IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 8/16/2014

Grocery shoppers nationwide probably had credit card data stolen
Coast-to-coast: Albertsons, Acme Markets, Cub Foods, Hornbacher’s were hit.

Premier League warns fans not to tweet goal videos, animated GIFs
EPL using crawlers to find violations, admits "it sounds as if we're killjoys."

Does Facebook think users are dumb? “Satire” tag added to Onion articles
Tags only appear once a user clicks through and FB generates "related articles."

Windows 9 preview could materialize as soon as next month
"Threshold" preview rumored for a late September or early October release.

Comcast, TWC pull $132,000 donation from event honoring FCC commissioner
Controversial donations will be redirected toward group promoting diversity.

PS4 leads US sales for 7th straight month; Xbox One “strong and steady”
NPD stats show new console generation has sold about 6.87 million in US so far.

Signal of anthropogenic climate change is written in the ice
Take humans out of the equation and the glaciers would be in better health.

Facebook, the security company
CSO Joe Sullivan talks about PrivateCore and Facebook's homegrown security clout.

Rumor suggests Apple is working on its own reversible USB cable
New Lightning cable design would be compatible with current USB Type-A ports.

Weak forces hold rubble-pile asteroids together
Weaker than a hydrogen bond, van der Waals forces keep a rubble pile intact.

How Verizon lets its copper network decay to force phone customers onto fiber
Fiber is fast, but copper is reliable—even during multi-week power outages.

Five American Muslims sue FBI, attorney general over travel watch list
Plaintiffs decry "invisible web of consequences that are imposed indefinitely."

Microsoft considered renaming Internet Explorer to escape its checkered past
The team hasn't completely ruled out the possibility of rebranding the browser.

Lawyers in Texas case not allowed to tweet deposition of ex-sheriff
"Our technology is far outpacing [the] ability to formulate rules," judge says.

Former Xbox program manager: ‘Sorry for all the ads’
Celebrates 10 years of games experience by confessing his role in Xbox banners.

Sony: We don’t “feel the need to go out and buy outright exclusivity”
But exec admits to giving "financial support" to attract exclusive indie games.

Thursday Dealmaster has a 1TB USB 3.0 hard drive for $59.99
Get 60 bucks off the MSRP of $119.99. Plus, we have tons of other deals!

The next big smartphone maker might actually be Lenovo
The world's most successful Windows PC company sets its sights on mobile.

Uber, Lyft want to make nice with cities that have tried to shut them down
Meet the National League of Cities' "Sharing Economy Advisory Network."

The sad, strange saga of Russia’s “Sergeant Selfie”
After instant infamy for Instagram post inside Ukraine, soldier begs for WebMoney.

Thousand-robot swarm assembles itself into shapes
A few guide-bots and minimal communications get the job done.

Are processors pushing up against the limits of physics?
A perspective on whether Moore's law will hold, as well as whether it matters.

Facebook knows when you see a product on your phone, buy it on a PC
Advertisers can see when you finally buy their stuff, even a month later.

T-Mobile to throttle P2P traffic and excessive tethering, leaked memo shows
Only users who pay T-Mobile for unlimited high-speed data will be targeted.

Motorola event invite points to new phones, Moto 360 launch on Sept. 4
Invites rumors about Moto's Android Wear watch and its next Android flagship

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Saturday, August 16, 2014

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 8/16/2014

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