Sunday, June 23, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 6/24/2013





A privacy paradox and a peculiar particle: Ars readers react
We also talk about Microsoft's Xbox policy reversal.

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What are best practices for reusing tiny snippets of code across projects?
"Don't repeat yourself," they say. But sometimes you have to.

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Ars Technicast Ep. 29: Xbox One (Eighty) prompts us to do an E3 double take
A sudden reversal in Microsoft's used-games policy changed everything.

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Weird Science chills its bison to keep them from shrinking
And, try as it might, it can't get its brain to talk with itself.

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Unheard music to be broadcast for 24 hours in remote Scottish forest
If no one's around to hear it, will it make a sound?

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Google handed over years of e-mails belonging to WikiLeaks chatroom admin
Google informed 2 men that a US court order mandated a secret search in 2011.

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Rockmelt will help soften the blow when Google Reader finally leaves you
Also this week in Android apps: Dolphin browser, Aviary, and PushBullet.

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Facebook squashes bug that exposed e-mail addresses for 6 million users
Inadvertent disclosure included in user archives also included phone numbers.

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US charges Snowden with espionage, asks Hong Kong to arrest him
Meanwhile, Icelandic supporters stand ready to fly him to the north Atlantic.

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Galaxy S III’s near-final Android 4.2 build is all about the backporting
Samsung's former flagship is getting an S 4-flavored update, and it's almost here.

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Device-disabling Fake AV migrates to Android phones, demands ransom
Long the bane of computer users, Fake antivirus may extort Android owners, too.

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Rumor: Google may help you get rid of your junk with its new service
It's called Google Mine and it sounds like a version of Craigslist for Google Plus.

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Some of what the Sun spits out violently returns to its surface
And might provide a glimpse of how stars get built.

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Google has 35 days to delete private Street View data, or else
UK government ends its investigation without a fine, but with conditions.

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Happy Birthday, Baby—The 65th anniversary of computer software
A look back at the first decade of technology that led to the software revolution.

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New leaks: British intel’s direct-from-fiber taps “worse than the US”
UK is shown to be sharing data directly with NSA.

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