IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 9/30/2013

Diplomat-NGO hackathon tackles freedom of speech and sustainability
Learning to work with each other was step number one.

Bypassing oversight, NSA collects details on American connections
New York Times reports that NSA has complex maps of social ties based on metadata.

How do you put a price on your source code?
Selling software isn't like selling cars or real estate. Don't sell yourself short.

Snobbish photons forced to pair up and get heavy
Bizarre state of matter causes photons to be attracted to each other.

Ars takes a look at the tools of the surveillance trade
We also talk about the merits of purple and Google's new real-life delivery service.

New CPUs, faster Wi-Fi, same flaws: Apple’s 2013 iMac reviewed
Apple delivers improvements, but not the ones the iMac needs most.

Library of Congress and FTC will take their sites offline if gov’t shuts down
National Park Service would join the party too, but SEC, VA sites will stay up.

FTC publishes a long list of questions it wants to ask “patent trolls”
How much money do the "assertion entities" make, and where is it all going?

How the FBI found Miss Teen USA’s webcam spy
RAT user "cutefuzzypuppy" wasn't all that cute.

DOJ calls for drone privacy policy 7 years after FBI’s first drone launched
New Dept. of Justice report: We spent $5M on drones over almost 10 years.

If Bill Gates really thinks ctrl-alt-del was a mistake, he should have fixed it himself
You can't pin the blame for this one on IBM.

True to its recent prediction, BlackBerry lost over $1 billion last quarter
With any luck, the new move to take the company private can turn things around.

Microsoft’s copyright bots ask Google to hide Microsoft.com links
Office 2007 Wikipedia page and an open source project also alleged "infringers."

Valve unveils touchpad/touchscreen-enabled Steam Controller for living room
Controller designed to work with titles that are "not built with controller support."

Google Glass is going on a cross-country tour; first stop: Durham, NC
Google wants to put the public in the know about Glass.

LOVEINT: On his first day of work, NSA employee spied on ex-girlfriend
New letter from NSA oversight to senator details 12 instances of obvious abuse.

Report: Microsoft developing tech to stream Xbox games to PC, phones
Internal demo reportedly shows Halo 4 running on non-consoles over the cloud.

Netflix no longer blocks best HD content when feuding with your ISP
"Super HD" and 3D comes to all ISPs, even ones that refuse Netflix cache.

Ars Technicast, Ep. 34: Can SteamOS squeeze into your living room?
What happens when Steam expands from gaming rigs to compete with the consoles.

Microsoft wants you to work off your flab with Xbox Fitness
Kinect-based exercise program will be free to Xbox Live Gold users on Xbox One.

Attackers can slip malicious code into many Android apps via open Wi-Fi
Connection hijacking could put users at risk of data theft, SMS abuse, and more.

Biologist lets new Curiosity rover papers escape from paywall
Open access advocate says it's all NASA's, and therefore copyright-free.

IPCC climate change report is out: It’s warmer and we’re responsible
Recent slowdown due to La Niñas, volcanos, and a slight lull in solar radiation.

In new bill, four senators attack NSA’s bulk data collection
Sen. Wyden's questions suggest NSA is collecting cell location data, too.

Lawsuit alleging Gmail ads are “wiretapping” gets judge’s OK
Non-Gmail users never agreed to have their e-mail scanned, lawyers say.

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 9/30/2013

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