IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 16/05/2014

Mad at the FCC? Use this code to create your own “slow lane” on the Web
Widget forces site visitors to wait... and asks them to complain to Congress.

Former Subway sandwich franchisee cops to $40,000 gift-card hack scheme
Man used LogMeIn to access point-of-sale terminals of other shops, feds say.

Microsoft sticking to its guns so far, leaving XP unpatched and exploited
Patch Tuesday flaws affect Windows XP, and hackers are taking advantage.

Driven by necessity, Mozilla to enable HTML5 DRM in Firefox
Browser company fearful that users would follow Netflix to other browsers.

Sony Pictures scores movie rights to Snowden saga
Journalist Glenn Greenwald describes story as being “right out of a spy movie.”

Deemed “disparaging,” anti-Muslim website denied trademark
Activist claims decision based on fears of reprisal from "Islamic supremacists."

Comcast plans data caps for all customers in 5 years, could be 500GB
Cable company already enforces 300GB limit in seven states.

Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant
Servers, routers get “beacons” implanted at secret locations by NSA’s TAO team.

After media paywall lift, Xbox offers refund for Live Gold subscribers
Prorated refunds to be offered "once system updates become available in June."

Lawsuit alleges unauthorized publication of personal genetics data
Proposed class-action suit says Family Tree violated Alaska Genetic Privacy Act.

Ground control to Major Tom: Commencing Bowie video takedown
Copyright forces astronaut to remove Bowie cover filmed aboard Space Station.

Storing two keyboard layouts in your brain at once: It’s possible
I learned after my experience that people can switch on a word-by-word basis.

The year in patent litigation: More trolling, more Texas
More than 6,000 cases filed, many of them by just a few parties.

With sour 2015 forecast, Sony will have lost nearly $10B over 8 years
Even after VAIO sale, Sony sustains $1.2B loss in 2013-2014 fiscal year.

US sends its giant spy drone to look for kidnapped Nigerian girls
It can look through trees, but can a Global Hawk find 276 girls in the forest?

How Xbox One might thrive in a post-Kinect world
Op-ed: With Xbox One's hanger-on out of the way, MS can stage an E3 comeback.

Watch out for data caps: Video-hungry cord cutters use 328GB a month
Netflix's share of Internet traffic rises again, to 34 percent.

New planet-hunting hardware needs just a minute to image an exoplanet
Survey with the telescope may add 50 exoplanets that we've seen directly.

Al-Qaeda’s new homebrew crypto apps may make US intel-gathering easier
NSA spying revelations led to development of three new encryption apps.

Neurons never forget a face
Neurons that respond to faces show stable behavior even as the brain changes.

Google Glass enters open beta, goes on sale to anyone in the US
Sale will last for "as long as we have it on hand." Is this a clearance sale?

Super Time Force review: An excellent adventure, dude
Lowbrow presentation belies the smartest run-and-gun video game concept in years.

In 18 months, feds got nearly 300 complaints about Bitcoin miner maker
Federal Trade Commission received worldwide complaints about Butterfly Labs.

Good news for privacy: Fewer servers sending e-mail naked, Facebook finds
Company calls on laggards to join majority of servers by deploying STARTTLS.

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 16/05/2014

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