Broadcom announced today the initial release of its new open source wireless drivers for Linux. The drivers, which are built using the kernel's own native SoftMAC framework, are currently in the kernel staging tree and are expected to eventually be merged upstream.

Broadcom networking hardware has typically been problematic on Linux because the community-developed open source drivers had to use a proprietary firmware blob from Broadcom that wasn't available under terms that facilitated redistribution. This has historically precluded out-of-the-box support for popular Broadcom chips that are used in many laptops and netbooks. Broadcom is finally addressing the issue and is working with the upstream kernel community.

"Broadcom would like to announce the initial release of a fully-open Linux driver for its latest generation of 11n chipsets. The driver, while still a work in progress, is released as full source and uses the native mac80211 stack," wrote Broadcom's Henry Ptasinski in a message on the Linux wireless mailing list.

When the new drivers are mature and are merged into the kernel mainline, it will allow Linux distributions to provide first-class support several common Broadcom wireless chips. The driver currently supports BCM4313, BCM43224, and BCM43225, but it can be extended in the future to support additional Broadcom hardware components.

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There are a lot of ideas on how to limit emissions of CO2 in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and ocean acidification. But most of those focus on future infrastructure and equipment; in the meantime, we have a large portfolio of power plants and vehicles that will continue to emit for as long as we use them, and we're unlikely to stop doing so. Just how significant are the carbon emissions that we've committed to? A study that will be released by Science today indicates that we're not in terrible shape yet, as we haven't built the hardware that could cause the most significant shifts in the climate.

The new analysis focuses on what it terms "committed emissions" by taking known values like a car's typical emissions per year of driving, and totaling those for the projected lifespan of the vehicle. The database the authors use for this has separate figures for passenger and industrial vehicles, and provides numbers for things like coal-fired power plants and the like. For land use changes, it relies on values in the IPCC report. It also has figures for fossil fuel use by industrial equipment and the like, but these are simply based on total energy consumption, as this hardware is too varied to project accurately.

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It has now been a year since we announced Ars Premier 2.0. In that year, we've welcomed thousands of new subscribers, added a new $5 per month plan, had a number of live chats with industry luminaries, rolled out a dedicated mobile site, upgraded our commenting system several times, migrated and relaunched our forums, redesigned and added cool new features to the front page, and lots more. Subscribers also get an advertising-free experience when browsing the site. Signing up is easy.

One of the most well-received programs is the giveaways—in which all Premier subscribers are automatically entered. This month we have a monster giveaway thanks to our friends at DNA11, CanvasPop, Griffin Technology, and ThinkGeek. We're splitting this month's festivities into two parts. We have a set of prizes for the first half of the month, and around September 15 we'll be announcing a second set.

The Prizes

First up, we're going to be giving away 10 Griffin Technology Loops. This is a really neat weighted iPad stand. It won't block the connector port, and has rubber pads on the bottom to keep it from slipping around. Each one of these would run you $29.99 in a store.

Secondly, we have two $50 gift certificates from ThinkGeek. If you haven't checked out ThinkGeek lately, you might be surprised to see the huge range of stuff you can buy there. They've got everything from multi-tools and geeky t-shirts to stuffed animals and Star Wars sleeping bags.

Finally, we have a free piece of custom art from CanvasPop. This is a really cool product that lets you upload any photograph you've taken—whether it's something you've got up on Facebook, a file on your computer, or something you've taken on your iPhone—and turn it into a large-scale canvas print. This one is a $100 value.

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Premier subscribers (and those who subscribe before the end of this giveaway) don't have to do anything. Being automatically entered into all our contests and giveaways is just one of the many benefits of being a Premier subscriber. For everyone else, simply leave a comment on this post (or sign up for a subscription). Please be aware that only citizens of The United States and Canada (excepting Québec) who are 18 years old or older are eligible to win the prizes.

This giveaway begins on September 1, 2010 at 12:00am CT and ends on September 14, 2010 at 11:59pm CT, so you must be entered by the end date to be eligible. If you have any questions about the rules, please see the full set here.

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In addition to the cool prizes our partners have supplied, they've also made available a number of significant coupons for Ars Premier Subscribers. Anyone who is a subscriber or becomes a subscriber will have access to these and can begin using them immediately. You can find them by clicking here, and you can always find the link again in the "Premier Subscriber" drop-down menu on any page. Here are the coupons:

• DNA11: Get $50 off at DNA11. Transform your DNA or Fingerprint into a custom portrait on canvas.
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Remember, we'll be doing a second giveaway on Sept 15, so keep your eyes peeled! If you haven't subscribed yet, what are you waiting for? Subscribe now and all of the great features listed above, an advertising-free experience, and automatic entry into all of our contests.

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According to the Microsoft Security Response Center, Microsoft will issue nine Security Bulletins addressing 13 vulnerabilities on Tuesday, September 14. It will also host a webcast to address customer questions the following day.

Four of the vulnerabilities are rated "Critical" and the other five are marked "Important." All of the Critical vulnerabilities earned their rating through a remote code execution impact, meaning a hacker could potentially gain control of an infected machine. At least four of the nine patches will require a restart.

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Introduction The promises Table of Contents I. Internet privacy
II. Cyber war and cybersecurity
III. Copyright enforcement and security
IV. Net neutrality
    A. Ancillary questions
    B. 535 wildcards
V. Stimulus & the FCC's national broadband plan
    A. Stimulus
    B. National planning
    C. AllVid
    D. Left Out
VI. Mobile wireless broadband oversight
    A. Early termination fees
    B. Bill shock
VII. Anti-trust issues
VIII. Conclusion

When the Obama administration came to Washington, DC in January of 2009, it promised a new era of accountability, transparency, and change. The marquee issues were health care and financial reform, but federal policies regarding broadband and the Internet clocked in at a very close third.

"I'm a big believer in net neutrality," Obama told a reporter shortly after taking office, noting that both he and his pick for the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genachowski, shared the view that "we've got to keep the Internet open, that we don't want to create a bunch of gateways that prevent somebody who doesn't have a lot of money but has a good idea from being able to start their next YouTube."

As the President spoke these words, champions of Internet- and broadband-related reform rushed to the nation's capital, eager to advocate their ideas after eight frustrating years of looking in from the outside. Prominent telecom analysts augured rapid change at the FCC. The new president "looks at technology as holistic and as a catalyst for job creation, economic development, closing economic divides, clearly a multiplier impact on the economy," predicted attorney Andrew Lipman. "Especially with broadband. And everybody knows he's an enthusiast for the Internet. Why not with 370,000 Internet contributions?"

Besides net neutrality, the new causes include privacy rights for social network users, device openness for mobile phones, pro-fair-use changes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, easier line sharing access to the big cable and telco networks, spectrum reform, consumer protections for mobile phone users, and, perhaps most importantly, a national strategy for getting high speed Internet into the homes of most Americans.

The results

Eighteen months later, it is clear that all these reforms are still at play, but their full or even partial enactment is by no means guaranteed. While we believe that a variety of Internet-related changes are in the offing, substantial political- or interest-based roadblocks stand in the way of most of the major reform causes.

Partisanship is certainly a major factor here, especially as it plays out in the media, with one cable TV host famously comparing net neutrality to Satan worship. And the incumbent Internet Service Providers are sparing no expense to make their voices heard—Verizon, for example, spent over $4.4 million on lobbying Congress in the second quarter of this year.

But in other instances, while key sectors of the DC policy community agree that adjustments are needed in various areas, the rapid evolution of the Internet makes it difficult to achieve consensus on laws or regulations at any given legislative or rulemaking opportunity.

To put it more plainly, the Internet may be the fastest moving target in policy history. While many political movements in the United States have effectively harnessed cyberspace for their immediate purposes, the 'Net itself uniquely eludes the goals of reformers and incumbents alike. This challenge is particularly obvious in the areas of consumer privacy and cyber security.

Nonetheless, some things have already changed. One of the most important developments we have noticed is that the constant threat of regulation from the federal government has often been met by voluntary reforms from industry. This has been particularly noticeable in the mobile and social networking sectors. We expect that dynamic to continue.

This quarterly survey reviews efforts to regulate the Internet and broadband at the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Copyright Office, the Library of Congress, the Department of Justice, the Department of Commerce, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security, and on Capitol Hill.

I. Internet privacy

Rivaling the rancor of the net neutrality debate is concern about privacy and data security on social networks like Facebook. The premiere site, which now serves half a billion members, is a source of constant anxiety for the public. While consumers can't get enough of Facebook, and delight in sharing their most intimate secrets on the service, they also worry about how that data is being used. In late May, researchers disclosed that Facebook, MySpace, Digg, and other sites were sharing users' personal data with advertisers without their knowledge or consent.

Even before that disclosure, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and 14 other consumer groups complained to the Federal Trade Commission that Facebook was engaging in unfair trade practices.

"Facebook continues to manipulate the privacy settings of users and its own privacy policy so that it can take personal information provided by users for a limited purpose and make it widely available for commercial purposes," read their letter. "The company has done this repeatedly and users are becoming increasingly angry and frustrated."

The colorful statements of prominent figures on Capitol Hill mirror these concerns. The social networking environment has become a "machine," declared Senate Commerce Committee Chair Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) at a recent hearing.

"The machine records your every move that day," Rockefeller ominously warned. "Then, based on what you look at, where you shop, what you buy, it builds a personality profile on you. It predicts what you may want in the future and starts sending you coupons. Further, it tells businesses what a good potential client you may be and shares your personality profile with them."

Government regulation in this area could come from two places: Congress or the FTC. Activity at the latter venue has been characterized by repeated warnings to the industry to self-regulate, or the government will step in.

This 20-page report is available only in PDF form via Ars Technica's subscriber-only PDF library. To read the rest of it, subscribe today!

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The evidence for dark matter has come from big objects, generally starting at galaxy-sized and going up from there to the structure of the Universe itself. But a paper in today's issue of Science indicates that we can look to something smaller (and much closer) if we want to start figuring out what dark matter looks like: our own Sun. Since dark matter interacts primarily through gravity, the Sun should have the largest concentration around, and the paper argues that the additional matter should influence the production of neutrinos in a way that we may be able to detect.

The paper is a Brevia, and its text doesn't even take up a full page, but it packs a lot of information into that short space. Its authors point out that the sun will gravitationally capture dark matter as it moves through the Milky Way and, provided these particles can at least undergo rare and weak collisions with regular matter, they'll eventually accumulate in the Sun's core. Once there, they'll influence the fusion reactions that take place.

According to our current model of the Sun, different reactions take place at different depths, and this should lead to an uneven distribution of the neutrinos these reactions produce. The dark matter will shift these reaction locations, and cause detectable differences in the neutrino flux coming out of the Sun. Right now, we don't have the hardware to detect these differences, but the authors say they should be within reach of future neutrino observatories.

It's worth noting that the dark matter-solar model they use contains a few assumptions beyond weak interactions with regular matter, such as the mass of the particles themselves and their ability to annihilate each other upon collisions. But the authors show how changing these assumptions can produce significantly different results. This means that, even if future experiments don't provide convincing evidence of dark matter, they could at least rule out several potential models of what the dark matter particles themselves look like.

Science, 2010. DOI: 10.1126/science.1196564  (About DOIs).

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AT&T has set off yet another net neutrality firestorm, claiming that a crucial Internet standards-making body gave its blessing to ISP priority access deals way back at the beginning of it all. In the late 1990s, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) added the "DiffServ" field to Internet Protocol (IP), AT&T insists, "to facilitate paid prioritization as a means for encouraging the further growth and development of the Internet."

Paid priority access "was fully contemplated" and even "expressly contemplated" by the IETF decades ago, the telco has told the Federal Communications Commission, and is "fully consistent" with that body's standards-making discussions.

Baloney, insists the IETF's current chairman. "AT&T's characterization is misleading," Russ Housley told National Journal several days later. "IETF prioritization technology is geared toward letting network users indicate how they want network providers to handle their traffic, and there is no implication in the IETF about payment based on any prioritization."

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There was a time when Sony's entry into the world of gaming was far from assured. When the PlayStation One was announced many claimed it was a fool's errand, and that only Nintendo and Sega could do well with gaming hardware.

1995, it stands to point out, was a very different world.

After saving for almost a year I finally had enough for the PlayStation and a few games, along with one of these new-fangled memory cards. The PlayStation games would come on discs, you see, so you couldn't save your game directly to the cart. Despite my friends' laughter at the purchase, I felt like we were looking at the future. Looking back, we certainly were. The PlayStation was one of the most popular systems of all time, and helped usher in modern gaming. Happy Birthday.

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The Trauma Intervention Program (TIP) of Southern Nevada is a nonprofit that sends trained volunteers to the site of severe accidents, suicides, fires, and violent theft. The volunteers comfort family members, witnesses, and bystanders—traumatized people who can't be helped by anything found in an ambulance.

TIP might seem an unlikely target for a federal copyright lawsuit, but it found itself hauled into court last week for posting 14 local newspaper articles about TIP and its volunteers to the group's website. In most of the articles, TIP volunteers are the main sources for the reporters, providing plenty of quotes and (sometimes jarring) anecdotes about their work.

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Sony and Microsoft want you to think they have very different strategies for motion controls. "You are the controller," the bathroom mirrors at E3 proudly exclaimed, in one of the creepier bits of advertising at the show. Sony, on the other hand, is combining its own camera technology with a more conventional controller for its games. What we're already seeing is that both technologies are more alike than either company would like to admit.

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Recent revisions to the iOS developer agreements caused considerable controversy by restricting which programming languages could be used to develop iOS apps. Those changes also restricted what kind of analytics data could be collected by developers and advertisers. Now, however, Apple has backed off on its position: it will relax these rules in order to give developers more flexibility. Additionally, Apple will now actually publish a list of app review guidelines for developers—the first time the company has done so since the App Store launched more than two years ago.

The controversy ignited when Apple released the first betas of iOS 4 to developers. Those betas came with revisions to the iOS Developer Agreement, which governs what developers are allowed to do when creating iPhone and iPad apps. In particular, section 3.3.1 restricted the development languages to Objective-C, C, or C++. This would have locked out a number of third-party development platforms, which allowed developers to use JavaScript, C#, and even Flash to develop native iOS apps.

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Amazon, which has remained dedicated to online sales from its start, is joining forces with traditional retailer Best Buy to put Kindle e-readers on sale in stores for the holiday buying season. The arrangement, announced this morning, will see both WiFi and 3G Kindles put on display alongside other e-reader offerings this fall; the larger DX will join them at some later date. Best Buy already carries Sony Readers and is the only outlet outside of Barnes & Noble that offers that company's Nook device.

The lure for Best Buy is pretty obvious; access to a device that may be the top-selling e-reader on the market. (Amazon doesn't divulge sales numbers, but informal sightings in airports and on public transit suggests the Kindle is doing relatively well.) For Amazon, however, the move continues its efforts to pump up Kindle sales in the offline arena, which marks a significant shift for the company.

The decision to offer Amazon-branded hardware in the first place was a major departure for the company, and all signs indicate that the company is making a major push to carve out a big space in the market for dedicated e-readers (and, in the process, expand the market). These include some significant price drops and the recent introduction of a cheaper, WiFi-only model, along with the start of international sales. All of these steps seem intended to get as many people using Kindles—and locked into Amazon's DRMed content—as quickly as possible.

From this perspective, the continuing move into retail makes sense. The price drops placed the low-end model into what might be considered an impulse buy for some people, while browsing Amazon is rarely an impulse activity. The low prices are also likely to make the Kindle look pretty good in comparison to the competitors it will be put on display with.

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We all spend much of our days engaged in social networks, whether it’s online, at work, or out with our friends, and we have a tendency to pick up new habits through these connections. A new study in Science set out to determine how behaviors travel through these social networks, and how the topology of the networks affects the diffusion of the behaviors.

The experiment studied two different structures of social networks. In "random" networks, individuals are connected to others scattered throughout the network by connections that are called "long ties." In more "clustered" networks, social ties exist mostly between individuals that are close together in the network; there are few (if any) long ties connecting individuals from different topological areas.

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As the Internet continues to grow, it may be in everyone's best interest to organize how its various parts connect to each other, according to a paper published in Nature Communications. A group of researchers have developed a system that structures the Internet's nodes by coordinates, and allows each node to send information through a short hyperbolic path by knowing only which of its neighboring nodes will get the information closer to its destination. While the theoretical implementation works almost perfectly, the geographical realities of the Internet's arrangement suggest that efficient, scalable arrangements like this one may never come to pass.

The Internet, such as it is, is a series of autonomous systems (AS, not tubes). An individual AS can be viewed as any part of the Internet owned and maintained by a single entity, and can range in size from a single person to AT&T. Connections between autonomous systems are what allow information on the Internet to get around, and a few groups of researchers are beginning to see the disjointed business arrangements between autonomous systems as a potential problem.

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The signal problems caused by the iPhone 4's antenna design generated a lot of press, but what affect did the issue have on sales? That's the question that Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster attempted to answer with a survey that he shared in a recent research note. His conclusion: the "antennagate" problem impacted potential sales as much as 20 percent, but that's nothing compared to sales lost because the iPhone is locked exclusively to AT&T.

The survey was conducted on 258 random cell phone users in Minneapolis. Though limiting responses from just one urban area means there could be some bias towards a particular carrier, the respondents were spread across the four major carriers. Among those surveyed, about 30 percent each already used an iPhone, BlackBerry, or "other" phone, while about 10 percent used an Android phone.

Of those surveyed, 69 percent said they were aware of the problems with the iPhone 4 antenna design. That's not surprising given that the issue was widely publicized immediately after the device launched, eventually necessitating a special press conference from Apple to address the problem. However, only 20 percent of those aware of the problem said it negatively impacted their decision to buy one.

A bigger issue, noted Munster, is three times as many respondents brought up the issue that the iPhone isn't available on Verizon—without prompting from the surveyors. "The antenna issue is removing upside potential for iPhone units, but Verizon is actually the most significant factor limiting demand," he wrote.

Though the survey population is somewhat limited, this jibes with what we have heard in and around the Orbiting HQ. When people see me using my iPhone 4 in public, the most common question is, "What is the reception like? I heard the antenna is bad." After discussing the issue, however, the most common conclusion tends to be, "Yeah, I'll probably end up getting one anyway."

In a recent Ars reader poll about Verizon iPhone availability, more than half the respondents that are current AT&T iPhone users would switch to Verizon if the iPhone was available on that carrier. Nearly half the respondents were current Verizon customers that would get an iPhone if it were available. Clearly, breaking free of AT&T's exclusivity could tap a large potential market for new iPhone users.

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On August 20, Canada's Privy Council Office issued an order targeting Apple and the company's new Canadian version of the iBookstore. Referred to simply as an "order authorizing a review under the Investment Canada Act of Apple Canada, Inc.’s proposed establishment of a new cultural business carried on by iBookstore in Canada," the order means that Apple's investment in Canada will be scrutinized by the government to make sure it aids "Canadian culture."

The decision was noted today by Canadian law professor Michael Geist, and it relies on a section of the Investment Canada Act that allows the government to review investments for "cultural reasons."

The text of the brief order points to section 15 of the Investment Canada Act, which allows the government to review any investment, even those that would not normally be reviewable. The only stipulation is that the investment must concern "a prescribed specific type of business activity that, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, is related to Canada's cultural heritage or national identity."

Given persistent Canadian concerns about being overrun with American TV shows and movies and having the country's digital music market controlled by iTunes, it's clear the government wants to take a closer look at Apple's decision to open a major new e-bookstore in Canada.

Canada's Financial Post took a dim view of the decision, saying that "the government might do well to start the review process by asking the millions of iPod, iPhone and iPad owners of Canada for their views on the matter. Though we all already know what they would say."

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Today 377 members of the European Parliament adopted a written declaration on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in which they demand greater transparency, assert that ISPs should not up end being liable for data sent through their networks, and say that ACTA "should not force limitations upon judicial due process or weaken fundamental rights such as freedom of expression and the right to privacy."

The "written declaration" has no binding force; any MEP can issue one (there's a 200-word maximum), which is adopted when more than half of all MEPs sign on. If adopted, "written declarations are printed and posted on a board at the entrance to the Chambers in Strasbourg and Brussels." They also go up on the Web and get passed on to the European Commission.

But the declaration does give the ACTA negotiators a sense of the parliamentary will; in this case, Parliament has many concerns about both substance and process.

Some of these have already been addressed; the most recent leaked ACTA draft shows that ISP liability has been removed, for instance. Others, like concerns of access to medicines, especially those in transit from countries with looser patent systems, continue to be areas of concern—and have been for some time.

La Quadrature du Net, a French group that heavily backed the declaration, sees it as a sign that ACTA is doomed.

"Written Declaration 12 is a strong political signal sent by the EP to the Commission that ACTA is not tolerable as a way of bypassing democratic processes. Legislation related to Internet, freedom of speech and privacy cannot be negotiated in secrecy under the direct influence of entertainment industry lobbies," said spokesperson Jérémie Zimmermann. "Full rejection of ACTA is the only option."

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Today, BP released a report on its own internal investigation into the Deepwater oil spill, which continued uncontrolled for months following what the report calls "a complex and interlinked series" of error and failures. The report is one of a number in progress, performed by both the companies involved and various governmental agencies, and it's not intended to be complete—there's an entire section devoted to information the investigators would have liked to have access to, but didn't. Nevertheless, it provides a detailed chronology of what went wrong, and why none of the safety equipment and procedures that were in place were effective.

The events that triggered the Deepwater failure started with the preparations for the departure of the ship that drilled the well, a process termed "abandonment."  At this point, the well extended into what the report terms the "primary reservoir sands" from which hydrocarbons would be harvested. Since these are under pressure relative to the top of the well, the intent was to seal it using concrete. It was at this point that things started to go wrong.

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The new iPod models announced last week are now available at retail Apple Stores, while preorders are arriving on doorsteps across the country. And for current iPhone and iPod users, Apple has released iOS 4.1—now available via iTunes.

The update brings several new feature additions, including a high-dynamic range photo option for the iPhone 4, support for TV show rentals, the ability to send 720p video uploads to YouTube and MobileMe, support for AVRCP-compatible accessories, FaceTime calling directly from favorites, and support for FaceTime calls from front-camera-equipped iPod touches.

iOS 4.1 also brings the launch of Apple's centralized gaming social network, Game Center. With Game Center support, you can add friends, challenge them to head-to-head matches, get matched up with new players based on skill level, view high scores and achievements, and discover new games to play. Despite some concerns during the beta period, Game Center is supported on second-gen iPod touches and later, as well as the iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4.

The update also includes a number of bug fixes, including a fix for iPhone 4 proximity sensor issues, Nike+iPod, and Bluetooth connectivity. In addition, it addresses widespread issues with slow performance of iOS 4 on the iPhone 3G, which recent limited testing by Lifehacker (using the iOS 4.1 GM release) demonstrated.

To update to iOS 4.1, you'll need to plug your 3G or later iPhone or second-gen or later iPod touch to a computer running iTunes, and click on "Check for Update." Apple's servers are apparently getting hammered, as some colleagues in the Orbiting HQ are getting an error message. 

Keep checking back for our look at the new iPods as well as an in-depth look at some of the new features of iOS 4.1.

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Announcing another in our series of subscriber-only features: a live, moderated webchat with Kyle Wiens. Kyle is the cofounder of the extremely popular gadget repair site iFixit. iFixit started out providing tear-down guides, tools, and replacement parts for Apple products, but has since branched out to all manner of gadgets, from phones to video game consoles (read our profile of the company). iFixit's primary mission is to make the world a cleaner and better place by reducing gadget waste through educational tools like free and open repair guides in addition to providing access to hard-to-find tools and parts.

This live chat is only available to Ars Premier subscribers and begins at 1pm CDT on Wednesday, September 8 (see it in your own timezone). The discussion will center on iFixit's mission of educating individuals on repairing their gadgets (rather than tossing them) and their adventures in dissecting the latest gadgetry.

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