IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 04/12/2015

Ballmer: Microsoft’s cloud revenue numbers are “bullshit”
Former Microsoft CEO wants to see the margins of the cloud and hardware businesses.

Manslaughter charges dropped in BP spill case—nobody from BP will go to prison
Explosion killed 11 workers, spewed 134 million gallons of oil, and fouled the coastline.

Universal flu shots may be impossible thanks to duped immune cells
Flu viruses trick immune cells into fighting seasonal battles instead of all out war.

Massive natural gas leak in Southern California may take months to plug
Air quality board says leak may be equivalent to a quarter of state's methane emissions.

RadioShack starts “wild ‘n out,” hires actor/rapper Nick Cannon as CCO
Praises "maker mentality" but mostly announces plans for consumer electronics.

$350 Oculus Rift dev kits going for as much as $1,200 on eBay
Demand for discontinued dev hardware is high ahead of Rift's consumer launch.

Town that has no cell phone service loses its primary Internet provider
In Stewart, BC, some residents could go without Internet for weeks.

Judge: Company must pay $684k for suing Life360 in “exceptionally weak” patent case
Startup CEO's public advocacy began with a letter styled "Dear Piece of Shit."

Incredibly strong El Niño still developing, bringing surge of winter warmth
Many large US cities recorded record-warm temperatures this fall.

DHS to Silicon Valley: Tell us how to secure this “Internet of Things”
Agency holds "Industry day" next week to recruit help with IoT security.

Sharing of television news clips hangs in the fair-use balance
Lower court says sharing, downloading, and time-searching clips isn't fair use.

AT&T says it shelved a “bunch” of ideas because of net neutrality rules
VP says it takes 15 lawyers to figure out what a net neutrality violation is.

SSDs aren’t as cheap as hard drives yet, but they’re getting there
Prices have fallen to 39 cents per GB, projected to fall to 17 cents by 2017.

Report: China hacked Australia’s weather service
"Massive" breach may have exposed network connections to Defence, other agencies

Yahoo considers sale of Internet business, but it isn’t worth much
Stake in Alibaba is worth more than Yahoo's core business.

During its next flight, SpaceX wants to try returning booster to land
After two seaborne attempts, company hopes to stick a land-based return.

Patent trolls filed hundreds of lawsuits to beat Dec. 1 deadline
More than 200 cases were filed Monday, mostly by "patent trolls" in East Texas.

HGST beats Seagate to market with helium-filled 10TB hard drive
WD subsidiary outs world's largest normal PMR drive. Seagate eagerly awaits HAMR.

New diabetes cases finally on the decline
Experts unsure if disease simply peaked or prevention campaigns working

After Safe Harbor ruling, legal moves to stop Facebook from sending data to US
Similar legal action may be taken against Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo.

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Thursday, December 3, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 04/12/2015

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