Wired publisher acquires tech site Ars Technica

Conde Nast Publications said Monday it will acquire the technology news site Ars Technica for an undisclosed amount and combine it with the online operations of Wired magazine.

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Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard has landed. This time around, Apple goes light on the glitz in favor of some heavy work under the hood. John Siracusa dives deep into Apple's new OS offering to see what's new, what's still the same, and whether it's worth upgrading.

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YouTube was busy deleting porn videos on Wednesday after users of forums at a rival site and an imageboard site declared a "Porn Day" campaign against the popular video service.

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Love 'em or hate 'em, the members of the Apple portable line dominated the Ars staff suggestions for "the ultimate road warrior laptop," and they proved popular in the forums, as well.

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From more drilling in the Gulf of Mexico to tapping the strategic oil reserve, politicians and pundits spar daily over the best solution to America's ongoing fuel crisis.

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How would you respond if you had paid Google $136.11 for advertising that appeared not on quality sites like The New York Times, but on parked domains and error pages? If you were lawyer Hal Levitte, you might file a federal lawsuit in California over Google's behavior and then …

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Condé Nast has acquired popular technology blog Ars Technica (ranked #5 all time on the BloggerBoard), we've confirmed. The site will become part of Wired Digital (which in turn is under CondéNet, run by Sarah Chubb).

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Tired of that boring old cube? Sick of the guy next to you who talks on his cell phone all day? You can always find the newest job listings in our jobs sidebar, through the all-purpose RSS feed, or at jobs.arstechnica.com.

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Article by Ken Fisher: Australia moves to implement age verification rules online. Another attempt to control the internet and the free flow of information, and anonymous web surfing.

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In a report published this week by security firm SecureWorks, researchers reveal that the recent flurry of Ron Paul spam originated from a Reactor botnet controlled by a commercial spammer through a colocation facility in the US.

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That was exactly two and a half years ago, to the day. It seems that I've gotten my wish and then some. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard has gestated longer than any release of Mac OS X (other than 10.0, that is).

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If you have been following Macs for the last few years you'll know John Siracusa. He writes by far the most comprehensive and informative reviews, bar none. Here he is on Leopard.

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Google acquired Urchin, a company with enormous potential, in 2004. Google has since then taken analytics and ran while ignoring Urchin's existing customer base (with their service contracts) and their other software applications.

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Although the white, thin-profile iMac form factor has had a long and venerable run since its introduction as the iMac G5, many felt it was time for a change.

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Some think that the hype surrounding the Apple iPhone started in January of 2007, but that's not true. The hype started many years ago, perhaps before creating such a device was even a twinkle in Steve Jobs' eye.

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A couple of recent posts on Ars Technica and TUAW pointed out that Apple is embedding personal information, such as the name and email address of the purchaser, in all of their AAC files (including the DRM-free ones).

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The US government's plan to boost energy savings by moving Daylight Saving Time forward by three weeks was apparently a waste of time and effort, as the technological foibles Americans experienced failed to give way to any measurable energy savings.

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With the almost sure existence of the Xbox 360 "Elite" coming with a new hard disk capacity, how would one 'upgrade' an older disk?

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Apple's FairPlay DRM has been under fire since... well... since DRM in general started getting big. And Apple, in particular, has been particularly nazi-like (bad metaphor alert! BWOOP BWOOP BWOOP!) in keeping it to themselves—Apple don't wanna share.

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Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng interviews Parallels Marketing Manager Ben Rudolph. Some highlights include new features coming within the next few months to Parallels including hardware graphics acceleration, iSight support and an updated coherence mode.

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Ars Technica's Ken Fisher Speculates about possible toned down, cheaper versions of the iPhone.

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With the Xbox 360 and the PS3, the primary focus is graphical prowess.

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The second-generation iPod shuffle is much cooler than its predecessor in most ways. It's cheaper, smaller, lighter, clips to your clothing, and holds more songs.

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If you know ars technica, you know they do in-depth looks at whatever they are reviewing. Here is their look at the new iMac 17" Core Duo machine, the first Apple computer to have Intel chips inside.

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