iCloud users take note: Apple two-step protection won’t protect your data
Limitations could leave users open to the type of hack that hit Wired's Matt Honan.
Top Story: “My favorite programming language:” Google’s Go has some coders raving
In-Depth Reports
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Everything from iPhones to VPNs can now be legally exported to Iran
US Treasury Dept. lifts tech sanctions on Iran, legalizing lots of products.
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Does a new approach to nuclear make economic sense?
Small, mass-produced reactors could be the future, but only if they get cheaper.
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Gov’t agrees to destroy data seized in political interrogation at airport
Laptop, camera, USB drive taken from Bradley Manning supporter in border search.
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High sodium content may keep stars looking perpetually young
We have no idea why younger stars aren't entering a phase of their old age.
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Parents have gastric bypass; children’s DNA may receive the benefits
It's epigenetics: Kids' gene expression may occur a generation after surgery.
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“My favorite programming language:” Google’s Go has some coders raving
Go is fast, powerful, and "beautiful," developer says.
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Windows 8.1 given first official outing, and yes, the Start button is back
New operating system builds on what we have now but makes it better.
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Drupal.org resets login credentials after hack exposes password data
Passwords for almost 1 million accounts affected after malicious files are found.
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Facebook to take a stand against rape jokes, gender hate speech
Under pressure from womens' rights groups, Facebook pledges to make changes.
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Scientists poke frozen mammoth, liquid blood squirts out
A variation on the age-old "poke it with a stick" method revives cloning hopes.
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“Hallucinating” a face, new software could have ID’d Boston bomber
Software turns handfuls of pixels into identifiable faces, as NOVA finds.
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Op-ed: Microsoft’s Xbox One roll-out shows costs of confused messaging
When launching a game console, you need to lead with the games.
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Aereo: The TV innovation that may be too good to last
A startup making exactly the right move with TV is driving FOX and CBS crazy.
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HP launches the second attack against notorious “scan to e-mail” patents
Tech giant's petition says a 1995 ScanJet blows apart scanner troll's claims.
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What Tim Cook’s cryptic comments at D11 can tell us about iOS 7
In which we interpret the Apple CEO's vague answers about the next iOS.
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Water from Canadian mine looks to be over a billion years old
Trapped in tight fractures, it has been isolated one heck of a long time.
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Frozen plants from the Little Ice Age regenerate spontaneously
Carbon dating shows they bounce back from 400 years of being stuck in a glacier.
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Opera 15 provides a mish-mash of Opera features and the Chrome interface
The beta of Opera's Blink-based browser will be familiar to both Opera and Chrome fans.
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Unprecedented e-mail privacy bill sent to Texas governor’s desk
While reform languishes in Congress, Austin moves to protect Texans' inboxes.
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Silent summer: No wolf pup yips heard on Isle Royale
The absence of pups could signal the end for the iconic wolf population.
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FCC bid to control Comcast’s channel lineup shot down by court
FCC "badly misread statute" in Comcast/Tennis Channel case, judge writes.
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Critical Ruby on Rails bug exploited in wild, hacked servers join botnet
Attackers' success shows many servers still aren't patched. Is yours?
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Feds smash Liberty Reserve, alleging billions in money laundering charges
One firm selling virtual credit cards claims it lost $28,000 due to the seizure.
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LulzSec member Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to Stratfor hack
Hacker still faces up to 10 years in prison after admitting to nine separate attacks.
Feature Story
Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like “qeadzcwrsfxv1331”
For Ars, three crackers have at 16,000+ hashed passcodes—with 90 percent success.
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On The Radar
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Razer's edge
Razer simultaneously expands and shrinks its lineup with 14-inch gaming laptop
14" Razer and 17" Razer Pro pack Haswell, switchable graphics, and more.
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Patently absurd
EFF wants $30,000 to defeat a podcasting patent troll
In a single day, tech legal group raises nearly $11,000 of its lofty goal.
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we will not rock you
Slow-motion 7.0 earthquake drags on for 5 months under New Zealand
Pacific Plate slides under NZ's North Island without so much as a rumble.
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Here we go again
Double Fine returns to the Kickstarter well to fill a Massive Chalice
Developer follows up $3.2 million Adventure with a tactical strategy title.
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No "123 Fake Main Street" here
In wake of Liberty Reserve bust, Mt. Gox will require user verification
World's largest Bitcoin exchange wants more info from its users.
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Victory! (But not for us)
Mark Shuttleworth gives up dream of Ubuntu toppling Windows
Shuttleworth closes Bug #1, says Windows was defeated by iOS and Android.
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Join the party
Google Play Music All Access coming for iOS users
The application should arrive in the iTunes App Store in about a month.
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Sense Less
Google’s Sundar Pichai confirms HTC One with stock Android coming June 26
The $599 unlocked phone will join the Nexus edition of Samsung's Galaxy S 4.
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it was in the pool
Samsung Galaxy S 4 mini announced with 4.3-inch screen
Samsung brags that it's "easy to carry and operate with one hand."
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The juice is loose
Nintendo to start selling expanded battery pack for Wii U GamePad
Battery that holds 70 percent more charge is a Japan-exclusive for now.
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Yee haw, moto?
Motorola’s new “Moto X” smartphone to be made in USA
Power-sipping smartphone will debut this summer, assembled near Fort Worth, TX.
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Mo' money
Desperate to become a wireless broadband player, Dish ups bid for Clearwire
Satellite TV company in a bidding war with Sprint.
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Out with the old
Apple quietly kills iPod touch 4, intros camera-less $229 fifth-gen model
The same dual-core A5 and 512MB of RAM, but no rear camera and 16GB of storage.
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Another day, another new inbox
Google updates Gmail to organize messages into different categories
Google wants to help its users keep their room—er—inbox clean.
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Atom splitting power
AMD launches low-power Opterons to take on Atom in microservers
Jaguar core Kyoto processors tide the company over until it ships ARM devices.
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an (un)appealing idea
Cisco tells EU: Microsoft-Skype merger is a monopoly
Cisco has its day in court; says the merger should include interoperability rules.
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New York's Finest?
NYPD cop arrested, accused of paying $4,000 to hack fellow officers’ e-mail
Bronx detective allegedly stored coworker correspondence on his office computer.
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Wiki-what
Learn about the world (immediately) around you with Wikipedia Nearby
Feature now available on mobile devices so you can help it fill in some blanks.
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Whoops
NASDAQ settles with Feds for $10M over last year’s mishandled Facebook IPO
Infinite loop of "validation checks and re-calculations" caused the problem.
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a suspicious package
Vietnamese blogger arrested, blog becomes booby-trapped with malware
The dissenter's blog is set up to find and track like-minded individuals.
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Serious protection
Apple hires former EPA head to handle environmental issues
Lisa Jackson joins as the company is expanding domestic manufacturing.
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fear of flying
Texas bans (most) private drone use, fearing spying
New law has many exceptions, including one for drones near the US-Mexico border.
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Glass houses
Tim Cook talks Google Glass at D11, says it won’t have broad appeal
But the Apple CEO says wearable computing is “profoundly interesting.”
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Promises, promises
Report: Blizzard to overhaul “Project Titan,” launch it in 2016 at the earliest
The vaguely described MMO-in-development has been pushed out to the horizon again.
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OMG GS4 AWS LTE
Galaxy S 4 will be first to support Verizon’s newer, faster LTE network
Most other current phones won't benefit from the network upgrades, however.
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Is it a phone? A tablet? A camera?
Rumors: Galaxy Note III may have all the digital camera options you need
Nothing official yet, but anonymous sources boast about phablet's camera internals.
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dealmaster dealmaster, master me a deal
The Dealmaster has a great second screen for your dual-monitor setup
Does a $149.99 21.5-inch 1080p IPS panel tickle your fancy?
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Pwned
In reversal, judge orders child porn suspect to decrypt hard drives
Two choices: enter the passwords or provide unencrypted copies of all data.
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Power to the people
Android “Fairphone” looks to give power back to customers
"If you can’t open it, you don’t own it.”
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It ain't easy being white...
LG announces white Nexus 4, but you can’t buy it just yet
Phone gets a visual makeover but has the same specs and still runs Android 4.2.
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Boys will be boys
Weird Science’s plants supplement their meat diet with ant poop
But everyone avoids the carnivorous algae.
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Why can't we be friends?
WikiLeaks skips two-thumbs down review, leaks annotated “transcript” of new doc
But filmmaker Alex Gibney believes they're working off an incomplete, non-final version.
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