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ars Technica: "You can do a lot with free open-source software, also known as FOSS. Musicians with a yen for Linux are in luck; the array of choices for creating, editing, producing, and publishing music using nothing but FOSS software is staggering."

ars Technica: "In a recent announcement, Xmarks revealed that it can no longer afford to continue operating its popular cross-browser bookmark synchronization service."

ars Technica: "As browser competition continues to heat up, 2010 looks like the year when the market was repeatedly disrupted."

ars Technica: "Sony did not make many friends in the tech community when the company forcibly removed the option to install Linux via a mandatory firmware update."

ars Technica: "Brazil has proposed a broad update to its copyright law (Portuguese) and it contains a surprising idea: penalize anyone who "hinders or impedes" fair use rights or obstructs the use of work that has already fallen into the public domain."

ars Technica: "As it turns out, there is no way to fully guarantee that identity theft won't happen, no matter what someone puts on the side of a truck."

ars Technica: "The developers behind KDE have announced the release of KDE Software Compilation 4.4 beta 1.

We conducted hands-on testing to see what the new version brings to the desktop."

ars Technica: "Google isn't content with providing us with fast search and a fast browser: we need a faster protocol between servers and browsers.

The search giant would like us to start forgetting about HTTP:// and learn to love SPDY://."

ars Technica: "Microsoft filed a patent two years ago for widely used methods for determining evolutionary relatedness, causing disbelief and apprehension among researchers."

ars Technica: "KDE 4.3 was released this week with a number of intriguing improvements. Ars test the new version, which introduces KDE's Social Desktop initiative, an effort to bring social networking integration to the popular desktop environment."