Stop Reading Over My Shoulder
Concerns over NSA prompt Wikimedia to speed up using HTTPS by default
You'll have to log in, but HTTPS will hide what you read or write from snooping.
Technology Lab / Information Technology
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Cell-Pi-tacular-duino
Raspberry Pi and Arduino to get cellular access with SIM card add-on
Kickstarter promises Internet connectivity anywhere for tiny computers.
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GOT PRIVACY?
No easy way to stop BREACH from plucking secrets from HTTPS pages, feds say
US CERT advisory follows disclosure of attack that targets Web encryption.
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Crypto experts issue a call to arms to avert the cryptopocalypse
Nobody can crack important algorithms yet, but the world needs to prepare for that to happen.
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Windows 8 passes Vista at last, as IE10 growth slows
Chrome almost catches up with Firefox in July.
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I Spy with my Panopticon Eye
NSA’s Internet taps can find systems to hack, track VPNs and Word docs
X-Keyscore gives NSA the ability to find and exploit vulnerable systems.
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Gone in 30 seconds: New attack plucks secrets from HTTPS-protected pages
Exploit called BREACH bypasses the SSL crypto scheme protecting millions of sites.
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NSA director addresses Black Hat, says there have been “zero abuses” of data
But "safeguards" against abuse are based on policy, not technology.
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Hands-on with Microsoft’s Office Mobile for Android
It's nearly identical to the recent iOS release—except it won't play on tablets.
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BearDuino: Hacking Teddy Ruxpin with Arduino
Thanks to a Portland hacker/artist, an army of Arduino-hacked bears is unleashed.
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Windows Live Drive?
“SkyDrive” follows Metro into oblivion as Microsoft abandons trademark case
British Sky Broadcasting forces Microsoft to find a new cloud name.
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A gigabit, with limits
Google: We can ban servers on Fiber without violating net neutrality
Google Fiber legally prohibits servers to avoid network congestion, Google says.
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Pwned again: An exclusive look at Pwnie Express’ newest hack-in-a-box
The Pwn Plug R2 is a miniature NSA, ready to exploit networks for their own good.
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Creating a $99 parallel computing machine is just as hard as it sounds
Better late than never, Parallella is now shipping to Kickstarter backers.
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Tampering with a car’s brakes and speed by hacking its computers: A new how-to
The "Internet of automobiles" may hold promise, but it comes with risks, too.
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Feature Story
Why YouTube buffers: The secret deals that make—and break—online video
When ISPs and video providers fight over money, Internet users suffer.
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Should we design programs to randomly kill themselves?
Redundancy is good so why not force it?
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With zero coding experience, artist building 180 webpages in 180 days
"Learning by doing" is taken to the extreme by novice programmer.
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PRISM revelations result in lost business for US cloud companies
Survey finds 10 percent of overseas companies cancelled contracts over PRISM.
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Ars Technicast Ep. 31: Nexus 7, Chromecast, and the Google+ conspiracy
We discuss whether Google's product lines and services lead back to Google+.
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Drawing dead
Poker player who won $1.5 million charged with running Android malware ring
Contact-stealing Android malware allegedly used to fuel $3.9M spam operation.
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Build your own data-stream mining NSA in the cloud with “FunnelCake”
BrightContext puts a SQL-like language atop analyitcs tech spawned by Twitter.
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Bring out yer devs
Microsoft continues courting Web devs with IE 11 for Windows 7, Parallels discount
There's also an open source tool for scanning sites for compatibility issues.
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Anything you can do...
LibreOffice 4.1 is released, borrows new sidebar from OpenOffice
3,000 bugs fixed in latest LibreOffice, many by Apache developers.
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Google strengthens Android security muscle with SELinux protection
Addition of SELinux to version 4.3 one of several improvements to Android security.