IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 1/19/2015

Glitterbomb startup founder looks to cash out, puts site up for auction
"Please stop buying this horrible glitter product—I'm sick of dealing with it."

In China, for China
GE Shanghai thinks locally.

Pirates defeating watermarks, releasing torrents of Oscar movie screeners
DRM fail: Piracy sites loaded with unprecedented number of Oscar DVD screeners.

Feds operated yet another secret metadata database until 2013
In filing in Iran embargo case, DEA reveals database allowed under drug laws.

Thunderbirds revamped characters revealed
The brothers who fly International Rescue's fleet of vehicles are back in a new show.

Hatred gets Adults Only rating, making console, Steam release unlikely
ESRB gives violent game its most restrictive rating.

Local and state police can’t use federal law to seize assets anymore
Civil forfeiture has fueled billions for cops to spend on surveillance and more.

Hack on PS and Xbox attackers leaks DDoS customers’ plaintext passwords
Breached database shows DDoS-for-hire site received $11,000 in bitcoin.

Report: Google in talks to buy Softcard, the carriers’ NFC payment app
Softcard was meant to be Google Wallet without Google, but now Google might buy it.

Republican net neutrality bill would gut FCC’s authority over broadband
Bill takes away FCC powers on the books since 1934 and 1996.

How dating app Grindr makes it easy to stalk 5 million gay men
Location sharing allows user whearabouts to be tracked around the clock.

ToleranUX: Satirical Linux fork mocks calls for open source diversity
Phony fork mocks feminism, diversity efforts by espousing bad open source ideas.

Google drops more Windows 0-days. Something’s gotta give
With one fix delayed until February, Windows users are left exposed once more.

Netflix “refused” to answer encryption allegation, FCC commissioner says
Ajit Pai: Netflix denied accusations from ISPs but won't prove its innocence.

Linus Torvalds responds to Ars about diversity, niceness in open source
Acknowledges diversity factors, says "we're different in so many other ways."

2014 was the hottest year on record globally
NASA, NOAA, and JMA numbers concur.

Sprint goes off script, says Title II won’t hurt wireless investment
Sprint wants "differentiated services" but offers little opposition to FCC plan.

SpaceX releases video of Falcon 9’s explosive landing
Short clip shows booster struggling with positioning before impact.

Survey says security products waste our time
Only one in five security alerts are reliable, training users to ignore warnings.

Fedora 21 review: Linux’s sprawliest distro finds a new focus
Fedora.Next design brings some order to the chaos.

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 1/19/2015

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