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  1. Court: website alleging police corruption shouldn’t have been shut down

    Local cops posted text, audio showing claimed corruption—then their bosses sued.

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  2. Verizon brought back unlimited data plans—but it was an accident

    Unlimited data glitch quickly fixed, but Verizon will honor purchases.

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  3. All public Facebook posts ever made are now searchable

    It's still subject to privacy controls, but Graph Search's new reach is deep.

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  4. Bang With Friends hugs it out with Zynga, settles on new name “The Next Bang”

    Because a mixup with "Chess with Friends" could have been a lot more awkward.

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  5. Is downloadable game size increasing faster than broadband speeds?

    Or: How will we survive in a world of 50GB game downloads?

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  6. FTC will pay 139,357 cramming victims an average of $39 each

    The crammers—Inc21—allegedly made $19M in five years through the shady practice.

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  7. Researchers unveil first thought-controlled bionic leg

    Prosthetic uses pattern recognition to analyze nerve impulses.

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  8. Indonesia’s Samalas volcano may have kickstarted the Little Ice Age

    We knew there was a big eruption in 1257. Now we may finally know where.

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  9. Snowden says his “sole intention” was to prompt national security debate

    Whistleblower advocate reads statement on Snowden's behalf before EU committee.

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  10. Kansas lawsuit: Science education standards violate religious freedom

    State GOP resolves to get rid of them as a suit tries to block their adoption.

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  11. Blood-sucking botnet narrowly escapes extermination, lives to leech again

    P2P resiliency allows ZeroAccess to continue reaping click fraud windfall.

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  12. Xi3 opens up pre-orders for its PC-meets-console gaming box, the Piston

    Tiny, $999 PC-gaming cube will be available November 29.

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  1. Fake social media accounts aren’t bad enough to be computer fraud

    Principal sues parodying students, but an Oregon court dismisses the claim.

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  2. Ocean warming and acidification deliver double blow to coral reefs

    Under business-as-usual conditions, corals start dissolving into the oceans.

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  3. Motorola DVX, likely cheaper version of the Moto X, shows up at the FCC

    GSM and CDMA versions appear to be on the way.

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  4. Forget Venus and Mars, we’re beginning to understand gender behavior on Earth

    We may never know every subtle difference, but gender research is coming a long way.

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  5. Strange, unpredictable chemistry at high pressure

    Extreme pressure has "a completely different atomic table," vital to understanding space.

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  6. SpaceX launches Falcon 9 v1.1, preps for reusable boost stage

    New engines, larger launch vehicle, and a controlled reentry of the first stage.

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  7. Survey on next-gen console purchases may spell trouble for Xbox One

    26 percent of respondents plan to buy a PlayStation 4; 15 percent for the Xbox One.

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  8. US government given December deadline to unseal more NSA documents

    EFF earns a small victory in its longstanding lawsuit against NSA spying: Jewel v. NSA.

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  9. Cygnus resupply spacecraft successfully docks with ISS

    Six-day delay caused by software glitch, ISS traffic jam.

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  10. Dutch police recruit rat detectives to sniff out crime

    "Ratting someone out" became much more literal.

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  11. Judge tosses Apple motion, allows patent troll Lodsys to continue rampage

    After two years, judge lets Lodsys settle cases, refuses to hear Apple's motion.

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  12. Diplomat-NGO hackathon tackles freedom of speech and sustainability

    Learning to work with each other was step number one.

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  1. Bypassing oversight, NSA collects details on American connections

    New York Times reports that NSA has complex maps of social ties based on metadata.

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  2. How do you put a price on your source code?

    Selling software isn't like selling cars or real estate. Don't sell yourself short.

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  3. Snobbish photons forced to pair up and get heavy

    Bizarre state of matter causes photons to be attracted to each other.

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  4. Ars takes a look at the tools of the surveillance trade

    We also talk about the merits of purple and Google's new real-life delivery service.

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  5. New CPUs, faster Wi-Fi, same flaws: Apple’s 2013 iMac reviewed

    Apple delivers improvements, but not the ones the iMac needs most.

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  6. Library of Congress and FTC will take their sites offline if gov’t shuts down

    National Park Service would join the party too, but SEC, VA sites will stay up.

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  7. FTC publishes a long list of questions it wants to ask “patent trolls”

    How much money do the "assertion entities" make, and where is it all going?

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  8. How the FBI found Miss Teen USA’s webcam spy

    RAT user "cutefuzzypuppy" wasn't all that cute.

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  9. DOJ calls for drone privacy policy 7 years after FBI’s first drone launched

    New Dept. of Justice report: We spent $5M on drones over almost 10 years.

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  10. True to its recent prediction, BlackBerry lost over $1 billion last quarter

    With any luck, the new move to take the company private can turn things around.

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  11. Microsoft’s copyright bots ask Google to hide Microsoft.com links

    Office 2007 Wikipedia page and an open source project also alleged "infringers."

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  12. Valve unveils touchpad/touchscreen-enabled Steam Controller for living room

    Controller designed to work with titles that are "not built with controller support."

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