News Stories for 2018

A Chinese-Built Replica of the Titanic Will Set Sail From Dubai in 2022 143
Tech Groups Step Away From Gab Network After Shooting 631
Kids Think the Darndest Things About How Computers Work 226
Should Parents End 'Screen Time' For Children? 178
Richard Stallman Calls Open Source Movement 'Amoral', Criticizes Apple And Microsoft For 'Censoring' App Installation 239
High Housing Prices In Tech Cities Are Now Raising Home Prices In Other States 253
What Happens When Telecom Companies Search Your Home For Piracy 124
New SystemD Vulnerability Discovered 204
Kansas 'Swat' Perpetrator Will Now Plead Guilty To Dozens More Swat Incidents 196
Authors of Controversial 'Seattle Minimum Wage' Study Revise Their Conclusions 290
Canonical Releases Statistics Showing Adoption of Snap Packages 62
With Few US Students Taking CS Classes, Code.org 'Scales Back' Funding For CS Education 162
Mysterious White Cloud Hangs Over Martian Volcano 59
FDA Approves First New Flu Drug In 20 Years 39
Chinese Court Rules Bitcoin Should Be Protected As Property 51
Google's Smart City Dream Is Turning Into a Privacy Nightmare 61
Trivial Bug In X.Org Server Gives Root Permissions On Linux, BSD Systems 114
Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign 54
Tesla Faces FBI Probe Over Model 3 Production Numbers 143
California Delays Net Neutrality Law's Enforcement Until After Court Case 76
Amazon Has Pulled Ads From Bloomberg Over Controversial 'Big Hack' Chinese Spy Story; Apple Has Not Invited Outlet's Reporters To a Product Event Next Week 119
Suspicious Packages Spotlight Vast 'Mail Cover' Postal Surveillance System 247
A Reporter, Posing as Sketchy PR, Asked 28 Media Outlets If They'd Take Money To Publish Content Without Disclosing it Was Advertising. More Than Half Said Yes. 63
Scientists Push For Government Research Program Focused On Sucking Carbon From Air 222
Experts Want To Ban Organophosphate Pesticides To Protect Children's Health 71
China Telecom Hijacks US, Canadian Internet Traffic On a Regular Basis, Report Says 64
Facebook Fined Maximum Legal Amount For Cambridge Analytica Scandal 62
Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says 294
190 Universities Launch 600 Free Online Courses 82
AI-Generated Portrait Sells For Nearly Half a Million In Auction 82
Google Reportedly Paid Andy Rubin $90 Million After He Allegedly Coerced Sex From Employee 286
Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal 124
New Study Claims Data Harvesting Among Android Apps Is 'Out of Control' 97
Tesla Reports Third-Quarter Profit That Beats Market Expectations 195
China, Russia Are Listening To Trump's Phone Calls, Says NYT Report 423
Google Is Teaching Children How To Act Online. Is It the Best Role Model? 96
Prank Calls Brought ICE Hotline To a Standstill, Internal Emails Show 457
Big Brother is Being Increasingly Outsourced To Silicon Valley, Says Report 70
Yahoo To Pay $50 Million, Offer Credit Monitoring For Massive Security Breach 36
IBM Open Sources Mac@IBM Code 91
Apple's Upcoming TV Service To Launch In Over 100 Countries In 2019, Starting With the US 42
Coinbase Lets You Buy and Sell USDC Stablecoin 53
DARPA Wants To Build 'Contextual' AI That Understands the World 79
Silicon Valley's Dirty Secret: Using a Shadow Workforce of Contract Employees To Drive Profits 177
World's Longest Sea Bridge Opens After 9 Years of Construction 108
Richard Stallman Announces GNU Kind Communication Guidelines 448
Firefox 63 Arrives With Enhanced Tracking Protection, Search Shortcuts, and Picture-in-Picture on Android 83
White House Wants To Borrow Tech Workers From Google and Amazon, Says Report 208
Mozilla Is Reportedly Going To Sell VPN Subscriptions Within Firefox 112
Google News App Bug Is Using Up Gigabytes of Background Data Without Users' Knowledge 110
Intel Says They Aren't Abandoning 10nm Chips, Despite Report Saying They're Canceled 107
YouTube Is Investing $20 Million In Educational Content, Creators 115
Feds Shut Down Self-Driving School Bus Pilot In Florida 91
UK ISP Tests SIM Card That Forces All of Your Mobile Data Through Tor 46
Netflix To Raise $2 Billion In Debt To Fund More Original Content 122
16-Year-Old Dethrones Tetris World Champion With Difficult Hyper-Tap Technique 70
AWS CEO Andy Jassy Follows Apple In Calling For Retraction of Chinese Spy Chip Story 111
YouTubers Will Enter Politics, And If They Do, They're Probably Going To Win 298
Micron Plans To Buy Out Intel's Stake In Flash Memory Joint Venture For $1.5 Billion 20
US Air Pollution Deaths Nearly Halved Between 1990 and 2010 134
MPlayer, VLC Media Player Hit By Critical Vulnerability 72
TSA Lays Out Plans To Use Facial Recognition For Domestic Flights 171
Armenia Opens $50 Million Bitcoin, Ethereum Mining Farm 38
Will Tech Leave Detroit In the Dust? 102
Germany Urges Global Minimum Tax For Digital Giants 275
New Material Could Up Efficiency of Concentrated Solar Power 80
Climate Modeller Wins $10,000 Wager Against Solar Physicists, Fails To Collect 195
Equifax Web Site Designer Fined $50,000 And Confined To Home Over Insider Trading 105
HealthCare.gov Portal Suffers Data Breach Exposing 75,000 Customers 70
Spacecraft BepiColombo Poised For Mission To Mercury 29
Earth's Inner Core Is Solid, But Squishier Than Previously Thought 66
Ajit Pai Killed Rules That Could Have Helped Florida Recover From Hurricane 225
Smart Home Makers Hoard Your Data, But Won't Say If the Police Come For It 45
Amazon Shuts Down Liquavista, a Screen Technology Company It Had Acquired From Samsung in 2013 24
3D Printers Have 'Fingerprints', a Discovery That Could Help Trace 3D-Printed Guns: Study 139
Justice Department Charges Russian Woman With Interference in Midterm Elections 261
WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Sues Ecuador For 'Violating His Rights' 225
Should We Break Up the Tech Giants? Not if You Ask the Economists Who Take Money From Them 127
Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt 190
The Army Is Preparing To Send Driverless Vehicles Into Combat 172
iPhone's New Parental Controls Block Sex Ed, Allow Violence and Racism 185
Internet Provider Groups Sue Vermont Over Net Neutrality Law 101
OpenBSD 6.4 Released 121
When Your Day Job Isn't Enough 191
Earth on Pace For Fourth-Warmest Year on Record, NOAA and NASA Say 310
Remote South Atlantic Islands Are Flooded With Plastic 83
Ubuntu Linux 18.10 'Cosmic Cuttlefish' Arrives 99
Number of Robocalls Placed in the US Surged By 50 Percent in the First Half of This Year 147
Adding Sensors To Every Ship Entering the Arctic Could Help Map the Uncharted Seafloor 40
One of the World's Largest Organisms is Shrinking 108
US Announces Plans To Withdraw From 144-Year-Old Postal Treaty 415
Scientists Discover Weird Sounds In Antarctic Ice Shelf 40
NASA Astronaut Details Fall To Earth After Failed Soyuz Launch 80
Ask Slashdot: Should Open-Source Developer Teams Hire Professional UI/UX Designers? 249
Facebook Lured Advertisers By Inflating Ad-watch Times Up To 900 Percent 83
Apple Launches Portal For US Users To Download Their Data 35
US is World's Most Competitive Economy for First Time in a Decade 290
How Paul Allen Saved the American Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence 48
YouTube is Down 206
Amazon Worker Pushes Bezos To Stop Selling Facial Recognition Tech To Police 126
MongoDB Switches Up Its Open-Source License 141
Facebook Could Use Data Collected From Its Portal In-Home Video Device To Target You With Ads 62
New York Attorney General Expands Inquiry Into Net Neutrality Comments 93
Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book 733
'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss 336
Most Americans Can't Tell the Difference Between a Social Media Bot and A Human, Study Finds 140
Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections 245
99.7 Percent of Unique FCC Comments Favored Net Neutrality, Independent Analysis Finds 137
US Voter Records From 19 States Is Being Sold on a Hacking Forum, Threat Intelligence Firms Say 102
Winamp Media Player To Return as a Platform-Agnostic Audio Mobile App Next Year; Desktop Application Receives an Update 175
MIT Plans College For AI, Backed by $1 Billion 52
Many Pay High Investment Company Fees For Services They Don't Use, Survey Shows 95
UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy 240
US Senators Urge India To Soften Data Localization Stance 136
Software Freedom Conservancy Shares Thoughts on Microsoft Joining Open Invention Network's Patent Non-Aggression Pact 66
Japanese Passport Now World's Most Powerful 175
The Magic Leap Con 173
Silicon Valley's Saudi Arabia Problem 297
Pentagon Reveals Cyber Breach of Travel Records 36
Humans Are Now Monitoring Animals With Facial Recognition Technology 29
Climate Change Report Actually Understates Threats 396
Are Universal Basic Incomes 'A Tool For Our Further Enslavement'? 651
Why Someone Put a Giant, Inflatable Bitcoin Rat on Wall Street 39
America Finally Abandons Plan To Convert Plutonium Bombs Into Nuclear Fuel 127
150 San Franciscans Explain How Tech Money Changed Their City 61
Apple Inks $600 Million Deal To Acquire Assets and Talent From Dialog Semiconductor 28
Tech Suffers From Lack of Humanities, Says Mozilla Head 472
Twitter and Salesforce CEOs Spat Over Who is Helping the Homeless More 92
The UK Invited a Robot To 'Give Evidence' In Parliament For Attention 18
US Lawmakers Urge Canada To Snub China's Huawei in Telecoms 72
FCC Tells Court It Has No 'Legal Authority' To Impose Net Neutrality Rules 226
To Deter Foreign Hackers, Some States May Also Be Deterring Voters 164
Firefox Removes Core Product Support For RSS/Atom Feeds 131
Bees Stop Flying During Total Solar Eclipses 86
Does Amazon Owe Wikipedia For Taking Advantage of The Free Labor of Their Volunteers? 176
45 Out of 50 Electronics Companies Illegally Void Warranties After Independent Repair, Sting Operation Finds 79
Facebook Removes Hundreds of Accounts Spamming Political Info 171
Researchers Develop 3D Printed Objects That Can Track and Store How They Are Used 16
The US Military Wants To Teach AI Some Basic Common Sense 94
The Cryptocurrency Industry is 'On the Brink of an Implosion', Research Says 187
President Trump Signs Music Modernization Act Into Law 175
Apache OpenOffice, the Schrodinger's Application: No One Knows If It's Dead or Alive, No One Really Wants To Look Inside 98
Crew of 'Soyuz' Spacecraft Establish Contact After Failed Launch 123
Waymo's Driverless Cars Have Logged 10 Million Miles On Public Roads 129
The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built For the Next Decade 107
Newly Discovered Volcanic 'Lost World' Is a Haven For Marine Life 47
Magic Leap Expands Shipments of Its AR Headset To 48 US States 23
Automated Warehouse In Tokyo Managed To Replace 90 Percent of Its Staff With Robots 73
James Murdoch In Line To Replace Musk As Tesla Chairman, Says Report [Update] 141
Microsoft Joins Open Invention Network (OIN), Will Grant a Royalty-Free and Unrestricted License To Its Entire Patent Portfolio To All Other OIN Members 103
Google Appeals $5 Billion EU Fine In Android Case 52
The End of Coal Could Be Closer Than It Looks 397
KDE Plasma 5.14 Released 41
Fully Self-Driving Cars May Hit US Roads in Pilot Program: NHTSA 82
Google Launches Third-Gen Chromecast With 60fps Video, Multiroom Audio Support 39
New Evidence of Hacked Supermicro Hardware Found in US Telecom: Bloomberg 191
Tesla Model 3 Achieves NHTSA's 'Lowest Probability' of Injury Ever 316
UK High Court Blocks Billion-Dollar Privacy Lawsuit Against Google 43
FAA Moves Toward Treating Drones and Planes As Equals 167
Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition 103
Body Camera Maker Will Let Cops Live-Stream Their Encounters 71
The UK is Practicing Cyberattacks That Could Black Out Moscow 153
Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For? 174
China Makes a Big Play In Silicon Valley 72
IPCC Climate Change Report Calls For Urgent Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels 478
Snapchat CEO's Leaked Memo On Survival 71
Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever 201
Canadian Music Group Proposes 'Copyright Tax' On Internet Use 265
UK Cyber Security Agency Backs Apple, Amazon China Hack Denials 56
National Theater In London Offers Glasses With Live Subtitles 46
Microsoft Open Sources Parts of Minecraft's Java Code 79
Energy Department Proposes Funding For Ohio's First Offshore Wind Project 137
Will Chromebooks Someday Threaten Windows? 219
Facebook Is 'Teeming' With Fake Accounts Created By Undercover Cops 126
Greg Kroah-Hartman: Outside Phone Vendors Aren't Updating Their Linux Kernels 86
Microsoft Joins 5th Annual Open Source 'Hacktoberfest' 30
Former South Korean President Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison For Accepting $5.4 Million In Bribes From Samsung 152
Honda-Waymo Talks Are Said To Have Faltered On Tech Access 27
Years After ProPublica Exposed Vizio For Spying On Users, Lawyers Will Make Millions From Lawsuit 64
Democrats Draft an 'Internet Bill of Rights' To Regulate Big Tech 140
Bloomberg's Spy Chip Story Reveals the Murky World of National Security Reporting 67
Firefox To Support Google's WebP Image Format For a Faster Web 53
US Military Program Could Be Seen As a Bioweapon, Scientists Warn 91
A Shadowy Op-Ed Campaign Is Now Smearing SpaceX In Space Cities 264
Seven Russian Hackers Charged With Hacking Anti-Doping Organizations 115
Company That Sucks CO2 From Air Announces a New Methane-Producing Plant 142
US Department of Transportation Updates Autonomous Car Rules 35
The EPA's Bold New Idea Has Massive Implications For Public Health 173
Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says 320
Senate Passes Bill That Lets the Government Destroy Private Drones 143
Vice President Mike Pence Says Google Should Halt Dragonfly App Development 120
Amazon Offloaded Its Chinese Server Business Because it Was Compromised, Report Says 56
Fully Driverless Waymo Taxis Are Due Out This Year, Alarming Critics 256
Toys R Us Cancels Bankruptcy Auction, Plans To Revive Brand 87
New Yorkers Sue Trump and FEMA To Stop Presidential Alert 511
Nintendo President: Our Future Is As an 'Entertainment' Company 60
Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Closer To Medicinal Use 79
Verizon is Offering Buyout Packages To as Many as 44,000 Management Employees; Some IT Employees Will Be Transferred To Indian Outsourcing Firm Infosys [Update] 128
Leon Lederman, 96, Explorer and Explainer of the Subatomic World, Dies 38
Amazon Is Eliminating Bonuses, Stock Awards to Help Pay for Raises 152
Cities Will Sue FCC To Stop $2 Billion Giveaway To Wireless Carriers 71
Entire Broadband Industry Sues California To Stop Net Neutrality Law 293
Cellphones Across the US Will Receive a 'Presidential Alert' at 2:18 pm Eastern Today 267
New Study Finds Incredibly High Carbon Pollution Costs -- Especially For the US and India 190
Half of US Uber Drivers Make Less Than $10 An Hour After Vehicle Expenses, Study Says 156
The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy 184
Google's First Urban Development Raises Data Concerns 30
'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Negative Buzz Amplified By Russian Trolls, Study Finds 447
Government of Canada's Plan To Improve Cybersecurity? Be Less Attractive 112
DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience 197
California Governor Jerry Brown Signs a Bill That Bans Bots From Pretending To be Real People 252
Internet Archive Says It Has Restored 9 Million Broken Wikipedia Links By Directing Them To Archived Versions in Wayback Machine 40
Amazon Will Raise Its Minimum Wage To $15 For All 350,000 US Workers 327
The US Government Is Using Road Signs Showing Drivers How Fast They're Going To Capture License Plate Data 218
Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years 151
Half the World Is Now Middle Class Or Wealthier, Says Brookings Institution 279
Seattle Police Department Is Offering An Anti-Swatting Service 106
A Computer Has Written A 'Novel' Narrating Its Own Cross-Country Road Trip 36
Former Students Say Steve Wozniak's $13,200 Coding Bootcamp Is 'Broken' and Sometimes Links To Wikipedia 135
Saudi Arabia Puts World's Biggest Solar Power Project On Hold 120
Use of Internet, Social Media and Digital Devices Plateaus In US, Pew Research Center Finds 22
VideoLAN Announces Dav1d, a New Libre and Open Source AV1 Decoder 88
Use of the Internet and Smartphones is No Longer on the Rise in America 99
An Open Source Resistance Takes Shape as Tech Giants Race To Map the World 90
Trump Administration Prepares a Major Weakening of Mercury Emissions Rules 266
California Has a New Law: No More All-Male Boards 810
Gov. Jerry Brown Signs Bill To Restore Net Neutrality in California; the Trump Administration is Already Trying To Block It 165
Wikimedia Endowment Gets New $1 Million Backing From Amazon 43
Ubuntu Linux 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish Beta Now Available For Desktop, Cloud and Server Versions 73
How Microsoft Rewrote Its C# Compiler in C# and Made It Open Source 85
'Best Open Source Developer Software of 2018' Chosen By InfoWorld 30
Open Source BeOS Successor Haiku Releases R1/beta 1 40
Microsoft 'Re-Open Sources' MS-DOS on GitHub 122
New Web Site Will Team Journalists With Programmers 51
In Boston: Election-Hacking War Game Bypasses Election Systems 43
Richard Stallman Says Linux Code Contributions Can't Be Rescinded 588
California Becomes First State With an IoT Cybersecurity Law 55
Apple Demands $9 Billion From Google For Default Search On iOS 122
Netherlands Proposes Legislation To Ban Use Of Phones On Bicycles 143
Facebook Faces Class-Action Lawsuit Over Massive New Hack 24
US Government Loses Bid To Force Facebook To Wiretap Messenger Calls 40
Trump Administration Sees a 7-Degree Rise in Global Temperatures By 2100 436
Satellite Company Partners With Jeff Bezos' AWS To Bring Internet To 'Whole Planet' 60
Apple Watch ECG Feature Could Take Years To Be Approved In UK 87
Face Scanning In US Airports Is Rife With Technical Problems 62
SEC Charges Elon Musk With Fraud Over His Statements To Take Tesla Private 412
Voting Machine Used in Half of US Is Vulnerable to Attack, Report Finds 110
Spheres Can Make Concrete Leaner, Greener 98
Alaska Airlines Trials Virtual Reality On Some Flights 94
Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year In a Row 69

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