IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 14/05/2014

Bitcoin miner startup slapped with involuntary bankruptcy petition
HashFast: “We are evaluating our options and preparing our response."

Sources: Xbox Live to remove Gold requirement for Netflix, Hulu
Multiple sources confirm internal efforts to make long-demanded paywall change.

After 17-year march, Army still drags its boots on buying high-tech radios
Volume radio purchasing starts in 2017—until then, Army may still use hand signals.

License plate reader error leads to traffic stop at gunpoint, court case
Flagged vehicle did not even match the model of what the woman was driving.

Teen arrested for 30 “swatting” attacks against schools, security reporter
60 criminal offenses charged against 16-year-old who provoked SWAT team visits.

Billboard: Beats founders Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre could become Apple execs
If the deal goes through, their addition to the team could be announced at WWDC.

Programmer at heart of tech workers’ class action case wants to block $324M deal
Michael Devine would prefer a day in court over a quick payout.

Glaciers draining Antarctic basin destabilized, big sea level rise all but certain [Updated]
There's little that will stop continued retreat of Antarctic glaciers.

U-2’s flight plan was like malware to FAA computer system
System checked infinite number of altitudes for collision risk, causing memory error.

Linux gets fix for code-execution flaw that was undetected since 2009
Vulnerability could be particularly serious for shared Web-hosting services.

Google’s YouTube quality reports will help ISPs “upsell” customers
YouTube's HD certification will help ISPs sell pricier services.

YouTube shuts down public RSS feeds of user subscriptions
Easily getting your YouTube videos into an RSS reader is no longer supported.

Half-Life 2, Portal see first-ever Android ports on Nvidia Shield
Shield-exclusive ports for $9.99 each; Nvidia, Valve are mum about future plans.

Facebook removes two of its apps from circulation
Facebook admits Poke and Camera defeat, pulls back from being a megaplatform.

Why some tree ring records haven’t tracked recent warming
Rising air pollution reduced sunlight in places that were already cloudy.

Visual Studio goes cross platform with Cordova integration from Microsoft
Android and iOS development in Microsoft's IDE now has first party support.

Microsoft boosts cloud security, network performance, compute power, and more
A raft of updates to Azure introduced at TechEd.

FCC chair cracks door open to reclassifying broadband as a public utility
Sticks with proposal, but will ask public whether "fast lanes" should be banned.

How to build your own render farm
Your main workstation has a lot of power, so free it up to do better things.

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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 14/05/2014

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