Week in review: Cracking SSNs, Google's Chrome OS, and HTML 5

Week in review: Cracking SSNs, Google's Chrome OS, and HTML 5
This week's big news came courtesy of Ars Technica, which broke the story about Google's new Chrome OS. Take a look inside for a summary of the week that was.

By Nate Anderson | Last updated July 11, 2009 9:00 AM CT
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The news of Google's Chrome OS was first broken by Ars Technica and confirmed by the company several hours later in response to the publication of the news. Though Chrome OS was one of the week's biggest events, Ars also put together a few must read stories on the safety of Social Security numbers (and how they can be guessed), the brewing standards war over HTML 5's "video" tag, and reports from a Mars rover that snow falls on the Red Planet.
Read more: http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/07/week-in-review-cracking-ssns-googles-chrome-os-and-html-5.ars