GoDaddy Faces boycott over SOPA support: Most Internet companies oppose the Stop Online Piracy Act, but the domain registrar GoDaddy has been supporting it. Furious customers pressured the company to change its position by declaring December 29 "move your domain day." Intense pressure from GoDaddy customers and the threat of a boycott led the company to reverse its position less than 24 hours after angry redditors called for a boycott.
How hackers gave Subway a $3 million lesson in point-of-sale security: For almost three years, Subway franchisees and other small retailers left their registers connected to the Internet, allowing hackers to digitally walk in and steal credit card data as customers made purchases.
Unwrapping a new Ice Cream Sandwich: Android 4.0 reviewed: With Android 4, Google has finally brought its phone and tablet code together. Ice Cream Sandwich is a great release from which to build on, but plenty of rough edges remain.
Forever alone? Star Wars: The Old Republic as a single-player game: In which Ben Kuchera tries to play a massively multiplayer Star Wars game as a solo curmudgeon and finds it works far better than he dared hope—but that the lure of the multiplayer dark side turns him into a social Sith after all.
Ars Technica system guide: December 2011: Like to build your own computing rigs? The Ars system guides have you covered, whether you want a Budget Box, a Hot Rod, or the divinely inspired God Box.
The first Hobbit trailer is here, and it is good: Come inside, take a look at the new trailer for Peter Jackson The Hobbit, and then let's nit pick every little thing in the comments!
Bitcoin's comeback: should Western Union be afraid?: The value of Bitcoins has doubled since they hit bottom last month. We take a fresh look at the peer-to-peer currency, suggesting that it is competing less with traditional currencies than with money-transfer services like Western Union.
LightSquared to FCC: it's our spectrum, interference is GPS industry's problem: Wholesale satellite LTE upstart LightSquared has fired a new salvo in its struggle with the GPS industry. The company wants the FCC to issue a "declaratory ruling" confirming its right to use spectrum and a confirmation that GPS makers lack any legal basis to ask for interference protections.
Disgruntled employee? Oracle doesn't seem to care about Solaris 11 code leak: A compressed archive that contains what appears to be the full source for the kernel of the Solaris 11 operating system has found its way to file sharing sites, apparently leaked by a disgruntled software engineer. Oracle's lack of action on the leak has left open-source developers perplexed.
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