News Stories for 2015

George W Bush Made Retroactive NSA 'Fix' After Hospital Room Showdown 258
Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? 158
RIP: Tech Advocate and Obama Advisor Jake Brewer 142
The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR 92
UK Man Gets Britain's First-Ever Conviction For Illegal Drone Use 77
'Rose' Wins 2015 Loebner Contest, But Big Prize Remains Unclaimed 58
A Wikipedia-Style Tree of Life Emerges 72
Delete, Dump and Destroy: Canada's Government Data Severely Compromised 85
Nintendo Nixes YouTube Videos of Super Mario Speedruns 151
A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers 737
Microsoft Spending $75M To Boost K-12 CS Education, Put TEALS In 4,000 Schools 48
Club Concorde Wants To Put a Concorde Back In the Air 124
UK Govt's Expensive Mobile Coverage Project Builds Just 8 Masts In 4 Years 75
UK Researcher Applies For Permission To Edit Embryo Genomes 62
Some Trump Donors Get Fleeced By 3rd-Party Payment System 113
Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events 662
AeroVelo Breaks Human-powered Land Speed Record 21
AT&T Says Malware Secretly Unlocked Hundreds of Thousands of Phones 123
JetBrains Reconsiders Subscription Licensing Changes 51
Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming 411
Tracking a Bluetooth ATM Skimming Gang In Mexico 44
The Economics of Drug Sales On the Dark Web 53
Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity 59
Investigation Finds Exxon Ignored Its Own Early Climate Change Warnings 255
Making Liquid Fuels From Sun and Air 163
AMD Confirms Vulkan Driver For Linux, But To Start Off As Closed-Source 47
Book Review: Abusing the Internet of Things 26
The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year 1291
NASA Delays Orion's First Manned Flight Until 2023 115
Trademark Trolls Stops University Nicknames 102
A Powerful 8.3-Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Off Chile's Coast 56
The Answer To the High Cost of College: 42% Cut In Tuition 143
Chinese Compiling "Facebook" of US Government Employees 113
XPRIZE's Jono Bacon On the Next Great Challenge 20
Are Non-Technical Certifications Worth Earning? 118
Obama Invites Texas Teen To White House After "Bomb" Clock Incident At School 657
AT&T Offers $250k Reward To Find the California Fiber-Optic Ripper 145
America's First Video Game Museum Is Trying To Level Up 51
Nine of World's Biggest Banks Create Blockchain Partnership 93
NYC Counting On Donations To Fund Required K-12 Computer Science Programs 21
Xerox Creates Printed Labels With Rewritable Memory 48
HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff 273
The Era of Open Source Cars 31
APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code 255
Federal Court Invalidates 11-Year-old FBI Gag Order On NSL Recipient 81
Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results 283
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? 218
NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out 263
YouTube 'Dancing Baby' Copyright Ruling Sets Pre-Trial Fair Use Guideline 127
Law Professor: Genetic Engineering Is (Probably) Protected By the First Amendment 127
UK Labour Party's Support For Homeopathy Grows 414
Broadband Users 'Need' At Least 10Mbps To Be Satisfied 280
Man Receives a Prosthetic Hand That Allows Him To Feel 45
How To Find Out If GCHQ and the NSA Spied On You, and How To Complain 79
Arrangement With Science Publisher Raises Questions About Wikipedia's Commitment To Open Access 125
GameStart Uses Minecraft to Teach Kids Programming (Video 2) 18
How Fine-Grained Will New Credentialism Get: Credit For Watching a TED Talk? 102
Sen. Ron Wyden Says CISA Data Collection Could Put Americans At Risk 58
Alabama Will Require Students To Learn About Evolution, Climate Change 591
Vodafone Australia Employee Searched Journalist's Phone Records To Find Source 65
The Force Awakens With Devon's $28,500 Star Wars Limited Edition Watch 112
Sharebeast, the Largest US-based Filesharing Service, Has Its Domain Seized 122
University Employees Suspended Due To Guest Worker Scandal 209
Hire a Developer, Watch Them Work In Real-Time 100
Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining 268
OpenGL Library Mesa 11.0 Brings Open Source OpenGL 4 88
Dept. of Energy Compromised 159 Times Over Four-Year Period 35
Ex-Ashley Madison CTO Threatens Libel Suit Against Journalist 142
What Ever Happened To Google Books? 70
PayPal, Visa, MasterCard Prepare To Block Payments To Pirate Sites In France 82
Ask Slashdot: Definitive Password Management Best Practices Using OSS? 77
NASA Launching 4K TV Channel 41
Open Source Router Firmware OpenWRT 15.05 Released 94
10 Major Automakers Agree To Include Automatic Emergency Braking On New Vehicles 451
GameStart Uses Minecraft to Teach Kids Programming (Video 1) 30
Why the LHC May Mean the End of Experimental Particle Physics 191
Benchmark Battle, September 2015: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge 137
Spy Industry Leaders Befuddled Over 'Deep Cynicism' of American Public 403
Ellen Pao Drops Appeal of Gender Discrimination Suit 234
US Defense Secretary Mulls Rapid Grants For Tech Companies 58
Google's Android Pay Mobile Payments Service Arrives In US 101
Ask Slashdot: Synchronizing Sound With Video, Using Open Source? 103
FireEye Tries to Bury Keynote Reporting That It Ran Apache As Root On Security Servers 108
New UK Security Guidelines: Password Re-Use OK, Frequent Changing a Waste 148
John McAfee On Why He's Running For President 242
Do Tech Firms Really Want Liberal Arts Majors? 266
Rupert Murdoch Buys National Geographic Magazine 286
Interviews: RMS Answers Your Questions 246
Researchers Say S. African Bones Are From Previously Unknown Human Relative 77
Intel Drops Support For Science Talent Search 115
Why Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program Is a Bad Deal For Most 279
UK Researchers Developing Influenza-Resistant Birds 54
US-Appointed Egg Lobby Paid Food Blogs and Targeted Chef To Crush Vegan Startup 317
Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate 528
Software Takes On School Science Tests In Search For Common Sense 44
Wikipedia's Viewing Statistics Could Provide Better Web-Trends Data Than Google 19
Ask Slashdot: Cheapest Functional Computer For Students? 508
Microsoft Continues To Resist US Warrant For Irish Data 195
White House Petition To Let Foreign STEM Grads Work Longer In US Hits 100K Signatures 216
Microsoft Announces VP9 Support For Edge 55
Four Year Sentence For Running Piracy Streaming Site 235
John McAfee Pondering Presidential Bid 184
Testing Old Tapes To Save Them 62
Node.js v4.0.0 Released 128
Software Is Hiring, But Manufacturing Is Bleeding 102
Apple To FBI: Encryption Rules Out Handing Over iMessage Data In Real Time 306
The Free Software Foundation: 30 Years In 135
Huge Ritual Arena Discovered Near Stonehenge 126
YouTube Reportedly Bypassing Ad Blockers On Google Chrome 296
Why Biking Injuries and Deaths Are Spiking In the US 696
Debian Working on Reproducible Builds To Make Binaries Trustable 130
Ice-Age Fossils Unearthed At Construction Site In California 44
Shuttleworth Says Snappy Won't Replace .deb Linux Package Files In Ubuntu 15.10 232
NASA's Ten-Year Mission To Study All the Ways the Arctic Is Doomed 125
Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President 281
Get Big Fast: "500 Club" Delivers Teachers For Code.org 28
Role Model Bhutan Takes Zen Approach To Climate Change 181
Commercial Space Crew Supporters Posit a Conspiracy Theory Involving Funding Shortages 62
DDoS-Style YouTube Dislikes For Sale 66
Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need 320
Four Men Arrested Over Million-Dollar MacBook Heist 100
New Release of the Trinity Desktop Environment 197
Facebook's Solution To 'One of Education's Biggest Problems' Is a Dashboard 63
What Is Open Source Pharma (and Why Should You Care)? 165
Apple TV To Be Revamped 132
Ask Slashdot: Storing Family Videos and Pictures For Posterity? 174
Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money 284
JetBrains Moving Its Dev Tools To Subscription Model 141
TPP Scuttles Attempts To Fix Orphan Works 128
The Paris Climate Talks: Negotiating With the Atmosphere 130
Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? 307
Lack of Teacher Training Hampers UK Programming Education 112
Report: Google Will Return To China 82
Bugzilla Breached, Private Vulnerability Data Stolen 97
$415 Million Settlement Approved In Tech Worker Anti-Poaching Case 117
Pentagon Halts Work at Labs For Dangerous Pathogens After Anthrax Scare 50
Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US 209
ThinkGeek Opens First Physical Store In Orlando 63
Congressional Testimony: A Surprising Consensus On Climate 370
Easy-To-Clean Membrane Separates Oil From Water 39
14-Year-Old Boy Placed On Police Register After Sending Naked Picture To Classmate 261
Sultan of Sound, Dr. James Flanagan, Passed Away Aged 89 13
Survey: More Women Are Going Into Programming 280
Earth Home To 3 Trillion Trees, Half As Many As When Human Civilization Arose 269
WWII Bomb Shelter Becomes Hi-Tech Salad Farm 122
Police Body Camera Business All About the Video Evidence Storage 99
60,000 Antelope Died In 4 Days, and No One Knows Why 206
FTC: Machinima Took Secret Cash To Shill Xbox One 156
Government Still Hasn't Notified Individuals Whose Personal Data Was Hacked 71
UK Health Clinic Accidentally Publishes HIV Status of 800 Patients 65
You Don't Have To Be Good At Math To Learn To Code 616
Netflix Open Sources Sleepy Puppy XSS Hunter 12
How Open Film Project "Cosmos Laundromat" Made Blender Better 31
Mutt 1.5.24 Released 38
Canadian Music Industry Faces Competition Complaint Over Public Domain Records 38
New FCC Rules Could Ban WiFi Router Firmware Modification 242
Wikipedia Blocks Hundreds of Accounts Doing Paid Editing 146
Browser Makers To End RC4 Support In Early 2016 40
Turkey Arrests Journalists For Using Encryption 145
LLVM 3.7 Delivers OpenMP 3.1 Support, ORC JIT API, New Optimizations 84
Chrome 45 Launches, Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content, Like Ads 92
Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap 229
Mozilla Project Working on Immersive Displays (Video) 47
Mozilla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and Others Form 'Alliance For Open Media' 99
Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars 248
LILO Bootloader Development To End 135
US Weighs Sanctioning Russia As Well As China In Cyber Attacks 78
Six UK Teens Arrested For Being "Customers" of Lizard Squad's DDoS Service 95
Nearly Every Seabird May Be Eating Plastic By 2050 149
How Artificial Intelligence Can Fight Air Pollution In China 50
3 Category 4 Hurricanes Develop In the Pacific At Once For the First Time 292
Book Review: Effective Python: 59 Specific Ways To Write Better Python 71
Cities Wasting Millions of Taxpayer's Money In Failed IoT Pilots 149
Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? 842
Where the Tech Industry's Political Donations Are Going 130
"McKinley" Since 1917, Alaska's Highest Peak Is Redesignated "Denali" 389
Brain Cancer Claims Horror Maestro Wes Craven At 76 35
F-35 To Face Off Against A-10 In CAS Test 502
CenturyLink Takes $3B In Subsidies For Building Out Rural Broadband 199
NSF Makes It Rain: $722K Award To Evaluate Microsoft-Backed TEALS 64
Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil' 275
Neurologist and Author Oliver Sacks Dead at 82 31
Linux Kernel 4.2 Released 142
"Hack" Typeface Is Open Source, Easy On the IDEs 211
AMD's R9 Fury On Open-Source: Prepare for Disappointment, For Now 43
Lights, Camera, Experiment! 14
Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages 576
A FreeBSD "Spork" With Touches of NeXT and OS X: NeXTBSD 165
MIAOW Open Source GPU Debuts At Hot Chips 45
GNOME To Start Using Codenames 46
Croatian Party Advocates Government Adoption of Open Source 29
Ten Dropbox Engineers Build BSD-licensed, Lossless 'Pied Piper' Compression Algorithm 174
Microsoft Builds Open-Source Browser Using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS 74
Ubuntu Is the Dominant Cloud OS 167
Federal Court Overturns Ruling That NSA Metadata Collection Was Illegal 151
'Ingenious' Experiment Closes Loopholes In Quantum Theory 214
Boeing Demonstrates Drone-Killing Laser 125
Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 190
Ocean Cleanup Project Completes Great Pacific Garbage Patch Research Expedition 71
Inside the Booming, Unhinged, and Dangerous Malvertising Menace 259
Canadian Nuclear Accident Study Puts Risks Into Perspective 166
NASA Scientists Paint Stark Picture of Accelerating Sea Level Rise 382
Docs: Responding To Katrina, FBI Made Cell Phone Surveillance Its Priority 84
Open Source, Collaborative Rich-Text, Web-Based Editor Almost Available 59
Kansas Secretary of State Blocks Release of Voting Machine Tapes 288
UNC Scientists Open Source Their Genomic Research 10
North Dakota Legalizes "Less Than Lethal" Weapon-Equipped Police Drones 180
The Nations That Will Be Hardest Hit By Water Shortages By 2040 203
More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste 177
Will a Tighter Economy Rein In Startups? 109
Meet YouTube Gaming, Twitch's Archenemy 94
Countries Gaming Carbon Offsets May Have Dramatically Increased Emissions 158
Buzzwords Are Stifling Innovation In College Teaching 95
Wired: IBM's School Could Fix Education and Tech's Diversity Gap 176
Ask Slashdot: Technical Resources For Non-Technical Disciplines? 87
Massachusetts Boarding School Sued Over Wi-Fi Sickness 588
'Gynepunks' DIY Gynecology For Underserved Women 59
The Case For Teaching Ignorance 237
As Coursera Evolves, Colleges Stay On and Investors Buy In 46
Virgin Media To Base a Public Wi-Fi Net On Paying Customers' Routers 113
KDE Plasma 5.4 Released 43
Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24 152
Met Office Loses BBC Weather Forecasting Contract 119
Calls For Funding NASA Commercial Crew Grow 71
Court: FTC Can Punish Companies With Sloppy Cybersecurity 86
A Farewell To Flash 202
Group Seeks Test For Geoengineering Tool To Fight Climate Change 127
Judge Rules That Inglewood, California Cannot Copyright Public Videos 67
FBI Informant: Ray Bradbury's Sci-fi Written To Induce Communistic Mass Hysteria 282
Mostly Theater? Taking Aim At White House 'We the People' Petitions 68
In Germany, a Message-in-a-Bottle Found 108 Years After Its Release 57
Hugos Refuse To Award Anyone Rather Than Submit To Fans' Votes 1044
Not All Uber Drivers Like Surge Pricing, Either 250
Ubuntu Core Gets Support For Raspberry Pi 2 GPIO and I2C 59
Standardized Tests Blamed, Asian Students Ignored In Google-Gallup K-12 CS Study 184
Big Changes From Mozilla Mean Firefox Will Get Chrome Extensions 192
NASA's Hurricane Model Resolution Increases Nearly 10-Fold Since Katrina 89
Two US Marines Foil Terrorist Attack On Train In France 468
Extortionists Begin Targeting AshleyMadison Users, Demand Bitcoin 286
Meet Linux's Newest File-System: Bcachefs 132
The Real NASA Technologies In 'The Martian' 60
Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? 698
Firefox Will Run Chrome Extensions 152
City of Munich Struggling With Basic Linux Functionality 394
Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption 495
Linux Foundation Project Will Evaluate Security of Open Source Software 37
UK Government Signs New Deal With Oracle 54
Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System 755
New Rules Say UK Video Bloggers Must Be Clearer About Paid Endorsements 36
Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers 417

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