Thursday, June 6, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 6/7/2013





AMD begins open relationship with Windows, seeks Androids and Chromebooks
The company has announced its support for both of Google's open-source OSes.

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Top secret doc shows NSA demands Verizon hand over millions of phone records daily
The Guardian unearths an order making surveillance of Americans trivial.

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More than 360,000 Apache websites imperiled by critical Plesk vulnerability
Publicly available attack code exploits remote-code bug in Plesk admin panel.

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Microsoft shows off Windows 8.1 Start button, other upgrades in video
Windows 8.1 will contain a whole bunch of sensible interface improvements.

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Wisconsin child porn suspect doesn’t have to decrypt hard drives—for now
At the last moment, a new judge assigned to the case stays the previous order.

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“Temporal cloak” used to hide data transmitted at 12.7 Gbps
Output looks like a signal-free beam of light.

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Google now offering stock Android 4.2 keyboard through Google Play
The company brings an official Android 4.2 keyboard to Android 4.0 and up.

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Feds say they can search your laptop at the border but won’t say why
Creating a "suspicion-based" policy would be “operationally harmful," DHS says.

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Researchers teach Wi-Fi to “see,” identify gestures
WiSee can detect arm and body motions anywhere in house, use them as commands.

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Kindle DX unceremoniously reappears on Amazon
The giant e-reader is back, but we're not sure why it ever left.

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56 percent of Americans now own smartphones, Pew study finds
Survey data also shows that wealthier Americans tend to prefer iPhones.

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Top US patent judge pens anti-troll op-ed in NYT
A surprising supporter, the chief judge sees fee-shifting as a solution.

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BlackBerry to introduce the A10, another touchscreen handset
It will ship this year and follow the Z10 and Q10 as BlackBerry 10 devices.

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Mac OS X update protects users against CRIME attacks
Attacks allow hackers to hijack some browsing sessions protected by HTTPS.

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Wealthy California town approves license plate readers along municipal border
Piedmont to spend $678,613 to acquire and install 39 cameras at 15 locations.

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New method can image single molecule, identify its atoms
Mixing scanning-tunneling and Raman imaging.

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Samsung Galaxy S 4 Active is official and ready when you are
It doesn't come with the kit you need to live out in the wild, though.

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First US offshore wind lease auction to be held in July
Two sites south of Rhode Island could host nearly 3.5GW of capacity.

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Sequel to Thunderbolt is all about 4K video
Creatively named Thunderbolt 2 uses 2x20Gbps lanes to drive giant displays.

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The Last of Us review: Me, you, and the infected
Naughty Dog crafts a thrilling, beautiful, exceptionally human zombie apocalypse story.

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Review: Indigo wants to bring Siri-like conversation to the Android platform
But can it replace Google Now's contextual awareness?

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Windows RT getting ready for work, with Outlook 2013 coming later this year
Surface users will get Microsoft's enterprise mail client for free with Windows 8.1.

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