Thursday, May 9, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 10/05/2013






With critical 0-day exploits circulating, Microsoft and Adobe report fixes
IE 8 users: your Fix it is ready; ColdFusion admins: put system in lock down now.

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Federal judge denies motion to throw out evidence gathered via fake cell tower
Court re-iterates that, by and large, we have no expectation of digital privacy.

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We’ve got a Butterfly Labs Bitcoin miner, and it’s pretty darn fast
The loud little box busily decodes money at 5.35 billion hashes per second.

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No, EA won’t license guns in its 2013 games—but it never has
Game publisher hasn't paid, or been paid, to feature guns in its games.

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Got a screwdriver? Then the Ouya is relatively easy to repair
iFixit posts its official teardown of the console device.

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Why Intel’s “How Strong is Your Password?” site can’t be trusted
Lack of HTTPS + questionable metrics = don't rely on it.

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Network Solutions seizes over 700 domains registered to Syrians
Domain names pointed mostly to sites hosted in Damascus taken under embargo rules.

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John McAfee keeps riding the crazy train
Int'l man of mystery tells Slashdot about crushed testicles, drugs, VICE.

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Pickup in iOS 7 Web traffic titillates Apple-watchers
Ars and other sites report an increase in iOS 7 devices on their server logs.

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Facebook news feed too quiet? Auto-play video ads are coming
Try all you want, you can't hide your love of auto-play ads from Facebook execs.

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FBI claims right to read your e-mail, just like other federal agencies
ECPA rears its ugly head again—despite DOJ's willingness to reform disliked law.

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Saving Fermi: NASA’s system for avoiding collisions with space junk
Finding your space telescope has a dead Russian spy satellite coming at it.

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If Mars One makes you skeptical, you might be dead inside—like me
Op-ed: Do we scoff at dreamers because we lack imagination, or are they actually crazy?

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Sony waives $99 mobile development fee in play for indies
Now anyone can make games for Vita and other Sony mobile devices without paying.

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Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware
Facebook's Open Compute Project to give the world an "open" top-of-rack switch.

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Microsoft: Office won’t go subscription-only any time soon
Subscriptions will be mandatory "within a decade," but not just yet.

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Blizzard fixes Diablo III gold duplication bug, but the damage may be done
Players complain that duplicated gold has ruined the in-game auction houses.

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Google Glass update offers G+ notifications, faster transcription
XE5 brings several improvements to the $1,500 headset.

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San Francisco gives up on cell phone warning stickers
Reuters' reporting makes a hash of the science.

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Spotify DRM hole exploited by MP3-ripping Chrome extension
Spotify issues patch after extension pulled from Chrome Web Store.

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11 Arduino projects that require major hacking skills—or a bit of insanity
Lawn care, Daleks, bug zappers prove the Arduino thrives as much as Raspberry Pi.

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Update: Syria drops offline for a day
Sudden exit from Internet routes are a sign of government shutdown.

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