Appeared on Digg, then Senator Dianne Feinstein heard about, then Toyota pulled the ad, changed policy and may even move a plant.

Digg's original, real-time tracking page, Digg Spy, is one of the best and probably most overlooked ways to use the site. You can get a huge feel for the community from watching diggspy. User habits, hidden gems, new friends, bury brigade activity, URLs, agendas, speed…it's all there.

Who knew the "*" and the "#" were so revolutionary. Here's an Ad from 1969

Lost in the wilderness of motherboard-related terms and acroyms? Ars is here to help. In Part I of the Ars Technica Motherboard Guide, Hannibal introduces you to the basic components, layout, and functioning of the motherboard.

Anyone who uses Firefox on Windows knows the browser has an almost insatiable appetite for memory, and it's not unheard of for PCs to allocate a half GB or more of memory just to the browser alone.

Prince, one of the most creative and talented musicians, hired the infamous “Web Sheriff” who announced lawsuits against The Pirate Bay in the U.S., France and Sweden. “Way to go on losing all your fans” was the first response of Pirate Bay admin Brokep.

Benjamin Franklin long ago warned against rhetoric that demands trading individual rights for corporate security. Asking Americans to greenlight extensive, unchecked electronic surveillance by changing their very definition of privacy is a prime example of such rhetoric.

Conceited Software/TouchFree has just released its GUI jailbreak. This is the "final bit" that performs the jailbreak after you run OktoPrep in 1.1.1 and then upgrade to 1.1.2. The Software runs under OS X and Windows, grabs the data off your iPod touch or iPhone, upgrades it with the Jailbreak, installs Installer.app and SSH.app, and reloads it…

Get iTunes style scrollbars in Mac OS X 10.5. Awesome!!

Rands explains the inner workings of nerds and what you can do to get what you need out of them. This article needs to land in the hands of the significant others of every nerd.