Wednesday, April 3, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 04/04/2013


Solid electrolyte may end the catastrophic failures of lithium batteries But don't get too excited—it only works at high temperatures. Read More ...
Rather than recreate Google Drive, Yahoo integrates Dropbox into Mail Yahoo has no cloud of its own, but Dropbox has become part of Yahoo Mail. Read More ...
NASA’s ex-CTO built a cloud in a box and he wants you to buy it Nebula's OpenStack-based hardware turns servers into an Amazon-like cloud. Read More ...
California lawmaker introduces unprecedented personal data disclosure bill "Right to Know Act of 2013" would force companies to tell Californians what they know. Read More ...
WTF? AT&T’s profane-password ban lets some swears through If no one's supposed to see your passcode, why does it matter? Read More ...
Judge smash: Prenda’s porn-trolling days are over Prenda lawyers take the Fifth. And a federal judge will assume the worst. Read More ...
Swartz death inspires expanded effort to liberate paywalled court docs Document-sharing extension for Firefox now covers Chrome and appellate courts. Read More ...
No more robocalls: New tech automatically hangs up on robots US gov't names winners of contest to build the best robocall-blocking system. Read More ...
A massive 6.3-inch smartphone from Samsung may be in the works The Samsung Galaxy Mega will make the Galaxy Notes look normal. Read More ...
The War Z taken offline following hack that exposed user passwords E-mail addresses, player data and other personal information also exposed. Read More ...
Feds affirm Apple’s “bounce-back” patent invalidation New "Final Office Action" from USPTO will likely also be appealed, too. Read More ...
Quantum encryption keys obtained from a moving plane A technical demonstration shows that an exchange with satellites is possible. Read More ...
Before T-Mobile’s iPhone launch, existing users can get LTE, MMS support If you can't wait and your iPhone 5 is jailbroken, you can enable it right now. Read More ...
Prenda lawyers take Fifth Amendment; judge storms out: “We’re done” Those in attendance describe Judge Otis Wright as "incandescently angry." Read More ...
HTC One will be available April 19 on AT&T and Sprint Preorders will begin later this week. Read More ...
Software destined for Valve’s Steam Box appears on SteamPowered.com Debian-style repo contains video drivers, splash screens, other goodies. Read More ...
Meet Nvidia’s GeForce 700M GPUs, same as the GeForce 600M GPUs Last year's architecture + clock speed bumps = whole new product line. Read More ...
Nvidia VP: Next mobile chip generation will outperform Xbox 360, PS3 Milestone highlights progress in mobile chips, age of current consoles Read More ...
Chinese media delighted by Apple apology Following Tim Cook's apology letter, China is besties with Apple again. Read More ...
European regulators blast Google for continued EU privacy violations Task force gives green light to EU states to conduct "further investigations." Read More ...
Exclusive: Ongoing malware attack targeting Apache hijacks 20,000 sites Mysterious "Darkleech" exposes visitors to potent malware exploits. Read More ...
Verizon, AT&T reportedly joining forces to buy (and split up) Vodafone If the deal pans out, AT&T would get Vodafone's vast non-US holdings. Read More ...
Can a DDoS break the Internet? Sure… just not all of it Last week's DDoS attack caused big problems for some, went unnoticed by others. Read More ...
FunnyorDie’s first iSteve trailer now online The comedy site is just two weeks away from the release of its Steve Jobs movie. Read More ...
ThinkPad quality, tablet-style: Lenovo’s ThinkPad Tablet 2 reviewed The best an Intel Atom-powered tablet can be, at least until later this year. Read More ...
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