News Stories for 2016

Pull Requests Are Accepted At About The Same Rate, Regardless of Gender 94
'Watership Down' Author Richard Adams Died On Christmas Eve At Age 96 46
Foxconn and Sharp Team Up To Build $8.8 Billion LCD Plant In China 66
How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar 236
Smart Electricity Meters Can Be Dangerously Insecure, Warns Expert 163
Apple To Cut iPhone Production By 10%: Nikkei 113
Postal, the Legendarily Violent Video Game by Running With Scissors, Is Now Open Source 66
Microsoft Is No Longer Selling Any Lumia Windows Phones On Its US Store 85
Seattle Region Home To 10 of Nation's 30 Most Competitive Neighborhoods For House Hunters 84
Firefox 52 Borrows One More Privacy Feature From the Tor Browser 81
FBI and Homeland Security Detail Russian Hacking Campaign In New Report 404
Satellite Spots Massive Object Hidden Under the Frozen Wastes of Antarctica 296
Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources Site No Longer Says Humans Cause Climate Change 371
Toshiba Is 'Burning Cash At An Alarming Rate' 103
Seattle Man Accused of Using Social Media To Set Up Fake Porn Agency 215
Facebook Developing Copyright ID System To Stem Music Rights Infringement 42
Republicans Propose Bill To Impose Fines For Live-Streaming From House Floor 157
US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] 821
8,000 New US Jobs? Trump Takes Credit For Sprint, Startup Decisions 267
Amazon's Digital Day is Like Cyber Monday But For Downloads 20
Florida Senator: No Permit Needed For Driverless Cars In Florida 131
Chinese Rocket Fails To Put Two Satellites Into Correct Orbits 113
Czech Republic Sets Up Counter-Terrorism Unit To Counter Fake News Threat 119
North Korea's Android Tablet Takes a Screenshot Every Time You Open an App 85
China's Alibaba Poised To Invest $7.2 Billion in Entertainment and Media 14
Toshiba Shares Plummet After Warning of 'Billions' in Losses 100
Chinese Traders Charged With Insider Trading on Hacked Information 28
China Plans To Land Probes On Far Side of Moon, Mars By 2020 115
Amazon Patents System To Defend Drones Against Hackers, Jammers and Arrows 122
Vera Rubin, Pioneering Astronomer Who Confirmed Existence of Dark Matter, Dies At 88 162
Uber Launches 'Uber Freight' Website To Prepare the World For Autonomous Delivery Trucks 92
Panasonic To Invest Over $256 Million In Tesla's US Plant For Solar Cells 30
Fitbit Drops Lawsuit Against Jawbone 4
T-Mobile Is Killing the Remaining Galaxy Note7 Units Today 109
Iconic Star Wars Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 456
Facebook's Safety Check Activated For Fake Bangkok Bombing 24
The US Government is Loaning Millions of Dollars To Jumpstart Urban Farming 131
Cheetahs Heading Towards Extinction as Population Crashes 120
The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband 157
Microsoft Could Be First Tech Company To Reach Trillion-Dollar Market Value: Analyst 232
The Project To Revive Abandoned Wikipedia Pages Has Been Abandoned 85
HandBrake 1.0.0 Released After 13 Years Of Development 143
What's the Best Book You Read This Year? 338
VidAngel Keeps Streaming Videos, Defying Movie Studios and a US Judge 163
After Brexit, More Than 100 Firms May Move To Ireland 442
FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released 146
The Recent Changes In Earth's Magnetic Field 170
Did Google.org Steal the Christmas Spirit? 103
US Congressional Committee Concludes Encryption Backdoors Won't Work 98
All Cyanogen Services Are Shutting Down 113
GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress 511
World's Largest Hedge Fund To Replace Managers With Artificial Intelligence 209
Researchers Send Information Using a Single Particle of Light 56
BitTorrent Live's 'Cable Killer' P2P Video App Finally Hits iOS 37
Dutch Market Regulator Bans T-Mobile's 'Free' Streaming Music Service 61
Mozilla Will Support Firefox For XP and Vista Until At Least September 2017 73
YouTube Views Are Down Across the Board, Analysis Says 122
US Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media 121
FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked To China's Military: Reuters 22
IBM On Track To Get More Than 7,000 US Patents In 2016 34
US Government Targets Pirate Bay and Other 'Piracy Havens' 82
Leaked Files Reveal Scope of Cellebrite's Smartphone-Cracking Technology 37
New Test Spots Human Form of Mad Cow Disease With 100-Percent Accuracy 133
Wikipedia Announces the Most Edited Articles of 2016 78
World's First 'Solar Panel Road' Opens In France 277
Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' 185
Bitcoin Circulation Hits Record High Of $14 Billion 153
Prepare For Even More Volatile Weather in 2017 364
After Insisting For Years That Facebook Is Not a Media Company, Zuckerberg Says Just Not a 'Traditional' One 52
Worldwide Gaming Market Hits $91 Billion In 2016, Says Report 76
China Claims Tests of 'Reactionless' EM Drive Were Successful 470
Firefox Takes the Next Step Towards Rolling Out Multi-Process To Everyone 154
Hotbed of Cybercrime Activity Tracked Down To ISP In Region Where Russia Is Invading Ukraine 70
Canada's CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Service 48
Yahoo Email Scan Shows US Spy Push To Recast Constitutional Privacy 65
A Ham Radio Software Company Has Been Blacklisting Users For Leaving Negative Reviews 177
Obama Blocks Offshore Drilling In Atlantic, Arctic Areas 338
Nokia Sues Apple, Claims Patent Infringement in iPhone and Other Devices 77
Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? 766
Google Employee Sues For $3.8 Billion Over Confidentiality Policies 102
LibreOffice Will Have New 'MUFFIN' UI 173
Microsoft Wins $927 Million Pentagon Contract To Provide Technical Support 137
EU's Highest Court Delivers Blow To UK Snooper's Charter 156
Samsung Note 7 User Base Still Larger Than LG V20, OnePlus 3T Combined 29
White House: US Needs a Stronger Social Safety Net To Help Workers Displaced by Robots 635
Crytek Closing Five Studios, Will Refocus On 'Premium IPs' and CryEngine 54
Human Cells Naturally 'Eat' Silicon Nanowires 42
Barnes & Noble's Latest Tablet Is Running Spyware From Shanghai 63
Chicago Electronics Recycler Faked Tear-Downs, Sent Hazardous Waste To Overseas Landfills 91
US Fails To Renegotiate Arms Control Rule For Hacking Tools 31
Russian Hackers Stole $5 Million Per Day From Advertisers With Bots and Fake Websites 93
Twitter Will Hand Over Data On the User Who Sent a Seizure-Inducing Tweet To a Journalist 492
At Apple, Mac Is Getting Far Less Attention - How It Handled the New MacBook Pro Is a Living Proof 230
Uber Lost $800 Million In Third Quarter 156
Scientists Blast Antimatter Atoms With a Laser For The First Time 115
Solar Is Top Source of New Capacity On the US Grid In 2016 192
Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President 1069
Facebook Messenger Launches 6-Screen Group Video Chat 16
IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump 600
House Committee Urges Congress To Pass Stingray Surveillance Legislation 25
Finland Will Give Some Unemployed Citizens a Basic Income 441
Most Firefox Users Still Running Windows 7 210
BlackBerry Unveils Autonomous Vehicle Hub In Canada 37
Is Microsoft 'Reaping the Rewards' From Open-Sourcing Its .NET Core? 257
A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations 55
Ubuntu Survey Discovers 'Consumers Are Terrible' About Updating Their IoT Devices 181
The Linux Foundation Offers 50% Discounts On Training 39
The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets 212
3D Freeciv-Web (Beta) Released 68
Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help? 432
EFF Begins Investigating Surveillance Technology Rumors At Standing Rock 147
US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change 534
Human Zika Antibodies Prevent Infection in Mice 12
Londoners Tests A Self-Driving Beer Tap And An AI-Assisted Brewery 90
U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards 134
GoboLinux 016 Released With Its Own Filesystem Virtualization Tool 47
China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US 199
President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks 531
Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations 304
Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech 321
Apollo 11 Moon Rock Bag Belongs To Buyer, Not NASA, Judge Rules 63
Researchers Find Roads Shatter the Earth's Surface Into 600,000 Fragments 143
Rogue Lawyers Made $6 Million Shaking Down Porn Pirates, Feds Say 128
Google Joins the Open Source Cloud Foundry Foundation 6
YouTube Bans North Korea's State-Owned TV Channel 55
Election Assistance Commission Hacked Using SQL Injection 103
Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea 406
Linux Mint 18.1 'Serena' Is Here For Christmas 62
Wikipedia Exceeds Fundraising Target, But Continues Asking For More Money 181
Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt 164
Aging Process May Be Reversable, Scientists Claim 253
Apple Will Charge You $69 To Replace a Lost AirPod 253
GM Expands Testing, Production of Self-Driving Cars In Michigan 31
Super Mario Run Is Now Available 70
White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack 715
Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories 415
Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit From Yahoo Deal 52
Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here 488
Iceland Seeking 'Supercritical Steam' For Power Source 160
Lack of Penis Bone In Humans Linked To Monogamous Relationships and Quick Sex, Study Says 279
Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report 551
Newly Uncovered Site Suggests NSA Exploits For Direct Sale 33
Most Businesses Pay Ransomware Demands, IBM Finds 69
India Just Flew Past Us In the Race To E-Cash 216
AT&T's DirecTV Now Plagued With Outages and Sports Blackouts 42
Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers 178
Amazon Delivered Its First Customer Package By Drone 90
California To Adopt First US Energy-Saving Rules For Computers 171
Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Will Advise Trump On Business Issues 244
UK 4G Coverage Worse Than In Romania and Peru, Watchdog Finds 83
First Offshore Wind Farm In US Waters Delivers Power To Rhode Island 196
IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump 244
Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other 292
Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change 858
Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent 219
Rapid Rise In Methane Emissions In 10 Years Surprises Scientists 293
Google, Cuba Sign Deal Allowing Faster Access To Company's Data 42
Fossil Fuel Divestment Has Doubled In the Last 15 Months 263
Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans 455
Panasonic's New Shopping System Automatically Bags, Tallies Your Bill 88
Comcast Raises Controversial 'Broadcast TV' and 'Sports' Fees $48 Per Year 166
Google Makes Embedding Projector an Open Source Project 14
American Express Will Give All Parents 20 Weeks Of Paid Leave 179
If You Get Rich, You Won't Quit Working For Long 406
Bill Gates Announces A New $1 Billion Clean Energy Fund 121
Linux Kernel 4.9 Officially Released 80
Does The 'Snoopers Charter' Also Enshrine Lying In Court? 123
David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test 309
Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory 165
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? 204
Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse 433
Inside the NYPD's Attempt To Build Community Trust Through Twitter 59
Fedora-based Linux Distro Korora (Version 25) Now Available For Download 31
The DEA Has Been Secretly Paying Transport Employees To Search Travelers' Bags 165
US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes 87
Autonomous Shuttle Brakes For Squirrels, Skateboarders, and Texting Students 74
'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy 431
Radiation From Fukushima Disaster Reaches Oregon Coast 139
Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report 436
DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State 146
Bitcoin Hits Highest Levels In Almost Three Years 78
Verizon Says It Will Not Push Samsung's Update That Disables Galaxy Note7 Because Of User Inconvenience 192
President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election 557
Mars One Delayed Its Mars Mission -- Again 99
White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law 48
Samsung May Permanently Disable Galaxy Note 7 Phones In The US As Soon As Next Week 193
Zeus Variant 'Floki Bot' Targets PoS Data 25
Google Now Lets Developers Write Apps For the Assistant On Google Home 39
US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 497
US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook 88
Yik Yak Lays Off 60 Percent of Employees As Growth Collapses 71
AT&T To Cough Up $88 Million For 'Cramming' Mobile Customer Bills 37
Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software 221
John Glenn, First American To Orbit The Earth, Dies At 95 113
Every US Taxpayer Has Effectively Paid Apple At Least $6 in Recent Years 267
First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber 70
Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says 277
Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find 140
Paris Makes All Public Transportation Free In Battle Against 'Worst Air Pollution For 10 Years' 239
Apple Is In Talks With Hollywood For Early Access To Movies On iTunes: Bloomberg 51
NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years 99
Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS 45
Google Is Removing 'In the News' Section From Desktop Search After Criticism 74
Information Overload No Problem For Most Americans: Survey 75
YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry 220
Bitcoin Could Rise By 165% To $2,000 in 2017 Driven by Trump's 'Spending Binge' and Dollar Rally 255
Apple's Top Assembler Foxconn Confirms Plans for US Investment, To Create 50,000 Jobs 324
Doyodo RetroEngine Sigma Is a Linux-Powered Classic Video Game Emulation Console 91
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Makes Game For Third Annual Hour of Code 135
NASA Awards $127 Million Contract For Refueling Mission Spacecraft 38
'The Circle' Trailer Looks An Awful Lot Like Google 77
Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism 588
Former Samsung Engineers Build Smart Umbrella That Tells If It's Going To Rain 89
T-Mobile CFO: Less Regulation, Repeal of Net Neutrality By Trump Would Be 'Positive For My Industry' 158
YouTube Pays Music Industry $1 Billion From Ads 76
Supreme Court Considers When US Patent Violations Are 'Induced' Abroad 31
China Chases Silicon Valley Talent Who Are Worried About Trump Presidency 416
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Will Create 'Hash' Database To Remove Extremist Content 262
White House Silence Seems To Confirm $4 Billion 'Computer Science For All' K-12 Initiative Is No More 280
Facebook Begins Asking Users To Rate Articles' Use of 'Misleading Language' 113
California State Senator Introduces Bill That Would Mandate Reporting of 'Superbug' Infections, Deaths 75
Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor 789
Google Is Rolling Out Android 7.1.1 75
Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane 209
Interns At Tech Companies Are Better Paid Than Most American Workers 158
Netflix Keeping Bandwidth Usage Low By Encoding Its Video With VP9 and H.264/AVC Codecs 76
Amazon Unveils 'Self-driving' Brick-and-Mortar Convenience Store 123
EU Threatens Twitter And Facebook With Possible 'Hate Speech' Laws 373
Tech Billionaires Award Top Scientists $25 Million In 'Breakthrough' Prizes 56
Ask Slashdot: Have You Read 'The Art of Computer Programming'? 381
Linux Mint 18.1 'Serena' BETA Ubuntu-based Operating System Now Available For Download 137
Canonical Sues Cloud Provider Over 'Unofficial' Ubuntu Images 47
70 Laptops Got Left Behind At An Airport Security Checkpoint In One Month 170
Sysadmin Gets Two Years In Prison For Sabotaging ISP 133
Virginia Police Spent $500K For An Ineffective Cellphone Surveillance System 36
Are We Seeing Propaganda About Russian Propaganda? 335
For The UK's 'Snoopers' Charter', Politicians Voted Themselves An Exemption 134
UK Health Secretary Urges Social Media Companies To Block Cyberbullying And Underaged Sexting 71
Crooks Need Just Six Seconds To Guess A Credit Card Number 110
Devuan's Systemd-Free Linux Hits Beta 2 338
The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News 360
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 90
VM-Neutral Node.js API Unveiled, As NodeSource Collaborates With Microsoft, Mozilla, Intel and IBM 28
Drupal Event Apologizes For Giving Out Copies Of Playboy 251
Chrome 55 Now Blocks Flash, Uses HTML5 By Default 98
Encryption Backdoor Sneaks Into UK Law 137
Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump 588
Survey Says: Elon Musk Is Most Admired Tech Leader, Topping Bezos and Zuckerberg 119
Alien Life Could Thrive In the Clouds of Failed Stars 67
Paris, Madrid, Athens, Mexico City Will Ban Diesel Vehicles By 2025 243

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