IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 25/06/2014

OK Google, crank the A/C: Nest announces new smart home API
Nest co-founder Matt Rogers on user data, and making the tech more affordable.

Senate takes one last shot at legalizing cell phone unlocking
Consumers can unlock their phones, and even ask for help doing so.

Mint 17 is the perfect place for Linux-ers to wait out Ubuntu uncertainty
Review: Long-term support and stability plus tweaks for desktop? Delicious!

San Francisco orders parking spot auction app to cease-and-desist
Parking Monkey CEO: new, innovative firms "should be regulated and not banned."

Seizing data for 2.5 years amounts to “general warrant,” court says
Decision limits government powers to search seized computer data carte blanche.

IE users get new protection against potent form of malware attack
The bane of browser security, "use-after-free" bugs get harder to exploit in IE.

Chromebook buyers were promised two years of free Verizon data, only got one
Chromebook Pixel buyers had their free 100MB of data cut off after a year.

Google formalizes commitment to “Access and Energy” with new division
Google publicly acknowledges that, yes, it has a lot of ISP and energy projects.

Sony: We were “dancing in the aisles” when Microsoft announced $499 Xbox One
In an interview, exec also expresses skepticism about the Steam Machine concept.

Looks like someone’s profiting from Snowden—European defense firms
Chill is just beginning for US cloud companies as governments seek local help.

Microsoft wants you to trade in your MacBook Air for a Surface Pro 3
Microsoft Store trade-in program offers "up to $650" toward a new MS tablet.

Divided Supreme Court narrows EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gases
Decision lets EPA regulate carbon emissions from sources of other pollutants.

OneDrive storage gets a whole lot cheaper, with 1TB for Office 365 home subscribers
15GB for all, 100GB for $2/month.

Poorly anonymized logs reveal NYC cab drivers’ detailed whereabouts
Botched attempt to scrub data reveals driver details for 173 million taxi trips.

“Civilian casualties” authorized under secret US drone-strike memo
US justifies killings as acts of war despite civilian deaths, global precedent.

Supercomputer slowdown: World’s fastest system sees no new challengers
HPC growth stalls with only one new supercomputer cracking top ten list.

HP Labs’ “Machine” dissolves the difference between disk and memory
Memristor technology promises a world where RAM never forgets—and is everywhere.

Cablevision bid to end Viacom’s forced channel bundling survives challenge
Cablevision says it had to buy less popular networks to get Comedy Central.

Mozilla puts a development environment into the browser with WebIDE
Nightly Firefox builds can develop, deploy, and debug apps all in the browser.

Civilization Revolution sequel coming directly to iOS next week
Consoles left out in the cold as 2K takes a mobile focus.

Syrian Electronic Army targets Reuters again—but ad network provided the leak
By targeting a third-party service, SEA could potentially create more havoc.

Google Tracker, I/O edition—what Google is working on before the big show
Before its big event, we run down the list of current projects going on at Google HQ.

Microsoft to finally give Bing the international love it needs
Goal is to make Bing a "quality product in 75 markets."

“Free” Wi-Fi from Xfinity and AT&T also frees you to be hacked
Ars tests how easy it is to spoof big broadband providers to grab data.

The Sims 4 preview: There goes the neighborhood
More hangout spaces, better personalities breathe fresh life into The Sims.

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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 25/06/2014

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