Hands on: Securing iOS, pwning your kids with Apple Configurator 1.2
How I used Apple's mobile device config update for entertainment and vengeance.
Top Story: Hands on: Securing iOS, pwning your kids with Apple Configurator 1.2
In-Depth Reports
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How swords, track changes, and Amazon led to The Mongoliad: Book Two
Video: Ars talks to the sword-wielding team about the series, innovation in publishing
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Review: Hidden Radio speaker brings the sleek, but twist design a bit weak
Kickstarter-funded speaker doesn't quite work as well as designers intended.
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Has our war on microbes left our immune systems prone to dysfunction?
Book review: An Epidemic of Absence takes on the worms you're missing.
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The Walking Dead Season 3: brain-hungry walkers aren't the only concern
Season 3 comes with many questions. But Season 2 gave some definite hope.
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The OpenForum agrees: Dishonored is a must-play game
But what gameplay style should you adopt?
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In over my head! How can I work with more advanced programmers?
Working with more advanced code means you'll have to learn, quickly.
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Jury finds patent on "look and feel" for online stores valid, infringed
Two defendants will pay much less than the plaintiff asked for: $750,000 each.
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Square Enix Chaos Rings port won't work on your rooted Android
The publisher has yet to provide a satisfying explanation for the restriction.
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Android users: These may be Droids you're looking for
A look at some of the upcoming Android handsets slated to hit this fall.
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Windows 8 convertible PCs from Sony: One lighter, one larger, both unique
We go hands-on with the Vaio Duo 11 and Tap 20 at Sony's club-style press event.
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Ars Technicast, Episode 12: Wham, bam, we talk Internet scams
Join us in our conversation about the art of the perfect online scam.
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Survey says: iPhone 5 owners not bothered by iOS 6 Maps—are you?
More people were bothered by the Lightning connector than Maps.
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In Texas, an e-commerce pioneer fights patent on "look and feel" of websites
Digital River tells patent troll: we beat you by two years.
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Review: Expanding Horizons with Forza Horizon
Microsoft's latest racer opens up a new world of racing to a new world of racers.
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Following malaria through Kenya using cell phones
Cell phone records and malaria incidence combined to track the disease's spread.
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Dell's $1,200 XPS 12 makes it easy to put the top down
Convertible Windows 8 PC with elegant flippable touchscreen launches October 26.
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Anonymous declares war on WikiLeaks in retaliation for "paywall"
Overlay prevents access to leaked data unless you tweet, share, pay, or wait.
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Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
SC court says Gmail not "electronic storage" by Stored Communications Act.
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Top Rackspace lawyer: "We'd love to get rid of software patents"
Hosting company says litigation is forcing it to get into the policy game.
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Op-ed: Why on-disc downloadable content isn't the crime it's made out to be
Making players pay to unlock doesn't change the core value proposition.
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Ars asks: What home automation project should we tackle?
We have an Electric Imp dev kit, but can't decide what to do with it. Help?
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Large asteroid Vesta once had molten core, magnetic field
Meteor from Vesta's surface shows a protoplanet with magnetic history.
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Hands-on: Four Mac apps to transfer voicemail, other files from your iPhone
Need those files that iTunes won't give you? Desktop apps to the rescue.
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Lyrics site LiveUniverse slammed with $6.6 million copyright judgment
Songwriters hope more lyric sites will seek license after gaining this first judgment.
Feature Story
Playback: RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook, 18 months later
Has new hardware and software made the PlayBook a significantly better tablet?
On The Radar
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PRIVACY FIX
Facebook moves to keep phone numbers for two-factor protection private
Numbers used for additional security are no longer in a new reverse lookup database.
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LEAP OF FAITH
Skydiver breaks speed of sound after jumping from edge of space
Jumping 24 miles above earth, daredevil reaches speed of 833 mph, both potential records.
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Staff Blog
Observations on what's getting downvoted, with some dissected specimens
A look at the greatest misses of late, and some theorizing.
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Credit where it's due
Kindle owners—your e-book refunds are coming
After Apple and five publishers were sued for price-fixing, three have settled.
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Week in Review
At the controls: 12 stories you might have missed this week
Ars still talks phone scammers, maximizing engine performance.
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WHO'S LULZING NOW?
LulzSec hacker "neuron" pleads guilty to Sony Pictures security breach
The hack extracted PII for thousands of people, resulting in losses of $605,000.
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Squash those bugs
Google Play may get its own built-in virus scanner
Teardown of Google Play APK shows source code for malware detection.
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Don't be anticompetitive
Google facing imminent antitrust lawsuit from FTC
Four out of five commissioners reportedly believe Google broke antitrust laws.
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Hear that?
App for voice-disabled users reinstated on App Store after patent fight
The companies that sued for infringement ended up settling.
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tuppence an e-book
No more games: Amazon admits it needs content sales for Kindles to fly
Holding out hope that the books and movies users buy will make it all worth it.
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Diablo on the go
Author: Blizzard proposed a portable Diablo prequel
A second Diablo II expansion was also mulled.
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Like clockwork
Apple puts money where its mouth is, pays for Swiss railway clock design
But details of the agreement were not made public.
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Macbuntu
Ubuntu's cloud storage service hits Mac in beta, with 5GB free
Canonical's cloud now spans Windows, iOS, Android, Ubuntu, and Mac.
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Pencil it in
New date pegged for alleged "iPad mini" event: October 23
The date falls closer to what some media folks had previously heard.
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Conflict of interest
EU regulators unimpressed by genetically modified crop study
Researcher saying GMOs cause tumors won't release data until EU releases theirs.
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Putting the boot in
Linux Foundation to offer signed solution for UEFI Secure Boot conundrum
The small piece of code will be able to pass control to any operating system.
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Well Well
EPA fracking investigation in Wyoming revisited after objections
Validity of initial water sampling results confirmed.
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Working 9 to 5
Office 2013 reaches RTM, general availability planned for Q1 2013
Volume license and MSDN availability starts in November, retail not until 2013.
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DNS HACK
Security breach briefly hijacks connections to Google.ie and Yahoo.ie.
Ireland's domain registry suspends some operations following security breach.
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Can you hear me now?
Talk is cheap: Cell phones hit six billion worldwide
Plenty of new phone data, including the average American spends $565 on bills.
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Staff Blog
Comment voting working, getting expanded
46,000 votes in 6 days, now with more at stake.
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Say this three times fast
Corsair Neutron SSDs: Fast as the Force but SandForce-free
Link_A_Media controller makes for a quick SSD with a good cost-per-gigabyte.
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Results are in
Readers speak: Bring Android's third-party inclusiveness to the iPhone
And hardware, surprisingly, doesn't factor into the decision for many.
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Education Pays
Personal info for 300K exposed in FLA college hack; already 50 identity theft cases
SSNs and more lifted from a server. Students, alumni, and employees affected.
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rose-colored google glasses
Motorola Droid Razr reboots October 18 with 4G LTE, crazy battery life
Phones promise better screens, better battery life, and timely software updates.
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No means no
US federal appeals court reverses Galaxy Nexus sales ban
A California court had imposed sales injunction as a result of Apple's lawsuit.
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Wii will show you what's inside
Nintendo does its own Wii U teardown, shows off multichip module design
Prerelease look at guts of Wii U highlights efficiency, heat dissipation.
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White glove service
Google looks to be staffing up US call center for Nexus devices
Do you "REALLY LOVE" Android and live in the Mountain View, CA area?
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I can see it now
Netflix settles with deaf-rights group, agrees to caption all videos by 2014
Company will also pay $755,000 in legal fees to end suit filed in 2010.
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Sad red panda
Mozilla pulls day-old Firefox 16 from download site over security risk
Downgrading to Firefox 15 tonight is not a bad idea, Mozilla says.
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Staff Blog
Op-Ed: Prepare for Windows 8 induced user rage
Give an average PC user Windows 8 and Office 2013, and watch frustration reign.
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Won't someone please buy some PCs?
Lenovo and Asus are up, Dell and HP are down, and PC sales are slowing
Gartner worldwide sales data crowns Lenovo the king of a slowly shrinking hill.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
Review: Free, open source VirtualBox lags behind VMware and Parallels
Poor 3D support and lack of OS integration features hurt VirtualBox the most.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
Do it “on the Internet,” get a patent, sue an industry—it still works
At Texas trial, a defunct dot-com wrangles royalties from a swath of e-commerce.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
“Can you fix my Windows 95 computer?”: How to troll a tech support scammer
The Internet gets mad—and hilarious—in exposing an obnoxious tech-related scam.
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Feature Story (2 pages)
What "The Chronicles of George" can teach us about technical support
There's bad communication and lots of resentment on BOTH sides of the phone line.
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