SOPA is dead. Are you happy now?

The Register has a thougthfull article about SOPA and PIPA. Both are bad regislation but the interests of intellectual properties will not go away. So tech corps will have to come to some common ground for what is acceptable IP protection and what not.

UK student faces extradition to US after piracy case ruling

The Register reports as one of the many about the extradition request upon a UK student. Some judge allows it and of course there are some ways to appeal but it is really incredible that some copyright infringement fits as basis for criminal charges. The authorities in the UK dropped charges by lack of criminal acts but it will not stop the media corporations behind the US government to procede. Maybe it is time to boycot all US entertainment and media corporations for the bigger part they produce crap anyway.

Will Medfield be the chip Intel needs to take on ARM?

Ars Technica has a first view on the new Intel Medfield processor designed to compete with ARM processors in mobile phone business. And it looks like they are on their way into that market and it will become better when they are at the 14 nm processing stage. Big question is who wants Intel as the main supplier were you can have ARM as a mere chip designer and create your own SoC?