Saturday, June 1, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 02/06/2013





Prenda buys a $100,000 bond, while former lawyer Gibbs pleads for leniency
Brett Gibbs is broke, and has cancer. The rest prepare for appeal.

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Someday you may ditch your two-factor authenticator for an electronic tattoo
Dongles aren't cool. Know what's cool? Tattoos and password pill addictions.

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The Swapper review: Swap it to me
An indie game festival favorite launches with a plot to match its clever puzzles.

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Female breadwinners are a sign of progress—not an affront to science
Fox Business throws out everything science has told us.

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Feds put Apple on trial over e-books, starting Monday
Apple is accused of colluding to keep prices higher than Amazon's $9.99.

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Yahoo Mail reportedly loses key customer following mass hack attack
Memo to Marissa Mayer: Security is key to your plan to revive Yahoo.

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Doing crystal diffraction without the crystals
Researchers sit molecules for portraits in an ordered array of seats.

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Microsoft settles patent suit for $1 million, plus a Google “bonus”
Patent holding company missed the payday it wanted in similar Google lawsuit.

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EA says goodbye to the Online Pass, we say good riddance
Current, future EA games will no longer need extra fee for preowned online play.

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Asus brings 4K to your desktop with massive 31.5” 3840×2160 monitor
You'll want to check that your graphics hardware is up to driving it, though.

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Kim Dotcom raid yielded “miscarriage of justice,” NZ judge rules
Police must give Megaupload founder copies of data taken in January 2012 raid.

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Farewell, Camino: Development on Mac browser officially halted
Trailblazing Mac Web browser no longer really needed in today's Webkit world.

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New coronavirus, related to SARS, slowly spreading and killing
49 confirmed cases, 27 deaths.

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Giant genome study finds tiny links between genetics and schooling
Huge study finds few genes, effects that barely register.

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Microsoft should stick to its guns and keep the Start button gone
Op-ed: If Redmond wants Metro apps to succeed, it needs education, not capitulation.

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Razer simultaneously expands and shrinks its lineup with 14-inch gaming laptop
14" Razer and 17" Razer Pro pack Haswell, switchable graphics, and more.

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EFF wants $30,000 to defeat a podcasting patent troll
In a single day, tech legal group raises nearly $11,000 of its lofty goal.

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Slow-motion 7.0 earthquake drags on for 5 months under New Zealand
Pacific Plate slides under NZ's North Island without so much as a rumble.

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iCloud users take note: Apple two-step protection won’t protect your data
Limitations could leave users open to the type of hack that hit Wired's Mat Honan.

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Double Fine returns to the Kickstarter well to fill a Massive Chalice
Developer follows up $3.2 million Adventure with a tactical strategy title.

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Everything from iPhones to VPNs can now be legally exported to Iran
US Treasury Dept. lifts tech sanctions on Iran, legalizing lots of products.

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In wake of Liberty Reserve bust, Mt. Gox will require user verification
World's largest Bitcoin exchange wants more info from its users.

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Does a new approach to nuclear make economic sense?
Small, mass-produced reactors could be the future, but only if they get cheaper.

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Mark Shuttleworth gives up dream of Ubuntu toppling Windows
Shuttleworth closes Bug #1, says Windows was defeated by iOS and Android.

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Gov’t agrees to destroy data seized in political interrogation at airport
Laptop, camera, USB drive taken from Bradley Manning supporter in border search.

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