Archive of Stories for Last 7 days

Disconnection of Millions of DNSChanger-Infected PCs Delayed 18
Last Day To Tell Google To Forget You 104
FDA To Review Inhalable Caffeine 87
PSVita Released In the USA and Europe 130
Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? 90
Microsoft Files EU Antitrust Complaint Against Motorola Mobility 91
Solid Buckeyballs Detected In Space 45
UN Pushes Plan To Assume Internet Governance Role 181
The Recycling of the Tevatron 56
KDE KWin May Drop Support For AMD Catalyst Drivers 105
Playbook OS 2.0 Released 72
Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook 296
Intel Opening Foundry To Third Parties 42
ACTA Referred To Europe's Top Court For Analysis 52
Medal Adobe Makes Flash on GNU/Linux Chrome-Only 316
Medal Have Bad Cars Gone Extinct? 492
Astronomers Confirm a Hot and Steamy Exoplanet 57
Google Heads Up Display Coming By the End of the Year 164
Medal Obayashi To Build Space Elevator By 2050 422
Europe Plans Exascale Funding Above U.S. Levels 68
Privacy-Centric Search Engine Scroogle Shuts Down 120
The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal 131
Why Corporate Cloud Storage Doesn't Add Up 133
Unconstitutional Video Game Law Costs California $2 Million 164
How Google Is Remapping Public Transportation 152
Pico Projector Adapts To New Surfaces, Uses Random Objects As Input Devices 21
Medal Medal Santorum Calls Democrats 'Anti-Science' 1017
DHS Budget Includes No New Airport Body Scanners 70
How Mailinator Compresses Its Email Stream By 90% 72
New Opa S4 Release Puts Forward New 'ORM' For MongoDB 29
Transparency Grenade Collects and Leaks Sensitive Data 103
Electric Rockets Set To Transform Space Flight 110
Mathematical Parrot Reveals His Genius With Posthumous Paper 108
Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers 591
Heartland Institute Document Leaker Comes Forward, Maintains Documents Are Real 355
Slashdot Visits Metrix Create:Space in Seattle (Video) 27
Canonical Puts Ubuntu On Android Smartphones 134
Aging Eyes Blamed For Seniors' Health Woes 136
Apache 2.4 Takes Direct Aim At Nginx 204
Moon May Not Be As Dead As We Thought 115
Oracle's Java Claims Now Down To $230 Million 81
Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical 232
Medal Medal Ask Slashdot: Copy Protection Advice For ~$10k Software? 613
Tech Billionaire-Backed Charter School Under Fire In Chicago 313
With Push for OS X Focus, CUPS Printing May Suffer On Other Platforms 249
Get a Glimpse At the Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix 50
Anonymous Cowards, Deanonymized 155
Medal Medal Hunters Shoot Down Drone of Animal Rights Group 1085
Hackers In Space: Designing A Ground Station 95
The Pirate Bay On Track To Be Banned In the UK? 304
Best Language For Experimental GUI Demo Projects? 270
European Parliament To Exclude Free Software With FRAND 212
LIDAR Map Shows Height of Earth's Forests 46
Russian Scientists Revive Plant From 30,000-Year-Old Seeds 160
Carbohydrate-Based Synthesis To Replace Petroleum Derived Hydrocarbons? 165
Microsoft Accuses Google of Violating Internet Explorer's Privacy Settings 193
Commercial, USB-Powered DNA Sequencer Coming This Year 94
Medal Medal Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? 864
Eternal Copyright: a Modest Proposal 182
Samsung Spins Off Its Display Business 60
Medal A Rant Against Splash Screens 469
Researchers Break Video CAPTCHAs 102
Test-Tube Burgers Coming Soon 270
Google Seeks To Plant Antenna Farm In Iowa 98
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Priorities Inflation In IT Projects? 299
Chinese Court Orders Ban On Apple's iPad 189
UK Government To Demand Data On Every Call, Email, and Tweet 197
Study Says E-prescription Systems Would Save At Least 50k Lives a Year 134
LightSquared Hires Lawyers To Prep For GPS Battle 194
Medal Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US 445
Georgia Tech iPhone App Could Help Blind Users Text 58
Leaky Cellphone Nets Can Give Attackers Your Location 67
Intel Gets Serious With Solar-powered CPU Tech 74
Medal Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks? 363
Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom 127
Google Chrome: the New Web Platform? 287
Canada's Online Surveillance Bill: Section 34 "Opens Door To Big Brother" 176
Space Team Reunites For John Glenn's Friendship 7 82
Security Tool HijackThis Goes Open Source 100
Medal Heartland Institute Threatens To Sue Anyone Who Comments On Leaked Documents 510
Tetris In 140 Bytes 207
Human Rights Groups Push To Save Condemned Programmer In Iran 238
Medal Should Microsoft Put Office On the iPad? 399
Successful Test Flight and Landing for Xombie Rocket Lander and GENIE 64
UK Plans More Spying On Internet Users Under 'Terrorism' Pretext 188
Google Working On Password Generator For Chrome 174
VLC 2.0 'Twoflower' Released For Windows & Mac 297
Flash Memory, Not Networks, Hamper Smartphones Most 121
Avoiding Red Lights By Booking Ahead 298
Universities Agree To Email Monitoring For Copyright Agency 165
Kenyan Chief Foils Robbery Via Twitter 50
Medal UK Student Jailed For Facebook Hack Despite 'Ethical Hacking' Defense 354
Commercial Drones Taking To the Skies 148
Medal AMD: What Went Wrong? 494
John Nash's Declassified 1955 Letter To the NSA 92
Apple Settles Antennagate Class-Action Lawsuit 129
Australian Police Spying On Web, Phone Usage With No Warrants 78
Is the Government Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US? 270
Medal FOIA Request Shows Which Printer Companies Cooperated With US Government 353
Arizona Ponders FCC Decency Standards For the Classroom 122
Fair Labor Association Finds Foxconn Factory "First Class," Says Labor Watchdog Group 219
$6 Trillion In Fake US Treasury Bonds Seized In Switzerland 198
Medal iPad 3 Confirmed To Have 2048x1536 Screen Resolution 533
Stealing Laptops For Class Credit 138
Canadians #TellVicEverything In Response To Bill C-30 84
Kentucky Telephone Companies Pushing For Option To End Basic Service 157
Ask Slashdot: Life After Software Development? 416
Deadly H5N1 Flu Studies To Stay Secret... For Now 111
Ford and Bug Labs Shipping OpenXC Beta Kits 58
Book Review: Java Performance 158
How Companies Learn Your Secrets 353
EU Court Rules Social Networks Cannot Be Forced To Police Downloads 81
DARPA Researches Avatar Surrogates 159
Making a Better Solar Cooker 167
Former Goldman Programmer's Conviction Overturned 179
A Look At Microsoft's 'Mini Internet' For Testing IE 241
SCO vs. IBM Trial Back On Again 232
Small, Modular Nuclear Reactors — the Future of Energy? 308
Google Accused of Bypassing Safari's Privacy Controls 202
DNA Nanorobot Halts Growth of Cancer Cells 73
Nevada Approves Rules For Self-Driving Cars 306
Medal Medal Obama Pushes For Cheaper Pennies 823
New Technique For Mass-Producing Microbots Inspired By Origami 28
Medal James Randi's Latest Debunking Operation 495
Are UK Police Hacking File-Sharers' Computers? 177
Pharmacy On-a-chip Dispenses Drugs Automatically 74
Man Digs Out Basement Using Radio Controlled Toy Tractors 168
Optimizing Your Caffeine Intake With an App 133
Study Says Fracking is Safe In Theory But Often Not In Practice 297
School Sends Child's Lunch Home After Determining it Unhealthy 550
FCC Cracks Down on Robocalls 208
JotForm.com Gets Shut Down SOPA-Style 182
A Memory of Light To Be Released January 8, 2013 226
US Seismologist Testifies Against Scientists In Quake-Prediction Case 188
SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future 289
Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? 458
Double Fine Adventure Will Be Available DRM Free For IOS, Android 117
Oracle Claims Dramatic MySQL Performance Improvements 167
Medal Medal Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought 610
Yet Another European Government Drops ACTA 117
WindowMaker Development Resumes, Has First Release Since 2006 192
Booktype: An Open Source, Cross-Platform Approach To E-Book Publishing 87
Library.nu and Ifile.it Shut Down 336
Antibiotics Are Useless In Treating Most Sinus Infections 376
Indian Government To Track Locations of All Cell Phone Users 150
Medal Medal An Early Look At Mac OS X 10.8 658
Medal Medal Why People Don't Live Past 114 905
HP CEO Says Google-Motorola Deal Could Close-Source Android 203
Microsoft's Killer Tablet Opportunity 282
Decision Time For SKA Telescope Bids 45
SEC Decides Telcos Must Give Shareholders a Vote On Net Neutrality 107
Ask Slashdot: Tech Manufacturers With Better Labor Practices? 375
Medal Scientists Study How Little Exercise You Need 436
Medal Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death 506
Why Open APIs Fall Far Short of Open Source 163
EFF Launching 'Patent Fail' Campaign 72
Brain Implants Can Detect What Patients Hear 75
Hotmail's Spam Filter: The Best In the Business? 182
Buy an Elite HP PC, Get Your Own Support Staffer 155
Medal Medal 300k Organic Farmers To Sue Monsanto For Seed Patent Claims 615