IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 29/02/2016

Ars Cardboard classics—the stupid fun Monty Python Fluxx
Complete with outrageous accents and rude songs, its perfectly stupid.

Pentium? Core i5? Core i7? Making sense of Intel’s convoluted CPU lineup
It defies simple explanation, but here's how to know what you're getting.

In comeback bid, Shkreli’s old company gets OK to buy life-saving drug
Amid outcry, KaloBios may jack the drug's price and make millions off FDA voucher.

“Aren’t you a little too old for that?” 17 years of playing Pokémon
Pokémon is turning 20, and I've been around for most of it.

Most software already has a “golden key” backdoor: the system update
Software updates are just another term for cryptographic single-points-of-failure.

You can now read the entirety of sci-fi magazine If for free
All 176 issues of the magazine, which ran from 1952 to 1974, are available to download.

Congressman demands more NOAA e-mails about climate study
“Dear NOAA, Please print all the things.”

The Power Glove reborn? Sony patent points to finger-tracking controller
"Glove interface object" could be a more natural interface for PlayStation VR.

Obama administration closing in on rules to let NSA share more freely with FBI, CIA
New rules have been in the works since 2008 and may be approved in “months.”

Police chief: There’s a “reasonably good chance” not much is on seized iPhone
Top San Bernardino cop tells NPR there's "low probability" unlocking it will reveal more.

Drone flies within 30 feet of passenger jet landing at Heathrow
Multiple close-misses near London revealed in UK air safety report, plenty more in the US.

More GOP presidential hopefuls now side with the FBI in iPhone crypto fight
Rubio: Apple doesn't want to "hurt their brand." Carson: terrorism is "bad for America."

Hackers did indeed cause Ukrainian power outage, US report concludes
DHS officials say well-coordinated hack cut power to 225,000 people.

AT&T gave $62K to lawmakers months before vote to limit muni broadband
Missouri bill would make it difficult for cities to offer Internet service.

“Dangerous paleo diet” study is ragged with holes
Study reporting that high fat diet made mice fat somehow makes headlines.

Meet America’s next top bomber—the B-21
With design that echoes B-2, the new bomber looks the same as the old bomber.

Apple’s $120M jury verdict against Samsung destroyed on appeal
Autocorrect and "slide to unlock" patents are invalid in light of prior art.

Cratering portable sales can’t prop up Nintendo’s business anymore
With 3DS sales declining rapidly, Nintendo needs NX to succeed fast.

RIAA gets $22M default judgment against “brazen and egregious” MP3 website
"The modern Internet landscape has no room for this blatantly illicit site."

Sponge full of cholesterol pushes animal life back to 650 million years
Study confirms the forensics of the oldest evidence for animal life.

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Monday, February 29, 2016

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 29/02/2016

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