News Stories for 2015

W3C Sets Up Web Payments Standards Group To Improve Check-Out Security 30
Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US 273
Despite $30M Tech Push, Half of US States Had Fewer Than 300 AP CS Test Takers 152
Man Licenses His Video Footage To Sony, Sony Issues Copyright Claim Against Him 190
Study: Standardized Tests Overwhelming Public Schools 278
Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? 132
Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Daraprim Pill 168
Oklahoma Earthquakes Are a National Security Threat 166
Engineers Create the Blackest Material Yet 176
The Army Bug Bounty Program: a Critical Need In Defense 90
Judge Tosses Wikimedia's Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia Isn't Big Enough 213
Do Not Call 911! The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp 284
FBI Chief Links Video Scrutiny of Police To Rise In Violent Crime 372
Mozilla Giving $1 Million To Open Source Projects It Relies On 68
RIP: Prolific Amazon Customer Reviewer Harriet Klausner (1952-2015) 92
Patricia, Strongest Hurricane Ever Seen In Eastern Pacific, Strikes In Mexico 144
Affordable Care Act Exchanges Fail To Detect Counterfeit Documentation 246
TalkTalk Customer Data At Risk After Cyber-attack On Company Website 46
Landfall Nears For Strongest Hurricane In Recorded History 273
Google, Facebook, Microsoft Deliver K-12 CS Demands To Congress 120
Technology's Role In a Climate Solution 173
Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' Released 191
Government Team Experiments With Paying For Small Open Source Tasks 90
Secret Service Allowed To Use Warrantless Cellphone Tracking 104
Sen. Ron Wyden Explains the Fight Ahead Over CISA 23
Reactions Split On What Canada's Liberal Majority Means For Tech Policy Future 220
Ask Slashdot: Worthwhile Security Training Courses? 70
FCC Passes Landmark Reform of 'Egregious' Prison Phone Charges 173
Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun 469
EU Rules Bitcoin Is a Currency, Exchanges Are VAT-Exempt 75
Only 8% of the Universe's Habitable Worlds Have Formed So Far 140
"YouTube Red" Offers Premium YouTube For $9.99 a Month, $12.99 For iOS Users 236
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Media Setup? 236
UK Government Proposes 'License To Hack' As Encryption Proves Hard To Defeat 80
'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar 621
'Geospeedometer' Confirms Super-eruptions Have Surprisingly Short Fuses 67
Intel Develops Linux 'Software GPU' That's ~29-51x Faster 111
US Will Clean Area In Spain Where Hydrogen Bombs Fell 216
Microsoft Publishes OpenSSH For Windows Code 164
The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents 492
Tattling Kettles Help Researchers Crack WiFi Networks In London 162
Irish Data Protection Commissioner Ordered To Investigate Facebook Data 18
Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack 145
Wildflowers Give Bees a Dose of Pesticides 38
UK's Largest Online Pharmacy Sold Patients' Personal Data To Fraudsters 58
Scientists May Have Found the Earliest Evidence of Life On Earth 71
Rovi and Michigan State University Establish Largest US Library Media Collection 22
A Scientist Is Selling the Right To Name His Newly-Discovered Moth On eBay 60
Former Governor On Holding the Department of Energy Accountable In Idaho 120
Despite Promises, China Still Targeting US Firms 125
Americans Show 'Surprising Willingness' To Accept Internet Surveillance 223
Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes of the Rich 444
Another 'StarCraft' Cheating Scandal Rocks Korea 95
Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware 174
Space-Time: Scott Kelly Breaks Time-Aloft Record For US Astronauts 35
Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 158
Naval Academy Reinstates Teaching of Celestial Navigation 350
BBC Begins Blocking VPN Access To iPlayer 174
NBC News Reports US Will Require Registration For Consumer Drones 235
Jefferson-Designed Chemistry Lab Discovered In UVA Rotunda 249
House of Representatives Proposal Aims To Regulate Car Privacy 58
UK High Court: Uber Is Lawful 106
October is the Most Open (Source) Month (Video) 25
Google Books Wins Again 120
How a Frozen Neutrino Observatory Grapples With Staggering Amounts of Data 49
Is Amazon Harming the E-reader Category? 200
In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users 398
US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches 83
Report: Red Hat Buying DevOps Startup Ansible 78
FCC's WiFi Rule-Making: Making It Fair For Both Open Source and Proprietary 173
Documents Expose the Inner Workings of Obama's Drone Wars 169
UK MPs Hold Emergency Debate After Court Makes It Legal For GCHQ To Spy On Them 140
Walmart Open Sources Its Cloud Platform To Take On Amazon 83
Asteroid Impact Mission Sets Sights On New Laser Communications Record 10
Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns 136
Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers 177
New Concerns Over Earthquakes In Oklahoma Near Vast Oil-Storage Facility 103
Big Data Attempts To Find Meaning In 40 Years of UK Political Debate 44
KDE Turns 19 115
The United States and Israel Sign Space Cooperation Agreement 145
FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware 70
US Toddlers Involved In Shootings On a Weekly Basis 822
How Putin Tried To Control the Internet 245
Video Game Music Is Saving the Symphony Orchestra 111
Volkswagen Seeks To Repair Its Image By Focusing On Electric 230
Apple Loses Patent Suit To University of Wisconsin, Faces Huge Damages 312
Fedora 23 Final May Release As Planned On October 27 65
DRM In JPEGs? 301
Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees 328
Ask Slashdot: Is There Space For Open Hardware In Networking? 121
Wayland Ported To DragonFlyBSD 152
Playboy Drops Nudity As Internet Fills Demand 200
3 Open Source Projects For Modern COBOL Development 75
Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law 219
"E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails 127
Australians Set To Pay 50% More For Apps After Apple Price Spike 117
First Legal Union of Illegal Street Vendors Created In Barcelona 61
NASA Chief Says Ban On Chinese Partnerships Is Temporary 63
British Police Stop 24/7 Monitoring of Julian Assange At Ecuadorian Embassy 336
Why NASA Rejected Lockheed Martin's Jupiter For Commercial Resupply Services 2 36
Can a New Type of School Churn Out Developers Faster? 241
Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA 211
Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science 375
Electoral System That Lessig Hopes To Reform Is Keeping Him Out of the Debate 239
Facebook UK Paid £35m In Staff Bonuses, But Only £4,327 In Corporation Tax 262
The Payments World Really Wants To Know Who You Are 73
Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion 116
Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? 563
Scientists Hope To Attract Millions To "DNA.LAND" 32
The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters 286
2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors 370
Another Drone Crashes Near White House 58
Apple Reportedly Disables Its News App In China 64
NASA Releases 'Journey To Mars' Plan -- But Not a Budget 170
There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive 781
China Arrests Hackers At Behest of US Government 74
See the Sketches J.R.R. Tolkien Used To Build Middle-Earth 48
Pushing the Limits of Network Traffic With Open Source 55
Twitter To Begin Layoffs 138
Linux Foundation: Security Problems Threaten 'Golden Age' of Open Source 77
Firefox Support For NPAPI Plugins Ends Next Year 147
Open-Source Doom 3 Advances With EAX Audio, 64-bit ARM/x86 Support 37
BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP 72
Scientists Control a Fly's Heartbeat With a Laser 17
EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared 399
Debian Dropping Linux Standard Base 220
US Government Will Not Force Companies To Decode Encrypted Data... For Now 110
Chicago Mayor Calls For National Computer Coding Requirement In Schools 217
LogMeIn To Acquire LastPass For $125 Million 100
Verizon Boosts Price of Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans By $20 176
Emissions Scandal Expands: Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Mazda, and Mitsubishi 420
2015 Nobel Peace Prize Awarded To Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet 51
Amazon To Offer Sneakernet Services: Data Upload By Mail 94
Mozilla Sets Out Its Proposed Principles For Content Blocking 318
How Analog Tide Predictors Changed Human History 37
Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal 479
Former Reuters Media Editor Found Guilty of Helping Anonymous Hack Into LA Times 36
'Voices From Chernobyl' Author Svetlana Alexievich Wins Lit Nobel 48
MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' 112
Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support 152
ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware 144
Dell, EMC Said To Be In Merger Talks 97
What Happened To the Martian Ocean and Magnetic Field? 142
NSF Awards $74.5 Million To Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research 9
Google's Effort To Speed Up the Mobile Web 95
Researchers Unable To Replicate Findings of Published Economics Studies 213
Prison Debate Team Beats Harvard's National Title Winners 191
Jimmy Wales and Former NSA Chief Ridicule Government Plans To Ban Encryption 176
Privately Funded Lunar Mission Set a Launch Date For 2017 50
Making Your Graphing Calculator a Musical Instrument 55
'First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses' -- the Zappos Management Experiment 327
eSports Now a Part of College Athletics 110
Danish Bank Leaves Server In Debug Mode, Exposes Sensitive Data In JS Comments 41
Europe Code Week 2015: Cocktails At Microsoft, 'Ode To Code' Robot Dancing 15
Wind Power Now Cheapest Energy In UK and Germany; No Subsidies Needed 421
FAA Proposes $1.9 Million Fine For Unauthorized Drone Use 228
Why Is RAM Suddenly So Cheap? It Might Be Windows 209
Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source 696
Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux 279
Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel 688
NY Times Passes 1M Digital Subscribers 92
Neutrino 'Flip' Discovery Earns Nobel For Japanese, Canadian Researchers 58
EU Court of Justice Declares US-EU Data Transfer Pact Invalid 205
London Mayor Boris Johnson Condemns Random Uber Pick-Ups 216
Study Finds Humans Are Worse Than Radiation For Chernobyl Animals 145
Sensor Network Makes Life Easier For Japan's Aging Rice Farmers 91
B612 Foundation Loses Partnership With NASA; Asteroids Not a Significant Risk 182
Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Is Reached 278
TiVo's Latest Offering Detects and Skips Ads, Adds 4K Capability 85
4 Calif. Students Arrested For Alleged Mass-Killing Plot 452
OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going 149
When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately 345
Hour of Code Kicks Off In Chile With Dog Poop-Themed CS Tutorial 49
'Legacy' London Car Hire Companies Lawyer Up Against Uber 239
Michigan Mammoth May Have Been Butchered By Humans 41
The Decline of 'Big Soda': Is Drinking Soda the New Smoking? 570
Soon-to-Be US Ed Chief Was Almost FB CEO's Ed Chief 30
Cape Verde Boulders Indicate Massive Tsunami 73,000 Years Ago 54
US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital 410
DHS Detains Mayor of Stockton, CA, Forces Him To Hand Over His Passwords 399
Sprint To Begin Layoffs, Cut $2.5 Billion In Expenses 55
$50 Fire Tablet With High-capacity SDXC Slot Doesn't See E-books On the SD Card 145
EPA Gave Volkswagen a Free Pass On Emissions Ten Years Ago Due To Lack of Budget 203
FLIF: Free Lossless Image Format 311
Oculus Founder Explains Why the Rift VR Headset Will Cost "More Than $350" 174
China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment 109
The FAA Has Missed Its Congressionally Mandated Deadline To Regulate Drones 184
10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College 1165
We Asked Doc Searls: Do Ad Blockers Cause Cancer? (Video) 116
UK Gamers Can Now Get Their Money Back For Publishers' Broken Promises 74
The Real Cost of Mobile Ads 117
Foam-Eating Worms May Offer Solution To Mounting Waste 90
South Korean Citizen IDs Vulnerable, Based On US Model 57
Former Cisco CEO: China, India, UK Will Lead US In Tech Race Without Action 109
Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity 323
Houston's Gifted Education Program Biased Against Blacks and Latinos 445
The Global Struggle To Prevent Cyberwar 57
Linux Foundation Puts the Cost of Replacing Its Open Source Projects At $5 Billion 146
NY Times: Temporary Visas To Import Talent Help Copycats Take Jobs Abroad 231
$20 Million XPRIZE Takes On Carbon Emissions 47
Targeting Tools Help Personalize TV Advertising 60
iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills 182
Why Kickstarter Became a Public Benefit Corporation (Video) 40
FBI and DEA Under Review For Misuse of NSA Mass Surveillance Data 86
When Schools Overlook Introverts 307
Raytheon Wins US Civilian Cyber Contract Worth $1 Billion 62
Study: $1.8 Billion In Reshipping Fraud With Stolen Cards Each Year 139
John Harrison: Inventor and Longitude Hero 106
Samsung Pay Launches In the United States 105
Europe Agrees To Agree With Everyone Except US What 5G Should Be 164
LibreOffice Turns Five 147
EFF: DMCA Hinders Exposing More Software Cheats Like Volkswagen's 166
Tardis Wars: The BBC Strikes Back 72
Jeff Atwood NY Daily News Op-Ed: Learning To Code Is Overrated 300
How Can NASA's Road To Mars Be Made More Affordable? 211
Stop Taking All the Fun Out of Science 246
Analysis: China-US Hacking Accord Is Tall On Rhetoric, Short On Substance 38
Study: Man-Made Global Warming First Became Evident In the Mid 20th Century 411
Don't Worry, That Blimp Isn't Watching You Much 43
GCHQ Tried To Track Web Visits of "Every Visible User On Internet" 86
How the Car Industry Has Hidden Its Software Behind the DMCA 126
Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe 143
Nuclear Energy: The Good News and the Bad News In the EPA Clean Energy Plan 121
Saudi Arabia Almost Bought Hacking Team 26
The US and China Agree Not To Conduct Economic Espionage In Cyberspace 108
Curbing the For-Profit Cybercrime Food Chain 19
Car Industry "Buried Report Showing US Car Safety Flaws Over Fears For TTIP Deal" 181
Speaker of the House Boehner Announces Resignation 406
America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses 435
Why All Boards Need a Technology Expert 67
EU May Forbid the Transfer of Personal Data To the US 202
Obama Administration Explored Ways To Bypass Smartphone Encryption 142
iOS Ad Blocker "Crystal" Will Let Companies Pay To Show You Ads 229
Phone Passwords Protected By 5th Amendment, Says Federal Court 178
US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds 70
Mozilla Fixed a 14-Year-Old Bug In Firefox, Now Adblock Plus Uses Less Memory 410
An AI Hunts the Wild Animals Carrying Ebola 45
Who Will Pay For a Commercial Space Station After the End of the ISS? 211
Does IoT Data Need Special Regulation? 99
OPM Says 5.6 million Fingerprints Stolen In Cyberattack 93
What's New In GNOME 3.18 170
Coke Discloses Millions in Grants for Health Research and Programs 133
Nintendo Joins Khronos Group 46
US Restarts Hunt For Gravitational Waves With Advanced LIGO 72
Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication 372
Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" 535
Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Operator Pleads Guilty To $150M Fraud 114
Girls-Only Computer Camps Formed At Behest of Top Google, Facebook Execs 449
Michigan Sues HP Over Decade Long, $49 Million Incomplete Project 203
Volkswagen CEO Issues Apology Over Emission-Cheating Software 301

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