An FCC filing shows that the top CPU speed on Sony's forthcoming PSP Go will be significantly higher than on present models. Here's why that fact isn't likely to make any difference in the way games look.

When you delete embarrassing photos from sites like MySpace and Facebook, they don't disappear immediately. In fact, more than a month after we deleted two test images from the sites, they are still accessible to the world.

The saga of Midway's financial problems is finally over, as nearly all of the game publisher's assets have been acquired by Time Warner.

The first batch of papers resulting from the Mars Phoenix Lander mission have appeared in the new issue of Science, with the most striking of them describing what appears to be night-time snow falling on the landing site.

ASCAP argues that ringtones are "public performances" of music under the Copyright Act and need to have a license. EFF, AT&T, Verizon and others tell a federal court that the idea is ridiculous; after all, you don't need a public performance license to drive around town in a convertible with the radio on.

Lori Drew was accused of breaking federal law last year after helping to orchestrate a MySpace hoax that left a neighbor's child dead. Now, a judge has overturned her convictions, saying that the law in question doesn't apply to mere terms of service violations.

Although Microsoft has not confirmed its existence, it appears there will be a three computer "Family Pack" deal for Windows 7 Home Premium.

Responding to increasingly dire noises coming out of the Federal Trade Commission, an alliance of advertising groups has proposed a set of principles that will guide their use of behavioral ads, which track a user's online activities in order to feed them ads deemed relevant.

Several minors tried to sue MySpace after being assaulted by adults they met on the social networking site, but an appeals court in Los Angeles has ruled that the site is protected from liability by the Communications Decency Act.

Asteroids, the arcade game from the 1970s, is officially in development as a movie. Yup, you read that right.

Want a piece of that $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus money? The government has opened up the field for applications, but the process is not for the faint of heart. Ars has details.

Firefox 3.5, the latest version of the popular open source web browser, was downloaded 5 million times within the first 24 hours after its release. The total number of Firefox downloads could exceed one billion by the end of August.

The US Department of Interior has announced that it will be using some of its stimulus money to do a single environmental review for the best 24 solar sites on western public lands, clearing the way for more than 100GW of solar capacity. That's enough to power 30 percent of US homes.

A Linux developer has published a new kernel patch that provides a workaround to avoid Microsoft's patents on the FAT filesystem. The patch, which has undergone extensive legal review by patent lawyers, could make it possible to use FAT on Linux without having to pay licensing fees to Microsoft.

A meta-analysis performed using studies that asked people to choose something to read found that people are twice as likely to prefer information that supports their existing views to information that does not.