IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 7/13/2015

FTC exploring whether Apple’s 30% cut from music streaming apps is legal
Reuters says agency has met with “concerned parties” but no investigation yet.

Rocket League review: Soccer meets cars in 2015’s most intense game yet
Weak AI, spotty servers can't hold back the industry's best car-action controls.

Huge population of “Ultra-Dark Galaxies” discovered
Study of the Coma Cluster finds nearly a thousand large galaxies with few stars.

OPM got hacked and all I got was this stupid e-mail
I'm mad as hell and want to see some accountability for once.

Ellen Pao steps down as reddit CEO
Exit comes one week after massive user backlash against site management.

Hacking Team’s Flash 0-day: Potent enough to infect actual Chrome user
Government-grade attack code, including Windows exploit, now available to anyone.

US government’s reported number of wiretaps don’t add up
Wiretap Report, ordered by Congress, doesn't come close to the carriers' numbers.

Patent troll lawsuits head toward all-time high
Of high-tech patent suits, 90 percent are filed by "non-practicing entities."

Microsoft killing off some of its MSN apps, Photosynth app, this fall
Not enough people used them.

An Ars staffer signs up for Comcast Internet—how hard could it be?
What constitutes a sales pitch? Apparently, specifying a download speed does not.

Senators ask FCC to investigate cable and broadband prices
Monopoly ISPs “charge ridiculous prices and add hidden fees onto a customer’s bill.”

OPM director resigns after news that hack affected 21.5 million people
Weeks ago, Katherine Archuleta absolved herself, blaming "the perpetrators."

Disastrous F-35 vs. F-16 face-off was also a battle of philosophies
Ironically, the older plane was a response to the same assumptions.

Yosemite by the sea: The beauty of Rio
A gallery of my time as a tourist in Rio de Janeiro.

It’s official: Sharks no longer a threat to subsea Internet cables
First known cable shark attacks were in 1985.

How (and why) one man squeezed a modern console game onto MS-DOS
Retro City Rampage creator had a "burning ambition" to port the title.

Still “civilizing the electronic frontier”: EFF marks 25 years of activism, litigation
Ars chats with EFF head Cindy Cohn about a quarter century of advocacy.

Live chat: talk to us about research in Brazil (or just research)
Or just Brazil.

Ubisoft selling twice as many games on PS4 as on Xbox One
Xbox One games only selling at the same rate as last-gen Xbox 360 and PS3.

How a Russian hacker made $45,000 selling a 0-day Flash exploit to Hacking Team
"Volume discounts are possible if you take several bugs."

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Sunday, July 12, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 7/13/2015

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