IT-Code-News: IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 9/10/2014

Gallery: Behind the scenes at Motorola’s Chicago design laboratory
Here's a glimpse of how Motorola designs products and handles the press.

Home Depot confirms breach but stays mum as to size
Home-supply retailer confirms card data stolen, likely starting in April.

Meet the tech company performing ad injections for Big Cable
Firm says its ad product is an "unprecedented 'eyes on' communication medium."

Review: The new Moto G doesn’t change much, but still a steal at $179
It's just the same specs with a bigger screen, but others still can't compete.

AT&T and Verizon finally giving customers decent Netflix quality
DSL subscribers of both companies still getting low speeds, though.

Pay Uber in BTC? Maybe someday: eBay subsidiary Braintree to accept Bitcoin
Company is part of PayPal unit, and Bitcoin supporters hope acceptance will spread.

Ohio bill drops one attack on science education, picks up another
The politics are gone, but creationist language takes its place.

Europa’s icy shell may undergo plate tectonics
Hints of moving plates, but the mechanism that drives motion isn't clear.

Report: Congress won’t shut down NSA database this year
USA Freedom Act even has support from James Clapper, but still can't pass.

MSN is back, with new site and bizarre rebranding exercise
Everything old is, apparently, new again.

Bungie: “Reviews of Destiny will wait” until public starts to play
Says game is "a shadow of what it should be" without more players online.

AT&T and Verizon say 10Mbps is too fast for “broadband,” 4Mbps is enough
Cable lobby also implores FCC not to change definition of broadband.

Amazon’s Fire Phone falls to 99 cents on a two-year contract
After reports of it struggling in the market, the device gets a $200 price cut.

Facebook-surfing driver rear-ends car at 85 mph, kills elderly woman
Great grandmother killed after motorist didn't hit brakes, police say.

What to expect at Apple’s big September 9 event
New, bigger iPhones? iOS 8? A brand-new class of gadget? Here's the full list.

Liveblog: Apple talks iPhone, iOS, and wearables tomorrow at 10am PT
We'll be in Cupertino to bring you the latest as it happens.

TiVo announces TiVo Mega, a rackmount DVR with six tuners and 24TB
$5,000 device with 4,000 hours of HD recording capacity due in early 2015.

New ice core records show Greenland in sync with the rest of the globe
Different technique yields a less confusing answer to when warming started.

reddit shuts down subreddit that showcased celebrities’ stolen nude photos
System admin says taking down the images became "a game of whack-a-mole."

Comcast Wi-Fi serving self-promotional ads via JavaScript injection
The practice raises security, net neutrality issues as FCC mulls Internet reforms.

Moto 360 review—Beautiful outside, ugly inside
Motorola creates an iconic design, but pairs it with an ancient, power-hungry SoC.

The present and future of Iceland’s volcanic eruption
Dave McGarvie, a volcanologist at The Open University, explains what’s going on.

Ransomware going strong, despite takedown of Gameover Zeus
The botnet takedown nearly quashed Cryptolocker, yet other ransomware continues.

Whaling ruling helps to clarify what counts as science research
"Scientific whaling" is a misnomer unless you actually do science.

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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 9/10/2014

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