Thursday, May 23, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 24/05/2013






Identity theft lawsuit against Prenda Law abruptly ends
A counter-attack results in harsh words for one Prenda lawyer, but no more.

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NYT dumps a copyright snowfall on startup referencing its work
"If you wouldn’t mind using another publication to advertise your infringement tool..."

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Surprise! Mozilla can produce near-native performance on the Web
We put Mozilla's JavaScript subset—asm.js—to the test.

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Apple levels its latest patent complaints at Samsung’s Galaxy S4
New motion suggests Samsung's version of Google Now is a Siri impostor.

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Twitter launches two-factor authentication, too late to save The Onion
Login authentication aims to stem flood of accounts exposed by phishing attacks.

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Portland, Oregon rejects drinking water fluoridation by wide margin
Public health measure goes down amid vague concerns about safety and purity.

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Fedora is back on Raspberry Pi with remix optimized for ARMv6
"Pidora" is a new build of Fedora for the Pi's ARM processor.

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Wi-Fi chip pushes 1.7Gbps over four streams using 802.11ac standard
New Quantenna chip will power wireless routers for homes and businesses.

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Google pushes an update to Drive, giving it a much needed makeover
Snap a photo with your camera to scan it in and peruse through documents in card-style.

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RIAA pulls 20 million links off Google, but “system isn’t working”
Group complains it shouldn't have to send "a thousand notices for the same song."

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Video: Watch us flail in front of the Xbox One’s new Kinect
See the depth-sensing camera that will be hooked up to every new system.

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Amazon sets up system to trade on fan fiction
Kindle Worlds' setup lets everyone win: fanficcers, authors, and Amazon.

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Chrome 27, released today, is 5 percent faster and includes conversational search
Google gets faster page loading just by downloading files in a different order.

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Patent troll that wants $1,000 per worker gets sued by Vermont A-G
Small state's action is the first government lawsuit against a patent troll.

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Pines punched a “one way ticket toward genome obesity”
So much junk that it may push the limits of stuffing DNA into a chromosome.

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Merger of ancient galaxies could explain the origin of today’s giants
Collision more than 10 billion light-years away produced 2,000 new stars yearly.

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Power company targeted by 10,000 cyberattacks per month
Electric grid is under daily assault, Congressional report finds.

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Several senior HTC employees depart following HTC First disaster
HTC's recent efforts to compete with Samsung are falling flat.

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Tim Cook confirms: Apple spending $100 million to build new Macs in Texas
No word on whether they'll be bigger than current Macs.

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A day at the Bay Area Maker Faire, the greatest show-and-tell on Earth
Open-source hardware and software cuts, creates, rolls, and goes to space.

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Motorola beats attorney-owned patent company at trial over Bluetooth
Lawyer claimed he had invented a new kind of headset; jury was unimpressed.

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