Tuesday, December 1, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 02/12/2015





Appeals court orders Chicago sheriff to stop attacks on Backpage.com escort business
In which Judge Posner quotes Backpage's "dom & fetish" section.










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Hacked toymaker leaked gigabytes worth of kids’ headshots and chat logs
Company encouraged parents to use the pictures and chats with the apps it sold.










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Just Cause 3 review: A great game, if you can play it
Server and performance problems obscure stellar aerial acrobatics.










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Dealmaster: Cyber Monday brings bigger savings than Black Friday
Save $50 on a Playstation 4 Uncharted bundle from Amazon and Dell, and much more.










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BlackBerry says no to Pakistani backdoor gambit
Government ordered shutdown of enterprise service unless BlackBerry gave total access.










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How tech fails led to Air Force strike on MSF’s Kunduz hospital
Sensor and network failures put crosshairs on the wrong target.










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Hey Reader’s Digest: Your site has been attacking visitors for days
Researchers estimate the same campaign has infected thousands of other sites.










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The National Security Letter spy tool has been uncloaked, and it’s bad
No warrants needed to get browsing history, online purchase records, and other data.










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Apple’s A9X has a 12-core GPU and is made by TSMC
A big GPU is fed by a 128-bit memory interface but not an L3 cache.










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Inside (literally) wind turbines meant to work at the South Pole—and Mars
Ars visits Northern Power Systems to learn what goes into their wind turbines.










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Amazon is apparently making a video app for the new Apple TV after all
Apple TVs were pulled from Amazon's pages at the end of October.










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AMD’s new Crimson drivers accused of burning up video cards
Fans stick at 20 percent even during intense gaming.










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PSA: It’s the last day to get a Nexus 5X for $299—that’s $80 off
Cyber Monday on the Google Store makes an excellent cheap phone even cheaper.










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Toddler loses eyeball after errant drone slices it in half
Neighbor's drone clipped tree, spun out of control, and hit kid in face.










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PS4 developers can now access more of the system’s CPU power
Unlocked seventh core lets game makers, and not the OS, use more processing time.










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The worldwide effort to disarm Metal Gear Solid V’s nuclear weapons
Hidden cutscene will unlock when all players on the server have gone nuclear-free.










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Scientist says huge clumps of dark matter may lie just beyond the Moon
The physicist predicts densities of up to 1 billion times greater than normal.










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Bugatti is back in 2016 with the 1500hp Chiron
The Veyron's successor survives VW's scandal.










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Mario and Luigi: Paper Jam Bros reviewed: Stuck between two worlds
It has its moments, but Paper Jam Bros quickly becomes a repetitive slog.










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Report: VW execs knew about fuel economy, emissions cheating a year ago
Fuel mileage issues, not "subdued demand" behind sales halt of VW Polo BlueMotion.










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