IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 5/7/2015

Cryptocurrency maker Ripple Labs fined $700K for flouting financial regs
Virtual currency wild west is done, registration as a Money Services Business required.

Mystery person puts shuttered music site Grooveshark back online
Unexpected revival comes 5 days after Grooveshark execs apologize, shut down.

Warrants not required for police to get your cell phone cell-site records
Mobile callers' cell-tower history is fair game for cops—probable cause unnecessary.

Crop-dusting unmanned helicopter gets cleared for commercial flight
Yamaha's RMAX gets first FAA waiver for full commercial ops.

Lawyers threaten researcher over key-cloning bug in high-security lock
"CyberLock" securing police and airports has critical vulnerabilities, report warns.

Jury orders Motorola to pay $10M for Fujifilm patent claims
Camera company sought smartphone royalties, but got just 25% of what it was asking.

PSA: 3D Realms classics debut on Steam in 32-game bundle
Classics like Rise of the Triad, Terminal Velocity had already launched on GOG.com.

Samsung and UT Austin developing centimeter-accurate smartphone GPS
Snap-on accessory will bring precise position and orientation—provided you're outside.

How we cut carbon emissions influences our health
A carbon tax won't necessarily get us as many benefits as other routes.

Netflix urges FCC to reject AT&T/DirecTV merger “as currently proposed”
AT&T/DirecTV will have incentive to harm online video providers, Netflix says.

How the NSA’s speech-to-text ability keeps getting better every year
"RHINEHART now operates across a wide variety of missions and languages."

How someone spent “pennies” to troll women, people of color via promoted tweets
Games system to "generate negative reactions to ad campaigns," overcomes blocks.

Starfighter Inc. aims for a “hard-science driven, zero-g experience”
Former X-Wing and TIE Fighter devs are building a fast PvP space combat sim.

Collisions return to the upgraded Large Hadron Collider
Low-energy collisions help test conditions for a return to experiments.

Texas trooper’s viral photo with Snoop Dogg draws reprimand, lawsuit
Dinged for posing in photo with rapper having "a well-known criminal background."

Ubuntu 15.04 review: Beauty or “boring” is in the eye of the beholder
Many features will be backported, so is it worth updating ahead of the seismic Unity 8?

JetBlue to offer free in-flight Wi-Fi and Amazon Prime streaming video
Netflix might work, too, because JetBlue won't block streaming sites.

For first time ever, Sega won’t have a booth at E3
Move is the end of an era for a company in heavy restructuring.

Dealmaster: Get a Lenovo Z40 for $579.99
Originally $1,210; it has a 14-inch display, a Core i5, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB SSD.

Windows 10 gives users the finger with new emojis
Unicode 7 added a flip the bird emoji, which most platforms curiously omit.

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 5/7/2015

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