On The Radar

1. Deltawinging it

   Half the power, half the weight, all the fun: Deltawing road cars ahoy!

   Race-proven? Kinda. A possible future for sports cars? Hopefully.

   by Jonathan M. Gitlin - Mar 26, 12:01 am UTC

2. pull out your grail diaries

   Spielberg on board for film adaptation of geek-centric Ready Player One

   Director who grew to fame in the '80s fittingly tapped to direct '80s-obsessed story.

   by Lee Hutchinson - Mar 25, 8:55 pm UTC

3. BAIT AND SWITCH

   Android hijacking bug may allow attackers to install password-stealers

   Half of Android devices may be vulnerable to surreptitious install exploits.

   by Dan Goodin - Mar 25, 7:40 pm UTC

4. there's gold in them thar dollars

   New WoW item will allow players to trade gold for game time

   Subscription "token" can be purchased for $20 or a fluctuating in-game gold price.

   by Kyle Orland - Mar 25, 6:55 pm UTC

5. You had me at "dongle"

   Now there’s a secure boot add-on for Raspberry Pi. Oh, yay?

   Wibu launches DRM kit aimed at securing Pi systems from bad software distros.

   by Sean Gallagher - Mar 25, 6:45 pm UTC

6. Decision to come between 1 and 9 PM

   Comcast/TWC merger review to last until mid-2015 after months of delays

   Comcast originally expected to close the deal in 2014.

   by Jon Brodkin - Mar 25, 4:57 pm UTC

7. Never change, intranet sites

   Project Spartan and IE will now use entirely separate rendering engines

   Edge engine is now Spartan-only, while IE 11 will work as it does in Windows 8.1.

   by Andrew Cunningham - Mar 25, 3:23 pm UTC

8. Any day now

   LibreOffice in the browser, revealed in 2011, finally close to reality

   The long-promised Android version hasn't been forgotten, either.

   by Jon Brodkin - Mar 25, 3:13 pm UTC

9. Ars Editor’s Picks The web worth reading.

   1. Netflix, Amazon and Hulu No Longer Find Themselves Upstarts in Online Streaming The New York Times
   2. Morality and the Idea of Progress in Silicon Valley Berkeley Journal of Sociology
   3. Plugging a 1986 Mac Plus into the modern Web The Kernel

10. Staff Blog

    

    Hell is an airport sports bar in Philadelphia

    Lee and Jay traveled abroad. I traveled back in time instead.

    by Sean Gallagher - Mar 25, 3:07 pm UTC

11. mixed messages

    BP pulls out of climate denial group even as execs support Sen. Inhofe

    ALEC continues to lose corporate backers over climate issues.

    by John Timmer - Mar 25, 2:42 pm UTC

12. Unsuspended

    PS4 finally getting suspend/resume feature first promised two years ago [Updated]

    Next system update also introduces new accessibility features for the disabled.

    by Kyle Orland - Mar 25, 1:20 pm UTC

13. The Week's Top Stories

    1. Review: The 2015 MacBook Air’s once-trailblazing design is showing its age
    2. Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality
    3. How Life360 won its patent war
    4. We know where you’ve been: Ars acquires 4.6M license plate scans from the cops
    5. “I don’t even pretend I can stop it”: 8chan’s founder talks doxing, Internet freedom
    6. Bloodborne review: The joy of relearning what you already know
    7. Watch out Google: Delphi gives Ars a ride in its self-driving car
    8. All four major browsers take a stomping at Pwn2Own hacking competition
    9. Google warns of unauthorized TLS certificates trusted by almost all OSes [Updated]
    10. Battlefield Hardline review: an odd, cops-and-robbers facade

14. It's zildud & atub, not zildud & umug

    USA’s largest gaming expo threatens to leave Indiana over anti-gay bill

    Governor's office responded, indicating no plans to change course.

    by Sam Machkovech - Mar 25, 1:05 am UTC

15. More Wario's Woods streams, please

    Report: YouTube Live will launch in 2015 with focus on game streaming

    Will face off with Twitch, announce service during June's E3 gaming conference.

    by Sam Machkovech - Mar 24, 11:12 pm UTC

16. Face off

    Florida man, initially thought dead, arrested after facial recognition match

    "The Defendant had a poorly dyed beard and was wearing a brown toupee."

    by Cyrus Farivar - Mar 24, 9:45 pm UTC

17. doing time

    Silk Road drug dealer who cooperated, then fled, sentenced to five years

    Steven Sadler was "Nod," a top 1 percent seller who got chummy with DPR.

    by Joe Mullin - Mar 24, 9:30 pm UTC

18. Red Light

    Malicious user hides trojan links in cloned Steam Greenlight pages

    Malware links briefly appear in fan-voting section despite $100 submission fee.

    by Kyle Orland - Mar 24, 7:45 pm UTC

19. Wookie in the Shell

    Watch the anime-inspired Star Wars cartoon you’ve always wanted

    Fan-made short film animated by single person over span of four years.

    by Sam Machkovech - Mar 24, 7:15 pm UTC

20. Those lucky bastards

    Google Fiber expands gigabit service again, plans move to Salt Lake City

    Five metro areas on track to get Google Fiber; three already have it.

    by Jon Brodkin - Mar 24, 6:40 pm UTC

21. Belief brings rewards

    Fox to revive The X-Files as 6-episode "limited series" filming this summer

    Gillian Anderson, David Duchovny on board to reprise era-defining roles.

    by Lee Hutchinson - Mar 24, 6:15 pm UTC

22. Staff Blog

    Dealmaster: Get a Dell Latitude 15 3000 for $749.99

    Get a business-focused Dell laptop at a deep discount.

    by Ars Staff - Mar 24, 5:56 pm UTC

23. Wage War

    Silicon Valley no-poaching deals burned Google shareholders, suit says

    Pension fund alleges anti-competitive employment practices depressed Google's stock.

    by David Kravets - Mar 24, 5:12 pm UTC

24. plan ahead

    FEMA to require state grant recipients plan for climate change

    Three years after a climate change policy statement, the agency finally acts.

    by John Timmer - Mar 24, 4:18 pm UTC

25. less rain, more sun

    Big solar plants produced 5% of California’s electricity last year

    But boom in capacity barely offsets the loss of hydroelectric power.

    by John Timmer - Mar 24, 3:40 pm UTC

26. Staff Blog

    

    The zen of the burger

    In which I slog to San Ramon and am guided by readers to a mythical late-night meal.

    by Sean Gallagher - Mar 24, 3:10 pm UTC

27. CHANGE 'EM NOW!

    Twitch resets user passwords following breach

    Advisory says that logging software may have stolen some users' passcodes.

    by Dan Goodin - Mar 24, 2:57 pm UTC

28. Render, man!

    After a year, Pixar sets Renderman software free (as in beer)

    Rendering engine used for Hollywood films available for non-commercial use.

    by Lee Hutchinson - Mar 24, 2:47 pm UTC

29. other options

    Life360 CEO tells others how to beat patent trolls in three not-so-easy steps

    Life360's Chris Hulls to his fellow founders and VCs: "Please don't settle."

    by Joe Mullin - Mar 23, 11:45 pm UTC

30. Early birds

    Trade group led by AT&T and Verizon sues FCC to overturn net neutrality

    FCC calls early lawsuit "premature and subject to dismissal."

    by Jon Brodkin - Mar 23, 11:40 pm UTC

31. Quality, not quantity

    Twitter rolls out new filter for “threats, abusive language”

    "Quality filtering" seen on iOS app; only verified users have access for now.

    by Sam Machkovech - Mar 23, 11:13 pm UTC

32. spaced out

    Elon Musk puts SpaceX photos into the public domain

    NASA images have been free by default, but private space flight is another story.

    by Joe Mullin - Mar 23, 10:13 pm UTC

33. site-enfreude

    Don’t believe tedcruz.org, Ted Cruz is not a Nigerian prince

    At launch, site shared certificate with "nigerian-prince.com" site on CloudFlare.

    by Sean Gallagher - Mar 23, 8:45 pm UTC

34. Mitigating circumstances

    Snowden should be allowed a public interest defense, say European lawmakers

    A call to extend whistleblower protection to those working in national security.

    by Glyn Moody - Mar 23, 8:20 pm UTC