IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 7/10/2015

Simultaneous downing of NY Stock Exchange, United, and WSJ.com rattle nerves
No, the outages weren't part of some cyber attack, White House officials say.

Analysis: Nadella threatens to consign Microsoft to a future of desktop obscurity
Ballmer's vision is undone, with nothing coherent to replace it.

Iowa school district asking its principals to wear body cameras
Safety advocate says kids may not report abuse if they know they're being watched.

Misunderstanding the genome: A (polite) rant
Discussing DNA is difficult.

Desperate man with dying phone jumps on Broadway stage to revive it [Updated with video]
The man was heckled as ushers unplugged his phone from a fake wall.

Toss your manual overboard—augmented reality aims at big industry
Papers, diagrams, and checklists would be replaced with intuitive visual tools.

Google’s Chromecast gets a hardwired Ethernet adapter
If you have Wi-Fi problems, you can now directly plug into your network.

Silk Road creator Ulbricht, an “eternal optimist,” writes a letter from prison
"Unfortunately, the worst case scenario has played out for me."

Report: Paramount to test earlier home releases of theatrical films
Pilot program has two films; theater chains to receive portion of digital movie sales.

What happens when electric vehicle subsidies get too generous?
Changes to California's incentives show how policy can drive technology uptake.

Judge tosses jury’s $533M patent verdict against Apple, orders new trial
Jury may have had a "skewed damages horizon," judge explains.

Verizon: Let us install fiber—or we’ll shut off your phone service
Longtime customer complains of copper landline problem, gets shutoff notice.

FBI chief tells Senate committee we’re doomed without crypto backdoors
Challenges from Going Dark problem "are grave, growing, and extremely complex."

The Amazon is more impressive than you’d imagine
A chance peek gave me a view of one of the Earth's most astonishing features.

Lizard Squad teen gets no-jail sentence for 50,700 fraud, harassment charges
Finnish 17-year-old had been arrested in 2013, bragged about recent hacks on TV.

Over $40 billion of US Park Service assets at risk from sea level rise
If it goes up a meter, we lose a lot.

Time Warner Cable placed 163 robocalls about unpaid bill to wrong person
Judge orders cable company to pay robocall victim $229,500.

Logitech to rebrand as “Logi,” dropping “tech” from its name
Sweeping rebranding campaign underway, but not for the company's whole portfolio.

Time to upgrade: Last-gen consoles increasingly losing DLC support
Dragon Age: Inquisition is the latest in a trend away from aging hardware support.

Despite Hacking Team’s poor opsec, CEO came from early days of PGP
But by 2015, David Vincenzetti was "skeptical about encrypted" e-mail with clients.

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Thursday, July 9, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 7/10/2015

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