IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 13/09/2015

PSA: Apple’s iPhone 6S and 6S Plus now available for pre-order
Phones start at $199 or $299 on contract, or consider a payment plan.

Student charged with endangerment after drone crashes into football stadium
Second time in days someone is accused of crashing a drone into a sports venue.

Alcatel not abandoning Windows on phones, will have a Windows 10 handset
The company continues to dabble with Windows devices.

First library to support anonymous Internet browsing effort stops after DHS e-mail
Board of trustees to discuss whether to turn Tor relay back on.

MIT ranks high in bad security at major universities
School scores lowest among 485 colleges and universities in SecurityScorecard scan.

What porn site statistics can tell us about the worldwide console wars
YouPorn report shows Microsoft relatively strong in the Americas, Nintendo in Asia.

Freshman kicked out of school for posting false-alarm threat on Yik Yak
18-year-old booted after reporting his anonymous post to university police.

Top 100 list shows Ashley Madison passwords are just as weak as all the rest
Top picks were . . . drum roll: "123456," "12345," "password," and "DEFAULT."

Security company litigates to bar disclosure related to its own flaws
Some vulnerabilities compounded by FireEye software running as root on Apache.

Epic Games releases $3 million in art and sound assets for free
You can now build the beautiful, but cancelled Infinity Blade: Dungeons yourself.

FBI, intel chiefs decry “deep cynicism” over cyber spying programs
Admit tough questions about things like backdoors have no easy answers.

Microsoft is downloading Windows 10 to PCs, even if you don’t “reserve” a copy
Files of up to 6GB in size showing up in a hidden directory.

Ancient permafrost sample yields another giant virus
A virus without close relatives emerges from a 30,000-year-old chunk in Siberia.

New Horizons phones in with lots of Pluto images
The search for New Horizons images no longer faces the dreaded "buffering" message.

Virtually ready: Diving into VR’s most promising PC launch titles
Forget tech demos; these are the games you'll actually be playing on Vive and Rift.

Your new Apple Watch color and band options, in pictures
It's not the Apple Watch 2, but there are quite a few new customization options.

First-ever monthly Android security updates start to roll out
Nexus device images are out. Samsung, LG, and cell carriers, you're on the clock.

Nintendo speeds up Super Mario Maker’s onerous nine-day unlock cycle
Day-one patch lets you use all level-building elements in a matter of hours, not days.

iOS 9.1 gets around to making some truly useful improvements: New emoji
New beta adds Unicode 7 and 8 characters to the OS, likely to hit this fall.

New Android ransomware locks out victims by changing lock screen PIN
Infected owners must choose between paying $500 and performing factory reset.

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Saturday, September 12, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 13/09/2015

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