IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 9/1/2014

Review: A $229 unlocked phone that marries the Galaxy S5 to the Moto G
Kogan's Agora 4G is a solid midrange phone with a couple of quirks.

Is there a benefit to compiling your code as you go?
Compiling allows you to fix errors quickly.

John Walker, the Navy spy who defined crypto-betrayal, dead at 77
Opinion: If you want to call anyone a traitor, measure them against John Walker first.

Hackers stole security check info on at least 25,000 DHS employees
Homeland Security tallies damage from breach at USIS, and it's not pretty.

Offline attack shows Wi-Fi routers still vulnerable
An attack can break into some common Wi-Fi routers, via a configuration feature.

Samsung licenses HERE maps, still trying to escape the Google ecosystem
Samsung finally has a backup plan for the most important app in Google's arsenal.

Gencon: My journey into the heart of the nerd kingdom
Scenes from the world's biggest—and nerdiest—gaming convention

Internet Archive posts millions of historic images to Flickr
Dating from 1500 to 1922, these images are now free and searchable.

Steve Jobs gets posthumous design patent on iconic NYC Apple store
Patent highlights new glass technology used in the cube's 2011 rebuild.

Los Angeles cops do not need to hand over license plate reader data, judge finds
Judge rules that such disclosure "could greatly harm a criminal investigation."

ALS Association drops ‘ice bucket challenge’ trademark app after complaints
"Ice Bucket Challenge" was a viral summer sensation, but ALSA didn't invent it.

Report: Next iPhone will use NFC for mobile wallet functionality
Matches information about conversations with payment processors, recent patents.

The long game: How hackers spent months pulling bank data from JPMorgan
Custom malware + lateral network moves = big problems for banking.

An era ends as Microsoft completely shutters MSN Messenger
Messenger users in China join the rest of the world in switching to Skype.

Rival may have roasted Keurig’s coffee-pod DRM
Keurig's attempt to lock out third-party pods may not be going well.

Haswell-E arrives, bringing a $999 8-core desktop CPU with it
Intel updates its enthusiast platform with more cores and DDR4.

It’s made-for-TV patent war, as AT&T sues Cox
AT&T wants cash for modems and DVRs that Cox bought from other companies.

Nintendo tweaks portable line with new, more powerful 3DS for Japan
New version features second analog nub, more buttons, better 3D viewing angles

Tripping through IBM’s astonishingly insane 1937 corporate songbook
There is no god but IBM, and T. J. Watson is his prophet.

Report: Google developing product delivery service via drones
Project Wing in development since 2011, still "far from having the right answers."

The death of the “gamers” and the women who “killed” them
Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian prove points a certain gamer-type refuses to hear.

FTC picks winners in latest robocall-defeating contest, scammers keep scamming
Contestants set up honeypots and spoof existing robocall-screening technologies.

Popular gamer’s real-life SWAT raid livestreamed on Twitch
Swatted: Video captures cops manhandling popular gamer Jordan "Kootra" Mathewson.

Microsoft finally tries to de-crap the Windows Store
Company responds to growing complaints about misleading and deceptive apps.

IRS wiped Lerner’s BlackBerry after Congress inquiry began, lawyer says
In document for lawsuit, IRS counsel says phone was “scrapped” in June 2012.

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 9/1/2014

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