How nice of them to put that little disclaimer in about other sources not having any idea about it and the notion that hey, maybe MS can just completely change it on a whim!
Talking about throwing some **** at the wall and seeing what sticks. So basically Kotaku or whatever have their butts covered either way. If it has always-on DRM, then hey, "we told you so!". If it doesn't, then hey, "we told you they could just flip a switch and shut it off!".
People can say where there is smoke there is fire but an equally large rumor for the console has been a block on used games and apparently that isn't real because Gamestop recently gushed about the system.