IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 27/03/2014

Minecraft dev halts talks with Oculus following Facebook acquisition
Notch: "I don’t want to work with social, I want to work with games."

Wikipedia founder calls alt-medicine practitioners “lunatic charlatans”
Wales to activists who want new rules for Wikipedia: "No, you have to be kidding me."

Facebook purchases VR headset maker Oculus for $2 billion [updated]
CEO Zuckerberg sees acquisition as a "long term bet on the future of computing"

Gay Firefox developers boycott Mozilla to protest CEO hire (Updated)
Brendan Eich's Prop 8 donations come to light, and internal response is mixed.

HTC planning Google Play Edition of the new HTC One (Updated)
Don't like HTC's skin? Pre-orders are live for the Google Play edition.

MIT creates a system to “PRISM-proof” websites
System could secure data by encrypting it before it leaves your computer.

Windows Azure no more: Microsoft renames its cloud computing service
It's now just going to be "Azure."

Supreme Court: Lexmark will have to stand trial over old DMCA threats
Lexmark said replacement cartridges violated copyright, but courts disagreed.

Tuesday Dealmaster’s got that SSD: A 256GB Crucial M550 for $168
And that's not the only one! We've got all kinds of SSDs up in here!

IRS: Bitcoin is property, like a stock or bond, and not a currency
If you sell Bitcoin and make money, you have to pay taxes on it.

Nvidia and IBM create GPU interconnect for faster supercomputing
"NVLink" shares up to 80GB of data per second between CPUs and GPUs.

Mega opts for a reverse takeover so it can go public on NZ exchange
Kim Dotcom's service will get new investors ahead of encrypted chat, e-mail expansion.

To replace drone strikes, US to give Yemen Hellfire-armed crop dusters
“Precision Strike” program will deliver two-man planes for targeted killing

Microsoft releases source code for MS-DOS and Word
Company donates DOS 1.1 and Word for Windows 1.1 code to Computer History Museum.

Hands-on with the HTC One M8: Fix the bad, keep the good, add a gimmicky camera
HTC's new flagship has a better button layout, but we're not sure about the camera.

Gallery: The new HTC One M8 in all its brushed-metal glory
The new phone's differences from the old one are mostly subtle.

Rare earth recycling: Is it worth it?
Mining neodymium is dirty, but recycling may not be a panacea.

Google: Cloud prices should track Moore’s Law, are falling too slowly
Google cuts prices 30 to 85 percent, simplifies application deployment.

Alaska bans hunters from using drones
After “drone-assisted” moose kill, Board of Game prohibits their use as spotters.

Xbox One price cut expands to Microsoft Store, other retailers [Updated]
$450 bundle with game not official, but it's becoming the current retail standard.

The new HTC One M8 is finally official, $199 on-contract, $649 unlocked
Worst-kept secret in mobile has a 5" 1080p display, dual cameras, Snapdragon 801.

E-book price fixing settlements land in Amazon customers’ inboxes
There may be still more money to come from other e-book retailers.

$397 billion fighter jet deployment may be delayed by software glitches
Full delivery of first F-35 "capability" may come a year late.

Cities reluctant to reveal whether they’re using fake cell tower devices
Florida city rejects ACLU records request.

A field report from malaria’s cradle of drug resistance
A report from the small corner of the globe that harbors drug-resistant malaria.

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 27/03/2014

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