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Week in tech: how fast is your Internet edition?

Ars looks back at the week's biggest stories from Law & Disorder, Open Ended, …

FiOS dominates as FCC measures actual Internet speeds: If you can either get FiOS or avoid Cablevision, you should do so. New FCC data measures real-world Internet performance for the first time.

How one undergrad built the largest solar farm in Michigan: University of Michigan undergraduate Connor Field designed and largely built the biggest solar farm in the state. Here's how he did it.

"Linking is not a crime": Czech Pirate Party declares war on Big Content: In retaliation for a lawsuit brought against a 16-year-old student by the Czech Anti-Piracy Union, the Czech Pirate Party has created its own linking site, declaring "open war" with the anti-piracy group.

Shock, awe: British government agrees that copyright has gone too far: In its official response to an independent copyright study, the British government has pledged to create new fair-use-style copyright exceptions, approve some private copying, enact orphan work reforms, and drop a controversial Internet filtering scheme.

July browser stats: Windows XP loses its majority share of Web users: In July, Windows XP's market share among Web users dipped below 50 percent for the first time in years, and Firefox users made their transition from version 4 to 5. Would enterprise anguish over the Mozilla's latest browser do anything to impede its uptake?

LulzSec spokesman in court after police find 750k passwords on his PC: Jake Davis, an 18-year-old from the Shetland Island, has been charged with LulzSec-related hacking offenses. Police say they found 750,000 passwords and drafts of a fake Rupert Murdoch death story on his computer.

Adobe Edge beta brings Flash-style design to HTML5: Adobe has launched the beta of a tool targeted at HTML5 design.

Physical keyboard, but at a price: Motorola Droid 3 review: The successful line of Motorola Droids has spawned another successor: Droid 3, the latest in a diminishing line of phones that still include physical keyboards. But is this the Droid you're looking for?

Ask Ars: how do I use the find command in a pipeline?: In this command line tutorial, we will introduce the find command and explain how to use it in a pipeline. We will also shed some light on the proper way to use find with xargs.

Hands on: KDE 4.7 launches with KWin OpenGL ES support: The developers behind the KDE project have released a new version of the KDE software collection and Plasma desktop.

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