With the holidays approaching, tech news has been heating up. This week, we reviewed the Kindle Fire from Amazon and covered the important Stop Online Piracy Act hearings in Congress. But because this is Ars, we also ripped out a personal Web server and replaced it with something faster.
Here's the week's top tech news:
Don't call it a tablet: the Kindle Fire reviewed: The Kindle Fire has landed, and several of Amazon's promises have gone unfulfilled. But it's not bad so long as you keep repeating this mantra: the Kindle Fire is not a tablet.
A faster Web server: ripping out Apache for Nginx: Sometimes Apache can be overkill. Here's one man's tale of replacing his Apache install with a lightweight speed demon of a Web server called Nginx.
Kindle Fire first impressions: The Amazon Kindle Fire has arrived at the Ars Orbiting HQ, and so begins our intense media browsing, downloading, and consuming journey.
At Web censorship hearing, Congress guns for "pro-pirate" Google: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) had its first House hearing today, one arranged around a key goal: whacking Google and anyone else who objects to "common sense" Internet censorship.
Google releases Android 4 source code, but true openness still elusive: Google has announced that it is publishing the source code of Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. The code drop will also include the Honeycomb source history.
4chan hit by DDoS attack, struggling to get back online: The website 4chan was taken offline Sunday by a distributed denial-of-service attack, and the team behind 4chan is still struggling to get back online. 4chan was also hit by DDoS attacks almost a year ago.
It's official: America a land of young, casual pirates: 70 percent of young Americans have pirated content, but many are changing their ways in response to better legal offerings, and almost none are hardcore infringers.
Clickjack attacks plaguing Facebook with 4chan-like porn, violent imagery: A social engineering attack is spreading offensive images—including photoshopped images of Justin Beiber in compromising positions.
RIAA wants ReDigi out of the business of selling "used" iTunes tracks: A company that bills itself as "the world's first online marketplace for used digital music" just got a cease-and-desist letter from the Recording Industry Association of America.
Google opens music download store, welcomes artists to upload directly: Google Music is now open to the public and its streaming features will remain free. But that's not all: Google has also decided to begin selling music downloads directly to customers, and will even let artists upload their own content, bypassing music labels.
Here's the week's top tech news:
Don't call it a tablet: the Kindle Fire reviewed: The Kindle Fire has landed, and several of Amazon's promises have gone unfulfilled. But it's not bad so long as you keep repeating this mantra: the Kindle Fire is not a tablet.
A faster Web server: ripping out Apache for Nginx: Sometimes Apache can be overkill. Here's one man's tale of replacing his Apache install with a lightweight speed demon of a Web server called Nginx.
Kindle Fire first impressions: The Amazon Kindle Fire has arrived at the Ars Orbiting HQ, and so begins our intense media browsing, downloading, and consuming journey.
At Web censorship hearing, Congress guns for "pro-pirate" Google: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) had its first House hearing today, one arranged around a key goal: whacking Google and anyone else who objects to "common sense" Internet censorship.
Google releases Android 4 source code, but true openness still elusive: Google has announced that it is publishing the source code of Android 4.0, codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich. The code drop will also include the Honeycomb source history.
4chan hit by DDoS attack, struggling to get back online: The website 4chan was taken offline Sunday by a distributed denial-of-service attack, and the team behind 4chan is still struggling to get back online. 4chan was also hit by DDoS attacks almost a year ago.
It's official: America a land of young, casual pirates: 70 percent of young Americans have pirated content, but many are changing their ways in response to better legal offerings, and almost none are hardcore infringers.
Clickjack attacks plaguing Facebook with 4chan-like porn, violent imagery: A social engineering attack is spreading offensive images—including photoshopped images of Justin Beiber in compromising positions.
RIAA wants ReDigi out of the business of selling "used" iTunes tracks: A company that bills itself as "the world's first online marketplace for used digital music" just got a cease-and-desist letter from the Recording Industry Association of America.
Google opens music download store, welcomes artists to upload directly: Google Music is now open to the public and its streaming features will remain free. But that's not all: Google has also decided to begin selling music downloads directly to customers, and will even let artists upload their own content, bypassing music labels.
Photograph by Casey Johnston
From : http://arstechnica.com/
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