IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 7/15/2013

What to do with a popular project that you no longer want to maintain?
Getting rid of projects can be tough, but there are lots of options.

Capptivate: a site capturing apps before they disappear forever
"I'm starting to think of it as a museum that I'm curating," says creator Alli Dryer.

Virus removal squad: Ars readers talk security measures
Ars talks about the wholesale destruction of EDA computers, super-secure passwords.

Baer’s Odyssey: Meet the serial inventor who built the world’s first game console
Ars catches up with the 91-year-old creator of the video game console.

Estonia publishes its e-voting source code on GitHub
System architect says he welcomes "development and security of the e-elections."

In move for spectrum and prepaid customers, AT&T buys Leap for $1.1 billion
Leap Wireless has been hurting: it lost $1.2 billion in 2010 through 2012.

Prenda’s John Steele in LA: Two wrongs don’t make a Wright (happy)
At last, John Steele speaks, describing a "pattern of fraud." Not his, though.

Artist investigated after shining Kim Dotcom “light art” on US Embassy
"United Stasi of America" image shone onto walls of US Embassy for 30 seconds.

Twitter bows to French government, gives data on “Good Jew” tweet writers
Twitter goes down again in its fight to protect free speech.

Snowden holds court in Moscow airport, asks for safe passage
He had vast spying abilities: "That is the power to change people's fates."

Update: Back to the drawing board? Another Boeing Dreamliner fire
Ethiopian airliner catches fire while parked at Heathrow, closing airport.

Ars Technicast, Episode 30: How to ruin a NASA capsule with a sandwich
Special guest Amy Shira Teitel joins us in this NASA-centered episode.

Not yet gone, but effectively extinct
A small drop in one species' population can drive others to actually die out.

The Dealmaster asks: What kind of deals do you want to see?
Monitor and SSD deals are popular, but what else do you want to see?

iOS app may bring real-world objects into Minecraft
Tech from Tabletop Speed mobile game may add to your ability to pimp out Minecraft.

Astronomers watch gas streaming into a massive embryonic star
A large gas cloud hosts two areas of star formation; one of them is a monster.

Myriad, fresh off Supreme Court loss, keeps on suing over gene patents
Company has made $57 million with a testing monopoly it doesn't want to give up.

Why Nintendo can legally shut down any Smash Bros. tournament it wants
…but Hasbro probably can't shut down a similar Scrabble tournament.

Hearst TV station files suit to stop Aereo’s Boston expansion
"WCVB will be deprived of existing and potential revenue streams," suit alleges.

Prenda fails to pay $455 appeal fee, leading to a $9,425 setback
Failure to pay means one of Prenda's first appeals is over before it started.

NSA taps Skype chats, newly published Snowden leaks confirm
Microsoft worked with the government, producing both chats and e-mails.

Review: Dota 2 is a colossal time-sink that you should play
Just make sure that you have a few hundred spare hours before you start.

Teen jailed for alleged “terroristic threats” on Facebook now free on bail
"Anonymous good Samaritan" donates the $500,000 needed for Justin Carter's bail.

Two successful gene therapy trials block inherited diseases in humans
Blood stem cells engineered to make a virus that fixes a genetic defect.

Sprint wants to become the mobile autobahn, removes all limits for life
And you won't have to wait long, either: new deal starts Friday, July 12.

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 7/15/2013

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