News Stories for 2024

YouTube Dominates TV Streaming In US, Per Nielsen's Latest Report 22
Cox Communications Wins Order Overturning $1 Billion US Copyright Verdict 17
Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License 12
Cox Communications Wins Order Overturning $1 Billion US Copyright Verdict 42
Wikileaks Founder in Last-Ditch Bid To Avoid US Extradition 215
Biden Administration Is Said To Slow Early Stage of Shift To Electric Cars 343
Capital One Is Buying Discover 178
Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They're Coming Back. 122
FBI Warns Chinese Malware Could Threaten Critical US Infrastructure 78
VC Firm Sequoia Capital Begins Funding More Open Source Fellowships 15
Thanks to Machine Learning, Scientist Finally Recover Text From The Charred Scrolls of Vesuvius 45
Ocean Temperatures Are Skyrocketing 110
Linux Becomes a CVE Numbering Authority (Like Curl and Python). Is This a Turning Point? 20
US Cities Try Changing Their Zoning Rules to Allow More Housing 191
Some 'Apple Pay'/Chase Customers Experienced an Outage 21
Could Solar Water Heaters Become Popular Again? 123
Will 'Precision Agriculture' Be Harmful to Farmers? 61
SoftBank's Son Seeks To Build a $100 Billion AI Chip Venture 18
Algebra To Return To San Francisco Middle Schools This Fall 97
NY Governor Wants To Criminalize Deceptive AI 39
No 'GPT' Trademark For OpenAI 22
DOJ Quietly Removed Russian Malware From Routers in US Homes and Businesses 71
Amazon Joins Companies Arguing US Labor Board is Unconstitutional 122
RFK Jr. Wins Deferred Injunction In Vax Social Media Suit 323
Air Canada Found Liable For Chatbot's Bad Advice On Plane Tickets 72
Scientists Resort To Once-Unthinkable Solutions To Cool the Planet 205
UK Falls Into Recession 224
Nvidia Becomes Third Most Valuable US Company 75
NYC Sues Social Media Companies Over Youth Mental Health Crisis 63
US Military Notifies 20,000 of Data Breach After Cloud Email Leak 11
Lyft's CEO Says 'My Bad' on Margin Error, 'It Was One Zero' 22
California Banned Single-Use Plastic Bags. Now It's Tossing More Plastic. 192
The US Military is Embedded in the Gaming World. Its Target: Teen Recruits 109
AMD's CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm Is Now Open Source 29
Firefox Maker Mozilla Is Cutting 60 Jobs After Naming New CEO 106
FTC Chair Khan: Stop Monopolies Before They Happen 40
NYC Fails Controversial Remote Learning Snow Day 'Test,' Public Schools Chancellor Says 60
FCC Commissioner Wants To Investigate Apple Over Beeper Mini Shutdown 63
Amazon Prime Video Drops Dolby Vision, Atmos Unless You Pay Extra 90
Climate Change Reversing Gains In Air Quality Across the US, Study Finds 121
Amazon Hides Cheaper Items With Faster Delivery, Lawsuit Alleges 23
The US Government Makes a $42 Million Bet On Open Cell Networks 26
Google Scholar is Manipulatable 16
Morgan Stanley Says Firms Are Focused on Costs Like Never Before 40
California Bill Would Require Computer Science For High School Graduation 202
Computer Simulations of Atlantic Ocean Currents Finds Collapse Could Happen in Our Lifetime 128
Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' is Rebooting in 2024 56
Clean Jet Fuel Startup Fires Up New Carbon Converter 41
Oversight of Boeing 'is Not Delivering Safe Aircraft', Says America's Top Aviation Regulator 99
In Big Tech's Backyard, a California State Lawmaker Unveils a Landmark AI Bill 50
Will FTX Customers Fully Recoup Their Money? 27
After 1.5-Degree Temperature Rise, What Happens Next? 128
EFF Challenges 'Legal Bullying' of Sites Reporting on Alleged Appin 'Hacking-for-Hire' 16
Recycling Plants Start Installing Trash-Spotting AI Systems 60
California Bill Would Ban All Plastic Shopping Bags At Grocery Stores 276
Gen Z Turns To Physical Books and Libraries 89
Nine US States Are Teaming Up To Accelerate the Adoption of Heat Pumps 209
With Miami Move, Jeff Bezos Proves Zip Codes Do Matter 170
Ring Video Doorbell Customers Angry At 43% Price Hike 42
Canada Moves To Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears 63
Amazon Steers Consumers To Higher-Priced Items, Lawsuit Claims 50
US To Launch $5 Billion Research Hub To Stay Ahead in Chip Race 45
SpaceX Launches NASA's PACE Satellite To Study Earth's Oceans, Air and Climate 7
World's First Year-Long Breach of Key 1.5C Warming Limit 302
The Viral Smart Toothbrush Botnet Story Is Not Real 52
Feds Say Activision Layoffs Violate Promises Microsoft Made in Merger Deal 43
Mozilla Names New CEO as It Pivots To Data Privacy 57
US Says Leading AI Companies Join Safety Consortium To Address Risks 6
EPA Tightens Rules On Some Air Pollution For the First Time In Over a Decade 59
Making Farming More Climate-Friendly Is Hard. Just Ask Europe's Politicians. 186
Chinese Hackers Embedded in US Networks For at Least Five Years 15
Meet 'Smaug-72B': The New King of Open-Source AI 37
Bluesky Opens To the Public 62
Crypto Mining Company Loses Bid To Force Canadian Utility Company To Provide Power 88
UK, France Pitch Rules To Curb Spyware Abuse 10
The EU Proposes Slashing Pollution 90 Percent by 2040 95
YouTube Has Become One of the Biggest Pay TV Services in the US 31
US To Restrict Visas For Those Who Misuse Commercial Spyware 23
Dartmouth College Reinstates the SAT 197
Hugging Face Launches Open Source AI Assistant Maker To Rival OpenAI's Custom GPTs 11
YouTube Says a Vision Pro App Is 'On the Roadmap' 21
Boeing Finds More Misdrilled Holes On 737 In Latest Setback 78
King Charles Diagnosed With Cancer 173
Will Silicon Valley's Next House Member Rewrite a Key Internet Law? 133
Across America, Clean Energy Plants Are Being Banned Faster Than They're Being Built 200
'Linux Foundation Energy' Partners With US Government on Interoperability of America's EV Charging 21
Craig Newmark Donates $10M to Help CUNY Journalism School Become Tuition-Free 37
The Fossil Fuel Industry Knew About Climate Change Since 1954 266
How CS Students Go From Code.org Into Its Founders' Mentorship/Angel Investment Fund, 'Neo' 14
Over 2 Percent of the US's Electricity Generation Now Goes To Bitcoin 106
Could We Fight Global Warming With A Giant Umbrella in Outer Space? 194
IEA Lowers Renewables Forecast For Clean Hydrogen 34
EPA Proposes 'Forever Chemicals' Be Considered Hazardous Substances 51
YouTube, Discord, and Lord of the Rings Led Police To a Teen Accused of a US Swatting Spree 60
Joe Rogan Gets New Spotify Deal Worth Up To $250 Million 134
Mark Zuckerberg Explains Why Meta Open-Sources Its AI 36
Ex-CIA Software Engineer Sentenced To 40 Years For Giving Secrets To WikiLeaks 147
YouTube Says It Has More Than 100 Million Premium and Music Subscribers 48
Snap Is Recalling and Refunding Every Drone It Ever Sold 39
Biden To Offer $1.5 Billion Loan To Restart Michigan Nuclear Power Plant 275
Hulu Is Cracking Down On Password Sharing, Just Like Disney Plus and Netflix 62
Investors Threw 50% Less Money At Quantum Last Year 32
FBI Director Warns Chinese Hackers Aim To 'Wreak Havoc' On US Critical Infrastructure 98
Mistral Confirms New Open Source AI Model Nearing GPT-4 Performance 18
California And Big Oil Are Splitting After Century-Long Affair 140
YouTube TV's Now Lets You Customize Your Multiview Experiences 21
Starbucks is Launching Its Olive Oil-Infused Beverages Nationwide 82
FEMA Will Pay States To Install Solar Panels and Heat Pumps 106
NY AG Sues Citibank For Failing To Protect Customers From Hackers And Scammers 50
Apple Says UK Could 'Secretly Veto' Global Privacy Tools 90
US Disabled Chinese Hacking Network Targeting Critical Infrastructure 24
Amid Recall Crisis, Philips Agrees To Stop Selling Sleep Apnea Machines In the United States 61
UK To Ban Disposable Vapes 131
Japan Will No Longer Require Floppy Disks For Submitting Some Official Documents 45
Alaska Airlines Plane Appears To Have Left Boeing Factory Without Critical Bolts 89
Open-Source Intelligence Challenges CIA, NSA, Spy Agencies 10
God Told Him to Launch a Crypto Venture, Said Pastor. Now He's Accused of Pocketing $1.2M 120
America's Car Industry Seeks to Crush AM Radio. Will Congress Rescue It? 262
Could America's Rooftop Solar Industry Be On the Verge of Collapse? 158
London Accused of Wrongly Fining Hundreds of Thousands of EU Drivers 91
'Massive Amounts' of Carbon Sequestered for Centuries Released By Clearing Indonesia's Peatland 130
Famed Financial Analyst's Final Forecast? 'The Dollar is Finished' as World Reserve Currency 176
Companies Once Focused On Mining Cryptocurrency Pivot To Generative AI 48
Climate Change Cripples Panama Canal. Fixing it Could Take Years 148
Mozilla Says Apple's New Browser Rules Are 'as Painful as Possible' for Firefox 63
California Lawmakers Push for Watermarks on AI-Made Photo, Video 116
Aviation Sector Sees No Fast Tech Solution To GPS Interference Problem 108
US Energy Secretary Says Anti-EV Sentiment is 'Political Nonsense' 382
NSA Buys Americans' Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says 96
Hugo Awards Under Fire Over Censorship Accusations 93
Boeing, Not Spirit, Mis-installed Piece That Blew Off Alaska MAX 9 Jet 98
Doomsday Clock Stays at 90 Seconds To Midnight 61
Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 Lost Nose Wheel Before Takeoff, FAA Says 253
Alaska Air CEO Says Loose Bolts Found in 'Many' Boeing Jets 191
Biden Aims To Stop Countries From Exploiting Americans' Data for Blackmail, Espionage 119
FTC Bans TurboTax From Advertising 'Free' Services, Calls It Deceptive 84
EFF Adds Street Surveillance Hub So Americans Can Check Who's Checking On Them 56
Google and AT&T Invest In AST SpaceMobile For Satellite-To-Smartphone Service 18
UK University To Beam in Hologram Lecturers 16
Exxon Takes Activists To Court Over Emissions Proposal 77
FAA Calls for Door-Plug Checks on Second Boeing Jet 49
Walmart's Financial Services 'Became a Fraud Magnet', Says ProPublica 83
Hans Reiser Sends a Letter From Prison 181
'For Truckers Driving EVs, There's No Going Back' 153
S&P 500 Index Sets Record High, Thanks to 'AI-Driven Frenzy' and Tech Stocks 46
US Government Opens 22 Million Acres of Federal Lands To Solar 106
OpenAI Ceo Sam Altman Is Still Chasing Billions To Build AI Chips 11
US To Ban Pentagon From Buying Batteries From China's CATL, BYD 17
Crime Rings Are Trafficking in an Unlikely Treasure: Sand 53
Cop28 Deal Will Fail Unless Rich Countries Quit Fossil Fuels, Says Climate Negotiator 184
Airbus Is Pulling Ahead as Boeing's Troubles Mount 104
Boeing Cargo Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Miami After 'Engine Malfunction' 29
David Mills, an Internet Pioneer, Has Died 19
Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Faster Than Scientists Previously Estimated, Study Finds 86
Google To Invest $1 Billion In UK Data Center 6
Remote Work Doesn't Seem To Affect Productivity, Fed Study Finds 105
OpenAI Announces First Partnership With a University 21
'A Groundbreaking Study Shows Kids Learn Better On Paper, Not Screens. Now What?' 130
US Must Beat China Back To the Moon, Congress Tells NASA 114
'Student Should Have a Healthy-Looking BMI': How Universities Bend Over Backwards To Accommodate Food Delivery Robots 125
Human 'Behavioral Crisis' At Root of Climate Breakdown, Say Scientists 300
Apple Revises App Store Rules To Let Developers Link To Outside Payment Methods 152
Rockstar Games' Owner is Fighting Remedy Entertainment Over Its New 'R' Logo 24
OpenAI Is Working With US Military on Cybersecurity Tools 11
The World Could Get Its First Trillionaire Within 10 Years 287
'Technical Glitch' In Payroll Software Sparks Riots In Papua New Guinea 40
YouTube Begins New Wave of Slowdowns For Users With Ad Blockers Enabled 307
Verizon To Keep Charging Controversial Fee Despite $100 Million Settlement 35
No Joke: Feds Are Banning Humorous Electronic Messages On Highways 85
Trader Loses $5.7 Million To Slippage in Memecoin Trade 54
Can Pumping CO2 Into California's Oil Fields Help Stop Global Warming? 83
Python Software Foundation Says EU's 'Cyber Resilience Act' Includes Wins for Open Source 18
Linux Mint 21.3: Its First Official Release with Wayland Support 71
Should Chatbots Teach Your Children? 94
Despite 16-Year Glitch, UK Law Still Considers Computers 'Reliable' By Default 96
America Cracks Down on Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas Facilities 36
Did a US Hedge Fund Help Destroy Local Journalism? 125
The Billionaires Spending a Fortune To Lure Scientists Away From Universities 77
Artifact, Personalized News App From Instagram Co-Founders, Is Shutting Down 7
US Tech Innovation Dreams Soured By Changed R&D Tax Laws 35
What Counts as Plagiarism? Harvard President's Resignation Sparks Debate 119
2023 Was Hottest Year Ever Recorded Globally, US Scientists Confirm 114
Beaver Ponds May Exacerbate Warming In Arctic, Scientists Say 95
eBay To Pay $3 Million Penalty For Employees Sending Live Cockroaches, Fetal Pig To Bloggers 43
X Announces Peer-To-Peer Payment Service Will Launch In 2024 109
FAA Investigating Whether Boeing 737 Max 9 Conformed To Approved Design 84
Chicago Public Schools Lost Over $20 Million In Electronics In One Year, Report Says 163
Microsoft Dethrones Apple as the Largest US Company 52
FCC Commissioner Carr Says 'Huge Miss' If US Doesn't Ban or Divest TikTok in 2024 136
Englishman Who Posed As HyperVerse CEO Says Sorry To Investors Who Lost Millions 23
Microsoft Debates What To Do With AI Lab In China 43
The Next Front in the US-China Battle Over Chips 87
Earth Shattered Global Heat Record In 2023 227
SEC Claims Account Was 'Compromised' After Announcing False Bitcoin ETF Approval 48
FTC Bans X-Mode From Selling Phone Location Data 10
Global Economy Set For Its Worst Half Decade of Growth in 30 Years, World Bank Says 154
OpenAI Claims NYT Tricked ChatGPT Into Copying Its Articles 166
'Only 700 New IT Jobs' Were Created In US Last Year 95
US News Makes Money From Some of Its Biggest Critics: Colleges 29
IRS To Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System 96
Hundreds of US Car Dealerships Abandon Buicks. Are EVs to Blame? 210
How AI-Generated Content Could Fuel a Migration From Social Media to Independent 'Authored' Content 68
The Land is Steadily Sinking Up and Down America's Atlantic Coast 85
ZDNet Calls Rhino Linux 'New Coolest Linux Distro' 52
What's Next for Mozilla - and for Open Source AI? 33
'As AI Rises, is Web3 Dead in the Water?' 128
America's First Large-Scale Offshore Wind Project Finally Begins Generating Electricity 43
Jabber Was Announced on Slashdot 25 Years Ago This Week 32
America's FAA Temporarily Grounds All Boeing 737 Max 9s - After a Window Blows Off In-Flight 148
After Reports of His Own Wife's Plagiarism, Bill Ackman Threatens Plagiarism Reviews For All MIT Faculty 293
US Moves Closer To Filing Sweeping Antitrust Case Against Apple 119
Huawei Teardown Shows 5nm Chip Made in Taiwan, Not China 29
FDA Issues First Approval for Mass Drug Imports To States From Canada 83
Boeing Wants FAA To Exempt MAX 7 From Safety Rules To Get It in the Air 83
Top China Diplomat Warns of Decoupling Risk 63
AI and Satellite Imagery Used To Create Clearest Map Yet of Human Activity At Sea 5
US Pay-TV Subscriber Base Eroding At Record Pace 104
Google Is Preparing a Paid Version of Bard 10
UCLA Will Transform Dead Westside Mall Into Major Science Innovation Center 23
New Cars Bought in the UK Must Be Zero Emission by 2035 202
Germany's Emissions Hit 70-Year Low As It Reduces Reliance on Coal 220
'Rich Dad Poor Dad' Author Says He's Racked Up More Than $1 Billion in Debt 196
Substack Faces User Revolt Over Anti-Censorship Stance 271
Firmware Prank Causes LED Curtain In Russia To Display 'Slava Ukraini' 109
Tax Credits To Intuit Better Spent To Fund a Free Alternative To TurboTax, Lawmakers Say 112
North Carolina and Montana Just Lost Access To Pornhub 302
What's in a Name? The Battle of Baby T. Rex and Nanotyrannus. 20
Almost Half of British Teens Feel Addicted To Social Media, Study Says 44
Meet 'Link History,' Facebook's New Way To Track the Websites You Visit 17
Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns 363
New Spin on a Revolving Door: Pentagon Officials Turned Venture Capitalists 25
India's Food-Security Problem Is Also the World's 53
All Passengers on Japan Airlines Jet Evacuated After Plane Collision 41
Nobel Prize Winner Cautions on Rush Into STEM 113
US Supreme Court's Roberts Urges 'Caution' as AI Reshapes Legal Field 65
Early Mickey Mouse Finally Enters Public Domain 65
Burned Investors Ask 'Where Were the Auditors?' A Court Says 'Who Cares?' 88
2023 Will Be Remembered as the Year Climate Change Arrived 159
Will 2024 Bring a 'Major Turning Point' in US Health Care? 154
Since the Demise of Atom, 'Pulsar' Offers an Alternative Code Editor 24

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