Indictments unsealed on Monday charge additional members of separate Android app piracy groups, according to a Monday FBI release. Joshua Taylor and Scott Walton, of SnappzMarket ... (more)

Sky, TalkTalk, BT and Virgin Media will send customers who download illegal files over their network "education letters", the latest initiative in the UK crackdown on online piracy. The ... (more)

Porn studio Malibu Media files more copyright lawsuits than anyone else in the US since the fall of Prenda Law; hundreds of suits against "John Doe" defendants have been filed in just ... (more)

Are you comfortable having your location and Web browsing tracked for marketing purposes? If so, Verizon's got a deal for you. The wireless giant announced a new program this week ... (more)

Hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek have proven more clearly than anyone in the world how vulnerable cars are to digital attack. Now they’re proposing the first step towards ... (more)

Developers of the Tor privacy service say they're close to fixing a weakness that researchers for an abruptly canceled conference presentation said provides a low-cost way for adversaries ... (more)

One in 18 of the world's top 100,000 websites track users without their consent using a previously undetected cookie-like tracking mechanism embedded in 'share' buttons. A new study ... (more)

Verizon has boosted FiOS upload speeds to make them match download speeds, the company announced today. Both existing customers and new subscribers will get the speed upgrade. The increase ... (more)

An Illinois woman made police work easy when she allegedly stole a colorful, leopard-pattern dress from a small boutique, then posted a picture of herself wearing it on Facebook, police ... (more)

It's no secret that an upcoming Windows update codenamed 'Threshold' will herald the return of the Start menu and allow Metro apps to operate in windowed mode. Heck, the image above ... (more)

Google has been given 18 months by the Italian data regulator to change how it handles and stores user data. Users will now have to grant permission before the firm creates a profile ... (more)

Two leading Westminster civil liberties campaigners, David Davis and Tom Watson, are to mount a high court legal challenge to the government's new "emergency" surveillance law, which ... (more)

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a beta version of Privacy Badger, a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome that detects and blocks online advertising and other ... (more)

In its quest to help enterprises seek out and neutralize all threats to their Wi-Fi networks, AirMagnet is now looking to the skies. In a free software update to its AirMagnet Enterprise ... (more)

Scammers are using the MH17 disaster in east Ukraine to spread objectionable links, online security experts have warned. A link to a pornographic website disguised as a video of ... (more)

A leading YouTube entrepreneur is facing legal action for alleged copyright infringement in her videos. Ultra Records, which has musicians Kaskade, deadmau5 and Calvin Harris on ... (more)

After it was spotted in FCC documents earlier this month and then leaked late last week, Nvidia has officially announced the latest member of its Shield family of Android gaming tablets. ... (more)

A future based on driverless cars could mean big changes to the way cities are shaped. Given that there are plenty of things wrong with our relationship to cars today, it’s tempting ... (more)

Online video service Netflix reported profits of $71m (£42m) in the second quarter, more than double compared with the same period a year ago. The company said revenue from its ... (more)

Independent test lab AV-Test has completed a test of nine corporate and 23 consumer antivirus products on Windows XP. Nearly all of the products detected all or nearly all of the malware ... (more)

Facebook gets it: Sometimes, there's just too much stuff in your feed to keep up. So, the company's launching a new feature called "Save" to allow customers to mark things they'd like ... (more)

Giant photos are slowing the Web down. Google has a plan to make your pages load faster. The search giant has developed a new kind of image format that promises to shrink the size ... (more)

"I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" Those were the last words captured on amateur video of an African-American man who died after New York Police ... (more)

A federal appeals court upheld Thursday the child pornography conviction and accompanying 10-year prison term handed to a Nebraska man who superimposed the image of an underaged girl's ... (more)

Modern Combat 5 has been cracked and uploaded to multiple torrenting websites over the weekend. MC5 is a first person shooter for iOS, Android and Windows 8. The developer and publisher, ... (more)

As the Internet has matured users find they are asked to create, remember and use longer and longer lists of passwords - all unique, strong and never to be used again - resulting in ... (more)

Google engineers earlier this week began working on a fix for a months-old Chrome bug that drains Windows' laptop batteries, the move triggered by a story on Forbes' website. The ... (more)

Every element of Aaron Swartz’s brief, remarkable life exemplifies the stuff we cover all the time on Ars. His tech-filled upbringing, his teenage rise to geek royalty, his hand in ... (more)

James Garner, the understated, wisecracking everyman actor who enjoyed multi-generational success on both the small and big screen, has died. He was 86. Police, who were called to ... (more)

People in the UK who persistently pirate music and movies will soon start getting emails warning them that their actions are illegal. The warnings are part of a larger scheme that ... (more)