IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 01/01/2016

Ian Murdock, father of Debian, dead at 42
Former Sun VP and Linux Foundation CTO died under suspicious circumstances.

91% of patients who survive opioid overdose are prescribed more opioids
Doctors call for better treatment as opioid overdose deaths skyrocket.

Cisco gets a big patent win despite Supreme Court loss, overturns $64M verdict
Cisco calls the seven-year litigation initiated by a patent troll a "travesty."

Is cheater site Ashley Madison actually growing by over a million users per month?
Or are all of those new members actually bots?

Valve explains: DDoS-induced caching problem led to Xmas Day Steam data leaks and downtime
34,000 people may have had their personal data seen by others.

Dealmaster: Get a Dell 20-inch, 1080p monitor and a $50 gift card for $109
Plus a few more deals to grab before 2015 ends.

CBS, Paramount sue crowdfunded Star Trek filmmakers for copyright infringement
Axanar raised more than $1 million in donations, but it might get the legal axe.

The human migration out of Africa left its mark in mutations
The farther from Africa, the more of them there are.

Beating graphene to push supercapacitors closer to batteries
Adding nitrogen to carbon materials boosts capacitance above that of graphene.

Apple agrees to pay back taxes to Italy—sources say $350 million worth
CEO says US tax accusations are "political crap," yet Apple Italia will pay up.

Google slams AVG for exposing Chrome user data with “security” plugin
AVG AntiVirus "force-installed" Chrome plugin that left browsing data vulnerable.

Reuters: Apple will source OLED iPhone displays from Samsung and LG
Display tech has greatly improved in recent years.

Martin Shkreli’s other pharma company files for bankruptcy
After firing indicted CEO, company now fights to keep shares listed on NASDAQ.

LG’s Amazon Echo-like device controls smart home devices and plays music
The SmartThinq Hub is a portal to your smart appliances and sensors.

Bumbling would-be UK bomber asked Twitter followers for target suggestions
Once again, encryption was not used to cover tracks in any way.

ArcaBoard is a real hoverboard—but it’ll cost you $20,000
It will only run for a few minutes and sounds like a jet. Coming April 2016.

Ireland’s population underwent a dramatic change 4,000 years ago
Ancient DNA offers a glimpse of Ireland's farmers before and after the shift.

Exploding munitions store captured by Baghdad seismometer
While listening for earthquakes, Baghdad station recorded something else.

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IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 01/01/2016

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