News Stories for 2015

Parts of Falcon 9 Launcher Wash Ashore In England 20
Celebrating ARM's 25th Anniversary With the Visual ARM1 37
NSA To End Bulk Phone Surveillance By Sunday 139
'No Such Thing As a Free Gift' Casts a Critical Eye At Gates Foundation 156
The First Online Purchase Was a Sting CD (Or Possibly Weed) 53
Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively 246
Parts of the SpaceX Falcon-9 Rocket Found Off the Isles of Scilly 29
LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals 446
UK Prisons To Crack Down On Inmate Internet and Mobile Phone Use 70
London's Deputy Mayor On Ditching Diesel 188
Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks 298
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Ship With Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS 101
Free Pascal Compiler 3.0.0 Is Out; Adds Support For 16-Bit MS-DOS, 64-Bit iOS 134
Software Freedom Conservancy Asks For Supporters 44
Richard Dawkins Opposes UK Cinemas Censoring Church's Advert Before Star Wars 319
Tesla's NOx Problem: Model X Delay Explained? 42
Pressure From Uber Forces London Taxis To Finally Accept Cards 114
AMD's Crimson Radeon Driver For Linux Barely Changes Anything 95
Japanese Rocket Launches Its First Commercial Satellite 31
Critical Zen Cart Vulnerability Could Spell Black Friday Disaster For Shoppers 59
Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars 482
Scientists Produce Graphene 100 Times Cheaper Than Ever Before 77
Insurer Refuses To Cover Cox In Massive Piracy Lawsuit 101
This Gizmo Knows Your Amex Card Number Before You've Received It 68
What Is the Future of the Television? 235
KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 210
Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected To Become Terrorists 497
Another Giant xkcd Comics Experiment 48
On iFixit and the Right To Repair 250
UK Mobile Operator Could Block Ads At Network Level 109
High-Security, Open-Source Router is a Hit on Indiegogo (Video) 112
One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign 256
How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Are Losing Their Meaning 140
Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy 223
Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border 600
BBC World Service To Provide Radio For North Korea and Eritrea 64
Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers In New Legal Battlle 223
Cuban Talks Trash At Intel Extreme Masters, Drops $30K of F-Bombs For Charity 53
With $160 Billion Merger, Pfizer Moves To Ireland and Dodges Taxes 365
NASA Contracting Development of New Ion/Nuclear Engines 70
"Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages 818
Nearly 35,000 Comment On New Federal STEM OPT Extension Rule 55
Pesticides Turn Bumblebees Into Poor Pollinators 93
Randall Munroe Interviewed: Answers In Comic Form 49
Whistleblowers: How NSA Created the 'Largest Failure' In Its History 119
US and China Setting Up "Space Hotline" 15
Mozilla Is Removing Tab Groups and Complete Themes From Firefox 316
Satellite Wars 98
And the Pulitzer Prize For SQL Reporting Goes To... 27
FTC Amends Telemarketing Rule To Ban Payment Methods Used By Scammers 48
Ex-CIA Director Says Snowden Should Be 'Hanged' For Paris Attacks 486
Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims 608
Coinbase Issues Bitcoin-Based Debit Card 52
Judge: Stingrays Are 'Simply Too Powerful' Without Adequate Oversight 111
Investigation Reveals How Easy It Is To Hijack a Science Journal Website 18
Jolla Goes For Debt Restructuring 46
You Can Look Forward To 8 More Years of Leap Second Problems 143
File Says NSA Found Way To Replace Email Program 93
TGV Accident Caused By Excessive Speed 96
Exploit Vendor Publishes Prices For Zero-Day Vulnerabilities 21
French ITER Fusion Project To Take At Least 6 Years Longer Than Planned 193
EU Set To Crack Down On Bitcoin and Anonymous Payments After Paris Attack 275
The Information Theory of Life 90
FDA Signs Off On Genetically Modified Salmon Without Labeling 514
Reuters Bans RAW Photo Format 206
YouTube Defending Select Videos Against DMCA Abuse 56
Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets 200
Texas Narrowly Rejects Allowing Academics To Fact-Check Public School Textbooks 337
The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital 399
UK's Gigaclear Launches 5 Gbps Fiber Broadband Service 91
Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research 79
Julia Programming Language Receives $600k Donation 106
Facebook Can Block Content Without Explanation, Says US Court 147
How Cisco Is Trying To Prove It Can Keep NSA Spies Out of Its Gear 130
Another Crowd-funded Drone Project Collapses 211
The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 Is an Emoji 151
Microsoft Open-Sources Visual Studio Code 160
First Liquid-Cooling Laser Could Advance Biological Research 55
US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites 275
UK's Coal Plants To Be Phased Out Within 10 Years 109
AMA Calls For Ban On Direct-To-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs 305
ULA Concedes GPS Launch Competition To SpaceX 55
Terrorism Case Challenges FISA Spying 108
Adding Eye Control To Wheelchairs for Quadriplegics 15
DoJ Going After Makers of Dietary Supplement 161
Microsoft Brings Its Embrace-Extend-Extinguish Game To K-12 Schools? 168
NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks 259
This October Was the Hottest Ever Measured 369
US Navy Is Planning To Launch a Squadron of Underwater Drones By 2020 38
UK PM Wants To Speed Up Controversial Internet Bill After Paris Attacks 167
Value of University Degree Continues To Decline 393
Pandora To Buy Rdio Assets For $75M In Cash 20
Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive 381
World's First "Porous Liquid" Could Be Used For CO2 Sequestration 91
The Next Big IT Projects From the University Labs 29
Democrat Drops MN State House Run After Tweeting 'ISIS Isn't Necessarily Evil' 519
Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars 378
Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks 488
Spaghetti Strainer Helmet Driver's License Photo Approved On Religious Grounds 518
FCC Clarifies: It's Legal To Hack Your Router 85
Ask Slashdot: Undervalued, Livable American Tech Towns? 464
Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 728
Freeciv Founded 20 Years Ago Today 37
Beats Music To Shut Down November 30 61
Microsoft Open Sources Its Machine Learning Toolkit 15
Earth May Have Kept Its Own Water Rather Than Getting It From Asteroids 45
Mozilla Has 'No Plans' To Offer Firefox Without Pocket 199
Explosions and Multiple Shootings In Paris, Possible Hostages 965
Laser Strikes On Aircraft Increasing In Frequency 161
Hour of Code 2015 Star Wars Tutorial: Spare the IF Statement, Spoil the Child? 156
Quebec Introduces Bill To Mandate ISP Website Blocking 137
Gene Amdahl, Pioneer of Mainframe Computing, Dies At 92 78
UK May Blacklist Homeopathy 287
Bank of England's Andy Haldane Warns Smart Machines Could Take 15M UK Jobs 291
PostgreSQL Getting Parallel Query 83
Apple Apparently Planning Mobile Peer-To-Peer Payment Service 69
Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If One Is On a Watchlist? 400
Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes 267
How Rocket League Brought Psyonix Back From the Brink 33
Getting Started With GNU Radio 42
Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS 96
Prison Hack Shows Attorney-Client Privilege Violation 190
Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users 108
Broadband Bills Will Have To Increase To Pay For Snooper's Charter, MPs Warned 77
Justice Officials Fear Nation's Biggest Wiretap Operation May Not Be Legal 118
MST3K Is Kickstarting Back To Life 83
Classified Report On the CIA's Secret Prisons Is Caught In Limbo 54
TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials 242
App Companies Propose New Model For Worker Benefits 113
Microsoft Putting Servers In Germany To Keep User Data Away From US Intelligence 173
Massive Hacking Ring Stole Data From 100 Million Bank Customers 38
Fantasy Sports Sites Ordered To Stop Taking Bets In New York State 125
2016 Presidential Candidate Security Investigation 97
With TensorFlow, Google Open Sources Its Machine Learning Resources 37
How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa System 284
Open Source Anniversaries: 6 Years of Go, 11 of Firefox 65
"Fallout 4" Release Raises Questions About Reviews of Buggy Games 367
Sony To End Sales of Betamax Tapes Next Year 103
Dorms For Grownups: a Solution For Lonely Millennials? 412
UK Gov't Can Demand Backdoors, Give Prison Sentences For Disclosing Them 187
The UK Will Police the Dark Web With a New Task Force 56
The Sophisticated Business of Today's Most Nasty Phishing Attacks 38
US Judge Rules Against NSA In Phone Spying Case 93
US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online 305
Global Temperature Set To Reach 1 Degree C Over Pre-Industrial Levels 735
Science's "Breakthrough" Winners Earn Over $21 Million In Prizes 18
Persian Gulf Temperatures May Be At the Edge of Human Tolerance In 30 Years 488
WordPress Now Powers 25% of the Web 143
Electric-Car Startup Faraday Future Building a $1 Billion Factory In California 162
British Spaceplane Skylon Could Revolutionize Space Travel 226
Rural Mississippi: The Land That the Internet Era Forgot 154
Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated For Nobel Prize 153
Another $1 Million Crowdfunded Gadget Company Collapses 109
Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK 188
Israel 'To Review' Top Appointment After Facebook Controversy 351
Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix 213
$1 Bid Wins Government Open Source Software Purchasing Experiment 124
Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline 369
Muzzled Canadian Scientists Can Now Speak Freely With Public 197
Controversial Company Offers a New Way To Make a Baby 80
TalkTalk Hack: 4% of Customers' Data Accessed In Cyber Security Breach 25
3D Printed Objects Found Toxic To Fish Embryos 108
Linus's Thoughts on Linux Security 291
MI5 'Secretly Collected Phone Data' For Decade 38
Senators Attempting To Remove Robocall Loophole 108
Canada Reinstates Mandatory Census, To Delight of Social Scientists 284
Y Combinator, the X Factor of Tech 54
Ocean-Mapping Robots Could Help Uncover Mysteries of the Deep Blue 21
BBC Lets Viewers Buy Shows and Episodes Permanently, But No 'Extras' 80
UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 289
Google-Supported CodeGirl Documentary Makes "Exclusive YouTube Premiere" 289
Deep Magma Chambers Seen Beneath Mount St. Helens 66
Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs 115
Federal Prison System Wants Anti-Drone Technology 156
Why the Snowden Situation Shows 'Protected Disclosure' Is Critical 239
Volkswagen Emissions Issues Spread To Gasoline Cars 208
Huge Survey Shows Correlation Between Autistic Traits and STEM Jobs 345
Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score 386
Self-Driving Delivery Robots To Hit Sidewalks of London In 2016 98
Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B 132
Fedora 23 Released 57
How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk 318
'Game of Drones' -- a Live War Game About Drone Combat Strategy 37
Andrew Tanenbaum Announces MINIXcon 104
Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators 134
The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 262
App To Hold Police Instantly Accountable In Stop and Search 167
Internet Firms To Be Banned From Offering Unbreakable Encryption Under New UK Laws 418
Larry Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign, Citing Unfair Debate Rules 309
Gateway Computer Co-Founder Mike Hammond Dead At 53 77
Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda 294
Book Review: the Network Security Test Lab: a Step-by-Step Guide 19
US Government IT Outsourcing Is Poorly Managed 85
Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate 249
All Editors Quit Top Linguistics Journal To Protest Elsevier's Pricing 135
Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics 576
Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? 358
US Law Can't Keep Up With Technology -- and Why That's a Good Thing 187
Linux 4.3 Released As Stable; Improves On Open-Source Graphics, SMP Performance 73
Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares 188
Greenland Ice Sheet Not Covered In Soot 119
Real-World Roadblocks To Implementing CISA 31
Celebrate the 200th Birthday of George Boole With Logic 63
EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance 53
GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released 129
NASA Study Shows Net Gains For Antarctic Ice 319
Busybox Deletes Systemd Support 572
Amazon Follows Through: Drops Apple TV, Chromecast 233
UK Police Make Third Arrest Over TalkTalk Cyber Attack 61
Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal 674
Ask Slashdot: Securing a Journalist's Laptop Against a Police Search? 324
Cambridge Researchers Present Lithium-Air Battery Breakthrough 100
US Tech Giants Increasingly Partner With Military-Connected Chinese Companies 100
Bug Bounties Are Bonanza, For a Few Persistent Hackers 27
IMDb Hits 25 59
A Push To Ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? 67
US Army Tests Swarms of Drones In Major Exercise 47
Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block 291
UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History 136
University Reprimands Professor For Assigning Cheaper Textbook 363
Meet the Drone Registration Task Force 92
NASA's Bolden Claims NASA Is 'Doomed' Unless It Stays the Course To Mars 162
Chinese Hackers Targeted Insurer To Learn About US Healthcare 157
Ask Slashdot: An 'Ex Libris' For My Books In a Digital Age? 149
Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden 210
Open-Source GPU Drivers Show Less Than Ideal Experience For SteamOS/Linux Gaming 109
China Ends One-Child Policy 279
Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories 182
Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? 270
$600k Fine Over Data Center Death 169
UK Government Says App Developers Won't Be Forced To Implement Backdoors 86
National Coalition Calls for Campus Censorship of "Offensive" Speech 585
MySQL Servers Hijacked With Malware To Perform DDoS Attacks 55
$70k Salaries Didn't 'Backfire'; Gravity Payments' Profits Have Doubled 500
Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber 237
Carriers Selling Your Data: a $24 Billion Business 125
Drone Carrying Drugs, Hacksaw Blades Crashes In Oklahoma Prison 123
British Engineers Create Sonic Tractor Beam 88
US Senate Passes the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act 74-21 157
Open Source Code Isn't a Warranty 214
When Does School Life Begin? Zuckerberg's New School To Admit Fetuses 170
Official, Customized Raspberry Pi Versions Coming Soon 93
Chase and MasterCard Jump Into Mobile Payments 56
US Military Websites Still Relying On SHA-1 52
SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment 618
15-Year-Old Boy Arrested In Connection With TalkTalk Hack 100
Australia Working On High-Tech Shark-Detection Systems 81
Ask Slashdot: Open Tools For Logbooks and Note-taking? 227
How Nukes Were Almost Launched From Okinawa During Cuban Missile Crisis 289
Is Buying Cuban Software Legal In the US? The Answer is Hazy 75

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