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Facebook Cancels UK Launch of HTC First 41
Xbox One Used Game Policy Leaks: Publishers Get a Cut of Sale 299
AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans 293
Drupalcon Attendees Come Together To Build Help4ok.org In 24 Hours 33
Twitter's New Money-Making Plan: Lead Generation 74
BT Runs an 800Gbps Channel On Old Fiber 106
Bitcoin's Success With Investors Alienates Earliest Adopters 146
5-Pound UAV Flies For 50 Minutes, Streams HD From Over 3 Miles 109
Google Code Deprecates Download Service For Project Hosting 178
Main US Weather Satellite Fails As Hurricane Season Looms 228
Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If a Video Has Been Faked? 224
Curiosity Rewarded: Florida Teen Heading to Space Camp, Not Jail 227
Kim Dotcom Wants Money From Google, Twitter For 2-Factor Authentication 117
Terrorist Murder In London Could Revive Snooper's Charter 295
Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early 432
Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed 125
The Canadian Government's War On Science 463
Eric Schmidt: Google Will Continue Investing In UK Even If Taxes Raised 122
OSI President Questions WebM Patent License Compatibility with Open Source 37
Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 Released 258
Congressional Report: US Power Grid Highly Vulnerable To Cyberattack 123
Special Ops Takes Its Manhunts Into Space 32
House Bill Would Mandate Smart Gun Tech By U.S. Manufacturers 750
Australia Makes Asian Language Learning a Priority 227
Web of Tax Shelters Saved Apple Billions, Inquiry Finds 704
Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook 288
EFF Resumes Accepting Bitcoin Donations After Two Year Hiatus 92
NSA Data Center the Focus of Tax Controversy 120
Reporters Threatened, Labeled Hackers For Finding Security Hole 120
Book Review: Locked Down: Information Security For Lawyers 43
What Professors Can Learn From "Hard Core" MOOC Students 141
Over 100 Hours of Video Uploaded To YouTube Every Minute 83
Interviews: McAfee Says House Fire Was No Accident 84
Yahoo Pinkie-Swears It Won't Ruin Tumblr 160
Open Source Projects For Beginners 211
NWS Announces Big Computer Upgrade 161
Mice, Newts Retrieved After a Month Orbiting Earth At 345 Miles Up 85
Google's Nexus Q Successor Hits the FCC 56
Yahoo Board Approves a $1.1B Pricetag For Tumblr 142
Trade Group: US Software Developer Wages Fell 2% Last Year 235
John McAfee's Belize Home Burns To Ground 131
Amazon, Google and Apple Won't Need To Pay Tax, Despite Goverment Threats 326
Data Center Managers Weary of Whittling Cooling Costs 198
Canadian Cellphone Users May Get Justice Over Phantom Charges 91
Syrian Electronic Army Hits Financial Times Sites, Feeds 24
After Kickstarter Record, Pebble Smartwatch Lands $15M From VCs 120
Electronics-Loving 'Crazy Ants' Invading Southern US 250
Fed. Appeals Court Says Police Need Warrant to Search Phone 69
UK Consumers Reporting Contactless Payment Errors 193
FBI Considers CALEA II: Mandatory Wiretapping On Every Device 318
Bloomberg To HS Grads: Be a Plumber 368
Of 1000 Americans Polled, Most Would Ban Home Printing of Guns 578
Happy Culture Freedom Day! 45
Nintendo Hijacks Ad Revenue From Fan-Created YouTube Playthroughs 297
Geologists In Norway Are Using Drones With Cameras To Hunt For Oil 44
Mozilla Delays Default Third-Party Cookie Blocking In Firefox 106
97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made 1095
Patenting Open Source Software 60
Bill Gates Regains the Position of World's Richest Person 311
Swedish Data Center Saves $1M a Year Using Seawater For Cooling 78
Ubuntu Developers Revisit Replacing Firefox With Chromium 153
Florida DOT Cuts Yellow Light Delay Ignoring Federal Guidelines, Citations Soar 506
Apache OpenOffice Downloaded 50 Million Times In a Year 155
Water Isolated for Over a Billion Years Found Under Ontario 207
Groklaw Turns Ten 50
Canada Courts, Patent Office Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics 215
Survey On the Future of Open Source, and Lessons From the Past 97
Justice Department Calls Apple the "Ringmaster" In e-book Price Fixing Case 191
Anti-Infringement Company Caught Infringing On Its Website 135
The New Yorker Launches 'Strongbox' For Secure Anonymous Leaks 94
How Maintainable Is the Firefox Codebase? 127
Global Warming Shifts the Earth's Poles 482
Georgia Tech and Udacity Partner for Online M.S. in Computer Science 122
Gene Wolfe To Be Honored At Nebula Awards 33
Russia Captures Alleged American CIA Agent In Moscow 195
DHS Shuts Down Dwolla Payments To and From Mt. Gox 301
NTSB Recommends Lower Drunk Driving Threshold Nationwide: 0.05 BAC 986
Firefox 21 Arrives 246
Cosmos Remake Coming To Fox In 2014 193
Mayan Pyramid In Belize Leveled By Construction Crew 276
World Press Photo Winner Accused of Photoshopping 181
US Government Monitoring Associated Press Phone Records 248
Did Internet Sales Tax Backers Bribe Congress? (Video) 317
Researchers Fake Mini Volcanic Eruptions 41
Book Review: The Plateau Effect: Getting From Stuck To Success 121
Carnivorous Plant Ejects Junk DNA 116
Rival Dell Buyout Plans Duke It Out 59
UK's 4G Network Selling Subscriber Tracking Data To Police, Private Parties 55
Ubuntu Touch: The Other Linux OS For Your Phone 53
"Dramatic Decline" Warning For Plants and Animals 696
How Colleges Are Pushing Out the Poor To Court the Rich 668
Engineering the $325,000 Burger 353
Ad Exec: Learn To Code Or You're Dead To Me 339
How an Aussie University Creates the World's Best Hackers 76
Injured Man Is First Person Saved By a Police Drone In Canada 187
Congress Wants Federal Government To Sell 1755-1780 MHz Spectrum Band 88
Mozilla Handing Out Free Firefox OS Developer Phones To Bolster App Marketplace 53
Data Leak Spurs Huge Offshore Tax Evasion Investigation 190
Elon Musk Quits Mark Zuckerberg's Lobbying Club 71
Microsoft Developer Explains Why Windows Kernel Development Falls Behind 347
Smartphones Driving Violent Crime Across US 204
DRM In HTML5 — Better Than the Alternative? 268
Bloomberg Reporters Caught Spying On Terminal Users 55
The Days of Cheap, Subsidized Phones May Be Numbered 329
Microsoft YouTube App Strips Ads; Adds Download 381
Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC1 Starts To Roll Out To Devices Near You 124
IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election 719
CO2 Levels Reach 400ppm at Mauna Loa For First Time On Record 490
Why Is Science Behind a Paywall? 210
Realtime GPU Audio 157
Spoiler Alert: Smart Kids Become Successful Adults 256
Copyright Squabble Threatens Accessibility Boost for the Blind 61
Biometric Database Plans Hidden In Immigration Bill 365
Plug Into a Plant: a New Approach To Clean Energy Harvesting 80
ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken 196
Ubuntu Touch Developers Aim for Daily Phone Usability Before June 83
LinuxDevices.com Vanishes From the Web 69
Obama Announces Open Data Policy With Executive Order 94
Microsoft May Acquire Nook Tablet Business From Barnes and Noble 157
How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion 91
DoD Descends On DEFCAD 496
How Netflix Eats the Internet 303
Zoomable World Videos of Satellite Imagery For the Last 29 Years 42
New 'Academic Redshirt' For Engineering Undergrads at UW 147
Microsoft's Most Profitable Mobile Operating System: Android 309
Did the Queen Just Resurrect the Snooper's Charter? 214
Btcd - a Bitcoind Alternative Written In Go! 150
80FFTs Per Second To Detect Whistles (and Switch On Lights) 156
Integer Overflow Bug Leads To Diablo III Gold Duping 160
Ubuntu Developing Its Own Package Format, Installer 466
Sleep Deprivation Lowers School Achievement In Children 272
US DOJ Say They Don't Need Warrants For E-Mail, Chats 457
Help the OED Find a Lost Book 91
Interview: John McAfee Answers Your Questions 239
Coursera Partners With Chegg To Offer Gratis, DRMed Textbooks for Courses 91
OpenStreetMap Launches a New Easy To Use HTML5 Editor 53
Ask Slashdot: Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software? 614
Pentagon Ups Hacking Accusations Against China 151
Using YouTube For File Storage 193
450 Million Lines of Code Can't Be Wrong: How Open Source Stacks Up 209
BT Begins Customer Tests of Carrier Grade NAT 338
US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27 678
Armstrong EKG Readings During Moon Landing Up For Auction 52
A Case For a Software Testing Undergrad Major 220
TED Teams Up With PBS On Ideas For Education 78
YouTube To Offer Subscription Service This Week 189
Former FBI Agent: All Digital Communications Stored By US Gov't 621
Xkcd's Long-running "Time" Comic: Work of Art Or Nerd Sniping? 190
Campaign Raises Funds To Send Wikipedia Readers To Kids Without Internet 97
Observed Atmospheric CO2 Hits 400 Parts Per Million 367
Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") Released 191
USAF Hypersonic Scramjet Successfully Scrams 201
ORBX.js: 1080p DRM-Free Video and Cloud Gaming Entirely In JavaScript 103
Syria Buys Dell PCs Despite Sanctions 72
Google and Adobe Contribute Open Source Rasterizer to FreeType 77
Bruce Schneier: Why Collecting More Data Doesn't Increase Safety 149
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Company's Marketing-to-Engineering Ratio? 202
US Officials Rebuke India's Request To Subpoena Facebook, Google 96
Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later 353
India's $20 Android Tablet First Project Completed 42
UK Benefits Claimants Must Use Windows XP, IE6 230
Firefox Is the First Browser To Pass the MathML Acid2 Test 134
Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun 712
Is Buying an Extended Warranty Ever a Good Idea? 329
Epic and Mozilla Bring HTML5 OpenGL Demo To the Browser 77
Turbulenz HTML5 Games Engine Goes Open Source 27
Today Is International Day Against DRM 256
Chinese Hackers Infiltrate US Army Database, Compromise Safety of Dams 256
Mozilla Launches Firefox OS 3.0 Simulator 75
Repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act Rejected 318
Ask Slashdot: Would You Accept 'Bitcoin-Ware' Apps? 232
RMS Urges W3C To Reject On Principle DRM In HTML5 320
Putin Reportedly Comments On T-Platform Supercomputer Flap 49
Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will 194
AMD's Open Source Linux Driver Trounces NVIDIA's 147
Alaskan Middle Schoolers Phish Their Teachers 215
Florida Teen Expelled and Arrested For Science Experiment 1078
Google Ordered Back To UK Parliament To "Explain Itself" Following Investigation 176
Oslo Needs Your Garbage 202
Building New Materials With Light 27
Energy Production Is As 'Dirty' As Ever 260
Video Poker Firmware Bug Yields Big Money, Federal Charges 312
Firefox OS Phone on Display at LinuxFest NorthWest (Video) 96
Coursera To Offer K-12 Teacher Development Courses 42
Belgian Media Group Demanding Copyright Levy for Internet Access 162
British Telecom Claims Patents on VOIP Session Initiation Protocol 116
Study: Limiting Bidding On Spectrum Could Cost Billions 140
FSF Certifies Atheros-Based ThinkPenguin 802.11 N USB Adapter 85
One Bitcoin By the Numbers: Is There Still Profit To Be Made? 239
In Canada, a Government-Backed Electronic Currency 248
Variably Sunny: SCOTUS Allows Local FOIA Restrictions 86
Pinball: a Resurgence In Retro Gaming From an Unlikely Place 107
New OpenWRT Drops Support For Linux 2.4, Low-Mem Devices 194
Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Guardian Twitter Feeds 42
SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants 307
German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection 347
Grocery Delivery Lowers Carbon Dioxide Emissions Over Individual Trips 417
Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source 182
EU To Ban Neonicotinoid Insecticides 219
UK Passes "Instagram Act" 230
Robots Help Manufacturing Recover Without Adding Jobs 559
Shape-Shifting Mobile Devices Unveiled 53
Indiana University Dedicates Biggest College-Owned Supercomputer 83
Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting 328
Experiment Will Determine Dinosaur's Skin Color 98
Canada Revenue Agency To Tax BitCoin Transactions 297
EPA Report That Lowers Methane-Leak Estimates Further Divides Fracking Camps 127
Cyber Vulnerabilities Found In Navy's Newest Warship 162
KDevelop 4.5 Released 97
Politician Wants Sci-fi To Be Mandatory In School 295
Former Microsoft Managers Now In Charge of Washington State's Budget 126
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Assess the Status of an Open Source Project? 110
Was Google's Motorola Mobility Acquisition a Mistake? 189
New Study Suggests No Shortage of American STEM Graduates 344
Earth's Core Far Hotter Than Thought 189
CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate 76
Chinese Court Fines Apple For Copyright Violations 102
WikiLeaks Donations By Visa Ruled OK In Iceland 55
CenturyLink Providing DoD's Equivalent of Internet2 69
The Amazon Rainforest Wants Its TLD Back From Amazon.com 186
Elon Musk Hates 405 Freeway Traffic, Pays Money To Speed Construction 431
Pearson Vue Now On Day 5 of Massive Outage 151
Book Review: The New Digital Age 68
Two Changes To Quirky Could Change The World 103
Old Educational Computer Resurrected As a Spreadsheet 37
MySQL Founders Reunite To Form SkySQL 215
Ubuntu Releases 13.04, Sticks To 6-Month Release Rhythm 177
Startup Founder Plays Tech Press Like a Fiddle 135
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg 'Kills' Snoopers Charter 47
House Judiciary Chairman Plans Comprehensive Review of US Copyright Law 142
Shuttleworth Calls Ubuntu Performance Art, Calls Out Critics 231
No Porn From Public WiFi Hotspots In the UK Proposed 390
Building Sumo Robots With the Brain Monkeys Crew (Video) 15
Fedora 19 Alpha Released 83
FAA On Travel Delays: Get Used To It 720
Apple To Launch Largest Stock Repurchasing Plan In History 282
Tweet From Hacked AP Account Causes High Freq. Traders To Drop DOW 150 Points 314
The Dark Side of Amazon's New Pilots 312
Ask Slashdot: Science Books For Middle School Enrichment? 203
Viruses From Sewage Contaminate Deep Well Water 93
Wikipedia Moved To MariaDB 5.5 133
RCMP Says Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted 170
BeagleBone Black Released With 1GHz Cortex-A8 For Only $45 142
China Leads in "Clean" Energy Investment 313
Privacy Groups Attack UK ISPs 'Collusion' With Government Snooping 91
Some Windows XP Users Can't Afford To Upgrade 953
Australian Mobile Phone Provider Sent 1000s of Fake Debt Collection Letters 82
State Secrets, No-Fly List Showdown Looms 216
Is Anonymous Going Mainstream Following Website Funding? 101
Microsoft CFO Quits 295

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