IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 5/15/2015

House votes 338-88 to stop bulk phone surveillance
Some opponents say reforms in the bill are too weak to be worthwhile.

Venom VM bug called “perfect” for NSA, or for stealing bitcoins and passwords
Attack code exploiting virtualization flaw could be available soon, researcher says.

The battleship, the drone, and the chocolate chip cookies
Ars' Sean Gallagher remembers his singular contribution to the development of drone warfare.

Broadband industry fears come true: FCC rules are costing them money
ISPs can't demand big money for interconnection when they might face complaints.

Google rejecting 59 percent of right-to-be-forgotten removal requests
European Court of Justice ruling was a year ago. Google has removed 322,000 URLs.

IBM demos first fully integrated monolithic silicon photonics chip
Electro-optical chips could bring big bandwidth gains and lower power consumption.

There’s going to be a whole bunch of Windows 10 versions
Most of them make sense, too.

LHC tests Standard Model again—sadly, it passes
Rare particle decay, detected for the first time, occurs just as predicted.

Dealmaster: Get a 28-inch Dell 4K monitor for only $299.99
That's $200 off the original MSRP, and we've got plenty more deals, too!

Carbon emissions put sixteen percent of species at risk of extinction
Estimate adjusts for studies that use different measures, methods.

Nintendo brings back its “World Championships” competition, 25 years later
Company's pre-E3 festivities include a tournament, but no formal press conference.

Invisible Inc. review: Stylish sneaking with some tight time pressure
"Stealth XCOM" forces tough tactical decisions at a fast pace.

Ken Fisher’s travelogue the second: Party time with Ars Technica UK
A brace of parties, a surprise in Piccadilly Circus, and so. many. sandwiches.

Why the Verizon-AOL deal just might work: Mobile video ads are worth a lot
Verizon didn't buy AOL, a dying ISP—it bought AOL, a digital ad company.

Bias in satellite measurements hid recent sea level rise acceleration
Instrument error inflated rate of rise in the '90s.

How to back up and restore your Apple Watch
Watches back up to phones, which back up to computers and clouds.

Extremely serious virtual machine bug threatens cloud providers everywhere
"Venom" allows attackers to break out of guest OS, escape into host. Patch now!

Ubisoft bringing its franchises to virtual reality early next year
First major third-party publisher to publicly announce significant VR support.

The discovery of Apache ZooKeeper’s poison packet
How PagerDuty found four different bugs.

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