News Stories for 2015

New Maps Show Spread and Impact of Drought On California Forests 88
Apple Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Allegedly Slowing the iPhone 4S With iOS 9 344
Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? 325
Feds: Your Employer Can't Stop You From Recording Conversations At Work 139
Last Operating Magnox Nuclear Reactor Closes 98
Should We Fill the Sahara With Solar Panels? 386
Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying 152
NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated 267
1st Circuit Injunction Re: TSA's New Mandatory AIT Search Rule Fully Briefed 122
Paramount and CBS File Lawsuit Against Crowdfunded, Indie Star Trek Movie 228
List of Major Linux Desktop Problems Updated For 2016 349
Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind 77
Open Source Roles: Starters vs. Maintainers 77
Physicists Figure Out How To Make Cleaner Fuel Cells 32
Coding Styles Survive Binary Compilation, Could Lead Investigators Back To Programmers 164
Apple Settles a $348M Fine With Italian Authorities For Tax Evasion 87
Oracle Asked To Help Low-Income Residents Evicted For Its New Cloud Campus 202
Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy 216
Brazil's Biggest City Wants To Charge Fees For Uber Rides 77
Russia Cancels All Moon Missions Till 2025 135
Discogs Turns Record Collectors' Obsessions Into Big Business 31
European Payment Card Protocols Wide Open To Fraud 38
Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA 410
NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module 120
Astronaut Tim Peake Calls the Wrong Number From Space 27
US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class 242
Dutch City To Experiment With Paying Citizens a "Basic Income" 474
Verizon Offering $650 To Switch To Their Network 83
Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet 77
Reluctance To Go Mobile Inhibiting Innovation In Financial Services 104
Fixing JavaScript's Broken Random Number Generator 136
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Into Machine Learning? 123
FAA's Drone Laws Clash With Local Regulations 115
Giant Squid Filmed At Japanese Marina 57
Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed 467
Core Bitcoin Devs Leave Project, Create New Currency Called Decred 122
Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months 292
Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It 440
Ask Slashdot: State-of-the-Art In Amateur Book Scanning? 122
North Korea's Operating System Analyzed 98
Bruce Schneier: IoT + DMCA = More Monopolies, Limits On Consumer Choice 118
Mesa's Highlights Reel: An Impressive Year For Open Source 3-D Drivers 27
Kindle or Not, a Resurgence In Used Bookstores 133
How a Young IRS Agent Identified the Man Behind Silk Road 163
Dissecting a $231 Million High-Tech Boondoggle 139
Justice Department Shuts Down Huge Asset Forfeiture Program 232
APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost 162
Star Wars Fans and Video Game Geeks 'More Likely To Be Narcissists,' Study Finds 182
Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America 150
Perl 6 Released 145
Merry Christmas - Be an Erector Engineer! 200
Somebody Tried To Convince a Raspberry Pi Exec To Install Malware On Its Devices 119
Estimating SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Cost Savings 163
For a Missouri Cassette Tape Factory, Obsolesence is Just a 12-Letter Word 169
Motion Filed In 1st Circuit To Enjoin TSA's New Mandatory "AIT" Screening 129
Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry 261
Mozilla Document Shows Firefox OS Tablet, TV Stick, Router, Keyboard Computer 78
Apollo 17 Soil Matches Ancient Earth's Ocean Ridges In Water Content 78
Did Google and the Hour of Code Get "Left" and "Right" Wrong? 107
Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion 165
Hyatt Hotels Payment-Processing Systems Hit By Malware 32
NORAD's Amazing 60-Year Santa Tracking History 90
Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company 143
College Board Mainstreams AP Computer Science 69
Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified For First Time 166
German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner 263
US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland 704
Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case 98
ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 129
Nicolas Cage To Return Rare Stolen Dinosaur Skull To Mongolia 95
Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries 519
Porting Ubuntu For Raspberry Pi 2 Just Got a Lot Easier 32
The Science Behind the Paris Climate Accords 118
DOE Launches Nuclear Waste Disposal Initiative 143
NASA Has Suspended Its Next Mission To Mars 46
DHS's Ongoing Drone Boondoggle 77
Super Mario Inspired SuperTux Issues Its First Official Release In 10 Years 116
BBC Launches Machine-Translated Synthetic Voiceovers 24
Can Electric Signals In Earth's Atmosphere Predict Earthquakes? 71
Apple To Pay Ericsson Patent Royalties On iPhones and iPads 75
Deadline for Better Encryption on Payment Systems Pushed Back Two Years 91
FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress 226
Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong 294
Ask Slashdot: Resources For Explaining Statistics For the Very First Time? 90
Currency Exchange Website Accused of Cyber Terrorism By Venezuelan Government 104
Facebook Replaces Flash With HTML5 For Videos 76
Programmers Share 188 Computer-Generated Novels On GitHub 49
Improving UI and UX: Changing the "Open Source Is Ugly" Perception 402
UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy 118
Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' 456
Should a Mars Colony Be Independent? 295
Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels 313
Andy Weir, Author of 'The Martian,' Is Writing a Novel Set On the Moon 73
Wine 1.8 Released 119
Miniature Flying Car Receives US Airspace Approval For Testing 95
White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push 161
Khronos Delays Vulkan Graphics API To 2016 Release 50
12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School 954
NSF and Federal Partners Award $37M To Advance Nation's Co-robots 13
Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? 388
Pre-Crime in the UK: Businesses Crowdsource a Watch List 162
LifeLock Agrees To Pay $100 Million Fine In Settlement With FTC 50
Catalogue of Government Gear For Cellphone Spying 69
Canonical Patches the Raspberry Pi 2 Kernel of Ubuntu 15.10 16
Do Tax Breaks For Data Centers Make Sense? 94
Economists Discuss the Financial Repercussions of the Destruction of the Death Stars 171
New WTO Trade Deal Will Exempt IT-Related Products From Import Tariffs 22
Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue 197
Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage 124
VLC Launches On Chrome OS Thanks To Android Port 44
'Hybrid' Logic Gate For Quantum Computers Demonstrated 13
IBM and Linux Foundation To Create Blockchain For Major Financial Institutions 99
Ubuntu 16.04 Will Not Send Local Searches Over the Web By Default 102
EE Recalls All Power Bar Chargers Over Fire Safety Risk 27
Reddit Is Banning Users That Post Star Wars 7 Spoilers 268
As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? 302
PRESTON: The UK's "Big Brother" Comprehensive National Database System 57
FOIA'd Documents Give Tour of Minuteman Missile National Historic Site 85
Why President Obama Was Held Back a Year Before Starting Code School 117
Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions 340
Rubber Tanks and Sonic Trucks: the Ghost Army of World War II 82
British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm 421
The FAA To Facilitate American Commercial Participation In the ESA Moon Village 31
CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill 166
Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015? 113
Budget Agreement Boosts US Science 52
Microsoft Starts Its Own Charity Organization: Microsoft Philanthropies 95
Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband 352
WeMedia's Andrew Nachison Discusses the Future of Online Journalism 17
Firefox 43 Arrives With 64-bit Version For Windows, Android Tab Audio Indicators 188
Flint, Michigan Declares State of Emergency Over Lead In Children's Blood 303
Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online 67
"Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools 241
AMD Goes Open Source, Announces GPUOpen Initiative, Linux Compiler, Drivers 89
21-Year-Old British Man Arrested In Connection With VTech Hack 53
Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines 347
Hedge Fund Manager Criticizes Yahoo for Wasting $3 Billion On Poor Acquisitions 159
Attackers Can Hijack Joomla Sites Via User-Agent Strings 66
NASA Looks To PlayStation VR To Train Space Robot Operators 13
$7 Million Xprize For Deep Ocean Exploration 37
FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February 533
A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal 339
Google Favors Less-Regulated UK For Self-Driving Car Development 82
North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun 760
Asteroid Impact Helped Create the Birds We Know Today 67
Elon Musk, Others Fund $1B Non-Profit To Advance AI Research, Ethics 56
WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms 88
FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors 347
Paris Climate Deal Adopted 292
UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own 197
Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump 365
LionsGate Wants Pirate Sites To Pay For 'Expendables' 3 Leak 91
Mozilla Hands Out Open Source Awards 44
Write the Docs Helps Create FLOSS Software Documentation (Video #2) 14
Dow Chemical and DuPont Plan Huge Merger Followed By a Split 56
Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 543
US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt 92
Torrent Sites Earned $70M After Dropping Malware On Visitors 91
Obama Administration To Offer Full Position On Encryption By End of Year 152
Deputy Secretary of DHS On Agency's Role In Cybersecurity 19
Facebook Open Sources AI Hardware Design 56
"Happy Birthday To You" Set To Finally Reach the Public Domain 120
Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. 200
Chubb To Offer UK 'Troll Insurance' Policy 76
Stephen Wolfram's Free Book Teaches the Wolfram Language To Kids 105
Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model 201
WordPress 4.4 Arrives 39
Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer 44
Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released 86
Ex-US State Dept. Worker Pleads Guilty To Extensive Sextortion Case 60
NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards 165
Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption 556
UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs 151
Volkswagen Says Carbon Deviations Much Smaller Than Suspected 84
Tech Giant SAP Seeks To Hire More Autistic Adults 165
Wired Thinks It Knows Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is 291
Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones 174
IT Leaders Now Expected To Be Open To Open Source 74
Mozilla Launches Focus By Firefox, a Content Blocker For iOS 9 30
GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms 633
Theremin's Bug Let Soviets Spy On USA For More Than 7 Years 99
Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" 735
B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die 290
Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing 331
Senators: Has Uncle Sam Paid Off Ransomware Criminals? 53
Beijing Issues 'Red Alert' Over Smog 145
Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? 279
Fan Lists Himself As a Band's Family Member On Wikipedia To Sneak Backstage 91
Paris Climate Change Talks Yield First Draft 138
Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock 174
How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea 289
Researchers Are Developing Cure for Human Pain 151
California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror 676
To Fight Pollution, New Delhi Restricts When Residents Can Drive 131
FTC Appoints EFF Board Member Lorrie Cranor As Chief Technologist 50
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing 288
Porsche Is Building a Tesla Competitor 254
Science-Fictional Shibboleths 508
Microsoft To Open Source Chakra, the JavaScript Engine In Its Edge Browser 114
Canadian Cable Company Shames Non-Paying Customers Publicly On Facebook 149
Copyright Troll's Property Seized To Pay Bankruptcy Debts 69
No More Security Fixes For Older OpenSSL Branches 60
Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar 131
Mozilla Ends the Advertisements In Firefox's New Tab Tiles 197
Programming Education: Selling People a Lie? 397
Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words 393
Samsung Agrees To Pay Apple $548 Million Over Smartphone Patents 64
Keep Two Bank Accounts To Beat Cyber Attacks, Says Bank of England Adviser 172
How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself 240
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Approach Big Companies With Your Product? 174
Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust 171
Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB 244
Apple Releases Swift As an Open-Source Project 195
15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom 178
After Demanding $3 Million Ransom, Hacker Dumps Massive Customer Financial Data 124
Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls 215
New Scientific Journal To Publish "Discrete Observations Rather Than Complete Stories" 45
The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated 233
DOJ Cracking Down On Profit-Driven Policing, Audit Looks At How Far It's Spread 210
Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 1134
Congress Votes to Scrap Obama's Clean Power Plan 151
Why the Raspberry Pi Zero Isn't a Practical Tool For Teaching Students 190
Wikipedia Creates AI System To Filter Out Bad Edits 83
Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide 503
Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To 131
Canonical Patches Two Kernel Vulnerabilities In Ubuntu 14.04 33
Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock 260
NSF Antes Up $200K For Spin-off of Microsoft-Funded 'Code Trip' TV Show 22
Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client 418
DHS Offering Free Vulnerability Scans, Penetration Tests 79
Phishing Blast Uses Dropbox To Target Hong Kong Journalists 12
Enlightenment E20 Released With Full Wayland Support 56
Revealed: What Info the FBI Can Collect With a National Security Letter 93
Arkansas Has a Growing Population of "Climate Change Refugees" 276
Patton Oswalt Recruited For New MST3K Cast 50
Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight 130
US Marshals Jump Into 'Cyber Monday' Mania 63
AT&T Will Raise Cost of Old Unlimited Data Plans By $5 In February 56
Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction 475
Book Review: Security Operations Center 14
Interviews: Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Answers Your Questions 78
Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access 173
MST3K Kickstarter Poised To Break Kickstarter Record 104
Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos 529
Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans 230
Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act 218
Bill Gates To Headline Paris Climate Talks 93
How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? 210
DecryptorMax/CryptInfinite Ransomware Decrypted, No Need To Pay Ransom 49
Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols 74

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