News Stories for 2020

What If They Replaced Windows With Microsoft Linux? 239
Cory Doctorow: Tech Workers Are Now Questioning the Powers Technology Gives 41
Should Colleges Do Admissions Without Standardized Tests? 156
One Solar/Wind Energy Company Is Now More Valuable Than Exxon Mobil 69
Report: Google Plans to Relinquish Control of Open-Source Project Knative 7
What Happens When Researchers Give Thousands of Dollars to Homeless People? 270
The World's First Carbon Dioxide Removal Law Database 15
London Installed AI Cameras To Monitor Social Distancing, Lockdown Restrictions 65
New England Journal of Medicine Resoundingly Endorses Biden 363
Robinhood Users Say Accounts Were Looted, No One to Call 56
'Revolutionary' Video-Streaming Service Quibi is Up For Sale Six Months After Launch; Apple, WarnerMedia, and Facebook Have Turned Down the Offer 46
Twitter Will Turn Off Some Features To Fight Election Misinformation 97
Google Wants YouTube To Become a Shopping Destination 36
Apple Pays $288,000 To White-Hat Hackers Who Had Run of Company's Network 24
Microsoft Is Now the 'Adult In the Room' Among Big Tech, Says Seattle Congresswoman 91
US Appeals Injunction Against TikTok Ban 25
Apple Extends Free Apple TV+ Trials For Three Months 29
Louise Gluck Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 44
AI Restoration Makes Apollo Moon Landing Footage Look Like It Was Shot In HD 88
AT&T Offloading DirecTV Could Be a 'Fire Sale' As Company Weighs Low Bids 59
US Explores Curbs On Ant Group, Tencent Payment Systems 66
Someone Bought a T. Rex Skeleton for a Record-Breaking $31.8 Million 22
Britain Is Getting Ready for Its Space Race 48
House Democrats Tackle Big Tech 'Monopolies' 119
Trump Administration Announces Overhaul of H-1B Visa Program 181
Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To 3 Scientists For Work On Black Holes 56
Facebook Revenue Chief Says Ad-Supported Model Is 'Under Assault' Amid Apple Privacy Changes 142
Cisco Ordered To Cough Up $2 Billion Plus Royalties After Ripping Off Biz's Cybersecurity Patents 31
The IRS Is Being Investigated For Using Location Data Without a Warrant 57
A Literal Child and His Mom Sue Nintendo Over 'Joy-Con Drift' 104
YouTube Apologises For Mocking Long Videos 88
Facebook Removes Trump Post Falsely Saying Flu is More Lethal Than Covid 468
Nvidia CEO Anticipates Supply Shortages For the RTX 3080 and 3090 To Last Until 2021 98
Venice Holds Back the Water For First Time In 1,200 Years 69
Nvidia Pledges To Built Britain's Largest Supercomputer Following $40 Billion Bid For Arm 29
Nvidia Unveils Jetson Nano 2GB, a Single Board Computer 35
Exxon's Plan For Surging Carbon Emissions Revealed In Leaked Documents 67
SEC Sues John McAfee Over Promoting Cryptocurrency On Twitter 29
More Than 14m Tonnes of Plastic Believed To Be at the Bottom of the Ocean 76
CDC Revises Coronavirus Guidance To Acknowledge That It Spreads Through Airborne Transmission 175
Apple TV Now Plays YouTube Videos in 4K -- With Limits 24
Trump Cracks Down on Visas. Indian Firms May Benefit. 169
Tech's New Gig Worker Underclass: Customer Service Reps Who Have to Pay to Talk to You 157
The Free Software Foundation Wants You To Celebrate Its 35th Anniversary 73
Is Streaming Music Worse For the Environment? 63
100,000 Apple Devices Repaired, Resold: Apple Sues Canadian Recycling Firm 113
ZDNet Argues Linux-Based Windows 'Makes Perfect Sense' 100
Harvard Professor Challenges 'The Meritocratic Hubris of Elites' 228
Hydrogen-Powered Train Makes Its First Trip in the UK 18
'Green Hydrogen' From Renewables Could Become the Cheapest 'Transformative Fuel' 130
Two Leaders of Videogame Piracy Group Arrested 45
Microsoft and NASA Create a Space-Themed Site Teaching Python Programming 24
Nikola Issues Copyright Takedowns Against Critics Who Use Rolling-Truck Clip 34
Twitter Is Building 'Birdwatch,' a System To Fight Misinformation By Adding More Context To Tweets 42
E-Scooters Should Be Legalized, Says UK Transport Committee 69
Trump Goes To Hospital After Testing Positive For COVID-19 279
How One Piece of Hardware Took Down a $6 Trillion Stock Market 26
Ubuntu Linux 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' Beta Released 18
Huawei's Investments Are 'Predatory Actions' and All Countries Should Ban Them: Pompeo 19
Google To Pay Publishers $1 Billion Over Three Years For Their News 26
Netflix Will Only Stream In 4K To Macs That Have a T2 Security Chip 103
Controversial Data Firm Palantir Fetches Market Value of Nearly $22 Billion In Its Debut On the NYSE 28
Publishers Worry As Ebooks Fly Off Libraries' Virtual Shelves 55
YouTubers Are Upscaling the Past To 4K. Historians Want Them To Stop 136
House Antitrust Chair Says Big Tech Abuses Gatekeeper Power 37
Ransomware Victims That Pay Up Could Incur Steep Fines from Uncle Sam 51
Irish Court Says Subway Bread Is Too Sugary to Be Called 'Bread' 313
Huawei 'Failed To Improve UK Security Standards' 7
Google/Gallup: Kids Aren't Drinking CS Kool-Aid, 'Interventions' Needed 224
Greenland's Ice Melting Faster Than At Any Time In Past 12,000 Years 98
Seattle Approves Minimum Wage For Uber and Lyft Drivers 122
NASA Reveals How Astronauts Will Vote From Space 50
North Korea Has Tried To Hack 11 Officials of the UN Security Council 9
US Intelligence Sources Discussed Poisoning Julian Assange, Court Told 138
Dual-Flush Toilets 'Wasting More Water Than They Save' 136
Tesco, One of the World's Largest Supermarket Operators, Sets 300% Sales Target For Plant-Based Alternatives To Meat 126
Denmark: We Can Slash CO2 By 70% In a Decade And Still Have Welfare 94
US-China Fight Spreads To the Chip Factory 62
College Enrollments Are Falling in the US -- Except For Graduate Degrees 59
Biden Campaign Blasts Facebook for 'Regression' 198
Amnesty International To Halt India Operations 47
Hacker Publishes Info On Las Vegas-Area Students After Demanding Ransom 114
Elon Musk: Tesla May Be Overvalued Today, But I Think It'll Be Worth More In 5 Years 251
Police Charity Bought An iPhone Hacking Tool and Gave It To Cops 92
26% of US Adults Get Their News From YouTube, Study Finds 139
YouTube Celebrates Deaf Awareness Week By Killing Crowd-Sourced Captions 41
Uber Can Continue Operating In London After Winning Court Appeal 17
Ransomware Attacks Take On New Urgency Ahead of Vote 37
Healthcare Giant UHS Hit By Ransomware Attack, Sources Say 19
UK Risks Losing Contract For New Climate Research Centre Because of Brexit 119
Amazon Plans Vancouver Expansion Where Talent Is Cheap 98
Linux Milestone: EdX's Free 'Intro to Linux' Course Surpasses One Million Enrollments 24
Lenovo Begins Selling 30 Linux ThinkPads and ThinkStation PCs 74
Report: U.S. Anti-Trust Regulators Will Accuse Google of Crushing Competition to Maintain Monopoly 60
Eric S. Raymond: Is Microsoft Switching To a Linux Kernel That Emulates Windows? 276
America's IRS Wants Cryptocurrency Exchanges Declared on Tax Forms 100
Silicon Valley Tech Workers Angered By Proposal to Make Some Mandatory Telecommuting Permanent 230
The US Space Force Will Use Blockchain-Based Data Protection - and SpaceX's Reusable Rockets 43
Firefox 81 Released, Can Now Be Your Default Browser in iOS 34
Bug Allowed Hijacking Other Firefox Mobile Browsers on the Same Wi-Fi Network 15
While Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Announce Hate Speech Action, Some Advertisers Remain Skeptical 184
Emacs Developers (Including Richard Stallman) Discuss How to Build a More 'Modern' Emacs 172
Facebook's Oversight Board Won't Launch In Time To Oversee the Election 22
China Blocks Wikimedia Foundation's Accreditation To World Intellectual Property Organization 33
Swift System is Now Open Source and Supports Linux 21
Google To Block Election Ads After Election Day 70
Justice Department Asks Judge To Allow US To Bar WeChat From US App Stores 34
Seagate Unveils CORTX Object Storage Software with Lyve Drive Rack Hardware Reference Design 18
Universal Basic Income Gains Support In South Korea After COVID-19 132
Mobile World Congress Postponed To June 2021 3
Foreign Hackers Cripple Texas County's Email System, Raising Election Security Concerns 51
'Amnesia: The Dark Descent' and 'A Machine For Pigs' Are Now Open Source 11
Louisiana Shuts Down Voter Registration Site For 'Scheduled Maintenance' On National Voter Registration Day 233
California To Ban New Gas, Diesel Vehicle Sales By 2035 294
Senators Introduce Bipartisan 'Unplug Internet Kill Switch Act of 2020,' Preventing a President From Denying Access To the Internet 82
China Says It Won't Approve TikTok Sale, Calls It 'Extortion' 174
Wikipedia Is Getting Its First Major Redesign In a Decade 83
CIA's New Tech Recruiting Pitch: More Patents, More Profits 64
Firefox Usage is Down 85% Despite Mozilla's Top Exec Pay Going Up 400% 169
Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial. 288
A New York Clock That Told Time Now Tells the Time Remaining 69
Jeff Bezos Is Opening His First Tuition-Free Bezos Academy Preschool, Where Each Child 'Will Be the Customer' 114
Google Is Pulling the Plug On Paid Chrome Extensions Over the Next Year 18
Dark Web Drugs Raid Leads To 179 Arrests 152
Linux Journal Is Back 52
Shell Reportedly To Slash Oil and Gas Production Costs To Focus More On Renewables 61
China, in Pointed Message To US, Tightens Its Climate Targets 121
YouTube Will Use Tech Updates To Better Enforce Age Restrictions 25
Facebook Vows To Restrict Users if US Election Descends Into Chaos 151
Feds Issue Emergency Order For Agencies To Patch Critical Windows Flaw 61
Trump Pushes To Reap Biometric Data From Immigrants, Americans 87
Chinese Leaders Split Over Releasing Blacklist of US Companies 114
WHO Says No Change To COVID-19 Transmission Guidance After US Draft Change 78
Mozilla WebThings IoT Platform Spun Out As an Independent Open Source Project 4
Trump Says ByteDance Can't Keep Control of TikTok in Oracle Deal 93
Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Apple Urged to Stop Advertising to Minors 64
Google Returns to Using Humans (Instead of AI) to Moderate Content on YouTube 88
From Climate Change to the Dangers of Smoking: How Powerful Interests 'Made Us Doubt Everything' 349
With New Security and Free Internet Issues, What Did the TikTok Deal Really Achieve? 116
Could Open Source Licensing Stop Big Pharma Profiteering On Taxpayer-Funded Covid-19 Vaccines? 81
Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs: the Books They Recommended 45
Browser Extension uMatrix Ends Active Development 38
Maybe CS Class Isn't the Best Way To Expose Most Kids To CS 78
America's Air Force Secretly Designed, Built, and Flew a Brand-New Fighter Jet 167
US Judge Blocks Attempt to Ban WeChat 140
You Can Microwave This Notebook When It's Full - Then Reuse It Again 62
Could Smart Technology Help Save the World's Honey Bees? 42
US Teens Are Being Paid to Spread Disinformation on Social Media 204
Last-Minute TikTok Deal Averts Shutdown 105
Microsoft Submits Linux Kernel Patches to Make Linux Run as Root Partition on Hyper-V 40
Where's the Yelp For Open-source Tools? 18
US Spy Plane Impersonates A Malaysian Aircraft 158
Picture-In-Picture Mode On iOS 14 No Longer Working With YouTube's Mobile Website Unless You Pay For Premium 63
CEO of Cyber Fraud Startup NS8 Arrested By FBI, Facing Fraud Charges 26
Wikipedia Edits Have Massive Impact on Tourism, Say Economists 49
Computing Pioneers Endorse Biden, Citing Trump Immigration Crackdown 310
AT&T Considers Cellphone Plans Subsidized by Ads 45
Bill To Tear Down Federal Courts' Paywall Gains Momentum in Congress 82
Trump To Ban US TikTok and WeChat App Store Downloads on September 20 206
US Charges Chinese and Malaysian Hackers In Global Hacking Campaign 7
Is Apple One a Bargain? It's Complicated 46
FBI Director: It's a Mistake To Get Election Information on Social Media 77
Amazon Defends Working With Oil Companies To Reach Its Zero-Carbon Goal 8
A Utah Company Claims It Invented Contact Tracing Tech 49
YouTube's Recommendation System is Criticized as Harmful. Mozilla Wants To Research It 84
Software Could Help Reform Policing -- If Only Police Unions Wanted It 258
Piratebay.Org Sold For $50,000 At Auction, ThePiratebay.com Up Next 27
The Majority of 18- To 29-Year-Olds In the US Are Now Living With Their Parents 187
Amazon Providing CS Education For 550,000+ Schoolchildren Amid Pandemic 11
Why Goodreads is Bad For Books 27
Chip Industry Wants $50 Billion To Keep Manufacturing in US 191
Cambridge Staff 'Fobbed Off' At Meeting Over ARM Sale To Nvidia, Says Union 76
ESA Awards $153 Million Contract For Its First Planetary Defense Mission 20
Personal Information of Roughly 46,000 Veterans Exposed In VA Hack 19
How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled 165
China Says TikTok Sale Shows US 'Economic Bullying' 180
America Is Facing a Monkey Shortage 159
Sir David Attenborough Delivers Stark Warning In BBC Doc 'Extinction: the Facts' 115
Google Faces $3 Billion UK Suit Over Use of Children's Data 28
Verizon Acquires Tracfone In a Deal Worth More Than $6 Billion 19
Boston Dynamics CEO Talks Profitability and the Company's Next Robots 24
Ex-Google Boss Eric Schmidt: US 'Dropped the Ball' on Innovation 131
Long Before Cambridge Analytica, Simulmatics Linked Data and Politics 9
ARM Co-Founder Starts 'Save Arm' Campaign To Keep Independence Amid $40 Billion Nvidia Deal 61
CISA: Chinese State Hackers Are Exploiting F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure, and Exchange Bugs 26
The 41 Books Mark Zuckerberg Has Recommended on Facebook 63
Another Source of Greenhouse Gas: Abandoned Oil Wells 123
Nvidia Reportedly Acquiring ARM For $40 Billion 138
Smaller Internet Providers In Canada Just Got A Big Win In Court 27
How to Play Chrome's Hidden 'Dinosaur Game' and Firefox's 'Unicorn Pong' 28
Lack of Broadband and Devices Hobbles America's Remote Learning 175
Mark Zuckerberg Launches a Push to Recruit Poll Workers for US Election on Facebook 81
Cory Doctorow Crowdfunds His New Audiobook to Protest Amazon/Audible DRM 76
With Wildfires, California Experiences a 'Cascading' of Climate Disasters 271
US Company Faces Backlash After Belarus Uses Its Tech To Block Internet 52
Wildlife In 'Catastrophic Decline' Due To Human Destruction, Scientists Warn 114
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Confirms a Pattern of Age Discrimination at IBM 62
Huawei Closing Enterprise Hardware Division In the UK 13
MIT Sleep Monitor Can Track People's Sleeping Positions Using Radio Signals 15
DJI Promises 'Local Data Mode' To Fend Off US Government's Mooted Ban 47
Apple Loosens App Store Rules That Hurt Streaming Games, Classes 13
UK Mathematician Wins Richest Prize in Academia For His Work On Stochastic Analysis 21
It's the Biggest Job in Tech. So Why Can't They Find Anyone To Do It? 97
China Would Rather See TikTok US Close Than a Forced Sale 55
Facebook Fights Irish Privacy Watchdog's Data-Transfer Curbs 15
The Man Who Owned 3,000 Cameras 29
Hundreds of Americans Planted 'Chinese Mystery Seeds' 166
Earth Barreling Toward 'Hothouse' State Not Seen In 50 Million Years, Epic New Climate Record Shows 228
Germany's Nationwide Emergency Warning Day Sees Bumpy Rollout 23
Google Blocks Search Suggestions To Stop Election Misinformation 83
Why San Francisco Had an Apocalyptic Orange Sky 80
Portland Passes Groundbreaking Ban on Facial Recognition in Stores, Banks, Restaurants and More 264
Facebook Returns To Its Roots With Campus, a College Student-only Social Network 29
Mastercard To Help Central Banks Test Their Own Digital Currencies 24
Hydrogen and Carbon Capture Tech Are Key To Net-Zero US Electricity, Study Says 146
TikTok, US Discuss Ways To Avoid Sale 15
Ireland To Order Facebook To Stop Sending User Data To US 38
NSA and CIA Have Classified Evidence the Russians Had Placed Malware in the Election Registration Systems of at Least Two Florida Counties, Bob Woodward Reports 291
Dozens of Scientific Journals Have Vanished From the Internet, and No One Preserved Them 81
Facebook Will Pay Users To Log Off Before 2020 Election 67
What No Man Has Seen Before: Remastering Deep Space Nine To Maximum Quality 118
City of Hartford Postpones First Day of School After Ransomware Attack 7
The FTC Is Investigating Intuit Over TurboTax Practices 39
Chess Is Now a Streaming Obsession 40
Qualcomm's Founder On Why the US Doesn't Have Its Own Huawei 89
The 61 Books Elon Musk Has Recommended on Twitter 106
Is Canada About to Crack Down on Google and Facebook? 90
Is Hot Asphalt Really Increasing Air Pollution? 63
Boardwatch/EVTV Founder Jack Rickard Dies at Age 65 23
Is There A Google-Free Future For Firefox? 99
Who Committed the 25-Year, $8 Million Library Heist? 61
AWS Introduces a Rust Language-Oriented Linux for Containers 35
SoftBank Unmasked As 'Nasdaq Whale' That Stoked Tech Rally 82
Trump Administration Issues Directive Aimed At Enhancing Cybersecurity In Space 42
Pentagon Says It Will Stick With Microsoft For $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract 25
Slashdot Asks: Favorite YouTube Channels For Web Development and Programming? 48
T-Mobile's Project 10Million Aims To End the Homework Gap 15
FCC Estimates It'll Cost $1.8 Billion To Remove Huawei, ZTE Equipment From US Networks 40
Zuckerberg Warns of Post-Election Violence 356
Firefox Will Add a New Drive-by-Download Protection 31
Industrial Waste Can Turn Planet-Warming Carbon Dioxide Into Stone 77
US Will Not Pay Millions In Dues To WHO This Year 186
Swiss Region To Take Cryptocurrency For Tax Payments In 2021 22
Justice Dept. Plans to File Antitrust Charges Against Google in Coming Weeks 71
These Students Figured Out Their Tests Were Graded by AI -- and the Easy Way To Cheat 216
Apple Invests in World's Largest Onshore Wind Turbines That Will Power a Danish Data Center 31
Facebook Won't Accept New Ads The Week Before The Election -- But Older Ads With Lies Are Still OK 240
Google Cloud Awarded Defense Contract For Cancer Research 5
The FBI Botches Its DNC Hack Warning In 2016 -- But Says It Won't Next Time 90
Russia May Force Apple To Reduce Its App Store Tax To 20% 87

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