A group of European publishers has signed a declaration that aims to see its draconian Automated Content Access Protocol forced on search engines and news aggregators by legislation.

The French Senate has once again approved a reworked version of the country's controversial "three strikes" bill designed to appease the Constitutional Council. Instead of a state-appointed agency cutting off those accused of being repeat offenders, judges will have the final say over punishment.

The coolest technology in the world doesn't make any sense if it's too expensive to deploy. Several companies are now betting that space-based power has reached the point where the accountants will be pleased.

Microsoft has published a research paper on Gazelle, an experimental "multi-principal OS" for the Web. But it's not actually an operating system; it's really a browser prototype that runs on Windows, and it just might be the future of browsing. Ars takes a close look at the technology behind Gazelle to show you how it compares to Chrome and Internet Explorer.

A new report from iSuppli highlights the recent, very dramatic rebound in NAND flash prices, and suggests that this is bad news for SSD adoption in the cost-sensitive netbook market. But at least Samsung is smiling.

With the planned Yucca Mountain storage facility now out of the picture, a policy paper in this week's edition of Science suggests that the US should consider planning for several regional storage facilities instead.

Apple has touted new HTTP Live Streaming features of the iPhone OS 3.0 and the upcoming Snow Leopard version of Mac OS X—and it has submitted the spec to the IETF. Will it be enough to supplant Flash as the de facto standard for delivering live or on-demand streaming online?

For most of the population, online video is an addition to the typical TV experience. For a small but growing chunk of people, however, online video is not only more entertaining, but it's also replacing their normal TV-watching habits.

GE, which supplies up to a third of the appliances sold in the US, has signed a deal with Tendril, which provides software for smart grid applications. GE appliances will soon play nicely with the smart grid.

A partial list of Google's hardware partners is out, and it's heavy on ARM-based "smartbook" expertise. Ars takes a look what Chrome OS might mean for the ARM vs. Atom, smartbook vs. netbook battle that's shaping up.

Attention Ars readers: the government is looking for volunteers to evaluate broadband stimulus grant applications. We've got the details.

The Punisher: No Mercy is finally here, but it might have been better if it had spent a little longer in development.

The high cost of putting hardware into orbit would seem to rule out space-based solar power on financial grounds, but several companies are betting that technology has changed the equation. Here's how such systems would work.

Even as Google builds its Chrome OS to utilize cloud computing resources efficiently, data centers around the world are still experience reliability issues—and this week was particularly bad. When the cloud dissipates, there's no ray of sunshine for customers that rely on cloud services.

Indie artists who distribute through TuneCore can now purchase major label services from Universal on a flat-fee basis. Artists retain their rights and royalties while still benefiting from those Universal services they need, such as access to world-class recording studios and live performance help.