IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 11/7/2013

Researcher skepticism grows over badBIOS malware claims
Peers have yet to reproduce the odd behavior infecting Dragos Ruiu's computers.

Op-ed: Lavabit’s primary security claim wasn’t actually true
Ladar Levison stood up for users' privacy—but perhaps a little too late.

Tesla lost $38M in third quarter, stock tumbles over 12 percent
CEO Elon Musk says that Q4 2013 will see rise in research and development costs.

AMD stomps Nvidia with R9 290… at least in reviews
New cards faster and cheaper than Nvidia's best, but retail units have mysterious slow-downs.

Apple takes strong privacy stance in new report, publishes rare “warrant canary”
“Apple has never received an order under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act."

Bigger than Google Fiber: LA plans citywide gigabit for homes and businesses
Free broadband for all, and gigabit for those who can afford it.

The best way to take control of Bitcoin? Rally other greedy “selfish miners”
New research says luring others with big returns could lead to Bitcoin dominance.

Do bees know what they don’t know?
When faced with a decision they're likely to get wrong, bees opt out.

Install fix to stop in-the-wild Windows and Office exploit, Microsoft warns
Attackers are exploiting a bug to install malware on vulnerable PCs.

German Tesla owner proves the Model S really does go 130 mph with video
Elon Musk promises special free Autobahn-specific tuning for German Tesla drivers.

Have you seen these “cyber” fugitives? FBI offers up to $100,000 bounty
2 Russians, 2 Pakistanis, and a Salvadoran added to FBI's Cyber Most Wanted List.

Chinese used ice-path sleds to move Forbidden City’s stones
Ice slides moved more mass per man than any other method available at the time.

iPad Air profit margins reportedly range from 45 to 61 percent
Unsurprisingly, iPad storage upgrades appear to be almost pure profit for Apple.

Need to get a bunch of data onto Windows Azure? FedEx your hard drives
Web role now supports Web Sockets, remote debugging, and more.

Google: Stop asking the Internet how to do things, ask a human instead
From existential angst to WordPress themes, Helpouts mean to solve your woes.

Holiday Dealmaster does yoga—an IdeaPad Yoga 11, to be precise
Ramping up the deals as we get into the gift-buying season.

iFixit easily tears apart the decidedly high-end Nexus 5
There are few surprises, but a surprisingly small amount of glue.

Acer CEO resigns on the back of $446 million quarterly loss
Next up for Acer: cost reductions, layoffs, restructuring.

Philips Hue family gets brighter with new type of light
Regular lights, strip lights, bloom lights, and now downlights.

Disarming Corruptor distorts 3D printing files for sharing of banned items
Algorithm scrambles, unscrambles vertex positions of STL files.

Shadowy VPN firm says it has industry’s first transparency report
But EFF lawyer says Proxy.sh has the “single worst policy I’ve seen.”

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 11/7/2013

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