News Stories for 2023

US Asks for Help Finding Missing F-35 Fighter Jet After Crash 103
Was China's 'Spy Balloon' Just Blown Off Course? 112
Las Vegas Still Struggling to Recover from Last Sunday's Cyberattack 46
WordPress Blogs Can Now Be Followed in the Fediverse, Including Mastodon 23
US Energy Department Unveils Interactive Map Showing New Clean Energy Investments 18
How Exxon Tried to Undermine Climate Change Science 70
Firefly Aerospace Sets Launch Speed Record For US Space Force 28
Oregon's Novel Psilocybin Experiment Takes Off 68
North American Airspace Defense Getting Cloud-Based Backbone Next Month 26
Iranian Hackers Target Satellite and Defense Firms, Microsoft Says 4
Oil Companies Granted Licences To Store Carbon Under the North Sea 39
A Luxury Cruise Ship, Stuck Off Greenland's Coast for 3 Days, Is Pulled Free 69
California Passes Strongest Right-to-Repair Bill Yet, Requiring 7 Years of Parts 84
US Alleges Google Got Rich Because People Stick With Search Defaults 72
Conditions On Earth May Be Moving Outside the 'Safe Operating Space' For Humanity 323
Sweden Brings More Books and Handwriting Practice Back To Its Tech-Heavy Schools 26
Ex-Google Exec Acknowledges Aggressively Seeking Exclusive Mobile Deals 10
China's Apple iPhone Ban Appears To Be Retaliation, US Says 53
Researcher Shows Bodies of Purported 'Non-Human' Beings To Mexican Congress at UFO Hearing 175
Mozilla Patches Firefox, Thunderbird Against Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks 15
CIA Bribed Its Own COVID-19 Origin Team To Reject Lab-Leak Theory, Anonymous Whistleblower Claims 357
US Behind More Than a Third of Global Oil and Gas Expansion Plans, Report Finds 107
Google Says It's No. 1 Search Tool Because Users Prefer It to Rivals 170
California Lawmakers Approve Nation's Most Sweeping Emissions Disclosure Rules for Big Business 88
Google Pays $10 Billion a Year To Maintain Monopoly, US Says 61
Adobe, Others Join White House's Voluntary Commitments on AI 13
Credit Card Disputes Keep Rising at Visa as E-Commerce Booms 115
Lockheed Risks $800 Million Withheld Over New F-35 Software 141
Lithuania Was the Country That Secretly Wiretapped the World for the FBI 107
A $700 Million Bonanza for the Winners of Crypto's Collapse: Lawyers 121
Is Gen Z Giving Up on College? 404
To Build Their AI Tech, Microsoft and Google are Using a Lot of Water 73
Startup Building Zinc-Based Alternatives to Lithium Batteries Granted $400M Loan from the US 97
Cleanup Begins at Burning Man Site: a Few Abandoned Cars, Plus a Burned-Out RV 42
YouTube Under No Obligation To Host Anti-Vaccine Advocate's Videos, Court Says 281
US Broadband Buildout Finds Cost to Connect Some Households as High as $53,000 119
'Staggering' Education Inequality Caused During Pandemic by Overreliance on Tech, Says UN Agency 215
'Security Concerns' Caused Three-Day Internet Outage at the University of Michigan Last Week 19
UN Warns World Will Miss Climate Targets Unless Fossil Fuels Phased Out 224
Outage At Square Prevents Small Businesses From Accepting Credit Cards 40
The End of Airbnb In New York 200
Microsoft Signs Giant Carbon Removal Deal To Sponge Up CO2 Using Limestone 42
Senate Votes To Approve Anna Gomez as 5th FCC Commissioner 29
The World Has Just Experienced the Hottest Summer On Record -- By a Significant Margin 255
Largest Local Government Body In Europe Goes Under Amid Oracle Disaster 110
UK Air-Traffic Software Misread Spots on Map To Cause Outage 26
YouTube's Latest Experiment is Playing Games 21
Pentagon Plans Vast AI Fleet To Counter China Threat 60
UK Pulls Back From Clash With Big Tech Over Private Messaging 20
In Its First Monopoly Trial of Modern Internet Era, US Sets Sights On Google 57
UK Government Lifts Ban On Onshore Wind Farms 118
Gizmodo Fires Spanish Staff Amid Switch To AI Translator 65
Facebook Is Getting Rid of the News Tab In the UK, France and Germany 21
Sony Sends Copyright Notices To TV Museum About Shows 40 To 60 Years Old 61
'Alarming' Scale of Marine Sand Dredging Laid Bare by New Data Platform 64
Australian MPs To Lobby US To Drop Julian Assange Prosecution or Risk 'Very Dangerous' Precedent for Russia and China 117
It's Time To Put Oceans To the Test in the Climate Fight, Scientists Say 98
Pentagon Has the Worst IT Helpdesk in the US Govt 54
Wanted: Skilled Workers To Combat the Rise in Cyber Crime 82
US Spy Agency Dreams of Surveillance Underwear 82
Canadian Prisons Restrict Technology To the 1990s 225
EU Prepares To Push For 'Global Phase-Out' of Fossil Fuels at COP28, Draft Document Shows 207
Invasive Species Cost Humans $423 Billion Each Year and Threaten World's Diversity 57
After Hurricane-Caused Flooding, Some EVs Exposed To Saltwater Caught Fire 193
Gannett Halts AI-Written Sports Recaps After Readers Mocked the Stories 51
Silicon Valley Billionaires Reveal First Renderings for Planned City in California 132
No Exit: Rains Close the Roads In and Out of Burning Man 163
America's IRS Can't Find Millions of Sensitive Tax Records: Watchdog 69
French Error Blamed for UK's Air Control Meltdown Which Left 300,000 Passengers With Cancellations 73
Pentagon's New UFO Website Lets You Explore Declassified Sightings Info 54
Population Collapse Almost Wiped Out Human Ancestors, Say Scientists 41
NYPD To Deploy Drones To Monitor Backyard Parties This Holiday Weekend 120
CalTech To Accept Khan Academy Success As Option For Admission 35
Robinhood Bought Back Sam Bankman-Fried's Stake From US Government For $606 Million 17
India Seeks To Top Its Moon Landing with Spacecraft To Study Sun 18
Japan is Preparing For a Massive Earthquake 15
Hundreds of Tough Mudder Racers Infected By Rugged, Nasty Bacterium 53
IBM Returns To the Facial Recognition Market 17
Shell Scraps Its $100 Million-a-Year Carbon Offset Plan 175
US Officials Look To Move Marijuana To Lower-Risk Drug Category 220
UK Government Seeks Expanded Use of AI-based Facial Recognition By Police 15
With Version 117, Firefox Finally Speaks Chrome's Translation Language 18
US Says It Has Not Blocked Chip Sales To Middle East 5
Terraform By Hashicorp Forked To OpenTF 24
EPA Removes Federal Protections For Most of the Country's Wetlands 122
Hundreds of Thousands Trafficked To Work as Online Scammers in Southeast Asia, Says UN Report 18
EU Fossil Fuel Burning for Electricity Fell To Lowest on Record in 2023, Data Shows 38
Visa, Mastercard Prepare To Raise Credit-Card Fees 225
Linux 6.5 Kernel Released 26
UK Air Travel Will Be Disrupted for 'Some Days' After Traffic Control Glitch 16
Polluted Air Shortens Human Lifespans More Than Tobacco, Study Finds 104
Meta's Canada News Ban Fails To Dent Facebook Usage 116
Pentagon Bets On Quick Production of Autonomous Systems To Counter China 114
Microsoft Makes Some Certification Exams Open Book 37
Chess Cheating Saga Ends: Hans Niemann Will Be Allowed Back on Chess Website 33
SEC Says NFTs Sold by an LA-based Entertainment Firm Are Securities 32
There's a Vast Source of Clean Energy Beneath Our Feet. And a Race To Tap It. 193
YouTube TV Urged To Drop '$600 Less Than Cable' Ad Claim 22
Raimondo: Crucial US, China Have Stable Economic Relationship 55
New EU Climate Change Rules Anger Bloc's Farmers 181
US Air Force Tests an AI -Powered Drone Aircraft Prototype 65
Silicon Valley Billionaires Purchase 52,000 Acres of California Farmland to Build a New City from Scratch 199
Massive Weekend Hunt for Loch Ness Monster: Drones, Infrared Cameras, and Underwater Microphones 99
Airline Close Calls Happen Far More Often in the US Than Previously Known 36
Is 'CS In Every School' the 2024 Presidential Campaign's 'Chicken In Every Pot'? 104
Could Sand Be the Next Lithium? Searching for Better Renewable Energy-Storing Batteries 135
Why Fewer University Students Are Studying Mandarin 69
Powell Warns Inflation 'Remains Too High' 148
US Tackles Crypto Tax Mess 52
California Firefighters Are Training AI To Detect Wildfires 13
NSA Orders Employees To Spy on the World 'With Dignity and Respect' 46
Tropical Rainforests Could Get Too Hot For Photosynthesis, Scientists Warn 249
DHS Has Spent Millions On an AI Surveillance Tool That Scans For 'Sentiment and Emotion' 50
Firefox Users May Import Chrome Extensions Now 41
Germany Plans To Double AI Funding In Race With China, US 16
Magnus Carlsen Becomes Chess World Cup Champion 12
Epic's New Program Lets Developers Keep Their Revenue In Exchange For Exclusivity 24
Mastercard, Binance To End Crypto Card Partnership 3
Germany Set To Miss Net Zero By 2045 Target as Climate Efforts Falter 188
China Quietly Recruits Overseas Chip Talent as US Tightens Curbs 14
Huawei Accused of Building Secret Microchip Factories To Beat US Sanctions 40
G20 Poured More Than $1T Into Fossil Fuel Subsidies Despite Cop26 Pledges - Report 74
The US is Getting Hit By Extreme Weather From All Sides 281
US Agency No Longer Knows Who is Visiting Potentially Dangerous Chemicals Plants 61
Teenagers Convicted of Grand Theft Auto, Nvidia Lapsus$ Hacks in the UK 35
The Nation's Largest School District Is Making Virtual School a Permanent Option 68
Bacteria That 'Eat' Methane Could Slow Global Heating, Study Finds 55
'Zero-Degree Line' Rises To Record Height As Heatwave Continues In Europe 75
Trudeau Denounces Meta's News Block As Fires Force Evacuations 149
The Feds Asked TikTok For Lots of Domestic Spying Features 48
America's Farmers Are Bogged Down by Data 54
Roblox Facilitates 'Illegal Gambling' For Minors, According To New Lawsuit 21
Cellebrite Asks Cops To Keep Its Phone Hacking Tech 'Hush Hush' 50
Pioneering Wind-Powered Cargo Ship Sets Sail 70
US Announces More New Funding for Rural Broadband Infrastructure 66
UK To Spend $127M in Global Race To Produce AI Chips 24
Increasing Wildfires Could Negate the Effects of Forest Carbon Offsets 94
On Bill Waterson's Upcoming Book - And Why He Vanished 77
Schools are Now Teaching About ChatGPT and AI So Their Students Aren't Left Behind 73
Thousands of Crypto Scammers are Enslaved by Human-Trafficking Gangsters, Says Bloomberg Reporter 100
Mozilla Foundation Warns France's Proposed Web Blocking Law 'Could Threaten the Free Internet' 66
Canada Demands Meta Lift News Ban To Allow Wildfire Info Sharing 170
The Future of Open Source is Still Very Much in Flux 49
EPA's New Definition of PFAS Could Omit Thousands of 'Forever Chemicals' 30
Microsoft AI Suggests Food Bank As a 'Cannot Miss' Tourist Spot In Canada 50
Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs Sue After Digital Apes Turn Out To Be Bad Investment 175
YouTube Ads May Have Led To Online Tracking of Children, Research Says 8
White House Orders Federal Agencies To Shore Up Cybersecurity, Warns of Potential Exposure 15
Forgetting To Cancel Subscriptions Boosts Businesses' Revenue By 200%, Study Finds 93
New AP Guidelines Lay the Groundwork For AI-Assisted Newsrooms 11
US Space Force Creates First Unit Dedicated To Targeting Adversary Satellites 57
UK To Host AI Safety Summit at Start of November 7
The US Is Turning Away From Its Biggest Scientific Partner at a Precarious Time 131
Coinbase Wins Approval To Sell Crypto Futures in US 32
World's First Smart Door Comes With Built-In Smart Lock and Video Doorbell 111
NYT Prohibits Using Its Content To Train AI Models 83
Bank of Ireland IT Blunder Allows Customers To Withdraw More Money Than What's Held In Their Accounts 38
Firefox Finally Outperforming Google Chrome In SunSpider 40
Congressman Bacon Says His Emails Were Hacked in Campaign Linked To China 22
US Watchdog To Announce Plans To Regulate 'Surveillance Industry' 21
Shortage of Experts and Low Pay 'Major Barriers To UK's Net Zero Future' 94
Apple Will Soon Send Payments In $500 Million 'Batterygate' iPhone Throttling Lawsuit 23
SBF Used $100 Million In Stolen FTX Funds For Political Donations 107
Iowa School District Is Using AI To Ban Books 394
UK Homes Install 'Record Number' of Solar Panels and Heat Pumps 98
A Brief History of the Corporate Presentation 26
'The Big Short' Fame Michael Burry Has Bet Against the Market, SEC Filings Show 62
Judge Rules in Favor of Montana Youths in Landmark Climate Decision 120
Amazon Loses Key Backer Four Years Into Plan To Eliminate Carbon Emissions 19
'The Clean Energy Future Is Arriving Faster Than You Think' 342
Why US Tech Giants Are Threatening to Leave the UK 181
Does Desktop Linux Have a Firefox Problem? 164
For Carbon-Capture Experiment, Researchers Dye Canada's Halifax Harbor Pink 40
US Spy Agencies Will Start Sharing More Cyber-Threat Intelligence with Private Companies 17
Publishers, Internet Archive Agree To Streamline Digital Book-Lending Case 6
Neil Gaiman To Continue 'Good Omens' Story Even If It's Not Renewed For Season 3 42
Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law 123
Illinois Just Made It Possible To Sue People For Doxxing Attacks 9
US Investors Face Uncertain Future in China After Tech Ban 15
US To Fund a $1.2 Billion Effort To Vacuum Greenhouse Gases From the Sky 111
Mozilla To Bring Firefox Desktop Extension To Android Browser 30
California Allows Robo-Taxis To Expand 47
'The Open Source Licensing War is Over' 128
Early Humans Wiped Out in Europe By 'Glacial Cooling,' Study Suggests 61
Getting Into Y Combinator Is Tougher Than It's Ever Been 18
YouTube is Deactivating Links in Shorts Videos To Combat Spam 54
Colleges Spend Like There's No Tomorrow. 262
UK Defends Plan To Demand Access To Encrypted Messages To Protect Children 114
Belarus Hackers Target Foreign Diplomats With Help of Local ISPs, Researchers Say 16
Biden Issues an Executive Order Restricting US Investments In Chinese Technology 59
Verizon Is Shutting Down BlueJeans, a Videoconferencing App It Bought For $400 Million 27
CNET Deletes Thousands of Old Articles To Game Google Search 48
Popular Open-Source Project Moq Criticized For Quietly Collecting Data 30
Amazon Reverses Course On 'Garbage Books' Written By AI 25
An Unintended Test of Geoengineering is Fueling Record Ocean Warmth 62
July Was World's Hottest Month on Record, Climate Scientists Say 132
US Reports Big Interest in $52 Billion Semiconductor Chips Funding 26
US Supreme Court Allows Biden To Regulate 3D-Printed Firearms 228
White House Holds First-Ever Summit On the Ransomware Crisis Plaguing the Nation's Public Schools 76
Millions of UK Voters' Data Accessible In Cyber Attack 14
Floods, Fires and Torrential Rains Further Bedevil Europe 68
Google Search Asked To Remove One Billion 'Pirate' Links In 9 Months 22
Gamma Ray Detection Marks Highest Energy Light From the Sun 34
Three Men Battle the FBI Over Buried Civil War Gold 130
Paramount Agrees To Sell Simon and Schuster To KKR 17
UK Offshore Wind at 'Tipping Point' as Funding Crisis Threatens Industry 125
Iraq Blocks Telegram App Over National Security Concerns 8
US Air Force Builds $5B Climate-Resilient 'Base of the Future' with Robot Dogs and AI Security 103
Strongest Sign Yet Australia Heads Toward a Totally Cashless Society? 180
UK Woman Fitted With AI-Powered Bionic Arm 40
What Role Does Intuition Play in Science? 86
Is Natural Gas Actually On Par With Coal for Greenhouse Gas Emissions? 238
America's Offshore Wind Potential is Huge but Untapped 142
Jon 'maddog' Hall Defends Red Hat's Re-Licensing of RHEL 101
Some Wells Fargo Customers Say Their Deposits Aren't Showing Up in Their Accounts 87
Judge Tosses Criminal Charges Against South Carolina Nuclear Executive - But Case May Continue 41
Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 62
EPA Approved a Chevron Fuel Ingredient That Has a Lifetime Cancer Risk 121
Capella's Earth-Imaging Satellites Are Deorbiting Faster Than Expected 17
One of Gaming's Biggest YouTubers Wants To Replace Himself With AI 33
Austrian Leader Proposes Enshrining the Use of Cash In His Country's Constitution 73
Canadian Telecom Giant Telus To Cut 6,000 Jobs 10
Canadian Government Services To Become 'Digital First' 55
A Cyberattack Has Disrupted Hospitals and Health Care in Several States 20
Waymo Says Austin, Texas, Will Be Its Next Robotaxi City 18
Biden Puts Final Nail In the Coffin For Incandescent Light Bulbs 267
Pornhub Goes Dark In Arkansas After Age Verification Law Kicks In 69
Pollution Cuts Have Diminished 'Ship Track' Clouds, Adding To Global Warming 134
Internet Providers That Won FCC Grants Try To Escape Broadband Commitments 75
Meta Releases AudioCraft AI Tool To Create Music From Text 25
IRS Vows To Digitize All Taxpayer Documents By 2025 59
Cory Doctorow's New Book On Beating Big Tech At Its Own Game 43
Supermarket Plastic Bag Charge Has Led To 98% Drop in Use in England, Data Shows 197
Bulb Becomes a Flashpoint as the Sun Sets on Incandescent Lights 292
Fitch Downgrades US Credit Rating From AAA To AA+ 349
Pixar, Adobe, Apple and Others Form Alliance For OpenUSD To Drive Open Standards For 3D Content 45
Facebook and Instagram's News Blackout In Canada Starts Today 81
UNESCO Says Venice Should Be Added To Heritage Danger List 50
YouTube Uses AI To Summarize Videos in Latest Test 17
The US and Europe Are Growing Alarmed By China's Rush Into Legacy Chips 159
Japan's Population Drops by Nearly 800,000 With Falls in Every Prefecture For the First Time 175
Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The FBI, an FBI Inquiry Found. 41
First US Nuclear Reactor Built In Decades Enters Commercial Operation 254
Salesforce Executive Shares 'Four Ways Coders Can Fight the Climate Crisis' 79
Forget Subtitles. YouTube Now Dubs (Some) Videos with AI-Generated Voices 50
Elon Musk Predicts Electricity Shortage in Two Years 463
Antarctica is Missing an Argentina-Sized Amount of Sea Ice This Year 124
US Energy Dept Pledges $100M to Buy Products Derived from Converted Carbon Emissions 27
Libreboot Creator Says After Coding a Fork for 'GNU Boot Project', FSF Sent a Cease-and-Desist Letter Over Its Name 105
America Will Convert Land from Its Nuclear Weapons Program into Clean Energy Projects 77

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