IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 10/04/2014

Dear readers, please change your Ars account passwords ASAP
Recovery from the critical Heartbleed crypto bug enters the password reset phase.

Amazon Fire TV misses the same marks as Ouya, other media boxes
Review—Name recognition means zip if fixes aren't universal and devs have no lead time.

Super Smash Bros. coming to 3DS “summer 2014,” Wii U in “winter”
Nintendo Direct demo also introduces modes, characters, and online details.

Blizzard, trans clans, and the evolution of online harassment policy
When it comes to LGBT issues, blanket bans on terms can do more harm than good.

Molyneux: “I’m sure they’re going to release an Xbox One without Kinect.”
Former Microsoft developer calls camera "unnecessary," "a joke."

“Copyright troll” Prenda Law completely bombs at appeals court
Appellate judge is shocked as Prenda's own lawyer can't unwind the "shell game."

Just having a 4K TV isn’t enough to see Netflix’s 4K streams
Netflix just added 4K, but it won't work everywhere.

FCC Chairman tells broadcasters to innovate, not wait for regulation
Audience wary of spectrum auction, angry about joint sales agreement decision.

Obama privacy chief wants NSA phone-snooping program to end now
Watchdog expects "short transition" period from constitutionally suspect surveillance.

LAPD officers monkey-wrenched cop-monitoring gear in patrol cars
Police oversight body is not happy: "We need to be brought in right away."

Comcast beats Monsanto in Consumerist’s “Worst Company in America” poll
But another survey finds Comcast is only the second worst cable company.

Tuesday Dealmaster has a 1TB hard drive for $44.19
Cover all your storage needs for under $50.

Meet Your Inner Fish—and a few other animals left inside you
A miniseries airing on PBS tomorrow shows how evolution made us out of old parts.

Critical crypto bug exposes Yahoo Mail, other passwords Russian roulette-style
OpenSSL defect still exposing sensitive data even after patch is released.

Comcast: Without Time Warner Cable, we can’t compete against Google, Netflix
Comcast says it has "one arm tied behind our back" on eve of Senate hearing.

Navy prepares to take railgun to sea
General Atomics- and BAE-built guns will be tested on high-speed vessel in 2016.

Legal or privacy problems? Journal changes its tune on climate paper
Two statements, apparently contradictory, both on the journal's website.

The XPocalypse is upon us: Windows XP support has ended
Without patches, it's inevitable that systems are going to get pwned.

Dyn discontinues free DynDNS service to clean up its DDNS network
Free customers have until May 7 to upgrade to paid service or go somewhere else.

EU high court strikes down metadata collection law
Citizens made to feel that they "are the subject of constant surveillance."

Red Digital Cinema shows off dev kit to make its cameras app-controllable
Redlink Development Kit makes the high-end digital video camera more flexible.

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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 10/04/2014

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