News Stories for 2013

53% More Book Banning Incidents In US Schools This Year 360
The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 193
Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations 316
UK Introduces Warrantless Detention 153
New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution 1010
US Requirement For Software Dev Certification Raises Questions 228
The Startling Array of Hacking Tools In NSA's Armory 215
USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs 252
Intel Releases 5,000 Pages of Open-Source Haswell Documentation 111
Former CIA/NSA Head: NSA Is "Infinitely" Weaker As a Result of Snowden's Leaks 572
Hacker Took Over BBC Server, Tried To Sell Access On Christmas Day 41
The Rise of Hoax News 181
Is a Super-Sized iPad the Future of Education? 234
Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School 294
Space Junk or a Meteor? Fireball Lit Up Midwestern Skies 87
Australian Icebreaker Tries To Get Through To Stranded Antarctic Research Ship 188
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Implement Wave Protocol Self Hosted? 112
Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog 259
Tech Startup Buffer Publishes Every Employee's Salary, Right Up To the CEO 229
Hearing Shows How 'Military-Style' Raid On Calif. Power Station Spooks U.S. 396
Prince of Persia Level Editor 'Apoplexy' Reaches 2.0 44
How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes 60
NSA's Legal Win Introduces a Lot of Online Insecurity 239
Website Checkout Glitches: Two Very Different Corporate Responses 303
GNU Octave Gets a GUI 166
NASA's LLCD Tests Confirm Laser Communication Capabilities In Space 107
France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook 314
Sherlock Holmes Finally In the Public Domain In the US 207
Internet Commenting Growing Away From Anonymity 384
Video Games Charity Raises Over $10 Million 50
NSA Drowns In Useless Data, Impeding Work, Former Employee Claims 120
Millions of Dogecoin Stolen Over Christmas 132
Houston Expands Downtown Surveillance, Unsure If It Helps 60
Antarctic Climate Research Expedition Trapped In Sea Ice 209
Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries 378
US Internet Service In 2014: Net Neutrality Challenges and High-Speed Build-Outs 73
India Cautions Users On Risks Associated With Virtual Currencies 121
Earth's Orbit Reshapes Sea Floor 55
Year In Communications: NSA Revelations Overshadow Communications Breakthroughs 61
U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year 71
60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out 944
E-Books That Read You 120
Google Sues Consortium Backed By Apple and Microsoft to Protect Android 150
Italy Approves 'Google Tax' On Internet Companies 236
Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers 64
How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation 118
Scientists Predict Earthquake's Location and Strength 44
Upload a Spoof Video, Go To Jail (In Dubai) 107
2013: an Ominous Year For Warnings and Predictions 94
Snowden Says His Mission Is Accomplished 312
LinuxDevices Content Returns To the Web 15
Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change 552
Google Helps Celebrate 100 Years of Cr_sswo_ds 27
Alan Turing Pardoned 415
Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe 84
Book Review: Digital Archaeology: the Art and Science of Digital Forensics 14
MIT Study: Only 3.1% of USA Used Electronics "e-Waste" Were Exported 58
Member of President Obama's NSA Panel Recommends Increased Data Collection 349
Why Snapchat and Its Ilk Face a Revenue Conundrum 104
Huge Pool of Ice-Free Water Discovered Under Greenland Ice 135
Run Netflix On OpenSUSE 128
Asm.js Gets Faster 289
UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites 148
FBI's Secret Interrogation Manual: Now At the Library of Congress 102
Is Computer Science Education Racist and Sexist? 612
Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Reports Break-In Of Berlin Apartment 194
Enlightenment DR 0.18: Improved Compositing, Wayland Support 62
Canadian Spy Agencies Deliberately Misled Courts 62
Overstock.com Plans To Accept Bitcoin 202
Verizon and AT&T Join the 'Transparency Report' Club 37
Out-of-the-Box, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Support TRIM On SSDs 133
Big Buck Bunny In 4K, 60 Fps and 3D-stereo 102
Belgian Telecom Becomes First To Accept Bitcoin 65
Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split 489
DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years 183
Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California 653
Open Source Add-on Rewrites the User Interface of IE11 86
Oppo's CyanogenMod Phone Gets Blessed To Run Google Apps 47
Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA 464
Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims 168
How Astronauts Took the Most Important Photo In Space History 108
NSA Metadata Collection Program Has Stopped Zero Attacks 199
Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? 308
DHS Turns To Unpaid Interns For Nation's Cyber Security 174
Enormous Tunneling Machine 'Bertha' Blocked By 'The Object' 339
China Rejects 545,000 Tons of US Genetically Modified Corn 215
It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car 201
BitTorrent Unveils Secure Chat To Counter 'NSA Dragnet Surveillance' 111
Cyanogen Mod Raises $23 Million Funding All Set To Become Major Android Player 133
Bill Gates Plays Secret Santa To Reddit User 118
After 22 Years, Walt Mossberg Writes Final WSJ Column 100
Free Software Foundation Endorses a "Truly Free" Laptop 340
UN Votes To Protect Privacy In Digital Age 124
Mark Zuckerberg Gives $990 Million To Charity 230
Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code 225
CryptoLocker Gang Earns $30 Million In Just 100 Days 202
US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil 439
Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire 691
UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn 227
Panel Urges Major NSA Spying Overhaul 242
NASA's Greatest Challenges In 2014 97
Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars 238
Interview: Ask Bruce Sterling What You Will 60
Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player 80
Ted Nelson's Passionate Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart 110
Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use 547
Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA 312
Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality 366
Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov 214
Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate 314
NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware 698
The Case For a Global, Compulsory Bug Bounty 81
Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak 606
GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses 356
Owncloud 6 Brings Collaborative Open Document Format Editing to the Web 73
Google Seeks To Throw Out UK Safari Tracking Suit 70
Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional 345
Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test 173
EdX Drops Plans To Connect MOOC Students With Employers 59
Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers 418
Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee 76
Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Could Actually Be Group From Europe 186
CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying 504
The Business of Attention Deficit Disorder 246
Norway Rejects Bitcoin As Currency; Taxes As Asset, Instead 245
US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month 1146
France Broadens Surveillance Powers; Wider Scope Than NSA 169
Code.org Stats: 507MM LOC, 6.8MM Kids, 2K YouTube Views 123
How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School 894
Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US 285
NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove 383
Investor Lawsuit Blames NSA For $12B Loss In IBM Value 204
Why the NSA Piggybacks On Consumer Tracking 62
NSA Able To Crack A5/1 Cellphone Crypto 122
Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage 213
UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game 598
Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber 184
Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft 174
Oculus Raises $75 Million To Make VR Headset 114
NuScale Power Awarded $226 Million To Deploy Small Nuclear Reactor Design 210
Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd 191
More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years 287
Wikipedia's Lamest Edit Wars 219
YouTube Expands Live Streaming To All Channels 71
Oregon Signs Up Just 44 People For Obamacare Despite Spending $300 Million 586
Cybercrime Marketplace Mastermind Faces 18 Years In Prison 59
Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't 258
Google Fixes Credit Card Security Hole, But Snubs Discoverer 127
Indian Government Lifts Nokia's Asset Freeze, Factory Can Transfer To Microsoft 53
Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' 275
Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 216
Soviet Union Spent $1 Billion On "Psychotronic" Arms Race With the US 230
StarCraft II Gamer Receives US Pro-Athlete Visa 114
Decades-Old Rambus Litigation Against Micron For RDRAM Tech Reaches Settlement 82
UK Retailer Mistakenly Sends PS Vitas, Threatens Legal Action To Get Them Back 617
Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery 226
Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It 208
Canonical Moving Away From GNOME Control Center 208
OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein 140
AirPlay Alternative Mirrors and Streams To TVs and PCs 62
Linux Voice Passes Its Crowdfunding Target 57
Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India 226
Open Source 'Wasn't Available' Two Years Ago, Says UK Gov't IT Project Chief 113
Firefox 26 Arrives With Click-To-Play For Java Plugins 208
AllSeen Alliance Wants To Open-Source the 'Internet of Things' 86
British Police Censor the Global Internet 228
3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate 414
KDE Releases KDevelop 4.6 93
US Treasury Completes Bailout of General Motors 425
Snowden Document Shows Canada Set Up Spy Posts For NSA 177
Affordable 3D Metal Printer Developed Based on RepRap 199
Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec 129
Chicago Public Schools Promoting Computer Science to Core Subject 236
CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption 118
Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo Form Alliance Against NSA 293
Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean 273
The Yin and Yang of Hour of Code & Immigration Reform 220
Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA 841
Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy 345
Secret New UAS Shows Stealth, Efficiency Advances 87
Air Traffic Control "Telephone Glitch" Delays Hundreds of UK Flights 40
US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry 466
Excite Kids To Code By Focusing Less On Coding 207
Insight On FBI Hacking Ops 137
How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works 174
Killer Qualities of Japanese Fault Revealed 58
Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users 129
About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors 157
Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013? 317
US Navy Launches Drone From Submerged Submarine 55
Opus 1.1 Released 62
Get Ready For a Streaming Music Die-Off 370
FSF Responds To Microsoft's Privacy and Encryption Announcement 174
Obama Praises NSA But Promises To Rein It In 306
This Whole Bitcoin Thing Could Be Big, Says Bank of America 276
Moore's Law Blowout Sale Is Ending, Says Broadcom CTO 267
Patent Troll Bill Clears House With Huge Majority 138
Nelson Mandela Dead At 95 311
Add USB LED Notifications To Your PC With Just a Bit of Soldering (Video) 129
Ask Slashdot: Why So Hard Landing Interviews In Seattle Versus SoCal? 506
Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead 923
NSA Tracking Cellphone Locations Worldwide 256
China Bans Financial Companies From Bitcoin Transactions 110
The Status of the Fukushima Clean-Up 136
Gov't Puts Witness On No Fly List, Then Denies Having Done So 462
Famo.us To Open Source Rendering Engine Replacement JavaScript Framework 48
Fearing Government Surveillance, US Journalists Are Self-Censoring 376
FLOSS 2013: the Survey For Open Source Contributors, a Decade Later 27
Plastic Waste Threatens Marine Diversity 48
1.5 Million Pages of Ancient Manuscripts Online 79
Spotify's Own Math Suggests Musicians Are Still Getting Hosed 244
RF Safe-Stop Shuts Down Car Engines With Radio Pulse 549
New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates 263
How Much Is Oracle To Blame For Healthcare IT Woes? 275
Is GWU Econ Prof. Nick Szabo Satoshi Nakamoto? 120
Inside the War For Top Developer Talent 238
Final Days For Australia's Analog TV 192
New MIT Camera Takes 3D Photos in the Dark 45
Supreme Court Declines Case On Making Online Retailers Collect Sales Taxes 293
Over 20% of Online Black Friday Sales Came From Mobile Devices 201
Mediterranean Sea To Possibly Become Site of Chemical Weapons Dump 174
Siberia's Methane Release Larger Than Previously Thought 135
White House Calls On Kids To Film High-Tech Education 95
Why Competing For Tenure Is Like Trying To Become a Drug Lord 168
Zuckerberg Shows Kindergartners Ruby Instead of JavaScript 144
Dial 00000000 To Blow Up the World 306
How Microwave Transmission Is Linking Financial Centers At Near-Light Speed 236
Officials Say HealthCare.gov Site Now Performing Well 644
Ask Slashdot: DIY Computational Neuroscience? 90
Sebastian Thrun Pivots Udacity Toward Vocational Education 86
Open Source In the Datacenter: It Was Never About Innovation 100
Computer Model Reveals Escape Plan From Poverty's Vicious Circle 356
Unpublished J. D. Salinger Stories Leaked On Bittorrent Site 218
Disabled Woman Denied Entrance To US Due To Private Medical Records 784
Jolla: Ex-Nokia Employees Launch Smartphone (MeeGo Resurrected) 141
Creative Commons Launches Version 4.0 of Its Licenses 47
Code.org Wants Participating Students' Data For 7 Years 90
FOIA: NSA Contracts Stored In Paper Files, Unsearchable, Unindexed 114
UK Gov't Plans To Censor "Extremist" Websites Via Orders To ISPs 208
Why Bitcoin Is Doomed To Fail, In One Economist's Eyes 537
Online Shopping: Hazardous To Junk Food's Health 151
The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu 346
62% of 16 To 24-Year-Olds Prefer Printed Books Over eBooks 331
Nasdaq 4000 — This Time It's Different? 241
EU Plastic Bag Debate Highlights a Wider Global Problem 470
Art Makes Students Smart 187
Intelligence Officials Fear Snowden's 'Doomsday' Cache 381
Docker 0.7 Runs On All Linux Distributions 88
Jury Finds Newegg Infringed Patent, Owes $2.3 Million 324
Have 100GB Free? Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia, With Images 151

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