IBM has confirmed that it has reached an agreement to acquire the provider of video streaming Ustream. No official figures about the acquisition were provided but the magazine Fortune leaked the news on Wednesday, providing a value of $130 million. For IBM the point of the deal is to add another service to its business cloud offers, one of the fast growing sectors and not just for IBM.

The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG), the organization responsible for the final review of the Internet standards, has approved the new error 451 for the http protocol, the one used for websites. The purpose of the error 451 is to indicate contents not accessible for legal reasons. In essence, it’s a warning that a content has been censored. The code is inspired to the dystopian masterpiece “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury although in that case censorship concerned books.

NASA has opened a new website to host the photographs of the Earth taken by the DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) satellite from its orbit, about a million and a half kilometers (about 930,000 miles) from the planet. This mission, jointly managed by NASA, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) and U.S. Air Force, has its main aim in monitoring solar wind but it also takes pictures of the Earth.