IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 10/11/2013

Acer’s $249 C720 Chromebook launched: Thinner, longer lasting, and Haswell
A big leap in battery life could drive sales of the lilliputian Chromebooks.

Web Served, the finale: Congrats, you have a Web server! What’s next?
Analytics, DIY Twitter, e-mail hosting—we've got the hookup on neat stuff to try next.

Google offers “leet” cash prizes for updates to Linux and other OS software
Rewards designed to improve security of software critical to Internet's health.

Gartner: Worldwide PC shipments continue their year-over-year tumble
But the US market posts slight growth for the first time since the beginning of 2012.

Firms spent $3 billion on mobile ads in the US in the first half of 2013
A new study shows that capturing your attention through your phone is big business.

Critical WhatsApp crypto flaw threatens user privacy, researchers warn
Messages sent over Wi-Fi and other public channels can be decrypted using known methods.

Chelsea Manning speaks from prison for the first time, rejects “pacifist” label
In new two-page letter, famed leaker writes: "l'm a transparency advocate."

Alleged Silk Road boss agrees to move his case to New York
Ross Ulbricht's lawyer says his client will make his case for bail once in NYC.

Microsoft pays $100K for new exploit technique, patches IE 0-day
Bumper payout is the first bounty paid under scheme started in June.

AT&T: The Internet is awesome, so let’s get rid of phone regulations
Astroturf group pushes AT&T agenda to deregulate telecom.

Measuring a superconducting qubit by manipulating its environment
Putting microwaves in the environment lets researchers track a qubit's evolution.

Microscopic Android: How to get real apps running on the Samsung Galaxy Gear
Watch Candy Crush, Nova Launcher, and Breaking Bad on the tiny Android watch.

GTA Online impressions: Hit-and-miss mayhem, if you can even log in
Weak servers and weak missions don't completely ruin multiplayer criminality.

NSA saves zero-day exploits for high-value targets
Detailed flowchart tells analysts when to stop the attacks.

Key steps toward computational chemistry get three the 2013 Nobel
Mixing quantum and classical models in one molecule made computation possible.

iPhone 5C and 5S come to the rest of the world on October 25, November 1
Apple will bring the new phones to 51 more territories in the next month.

Hackers in the electric grid? Meh—fear the dude with the stolen tractor
The power grid is under actual attack in one corner of Arkansas.

Suspect behind “Blackhole” malware toolkit believed arrested in Russia
Reuters source says a man known online as “Paunch” is held in custody.

Announcing the Galaxy Round: Because Curve was taken
Do we need a curved phone? Don't know; but we knew Samsung would build it.

Ballmer: Office not coming to iPad until it gets a touch UI on Windows
Microsoft's touch-first interface is "in progress."

Still have to write that thank-you note? Pay a robot to do it for you
Bond Gifts has hired a handwriting robot to create custom cards via an app.

Report: Apple’s next, probably-iPad-focused event happens October 22
AllThingsD is rarely wrong about these things.

Hijacking of AV firms’ websites may be linked to hack on Network Solutions
DNS redirection caused companies to lose control of sites and e-mail traffic.

Civ II’s “Eternal War” continues on reddit more than a year later
The 11-year conflict has spawned a community that's united 12,000 players.

Obamacare site hits reset button on passwords as contractors scramble
Three years wasn't enough time to get this massive IT effort past the finish line.

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Thursday, October 10, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 10/11/2013

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