IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 7/2/2015

As Greece falls in arrears, one man wants to crowdfund €1.6 billion payment
British campaign organizer: “Right come on guys, let's just get this shit sorted.”

Appeals court says Apple is liable for e-book price fixing
Apple lost a price fixing case, fought the charges, but found no help in higher court.

Report: In test dogfight, F-35 gets waxed by F-16
F-35 pilot found his aircraft "substantially inferior" in close battle.

Rogue System’s early access alpha puts the “sim” in “space sim”
Buttons, switches, checklists—this game is basically DCS Spaceship.

Daily builds? Microsoft bangs out two public Windows 10 builds in two days
Latest build fixes 300 bugs and has a fancy new wallpaper.

AppleCare will replace your battery once it drops to 80% of its capacity
Applies to iPhones, iPads, iPod Touches, and Apple Watches, and Macs.

Facebook Messenger no longer requires Facebook account in US, Canada
Option also extends to Peru, Venezuela; users simply need a mobile phone number.

You are free to crowdfund: Kickstarter wins its first patent case
ArtistShare tried to patent a process "dating back centuries," but it lost.

Secret US court allows resumption of bulk phone metadata spying
Thought Congress put a halt to the snooping program Snowden exposed? Think again.

Op-ed: Safari is the new Internet Explorer
If devs build a modern Web app ecosystem sans Safari, maybe Apple can move beyond 2010.

Google dev apologizes after Photos app tags black people as “gorillas”
"Holy f---... not how you determine someone's target market. This is 100% not OK."

Researchers expose Dino, espionage malware with a French connection
Software tied to "Animal Farm" group, state-sponsored hackers who hit Syria.

California governor signs bill eliminating personal vaccine exemptions
Gov. Brown: "The science is clear that vaccines dramatically protect children."

Latest OS X update allows you to enable TRIM for third-party SSDs
"Trimforce" command line utility has scary warnings but appears to work.

Increased brain connectivity eases teenage impatience
Communication between brain regions allows adults to better consider the future.

Dealmaster: Get $350 off a Lenovo U31 Ultrabook with an Nvidia GPU
13.3-inch laptop has a 3.0GHz Intel i7-5500u processor and an Nvidia GT920m GPU.

Computer forensics to examine son’s claims that it was dad’s child porn, not his
Analysis will reveal if "anonymous logins" were the source of child pornography.

Australian government bans hundreds of mobile and Web-based games
New international rating system affects titles on Google Play, Firefox Marketplace.

A quick tour of iOS 8.4’s new Music app and the Apple Music setup process
App focuses on the Apple Music service, but local music gets improvements, too.

Seattle police seek pilot after woman knocked out by falling drone
$1,200 drone located by witnesses, turned over to police.

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 7/2/2015

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