News Stories for 2014

Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming 341
WikiLeaks Claims Employee's Google Mail, Metadata Seized By US Government 53
US Army Could Waive Combat Training For Hackers 223
War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons 290
The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace 420
NSA Says They Have VPNs In a 'Vulcan Death Grip' 234
Slashdot Asks: The Beanies Return; Who Deserves Recognition for 2014? 299
CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' 197
Debris, Bodies Recovered From AirAsia Flight 8501 132
How Amazon's Ebook Subscriptions Are Changing the Writing Industry 250
Quake On an Oscilloscope 71
Apple Pay For the UK 75
The NSA Uses the Same Chat Protocol As Hackers 81
Belize's "Blue Hole" Reveals Clues To Maya's Demise 80
Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? 363
Life In Space, In More Than 12,000 Photos 24
What Northern Hemisphere Astronomers Are Missing From the Southern Hemisphere 104
Sony Hack Reveals MPAA's Big '$80 Million' Settlement With Hotfile Was a Lie 117
School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees 355
Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry 278
AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore 275
Phoronix Lauds AMD's Open Source Radeon Driver Progress For 2014 44
White House Touts Obama's 1-Liner as 2014 Tech Highlight 65
An Open Source Flat Pack Robot Arm That's As Easy To Build As Ikea Furniture 39
N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" 206
Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' 279
Boston Elementary, Middle Schools To Get a Longer Day 161
The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week 63
Paul Graham: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In 552
Net Neutrality Comments Overtaxed FCC's System 32
The World of YouTube Bubble Sort Algorithm Dancing 68
Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features 66
Startups: the Crazy Ones, the Misfits, the Rebels ... the Dumb Ones 34
DARPA Wants Help Building a Drone That Flies Like a Hawk 42
Russian Hackers Stole Millions From Banks, ATMs 53
App Gives You Free Ebooks of Your Paperbacks When You Take a "Shelfie" 131
Subsurface 4.3 Released 38
UK Man Arrested Over "Offensive" Tweet 360
Sony To Release the Interview Online Today; Apple Won't Play Ball 227
The World Is Not Falling Apart 208
Tech's Gender Gap Started At Stanford 224
Docker Image Insecurity 73
Serious Economic Crisis Looms In Russia, China May Help 265
BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers 294
JP Morgan Breach Tied To Two-Factor Authentication Slip 71
NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development 164
Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing 190
Using Your Open-Source Contributions To Land a Full-Time Job 45
North Korean Internet Is Down 360
Hot Springs At Yellowstone Changed Their Color Due To Tourist Activity 48
Putting Time Out In Time Out: The Science of Discipline 323
Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens 292
GCHQ Warns It Is Losing Track of Serious Criminals 229
How a Massachusetts Man Invented the Global Ice Market 83
Librarians: The Google Before Google 94
Viacom's Messy Relationship With YouTube and The Rise of Stephen Colbert 78
The Magic of Pallets 250
Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic 114
US Seeks China's Help Against North Korean Cyberattacks 153
Dish Pulls Fox News, Fox Business Network As Talks Break Down 275
Google+ Will Make Your Videos Look Better 37
Seattle Police Held Hackathon To Redact Footage From Body Cameras 93
Ask Slashdot: Is an Open Source .NET Up To the Job? 421
Behind the Scenes With the Star Trek Fan Reboot 106
Boeing and BlackBerry Making a Self-Destructing Phone 75
Massive Volcanic Eruptions Accompanied Dinosaur Extinction 78
Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died 170
T-Mobile To Pay $90M For Unauthorized Charges On Customers' Bills 51
NASA Video Shows What It's Like To Reenter the Earth's Atmosphere 75
Ask Slashdot: Resources For Kids Who Want To Make Games? 121
Geoengineered Climate Cooling With Microbubbles 114
Anyone Can Now Launch Their Own Version of the Pirate Bay 81
Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics' 719
Satellite Captures Glowing Plants From Space 40
Will Ripple Eclipse Bitcoin? 144
To Fight Currency Mismatches, Steam Adding Region Locking to PC Games 160
US Links North Korea To Sony Hacking 182
Startup Helps You Build Your Very Own Picosatellite On a Budget 21
Navy Develops a Shark Drone For Surveillance 45
Book Review: Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress 31
What Will Microsoft's "Embrace" of Open Source Actually Achieve? 217
In Breakthrough, US and Cuba To Resume Diplomatic Relations 435
Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland 177
New AP Course, "Computer Science Principles," Aims To Make CS More Accessible 208
Researchers Accidentally Discover How To Turn Off Skin Aging Gene 175
Single Group Dominates Second Round of Anti Net-Neutrality Comment Submissions 218
11 Trillion Gallons of Water Needed To End California Drought 330
Dr. Dobb's 38-Year Run Comes To an End 156
Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? 280
Touring a Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees of GeForce-Powered Projection 42
Microsoft Gets Industry Support Against US Search Of Data In Ireland 137
Federal Court Nixes Weeks of Warrantless Video Surveillance 440
Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator 99
Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography 191
NASA's $349 Million Empty Tower 200
Webcast Funerals Growing More Popular 70
BT To Buy UK 4G Leader EE For £12.5 Billion 39
Linking Drought and Climate Change: Difficult To Do 222
Amazon UK Glitch Sells Thousands of Products For a Penny 138
The GPLv2 Goes To Court 173
Govt Docs Reveal Canadian Telcos Promise Surveillance Ready Networks 74
Why Didn't Sidecar's Flex Pricing Work? 190
Small Bank In Kansas Creates the Bank Account of the Future 156
Eric Schmidt: To Avoid NSA Spying, Keep Your Data In Google's Services 281
9th Circuit Will Revisit "Innocence of Muslims" Takedown Order 158
Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney 880
Microsoft To Open Source Cloud Framework Behind Halo 4 Services 50
Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain 191
Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? 259
Raspberry Pi In Space 56
Last Three Years the Quietest For Tornadoes Ever 187
Vinyl Record Pressing Plants Struggle To Keep Up With Demand 433
Google Suggests Separating Students With 'Some CS Knowledge' From Novices 307
Judge Rules Drug Maker Cannot Halt Sales of Alzheimer's Medicine 266
Proposed Theme Park Would Put BBC Shows On Display 80
OpenMotics Offers Open Source (and Open Hardware) Home Automation 36
The Shale Boom Won't Stop Climate Change; It Could Make It Worse 401
California's Hydrogen Highway Adds Another Station 87
Canada Waives Own Rules, Helps Microsoft Avoid US Visa Problems 122
Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site 465
Google Earth API Will Be Retired On December 12, 2015 75
Attorney General Won't Force New York Times Reporter To Reveal Source 55
2014 Geek Gift Guide 113
Computer Error Grounds Flights In the UK 68
Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements? 1051
Julian Assange Trying To Raise Nearly $200k For a Statue of Himself 171
Are the TSA's New Electronic Device Screenings Necessary? 184
Congress Passes Bill Allowing Warrantless Forfeiture of Private Communications 379
U.S. Passenger Vehicle Fleet Dirtier After 2008 Recession 176
MIT Removes Online Physics Lectures and Courses By Walter Lewin 416
Canadian Supreme Court Rules In Favor of Warrantless Cellphone Searches 105
Microsoft Quietly Starts Accepting Bitcoin As Payment Method 107
Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th 183
Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG 377
Report: Big Issues Remain Before Drones Can Safely Access National Airspace 129
Why Open Source Matters For Sensitive Email 73
NASA Gets 2% Boost To Science Budget 121
US Navy Authorizes Use of Laser In Combat 225
Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion 190
James Watson's Nobel Prize Medal Will Be Returned To Him 235
$35 Quad-core Hacker SBC Offers Raspberry Pi-like Size and I/O 140
Feds Plan For 35 Agencies To Collect, Share, Use Health Records of Americans 209
Warmer Pacific Ocean Could Release Millions of Tons of Methane 329
Seeking Coders, Tech Titans Turn To K-12 Schools 105
Utilities Face Billions In Losses From Distributed Renewables 280
Ubuntu Gets Container-Friendly "Snappy" Core 149
Microsoft To US Gov't: the World's Servers Are Not Yours For the Taking 192
CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations 772
Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service 59
Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' 415
Unity 8 Will Bring 'Pure' Linux Experience To Mobile Devices 125
The Failed Economics of Our Software Commons 205
Asteroid Impacts May Have Formed Life's Building Blocks 46
The Rise of the Global Surveillance Profiteers 33
FISA Court Extends Section 215 Bulk Surveillance For 90 Days 83
Book Review: Spam Nation 82
Economist: US Congress Should Hack Digital Millennium Copyright Act 129
Ralph H. Baer, a Father of Video Gaming, Dies At 92 47
Heathrow Plane In Near Miss With Drone 325
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Twitterbot 54
James Watson's Nobel Medal Sells For $4.1 Million 201
New Mexico Levies $54M Against Energy Dept. For Violations At Nuclear Repository 36
Canadian Agency Drops Cases Rather Than Deal With New Requirements For ISP Info 29
Overly Familiar Sci-Fi 368
British 'Porn Filter' Blocks Access To Chaos Computer Club 135
NSF Accused of Misuse of Funds In Giant Ecological Project 116
US Treasury Dept: Banks Should Block Tor Nodes 84
Facebook Founder Presents Vision For The New Republic, Many Resign In Protest 346
Romanian Officials Say Russia Finances European Fracking Protests 155
GCHQ Does Not Breach Human Rights, Judges Rule 81
Chinese Government Moves To Crack Down On Puns 156
Ofcom Will Remove Mandatory Ham Callsign ID Interval, Allow Encryption For Some 57
Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? 545
Microsoft Introduces .NET Core 187
Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers 194
Node.js Forked By Top Contributors 254
The Ancestor of Humans Was an "Artist" 500,000 Years Ago 59
Ocean-Going Robot Fleet Completes Fish Tracking Mission 10
Apple Accused of Deleting Songs From iPods Without Users' Knowledge 250
How the NSA Is Spying On Everyone: More Revelations 148
Using OwnCloud To Integrate Dropbox, Google Drive, and More In Gnome 30
Negative Online Reviews Are Not Defamation (At Least In Canada) 62
UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts 70
Chinese CEO Says "Free" Is the Right Price For Mobile Software 133
UK MP Says ISPs Must Take Responsibility For Movie Leaks, Sony Eyes North Korea 216
Programmer Father Asks: What Gets Little Girls Interested In Science? 584
Kiva Systems Co-Founder: Drone Delivery Could Be As Low As 20 Cents Per Package 92
Pantry Pests Harbor Plastic-Chomping Bacteria 45
What Canada Can Teach the US About Net Neutrality 80
Gangnam Style Surpasses YouTube's 32-bit View Counter 164
Samsung's Open Source Group Is Growing, Hiring Developers 51
Interviews: Malcolm Gladwell Answers Your Questions 48
Openwashing: Users and Adopters Beware 96
The PlayStation Turns 20 101
UK Announces 'Google Tax' 602
Valve Rolls Out Game Broadcasting Service For Steam 92
Is Chernobyl Still Dangerous? Was 60 Minutes Pushing Propaganda? 409
UK Authorities Launching Massive Child Abuse Database 150
MasterCard Rails Against Bitcoin's (Semi-)Anonymity 111
FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents 229
Is a "Wikipedia For News" Feasible? 167
Stephen Hawking's New Speech System Is Free and Open-source 56
Celebrated Russian Hacker Now In Exile 130
18th Century Law Dredged Up To Force Decryption of Devices 446
Big Banks Will Vie For Your Attention With Cardless ATMs and VR 76
A Mismatch Between Wikimedia's Pledge Drive and Its Cash On Hand? 274
Chromebooks Overtake iPads In US Education Market 193
Nature Makes All Articles Free To View 97
CoreOS Announces Competitor To Docker 71
Ask Slashdot: Non-Coders, Why Aren't You Contributing To Open Source? 488
Scientists Have Finally Sampled the Most Abundant Material On Earth 128
Firefox 34 Arrives With Video Chat, Yahoo Search As Default 237
The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming 375
Cyber Ring Stole Secrets For Gaming US Stock Market 37
Interviews: Adora Svitak Answers Your Questions 107
UK Police To Publicly Shame Drunk Drivers On Twitter This Christmas 256
How the FCC CIO Plans To Modernize 207 Legacy IT Systems 74
Open Source Craft Brewery Shares More Than Recipes 50
Google, National Parks Partner To Let Girls Program White House Xmas Tree Lights 333
DOOM 3DO Source Released On Github 323
Football Concussion Lawsuits Start To Hit High Schools 233
Supreme Court To Decide Whether Rap Lyric Threats Are Free Speech 436
Kim Dotcom Faces Jail At Bail Hearing 166
Finland Dumps Handwriting In Favor of Typing 523
Gilbert, AZ Censors Biology Books the Old-Fashioned Way 289
In UK Study, Girls Best Boys At Making Computer Games 312
Creative Commons To Pass One Billion Licensed Works In 2015 39
France Wants To Get Rid of Diesel Fuel 395
Shale: Good For Gas, Oil...and Nuclear Waste Disposal? 138
Debian Forked Over Systemd 647
Volcanic Eruption In Japan Disrupts Flights 24
Mathematicians Study Effects of Gerrymandering On 2012 Election 413
Renewables Are Now Scotland's Biggest Energy Source 235
Scientists Develop "Paint" To Help Cool the Planet 145
Kim Dotcom Says Legal Fight Has Left Him Broke 117
Behind Apple's Sapphire Screen Debacle 189
Syrian Electronic Army Takes Credit For News Site Hacking 24
Apple and Amazon Launch Black Friday Price War 43
Riecoin Breaks World Record For Largest Prime Sextuplet, Twice 51
Edsac Goes Live, At UK's National Museum of Computing 37
Windows 10 To Feature Native Support For MKV and FLAC 313
Wikipedia's "Complicated" Relationship With Net Neutrality 134
UK Announces Hybrid Work/Study Undergraduate Program To Fill Digital Gap 110
BT Blocking Private Torrent Sites? 80
BlackBerry Will Buy Your iPhone For $550 120
Was Microsoft Forced To Pay $136M In Back Taxes In China? 57
Canada's Ebola Vaccine Nets Millions For Tiny US Biotech Firm 70
LHC's 'Heart' Starts Pumping Protons Before Restart 50
NSF Commits $16M To Build Cloud-Based and Data-Intensive Supercomputers 29
New Snowden Docs Show GCHQ Paid Telcos For Cable Taps 90

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