Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has repeatedly called for Linux distributions and upstream software projects to synchronize their release cycles. Ars takes an in-depth look at the challenges that would arise from an effort to achieve release synchronization on the scale that Shuttleworth envisions.

If you put Microsoft at the center of your home entertainment system, be prepared to hand them the remote control, literally. Microsoft has gone to great lengths to restrict users from saving a television program to their computers, we call this kind of functionality an "antifeature".

We're not sure if these plans will ever make it to reality, but the Telegraph is reporting that Britain's Home Office is working on database designed to store the details of every phone call, email, and web page accessed by British citizens in the previous year. The idea is to have various telecom providers hand over their records...