Google Chrome to Fail on the Market
- Intel Previews Six-Core Gulftown Platform at Game Developers Conference
- Intel Spotlights Core i7-980X Microprocessor at GDC
- AMD Expands Open Physics Initiative with New Tools
- AMD Unleashes New Tools As Part of Open Physics Program
- Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.0: Improves Functionality, Adds Performance
- OpenGL 4.0 Specification Gets Released
