IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 31/01/2014

Motorola’s “moonshots” team will find a new home with Android, not Lenovo
Ex-DARPA director will continue research under Google's Android team.

ARM finally defines a platform as it sets its sights on the server room
"Server Base System Architecture" defines the building blocks of an ARM server.

In rare move, terrorism suspect challenges core of warrantless snooping law
Gov't notified Jamshid Muhtorov in October 2013 that it spied on him.

Clapper: Snowden and media “accomplices” should return our documents
Statements come days after a group of lawmakers asked for Clapper to be fired.

Prince drops his $22 million lawsuit against online bootleggers
Attorneys have said "illegal downloads" are now gone from the sites in question.

Soylent gets tested, scores a surprisingly wholesome nutritional label
Shipping slips to late February, but Soylent can now claim health benefits.

“Astrobiologist” sues NASA, says Mars rock a “mushroom-like fungus”
Remember the mystery rock? One man believes it's a "composite organism."

Confirmed: Google will sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion
Google kills its Motorola plans and Lenovo becomes a smartphone player?

Target hackers may have exploited backdoor in widely used server software
KrebsonSecurity digs in to point-of-sale malware infecting retailer's network.

Collectively, humanity’s genomes carry a fifth of a Neanderthal
If you have lupus or trouble quitting smoking, it may be their fault.

The long-term effects of ugly political discussions on Facebook
Study shows political discussions are ruining Facebook and friendships.

Antitrust officials told Sprint they might block T-Mobile merger
T-Mobile called AT&T "Darth Vader" but might cozy up to Sprint.

Apple releases iOS 7.0.5 for some Chinese iPhone 5S and 5C models
Minor update corrects network provisioning problem for Chinese iPhones.

Meet the “inventor” of the week: Patent troll owns pre-release digital movies
Patent lawyer sued Apple, Amazon—and a company owned by troll-hater Mark Cuban.

Angry Birds website defaced following reports it enables government spying
Iconic image on homepage changed to "Spying Birds," includes NSA logo.

How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username
Stealing info from Paypal & GoDaddy took just a minor bit of social engineering.

Drilling surprise opens door to magma-powered electricity
Well hit magma at unexpectedly shallow depths and used it to generate steam.

Nintendo execs take salary cuts amid slow Wii U sales
Decent 3DS performance isn't enough to prevent continued profit declines.

Facebook uses 10,000 Blu-ray Discs to create petabytes of “cold storage”
Filled with "robotic wizardry," a storage system for rarely accessed data.

Lavabit goes head-to-head with feds in contempt-of-court case
Judges wary of drawing conclusions based on "encryption issue," PCWorld reports.

Court: Google infringed patents, must pay 1.36 percent of AdWords revenue
Holding company Vringo used old Lycos patents to wrest a win worth many millions.

AMD reveals its first ARM processor: 8-core Opteron A1100
Calls itself the first server CPU company with an ARM chip.

Java-based malware driving DDoS botnet infects Windows, Mac, Linux devices
Multi-platform threat exploits old Java flaw, gains persistence.

Nominate the best GIFs of the year for a GIFY
An awards show for GIFs honors the legendary image format.

Two-thirds of Americans surf the Web at less than 10Mbps
Average speed improved in nearly every state (sorry, Ohio).

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Thursday, January 30, 2014

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 31/01/2014

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