News Stories for 2019

California Launches First Statewide Earthquake Early Warning System 17
Boeing Pilot Complained of 'Egregious' Issue With 737 Max in 2016 58
Facebook Portal Sales Are 'Very Low' 40
Canonical Releases Ubuntu Linux 19.10 Eoan Ermine with GNOME 3.34, Light Theme, and Raspberry Pi 4 Support 50
US Astronauts Embark on the First All-Female Spacewalk 141
Oracle Co-CEO Mark Hurd Passes Away 54
Facing Unbearable Heat, Qatar Has Begun To Air-Condition the Outdoors 183
Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just 2 Bulls. That's Not Good 85
Mars InSight's 'Mole' Is Moving Again 35
New Bill Promises an End To Our Privacy Nightmare, Jail Time To CEOs Who Lie 166
Call of Duty Will Have a Battle Pass Instead of Loot Boxes 54
School Field Trips: Amazon Warehouses Are the New Smithsonian 24
Germany's Cybersecurity Agency Recommends Firefox As Most Secure Browser 52
The Death of Cars Was Greatly Exaggerated 153
Malware That Spits Cash Out of ATMs Has Spread Across the World 47
Hot Online Bank Startup Leaves Customers Without Access to Their Cash 53
Brexit Deal Leaves Companies in Limbo Over Data Flows 55
The Water Crisis Cities Don't See Coming 121
Youth Suicide Rate Increased 56% in Decade, CDC Says 172
Inside TurboTax's 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free 218
Berkeley City Council Unanimously Votes To Ban Face Recognition 48
SpaceX Says 12,000 Satellites Isn't Enough, So It Might Launch Another 30,000 142
GitLab Won't Exclude Customers On Moral Grounds, Says That Employees Should Not Discuss Politics At Work 175
Google Ejects Open-Source WireGuard From Play Store Over Donation Links 39
For Now Women, Not Democracy, Are the Main Victims of Deepfakes 86
Microsoft Launches Two New Open Source Projects for Developers -- OAM and Dapr 34
FCC Votes To Approve T-Mobile-Sprint Merger 47
US Carried Out Secret Cyber Strike on Iran in Wake of Saudi Oil Attack 85
UK Drops Plans For Online Pornography Age Verification System 99
The Simmering Debate Over Big Tech Explodes on the Democratic Debate Stage 115
Some Colleges Are Using Students' Smartphones To Track Their Locations on Campus 54
Elite MBA Programs Report Steep Drop In Applications 95
California's New Law Bans Schools From Starting Before 8am 203
YouTube Gets Alleged Copyright Troll To Agree To Stop Trolling YouTubers 70
Data For 26 Million Stolen Payment Cards Leaked In Hack of Fraud Bazaar 7
Argentinian Security Researcher Arrested After Tweeting About Government Hack 48
In New Headache, WeWork Says It Found Cancer-Causing Chemical in Its Phone Booths 72
Sears Hasn't Fared Better After Bankruptcy as Another 100 Stores Will Soon Close 145
'We Need a New Capitalism' 435
Should Facebook Ban Campaign Ads? 98
PG&E Should Compensate Customers For Power Shutoffs, California Governor Says 174
Erin Valenti, CEO of Tinker Ventures, Found Dead In Trunk of Her Rental Car 89
Flaw In Sudo Enables Non-Privileged Users To Run Commands As Root 139
Founder of 'Tesla Killer' Faraday Future Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy 35
Mini Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Probe Dark Matter 34
Would You Give Up Google For $17,000 a Year? The Federal Reserve Wants To Know 140
San Francisco Wants to Require Companies To Get Permits Before Rolling Out 'Emerging Technology' 131
G7 Taskforce Warns Global Crytocurrencies Like Libra Pose Risks, May Not Be Approved 92
Can A New TED-Ed Video Series Teach Students To 'Think Like A Coder'? 94
The UK's National Health System Just Opened A Treatment Center for Videogame Addiction 73
New OpenLibra Cryptocurrency: Like Libra, But Not Run By Facebook 68
Should High School Computer Science Classes Count as a Math Credit? 222
Richard Stallman Defies Push By 27 GNU Project Developers To End His Leadership 387
Today's 'Day Against DRM' Protests Locks On Educational Materials 16
Elizabeth Warren Mocks Facebook's Ad Policy By Lying About Mark Zuckerberg 269
Fired EPA Scientists To Release Air Pollution Report They Say Agency Unqualified To Issue 128
US Navy Files Patent For Compact Fusion Reactor 172
AT&T Raises Prices 7% By Making Its Customers Pay AT&T's Property Taxes 69
Boeing and FAA Faulted In Damaging Report On 737 Max Certification 32
Ebay, Stripe, Visa, Mastercard Drop Out of Facebook Libra Cryptocurrency, After PayPal 24
A Look at Earth Archive, a Project To Produce Detailed Maps of All the Land on Earth Through Laser Scanning 14
'Ignorance is Not an Excuse': California Draft Rules on Data Privacy Released 56
Laser Cutters Sold On Amazon and Elsewhere Are Cheap, Fun -- and Dangerous 81
Exposure To Air Pollution is Linked To an Increase in Violent Crime 85
Carriers Want To Hide Detailed 5G Maps From FCC and Public 40
Some Corals Grow After 'Fatal' Warming 112
The Most Detailed Map of Auto Emissions In America 153
System76 Will Begin Shipping 2 Linux Laptops With Coreboot-Based Open Source Firmware 29
Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: US Heading In 'Same Direction As China' With Online Privacy 44
Researchers Created Lenses a Thousand Times Thinner To Hopefully Eliminate Ugly Smartphone Camera Bumps 132
AT&T To Sell Puerto Rico Business As It Looks To Pay Down Debt 15
Comcast Incorrectly Charged 2,000 Customers For Exceeding Data Cap 49
Blizzard In Hot Water With Lawmakers For Hearthstone Player's Ban 170
Worker Pay is Stagnant -- Economists Blame Robots 182
Facebook Rejects Biden Campaign's Request To Remove Trump Ads Containing False Information 314
Utility Giant PG&E Voluntarily Shuts Off Power, Could Impact 800,000 Californians 210
Lithium-Ion Batteries Win Nobel Prize for Chemistry 28
California Bans Political Deepfakes During Election Season 168
Microsoft Plans To Bring Internet Access To 40 Million People By 2022 32
Twitter Took Phone Numbers for Security and Used Them for Advertising 63
Teens Choose YouTube Over Netflix For the First Time, Survey Finds 54
'Collapse OS' Is An Open-Source Operating System For the Post-Apocalypse 106
FBI's Use of Surveillance Database Violated Americans' Privacy Rights: Court 23
Senator Proposes Mandatory Labeling For Products With Mics, Cameras 42
US Expands Blacklist To Include China's Top AI Startups Ahead of Trade Talks 70
Bipartisan Senate Report Calls For Sweeping Effort To Prevent Russian Interference in 2020 Election 330
Nobel Prize in Physics: 2019 Winners Made Significant Cosmological Discoveries 31
Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes To 3 Scientists For Discovering How Cells Use Oxygen 10
US Using Trade Deals To Shield Tech Giants From Foreign Regulators 80
Chinese Firms Tencent, Vivo, and CCTV Suspend Ties With the NBA Over Hong Kong Tweet 101
First Meat Grown In Space Lab 248 Miles From Earth 29
Adobe Is Deactivating All Venezuelan Accounts To Comply With US Sanctions 262
Slashdot Asks: What Did You Like/Dislike About iTunes? 131
Linus Torvalds Isn't Worried About Microsoft Taking Over Linux 141
The Privacy Trade-Offs of Cheap Android Smartphones 22
Hospitals That Are Turning Away Patients Reportedly Pay Ransomware Attackers 100
Can Vegetarianism Stop Climate Change? 269
US Supreme Court Rejects Amazon Warehouse Worker Wage Appeal 52
The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes Than You 392
China and Taiwan Clash Over Wikipedia Edits 84
The 'Ocean Cleanup' Device Is Finally Catching Plastic 84
Mozilla Developer Network Launches a YouTube Channel 20
Russian Malware 'Patches' Chrome and Firefox To Fingerprint TLS Traffic 13
Consumer Expert Argues Tech Addiction Is The User's Responsibility 133
Oracle Outperformed? TPC Benchmarks Show Alibaba's OceanBase Performs Twice As Well 46
Twitter Executive Is Also A British Army 'Psyops' Soldier 43
Google Finds Hundreds Of Data-Race Conditions In The Linux Kernel 57
PayPal Withdraws Support For Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency 29
Monty Python's 50th Anniversary Celebrated With 'Extremely Silly' Event 51
60 Amazon Workers Walked Out Over Warehouse Working Conditions 54
Disney Bans Netflix Ads As Streaming's Marketing Wars Intensify 44
Google Cloud Worth $225 Billion, Deutsche Bank Says 65
Microsoft: Iranian Hackers Targeted a 2020 Presidential Campaign 100
Marc Benioff Says Capitalism, As We Know It, Is Dead 291
US, UK Sign Pact To Share Electronic Evidence in Criminal Cases 73
Amazon Plans $800 Million Data Center In Argentina 20
Cable Companies Use Hidden Fees To Raise Prices 24% a Month 77
Attorney General Bill Barr Will Ask Zuckerberg To Halt Plans For End-To-End Encryption Across Facebook's Apps 191
Ivanka Trump and Google's CEO Announce a Tech Job Training Initiative 52
315 Billion-Ton Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica 88
Government Plans To Collect DNA From Detained Immigrants 232
Samsung Owes Galaxy S4 Owners $10 For Cheating On Benchmarks 32
Florida Man Arrested For Cutting Electric Scooter Brakes 87
Ocean Plastic Waste Probably Comes From Ships, Report Says 97
FBI Investigating Alleged Hacking Attempt Into Mobile Voting App During 2018 Midterms 23
Google Launches Incognito Mode For Google Maps; Privacy-Focused Features For YouTube and Google Assistant 21
Facebook To Exempt Opinion and Satire From Fact-Checking 91
Zimbabwe Has Shut Down the Use of Mobile Money For Cash Transactions 22
Sony Cuts PS Now Subscription Price For PS4 Worldwide 9
NASA Launches a New Earth-like Planet Hunting Telescope Using a Giant Balloon 17
UPS Gets FAA Approval To Operate an Entire Drone Delivery Airline 25
New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms 102
Movie Theaters' Latest Gamble: Ads Mixed in With Trailers 233
Appeals Court Upholds FCC's Cancelling of Net Neutrality Rules 58
Over 500 US Schools Were Hit By Ransomware in 2019 27
Leaked Zuckerberg Audio Reveals Facebook's Plan To Sue the US Government If Elizabeth Warren Tries To Break Up Big Tech 239
New App Claims It Can Identify Venture Capitalists Using Facial Recognition 70
Is 'Amazon Care' a True Benefit Or Industrial Era-Style Healthcare? 155
Woman Who Sleeps In $500 EMF-Blocking Sack Wants Area-Wide Wi-Fi Limits 301
Thousands of Ships Fitted With 'Cheat Devices' To Divert Poisonous Pollution Into Sea 150
US Dept of Education Has Big Payday For K-12 CS, Including Tech-Backed Code.org 47
Ask Slashdot: Will P2P Video Sites Someday Replace YouTube? 68
California Governor Signs Bill Allowing College Athletes To Profit 127
Dog-Walking Startup Wag Raised $300 Million To Unleash Growth. Then Things Got Messy 58
YouTube is Experimenting With Ways To Make Its Algorithm Even More Addictive 71
US Online Privacy Rules Unlikely This Year, Hurting Big Tech 15
Top Oracle Lawyer Attempting To Gaslight Entire Software Community: Insists APIs Are Executable 173
US Treasury Goes After the Planes and Yacht of Russia's Troll Farm Founder 59
Google's DNS-Over-HTTPS Plans Scrutinized By US Congress 130
Liberal Arts Majors Eventually Earn More Than STEM Majors 122
Libre-RISC-V 3D CPU/GPU Seeks Grants For Ambitious Expansion 21
'We Can't End Climate Change Without Changing Our Eating Habits' 393
Richard Stallman Is Still Head of the GNU Project 140
Digital Ocean's 6th Annual 'Hacktoberfest' Celebrates Open Source and Environmental Projects 7
Purism's Librem 5 Phone Starts Shipping. It Can Run Linux Desktop Apps 46
Do We Need To Rethink What Free Software Is? 136
Firefox Promises UK Government DNS-Over-HTTPS Won't Be Default in UK 118
Richard Stallman Addresses 'Speculation and Rumor' About His Appearance at Microsoft 116
As 'CentOS Stream' Brings Rolling Releases, Some RHEL Development Moves Into CentOS Project 15
America's CIA Reportedly Spied on Julian Assange In the Ecuador Embassy 119
'Massive' Coordinated Campaign Hijacked Many YouTube Accounts 16
Scientists Prepare To Drill For Million-Year-Old Ice In Antarctica 64
New Federal Rules Limit Police Searches of Family Tree DNA Databases 40
MayPayrollHR CEO Arrested, Admits To $70 Million Fraud 37
The World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm is Nearly Complete. It Can Power 1 Million Homes 334
Ubuntu Linux 19.10 'Eoan Ermine' Beta Available For Download 41
Warren Proposes Investing in Congressional Tech Expertise To Diminish Lobbying Power 138
Plane Tests Must Use Average Pilots, NTSB Says After 737 MAX Crashes 106
SoftBank Bet Big on Disruptive Companies. Many Have Not Paid Off. 55
'OK' is Now a Hate Symbol, the ADL Says 495
Google's Hyperlocal News App 'Bulletin' Is Shutting Down 18
SAT Scores Fall As More Students Take the Test 201
Vimeo Sued For Storing Faceprints of People Without Their Consent 6
Internet Sector Contributes $2.1 Trillion To US Economy, Industry Group Says 14
Politicians Can Break Our Content Rules, YouTube CEO Says 102
Facebook Confirms Its 'Standards' Don't Apply To Politicians 89
Gigantic Chinese Telescope Opens To Astronomers Worldwide 28
Cloudflare, Google Chrome, and Firefox Add HTTP/3 Support 48
New York Sues Dunkin' Donuts Over Hack Affecting Thousands of People 30
Microsoft Is Still Rattled Over US 'Sneak-and-Peek' Searches 65
Venezuela Has Bitcoin Stash and Doesn't Know What to Do With It 82
Earth's Oceans Are Getting Hotter and Higher, And It's Accelerating, UN Report Warns 331
Why Is Earth So Biologically Diverse? Mountains Hold the Answer 42
The /e/ Google-Free, Pro-Privacy Android Clone Is Now Available 43
Match.com Connected Daters To Fake Accounts To Boost Subscriptions, US Regulators Say 174
Developer Made an Ad Blocker That Works On Podcasts and Radio 31
Open Offices Are a Capitalist Dead End 143
Trolls Are Swarming Young Climate Activists Online 626
The Air Force Is Deploying Its First Drone-Killing Microwave Weapon 41
UN Postal Union Clinches Deal To Keep US in Club 73
Trump Impeachment Inquiry Opens as Call Transcript Is Released 704
US Lawmakers Propose $1 Billion Fund To Replace Huawei Equipment 48
Brain Research On Boys' Preference For Video Games and Girls' For Social Media 161
Court Says FCC Ignored Hard Data In Rush To Help Media Companies 35
Sprint Took FCC Cash For 'Serving' 885,000 People It Wasn't Actually Serving 46
Amazon's Ring Wanted To Use 911 Calls To Activate Its Video Doorbells 91
Busy North Korean Hackers Have New Malware To Target ATMs 25
Apple Will Manufacture Its New Mac Pro In Texas 89
Sony's PS5 and Microsoft's Xbox Join the Fight Against Climate Change 66
Silicon Valley is One of the Most Polluted Places in the Country 71
Climate Change Causes and Impacts Are Increasing, UN Report Says 355
Snap Detailed Facebook's Aggressive Tactics in 'Project Voldemort' Dossier 13
Ask Slashdot: Could Climate Change Be Solved By Manipulating Photons in Space? 382
Do Coders Crave a Sense of Control? 103
Is Air Travel Really Bad For the Climate? 171
The Ozone Layer Is On Track To Completely Repair Itself by the 2060s 72
GNU's Former Kernel Maintainer Shares 'A Reflection on the Departure of Richard Stallman' 435
Was Cuba's Mysterious Sonic Weapon Just Mosquito Gas? 60
Does America's First Commercial Offshore Wind Farm Portend a Clean Energy Revolution? 175
Makers of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Respond To Criticism of Healthfulness 129
Today is Code for America's 'National Day of Civic Hacking' 12
Developer Takes Down Ruby Library After He Finds Out ICE Was Using It 463
Two Arrested In $10 Million Tech Support Scam That Preyed On the Elderly 60
Latest Lakka Release On Raspberry Pi 4 Showcases Great Retro Gaming 11
Google Is Investing $3.3 Billion To Build Clean Data Centers In Europe 24
AI Takes On Earthquake Prediction 13
Npm CEO Bryan Bogensberger Exits After Eight Months of Turmoil 26
Edward Snowden Wants To Come Home: 'I'm Not Asking For a Pass. What I'm Asking For is a Fair Trial' 237
Uber Sues New York City Over 'Cruising Cap' Rule 65
Walmart Will Stop Selling E-cigarettes 112
Why Prescription Drugs Cost So Much More in America 348
They Want To Believe: People Gather Near Area 51 To 'See Them Aliens' 143
Secret FBI Subpoenas Scoop Up Personal Data From Scores of Companies 23
Experts Warn World 'Grossly Unprepared' For Future Pandemics 148
Vaping Criminal Probe Announced By FDA As Illnesses Rise To 530 100
YouTube Creators May Lose Verified Badges As Verification Process Becomes Stricter 45
North America Has Lost 3 Billion Birds in 50 Years 96
Amazon's 'Climate Pledge' Commits To Net Zero Carbon Emissions By 2040 and 100% Renewables by 2030 40
Philippines Declares New Polio Outbreak After 19 Years 73
Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They're Outgrowing Subsidies 297
'Personal Carbon Sequestration' Device Uses Algae To Remove CO2 From the Air 175
AT&T Explores Parting Ways With DirecTV 59
Navy Confirms Existence of UFOs Seen In Leaked Footage 197
AI Can't Protect Us From Deepfakes, Argues New Report 36
India Bans E-cigarettes as Global Vaping Backlash Grows 105
The FBI Tried To Plant a Backdoor in an Encrypted Phone Network 29
California Governor Signs Labor Law, Setting Up Bitter Gig Economy Fight 168
Amazon Will Soon Let You Make Campaign Contributions Through Your Alexa Device 47
Have Flagship Smartphone Prices Peaked? 85
How Long Before These Salmon Are Gone? 'Maybe 20 Years' 170
Earth Warming More Quickly Than Thought, New Climate Models Show 471
Facebook Expands Definition of Terrorist Organizations To Limit Extremism 145
Fossil Fuel Divestment Has 'Zero' Climate Impact, Says Bill Gates 131
Millions of Americans' Medical Images and Data Are Available On the Internet 22
Trump Will End California's Authority To Set Stricter Auto Emissions Rules 514
Firefox Moving To a Faster 4-Week Release Cycle 50
United States Files Civil Lawsuit Against Edward Snowden 182
'Big Bang Theory' Sets Staggering Multi-Billion-Dollar HBO Max Streaming Deal 94
The Internet Relies on People Working for Free 89
Square Wants To Be a Bank But Doesn't Want To Be Taxed Like One 111

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I'd rather just believe that it's done by little elves running around.