News Stories for 2021

Crypto Platform That Mistakenly Gave $90M to Its Users Asks Them To Please Give It Back 76
How Miami's Mayor Hopes to Build a New (and Crypto-Friendly) Silicon Valley 80
Linus Torvalds On Community, Rust and Linux's Longevity 33
More Vaccinations, Less Pushback: America's Vaccine Mandates Are Working, Says Public Health Professor 308
Bought Web Traffic and A Fake YouTube Executive: the Spectacular Failure of Ozy 49
Linguists Lament Slang Ban In London School 113
California Becomes First State To Require Covid-19 Vaccination For Students 232
Tech Giants Brace For Impact in India as New Payments Rule Goes Into Effect 17
Google Is Scrapping Its Plan To Offer Bank Accounts To Users 33
DeFi Bug Accidentally Gives $90 Million To Users 54
Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Disney Among Companies Backing Groups Against Climate Bill 175
Utilities Took Public Money, Gave CEOs Millions, and Then Turned People's Lights Off During the Pandemic 134
Low Oxygen Levels Along PNW Coast a 'Silent' Climate Change Crisis 75
A Declassified State Department Report Says Microwaves Didn't Cause 'Havana Syndrome' 118
Natural-gas Prices Are Spiking Around the World 135
YouTube Removes Legendary Meme Video After 14 Years for 'Violence' 92
US Officials Report More Than 20 Extinctions 86
US Attempts To Slow China's Innovation Rate 137
School Reopenings Stymie Teens' Reseller Gigs 147
Phone Companies Must Now Block Carriers That Didn't Meet FCC Robocall Deadline 49
YouTube Will Remove Videos With Misinformation About Any Vaccine 549
Russia Threatens Retaliation After YouTube Deletes RT Germany Account 83
FTC Weighs New Online Privacy Rules 12
New Windows 11 Install Script Bypasses TPM, System Requirements 161
Paying For Taco Bell With Dogecoin May Be Soon Be a Reality 66
Air Pollution Likely Cause of Up To 6 Million Premature Births, Study Finds 48
Little Fluffy Clouds May Help Save Australia's Great Barrier Reef 20
China's Growing Power Crunch Threatens More Global Supply Chain Chaos 146
131 Federal Judges Broke the Law by Hearing Cases Where They Had a Financial Interest 92
Film Studios Sue 'No Logs' VPN Provider For $10 Million 73
UK Electric Car Inquiries Soar During Fuel Supply Crisis 210
YouTube 'Valuable' For Teens' Mental Health, Says CEO 57
US To Open Program To Replace Huawei Equipment In US Networks 31
Students Don't Know What Files And Folders Are, Professors Say 186
Robinhood CEO Unwittingly Inspired $1 Million Meme Stock Fraud 16
Coinbase To Let You Deposit Part of Your Paycheck Into Your Coinbase Account 51
US Agrees Not To Pursue Fraud Charges Against Huawei CFO 90
US Space Force Awards $87.5 Million To Rocket Lab, SpaceX, Blue Origin, ULA for Next-gen Rocket Testing 24
Should Billionaires Try Constructing 'Cities of the Future' in the Desert? 269
When the FBI Seizes Your Messages from Big Tech, You May Not Know for Years 91
Microsoft Joins a Linux Foundation Nonprofit's Effort to Decarbonize the Grid 50
US Military Seeks Comments on Its Plan to Build a Small, Transportable Nuclear Reactor 240
A Cryptocurrency-Trading Hamster Beats Warren Buffett's Performance - and the S&P 500 85
Report: In 2017 America's CIA Plotted to Kidnap Julian Assange From Ecuador 149
Scientists Find Hormone That Allows Seeds To Germinate In Low Water Conditions 26
After 47 Years, US Power Company Abandons Still-Unfinished $6 Billion Nuclear Power Plant 206
Facing Post-Brexit Petrol Shortage, UK Issues Emergency Visas for EU Truck Drivers 354
26,000 and Counting: America is Installing Hundreds More Bitcoin ATMs Each Week 132
VoIP.ms Battles Week-Long Sustained DDoS-for-Ransom Attack 37
6,000 Evacuated After Volcanic Lava Flow Spreads on Spanish Island 46
Old Coal Plant Is Now Mining Bitcoin For a Utility Company 59
Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou To Be Released After Agreement With US In Wire Fraud Case 109
Americans Ramp Up Google Searches for Covid Tests Amid Scarcity 50
FCC Showers Schools Across the US With $1.2 Billion From Emergency Connectivity Fund 37
White House Weighs Invoking Defense Law To Get Chip Data 138
California Makes Zero-emission Autonomous Vehicles Mandatory by 2030 138
Cambodia's Prime Minister is Zoombombing Opposition Meetings 16
UK Appeals Court Rules AI Cannot Be Listed As a Patent Inventor 54
Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time 159
Hackers Breached Computer Network At Key US Port But Did Not Disrupt Operations 17
'Facebook Is What's Wrong With America' 208
New York Passes Sweeping Bills To Improve Conditions for Delivery Workers 22
The Imaginary Rocket Driving a Small-Town Spaceport 45
CDC Panel Endorses Pfizer COVID-19 Booster Shots For People 65 and Older 84
Tech Firms' Nightmare: Vanishing Green Cards 111
Today's Students Don't Understand the Basics of Computer Operations 493
Spain To Ban Sale of Fruit and Vegetables in Plastic Wrapping From 2023 96
Discord Starts Testing YouTube Integration 16
TikTokers Are Trading Stocks By Copying What Members of Congress Do 91
Robinhood Will Start Testing Crypto Wallets Next Month 16
The Fed Is Evaluating Whether To Launch a Digital Currency and In What Form 53
YouTube Tests Video Downloads for Your Desktop Browser 37
UK Publishes 10-Year Plan To Become 'AI Superpower,' Seeking To Rival US and China 108
A Warning Sign of a Mass Extinction Event Is On the Rise, Scientists Say 280
Jeff Bezos Says Traveling To Space Changed How He Thinks About Nature 94
US Committee Is Reviewing Zoom's $14.7 Billion Deal For Five9 On National-Security Grounds 11
China's Lehman Brothers Moment? 107
Endangered African Penguins, With Multiple Bee Stings, Are Found Dead 33
PayPal Launches Its 'Super App' Combining Payments, Savings, Bill Pay, Crypto, Shopping and More 24
Crypto Channels Targeted in Biden's Fight Against Ransomware 19
Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 Each Get a Decade of Support from Canonical 32
Senate Democrats Call on FTC To Fix Data Privacy 'Crisis' 33
Linux Foundation Survey Shows Companies Desperate To Hire Open-Source Talent 51
Twitter To Pay $809.5 Million To Settle 2016 Lawsuit Over Growth Projections 6
US COVID-19 Death Toll Surpasses That of 1918 Pandemic 228
Stanford's Proposal Over AI's 'Foundations' Creates Controversy 100
After a For-Profit Company Bought EdX -- What Happens Next? 40
As Two Pilots Eject, US Military Plane Crashes Into Texas Neighborhood 82
Banks Beware? Amazon, Walmart, IKEA Experiment with Their Own 'Embedded Finance' Services 53
Can the Computer Chip Industry Reduce Its Carbon Footprint? 25
YouTube Blocks 31st Ig Nobel Awards Ceremony, Citing Copyright on a Recording from 1914 130
World's Whitest Paint Sets Guinness Record, Could Reduce Need For Air Conditioning 139
Is 2021 The Year of the Linux Desktop? 192
What Happened After El Salvador Adopted Bitcoin as Legal Currency? 123
Mozilla Experiment: Set Default Search Engine to Bing for 1% of Firefox Users 73
Global Computing's Carbon Footprint Is Bigger Than Previously Estimated 41
Richard Stallman Shares His Concerns About GitHub's Copilot -- and About GitHub 45
WSJ: Facebook's 2018 Algorithm Change 'Rewarded Outrage'. Zuck Resisted Fixes 54
Sequoias Are Being Wrapped In Foil Blankets To Protect Against Wildfires 76
US, EU Pledge 30% Cut In Methane Emissions To Limit Global Heating 29
United Kingdom To Regress To Imperial Weights and Measures 558
FDA Panel Rejects Plan To Administer Pfizer's COVID-19 Booster Doses To General Public 151
States Act Against Celsius Network for Unregistered Products 20
FTC Releases Findings on How Big Tech Eats Little Tech 17
36,000 Gigatons of Carbon Heralded History's Biggest Mass Extinction 79
US To Target Crypto Ransomware Payments With Sanctions 27
Ozone Hole Over Antarctica Larger Than Usual, Scientists Say 52
China Intensifies Hunt For Cryptocurrency Miners In Hiding 33
AMC Theaters Will Accept Cryptocurrencies Other Than Bitcoin 31
Home Computing Pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair Dies Aged 81 103
Wikipedia Bans Seven Chinese Users Amid Concerns of 'Infiltration, Physical Harm' 36
Travis CI Flaw Exposed Secrets of Thousands of Open Source Projects 28
Congress Will Investigate Claims That Instagram Harms Teens 50
FCC Wants Landlords To Stop Screwing Up Your Internet 90
Most Plans for New Coal Plants Scrapped Since Paris Agreement 98
US Fines Former NSA Employees Who Provided Hacker-for-Hire Services To UAE 39
OpenSea Confirms Executive Used Insider Knowledge When Buying NFTs 25
Amazon Gives Kindle E-Readers a Rare User Interface Overhaul 52
Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement In Cities Around the World 54
Online Coding School Treehouse Lays Off Most of Its Staff 55
India and Singapore To Link Their Payments Systems 11
Meat Accounts For Nearly 60% of All Greenhouse Gases From Food Production, Study Finds 252
Sony Is Nickel-and-Diming PS5 Owners On Upgrades For Games They Already Own 66
Intuit Confirms $12 Billion Deal To Buy Mailchimp 18
Biden To Tap Privacy Hawk For FTC Post 35
Mozilla Has Defeated Microsoft's Default Browser Protections in Windows 140
Walmart Says Report That It Will Be Accepting Litecoin as Payment is False 12
As 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Surges, a Third of US Users Fall Behind on Payments 163
El Salvador's Bitcoin Rollout Marred by Technical Glitches in Digital Wallets 105
As More US Men Abandon Higher Education, Are Admissions Officers Discriminating Against Women? 398
Ask Slashdot: Why Is Firefox Losing Users? 408
Personal Data About Millions of Children Stolen from Schools, Leaked onto the Darkweb 32
Can the US Create Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs With a Civilian Climate Corps? 129
Amazon Renames Its Open Source Fork of ElasticSearch 'Amazon OpenSearch Service' 11
Linux For Apple Silicon Macs Gets Closer To Reality 53
Torvalds Merges Support for Microsoft's NTFS File System, Complains GitHub 'Creates Absolutely Useless Garbage Merges' 77
Some 9/11 News Coverage is Lost. Blame Adobe Flash 117
Senator Wyden Reflects on 9/11's Legacy: Mass Surveillance 26
20 Years After the World Trade Center Attack, a Nation Remembers 197
Security Weaknesses in Mozilla VPN Found and Addressed by Audit 12
Wide-Ranging SolarWinds Probe Sparks Fear in Corporate America 22
Uber Eats, DoorDash, Grubhub Sue New York City Over Legislation on Commission Caps 35
Scientists Aim For Clearer Messages On Global Warming 299
Hacker Lawyer Jay Leiderman Is Dead at 50 79
Code.org, Tech Giants Enlist Teachers To Sell Kids and Parents On 'CS Journeys' 89
Microsoft Gives Up Predicting When Its US Offices Will Fully Reopen 104
Amazon To Cover 100% of College Tuition for US Hourly Employees 200
California Aims To Ban Recycling Symbols on Things That Aren't Recyclable 214
Researchers Complete First-Ever Detailed Map of Global Coral 13
The Open Source Initiative Names Stefano Maffulli As Its First Executive Director 10
Biden Offers Ambitious Blueprint for Solar Energy 263
World's Largest Direct Air Carbon Capture System Goes Online 82
UK.gov Is Launching An Anti-Facebook Encryption Push 33
Is Lending Your Bitcoins a Security? 61
LAPD Officers Told To Collect Social Media Data on Every Civilian They Stop 195
SEC Threatens To Sue Coinbase Over Crypto Lending Programme 30
UK's ICO Calls For Browser-Level Controls To Fix 'Cookie Fatigue' 135
Salvador Street Protest Breaks Out Against Bitcoin Adoption 75
Facebook Admits 'Trust Deficit' As It Looks To Launch Digital Wallet 61
Howard University Announces Ransomware Attack, Shuts Down Classes On Tuesday 52
Animals 'Shapeshifting' in Response To Climate Crisis, Research Finds 54
Microsoft Joins Open Infrastructure Foundation 28
Poorly Devised Regulation Lets Firms Pollute With Abandon 60
California Bill Takes Aim at Amazon's Productivity-tracking Algorithms 41
China Says Government To Set Prices for After-School Classes 48
The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books 20
A Surprise Contributor to Climate Change? Food Waste 178
School Science Projects Reveal Very High Lead Levels in the Schools' Water 63
Why is the Earth Missing a Billion Years of Rocks? 122
Climate Change Is Bankrupting America's Small Towns 226
Amazon Prime Releases First Trailer for 'Wheel of Time' Series 66
Apple Faces Probe From US Labor Board Over Complaints of Hostile Working Conditions 32
Arctic Warming Linked To Colder Winters 36
Feds To Close Unit That Monitored Americans' Social Media for Census Disinformation 18
Only Humans, Not AI Machines, Can Get a US Patent, Judge Rules 48
New Boss of US Digital Service: Mina Hsiang 36
Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100K Inboxes Daily 10
UK ISP Sky Broadband Feeds Realtime Customer Bandwidth Data To Litigious Anti-Piracy Firm 30
Judge Rules UC-Berkeley Must Freeze Its Enrollment To Assess Ecological Impact of Its Undergrads 88
QR Codes Replace Service Staff as Pandemic Spurs Automation in US 132
Apple Secures First States To Support Digital Driver's Licenses, But Privacy Questions Linger 100
The Original 'Doge' Meme Sold as an NFT for $4 Million 61
Amazon CEO Unveils 55,000 Tech Jobs in His First Hiring Push 46
The US Added More New Energy Capacity From Wind Than Any Other Source Last Year 153
Fake Banksy NFT Sold Through Artist's Website For $336,000 39
New York Times' Wirecutter Product-Review Site Moves Behind Paywall 40
Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow With Trillions of Organisms 23
All California National Forests To Temporarily Close Due To 'Wildfire Crisis' 94
Biden Launches US Digital Corps To Bring Young Tech Talent To Government 124
Consumers Spent $40 Billion On App Store In First Half of 2021, Nearly Double That of Google Play Store 47
PayPal Is Exploring a Stock-Trading Platform For US Customers 17
Five Decades Later, Medicare Might Cover Dental Care 158
How Used Solar Panels Are Powering the Developing World 174
Should Google Cut Salaries For Its Remote Workers? 429
Jack Dorsey's Square Wants to Build a Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Bitcoin Exchange 48
10 US Government Agencies Plan Expanded Use of Facial Recognition 29
Cuba's Government Will Recognize - and Regulate - Cryptocurrencies 31
Torvalds: GPLv2 'A Big Part' of Why Linux Spread, Companies Getting Involved 'Hugely Important' 144
Code.org Will Teach 'Cybersecurity Hygiene' to Millions of Students 29
How Microsoft, Google, Apple, and IBM Will Help the US Improve Its Cybersecurity 19
Bitcoin-Mining Power Plant Secretly Launched in Alberta, Tapping Dormant Gas Well 62
Calls Grow to Discipline Doctors Spreading Virus Misinformation Online 450
After 18 Years, SCO's IBM Litigation May Be Settled for $14.5 Million 151
Tim Cook Gets $750 Million Bonus On 10th Anniversary As Apple CEO 63
T-Mobile Says Hacker Used Specialized Tools, Brute Force 20
The Man Preserving Endangered Colors 55
Tesla Files To Become an Electricity Provider in Texas 64
'Swiss Re' Signs World's First Long-Term Carbon Capture Deal 64
Google To Pay Apple $15 Billion To Remain Default Safari Search Engine In 2021 74
YouTube Kills Discord's Best Music Bot 27
Elizabeth Holmes's Trial Could Reveal Her Side of Theranos Story 86
Google Confirms It's Pulling the Plug on Streams, Its UK Clinician Support App 19
Tech's Lobbying Push Follows Market Consolidation, Study Shows 17
UK To Overhaul Privacy Rules in Post-Brexit Departure From GDPR 66
The Taliban, Not the West, Won Afghanistan's Technological War 277
US PC Market Grows 17% In Q2 2021 As Notebook Popularity Booms 17
Little-Known Federal Software Can Trigger Revocation of Citizenship 141
Facebook Considers Building NFT Features Alongside Digital Wallet 15
FCC Asks $5 Million Fine For Activists' Election Robocalls 80
Coinbase Slammed For Terrible Customer Service After Hackers Drain Accounts 57
More Than 80 Cultures Still Speak in Whistles 51
YouTube Says Content Policing is Good for Business 59
First US COVID Deaths Came Earlier Than Previously Thought 128
Visa Buys a CryptoPunk As It Takes First Steps Into 'NFT Commerce' 17
Intel Inks Deal with Department of Defense To Support Domestic Chip-Building Ecosystem 28
Firefox Follows Chrome and Prepares To Block Insecure Downloads 79
PayPal Launches Its Cryptocurrency Service in the UK 9
Pfizer, BioNTech Vaccine Gets Full Approval From US Regulators 407
Hydrogen Lobbyist Quits, Calls 'Blue Hydrogen' a Distraction Possibly Locking in Fossil Fuel Use 189
Are Our Smartphones Making Us Dopamine Addicts? 78
US Health Insurers Caught Negotiating Worse Rates Than For Those With No Insurance 240
Climate Change is Making Hurricanes Worse 109
$97 Million Stolen From Japanese Crypto Exchange 44
Will Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation' Survive Its Transformation into a Streaming Series? 181
A New Volcanic Island Has Appeared Near Japan 54
Former Loki Developer Jerryrigs a Multiplayer Zork, Available Via Telnet 53
Google Says Geofence Warrants Make Up One-Quarter Of All US Demands 55
Larger Minority in US Says Some UFOs Are Alien Spacecraft 202
Rain Falls at the Summit of Greenland Ice Sheet for First Time on Record 63
The 'Montreal Protocol' Designed To Heal the Ozone Layer May Have Also Fended Off Several Degrees of Warming 44
Coinbase To Invest 10% of All Future Profits In Crypto 22
High-Speed Rail Proponents Make Another Push For Pacific Northwest Project 179
Your Credit Score Should Be Based On Your Web History, IMF Says 220
OnlyFans To Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting In October 301
Justice Department Says Facial Recognition Helped End an Almost 15-year Manhunt 53
Facebook Hit by New US Antitrust Case as FTC Seeks Do-Over 26
Facebook Says It Wants a 'Fair Shot' In the Crypto Payments Sphere 44
T-Mobile Says At Least 47 Million Current and Former Customers Affected by Hack 51
Microsoft is Making it Harder To Switch Default Browsers in Windows 11 219
Free Clipart of a Cartoon Rock Is Selling For $300,000 As NFTs 98

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