IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 22/10/2015

PSA: Now, a Twitter bot to fill your feed with the Internet’s oldest pages
Screengrabs render mid-'90s Web content on browsers from the same era.

Western Digital self-encrypting hard drives riddled with security flaws
Encrypted data is often easily recovered, in some cases with no password required.

Tesla shares drop after Consumer Reports raises reliability questions
It no longer recommends the Model S months after the car broke its rating scale.

Alan Tudyk: I left Uncharted 4 over “weird changes” to script
Change in leadership hurt the game's direction, voice actor says.

New antibiotics are trickling out of the pipeline
A brief progress report with charts and stats.

Supreme Court takes 1st patent case of term, and plaintiffs could benefit
Halo Electronics won its patent case, but it's frustrated with a $1.5M award.

Support scams that plagued Windows users for years now target Mac customers
Swindlers impersonate Apple service that remotely accesses user desktops.

Reno Gazette-Journal says Tesla Gigafactory guards accosted journalists
The accusations come after Tesla released a statement last week saying the opposite.

Homeland awkwardly tackles spy tech again, this time with stingrays
“Handheld stingray, if you can swing it.”

Apple CEO Tim Cook blasts encryption backdoors
"It’s in everyone's best interest that everybody is blocked out," Cook said.

HTC One A9 hands-on: A midrange smartphone that feels like a flagship
A solid, aluminum unibody paired with decent internals and a nice display.

Guitar Hero Live review: This is how to make rhythm games relevant again
Live-action gigs are great, but the GHTV music channel will keep you hooked.

With goal of universal HTTPS, Let’s Encrypt reaches important milestone
Free service backed by EFF is now trusted by all major browsers.

Apple TV orders start Monday, begin shipping next week
New box has an Apple A8, 2GB of RAM, 32 or 64GB of storage, and a new remote.

An interview with the Stig: Talking stunt driving with Ben Collins
Top Gear's former tame racing driver tells us about being a stunt driver.

Apple Music now has 6.5 million paying users
8.5 million more are still on the free trial.

FDA wants to stem antibiotic overuse, but diagnosis is remarkably hard
Doctors say pretty much any test would be better than current guesswork.

It’s OK everyone, Kojima hasn’t left Konami—he’s just “on vacation”
Publisher denies the departure of famed developer following The New Yorker story.

How a criminal ring defeated the secure chip-and-PIN credit cards
Over $680,000 stolen via a clever man-in-the-middle attack.

Breaking 512-bit RSA with Amazon EC2 is a cinch. So why all the weak keys?
"Factorization as a service" in Amazon cloud is so easy novices can do it.

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 22/10/2015

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