News Stories for 2017

Could We Reduce Data Breaches With Better Open Source Funding? 60
In a Declining Comics Market, DC Beats Marvel 159
Kodi Media Player Arrives On the Xbox One 57
Dutch Utility Plans Massive Wind Farm Island In North Sea 141
'Star Wars' Franchise Crosses $4 Billion, Eclipsing Disney's Lucasfilm Price 187
How Hotmail Changed Microsoft (and Email) Forever 84
How Climate Change Deniers Rise To the Top in Google Searches 359
Trump Wants Postal Service To Charge 'Much More' For Amazon Shipments 338
AT&T Sheds Thousands of Employees After Touting GOP Tax Plan, Giving Out Bonuses 105
Two Romanians Charged With Hacking Washington DC Police Surveillance Cameras Days Before Trump's Inauguration 47
Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version 80
Russia Lost a $45 Million Satellite Because 'They Didn't Get the Coordinates Right' 101
There's No Evidence Comcast's New 'Network Investment' Is Because of Net Neutrality Repeal or Tax Cuts 177
Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time 111
How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System 440
SoftBank Acquires Big Stake In Uber In a Major Victory For Both Companies 17
People Who Know How the News Is Made Resist Conspiratorial Thinking 368
Amazon's YouTube App on Fire TV Stops Working Ahead of Schedule 85
UK Enjoyed 'Greenest Year For Electricity Ever' in 2017 72
MoviePass Adds a Million Subscribers, Even if Theaters Aren't Sold on It 122
Where Did WikiLeaks' $25 Million Bitcoin Fortune Go? 85
Mark Zuckerberg's Real Campaign: Save Facebook 158
The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder 125
FBI Software For Analyzing Fingerprints Contains Russian-Made Code, Whistleblowers Say 174
Empirical Research Reveals Three Big Problems With How Patents Are Vetted 94
Apple To Release Lisa OS For Free As Open Source In 2018 95
Russia Is Accusing the US of 'Direct Interference' In Its Elections 195
The Last Man on Earth To Speak His Language 177
Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns 242
Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' 92
The Link Between Polygamy and War 460
Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use 360
Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season 262
Uber Is Selling Its Money-Losing Car Lease Business 22
The Library of Congress Will Stop Archiving Every Public Tweet On January 1st 79
Net Neutrality Complaints Rise Amid FCC Repeal 183
Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care 679
Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage 165
China's Shanghai Sets Population at 25 Million To Avoid 'Big City Disease' 83
Movie Theaters Were Already in Trouble. With Disney's Fox Deal, It's Double 193
UK Companies Facing Cyber Security Staff Shortage 138
Established Players in Tech Industry Are Displaced By New Technologies and Companies Often When They Are Operating At Their Peak 57
The Majority of Americans Prefer To Be Greeted With 'Merry Christmas' Over 'Happy Holidays', a Poll Finds 410
How Many Books Will You Read in a Lifetime? Around 4600, If You Read Fast 99
UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt', Says Former Head of Pentagon Alien Program 300
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Books, Movies, Documentaries and Shows From This Year That You Liked and Recommend To Others? 91
Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? 669
Wired Publishes Fake Christmas Letter By Elon Musk 32
Some Telcos and ISPs are Frustrating IPv6 Adoption 135
How Harvard Teaches CS Students How To Code 138
Project Maven Brings AI To the Fight Against ISIS 35
FSF Adds PureOS To List of Endorsed GNU/Linux Distributions 46
Republican's 'Net Neutrality' Proposal Called 'Bait and Switch' 121
Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? 383
Fleeing Google's Apps and iOS, Mandrake Linux Creator Launches 'eelo' Project 122
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid 'Information Overload' 133
Russian Submarines are 'Prowling Around' Undersea Internet Cables 175
Court Throws Out Grsecurity Libel Lawsuit Against Bruce Perens 48
Firefox 57's Speed Secret? Delaying Requests from Tracking Domains 119
UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes 144
Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? 186
Experts Cast Doubt on 'Alien Alloys' in the New York Times' UFO Story 206
Samsung Could Make $22 Billion Off Next Year's iPhones 43
Airlines With the Best In-Flight Wi-Fi 52
Elon Musk Shows Off the Tesla Roadster That SpaceX Will Send Beyond Mars 118
Bitcoin's Value Plummeted Overnight and No One Knows Why 461
Comcast May Have Enrolled Thousands in a Near-Worthless Protection Program Without Their Consent 52
Man in China Sentenced To Five Years' Jail For Running VPN 42
Number of Births in Japan To Hit Record Low in 2017 133
Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum 210
Russian Hackers Targeted More Than 200 Journalists Globally 72
Firefox Is Now Available On Amazon's Fire TV, Bringing YouTube Access With It 49
California Poised To Hit 50 Percent Renewable Target a Full Decade Ahead of Schedule 247
US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% 275
Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes 88
Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk 55
Amazon Files For 'AmazonTube' and 'OpenTube' Trademarks As Fight With YouTube Gets Pettier 81
Kids In 'Netflix Only' Homes Are Being Saved From 230 Hours of Commercials a Year, Says Report 118
FCC Hits Sinclair With $13 Million Fine Over Ads 41
Ice Tea Company Rebrands as 'Long Blockchain' and Stock Price Triples 144
Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says 137
Wearables Still Slow To Catch On in the United States 127
FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy For Inherited Form of Blindness 58
Walmart Is Planning a Store Without Cashiers 190
A Federal Ban On Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted 156
Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises 244
Ask Slashdot: Do You Print Too Little? 216
PSA: Spotify Now Available As a Snap For Linux 66
Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem 167
Bitcoin's Rise May Reflect a Monumental Transfer of Trust From Human Institutions Backed By Gov't To Systems Reliant on Well-Tested Code, Says Tim Wu 365
The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right 260
Republican Lawmaker Introduces Net Neutrality Legislation 350
Coinbase Adds Support For Bitcoin Cash [Update: Disabled] 111
France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 259
Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks 133
The White House Is Temporarily Shutting Down Its Petition Website 153
Your Phone May Send You 'Blue Alerts' To Warn You When Local Police Are In Danger 318
'Productivity Is Dangerous' 233
Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing 242
A Small Fintech Stock Surged 2,600 Percent in a Week After Announcing It's a Crypto Company 64
Microsoft Backs Bill To Give Harassment Cases Their Day in Court, Waives Its Own Arbitration Clauses 73
US Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' For WannaCry Ransomware Attack 159
Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False 363
Scientists Confirm There Was Life On Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago 176
CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC 177
'There Will Be a [Senate] Vote' To Reinstate Net Neutrality, Schumer Says 278
Kaspersky Lab Sues Trump Administration Over Software Ban 185
America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending 584
Ajit Pai Taunts Net Neutrality Critics. Mark Hamill Taunts Ajit Pai 346
A Book Recommendation for Bill Gates: The Story of PLATO 59
Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled 189
Former Exec Who Said Facebook Was 'Destroying Society' Still Loves Facebook 46
Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon 314
Trump Administration Prohibits CDC Policy Analysts From Using the Words 'Science-Based' 458
Artificial Intelligence Is Killing the Uncanny Valley and Our Grasp On Reality 238
Bitcoin Jumps Another 10% in 24 Hours, Sets New Record at $19,000 224
The US Military Admits It Spent $22 Million Investigating UFOs 166
Predictive Keyboard Tries To Write a New Harry Potter Chapter 65
Google News Will Purge Sites Masking Their Country of Origin 151
'The Gawker Foundation' is Crowdfunding a Bid To Re-Launch Gawker.com 91
An Anonymous Bitcoin Millionaire Is Donating Their Fortune To Charities 98
Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed 307
Coinbase Wants Wall Street To Resolve Its Bitcoin Trust Issues 49
ISPs Won't Promise To Treat All Traffic Equally After Net Neutrality 232
Norway Becomes First Country To Switch Off FM Radio 183
Canadian Cellphone Bills Are Some of the Highest In the World, Says Report 184
China's Top Phone Makers Huawei and Xiaomi In Talks With Carriers To Expand To US Market 44
CIA Captured Putin's 'Specific Instructions' To Hack the 2016 Election, Says Report 535
A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built To Outperform Bitcoin 186
DOJ Confirms Uber Is Being Investigated For Criminal Behavior 34
Facebook Will Introduce Ads As Videos Start Playing 72
Lawmakers Are Fighting For Net Neutrality 215
The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules 591
Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be 220
Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions 168
Almost 100 Million People a Year 'Forced To Choose Between Food and Healthcare' 415
FCC's Own Chief Technology Officer Warned About Net Neutrality Repeal 152
Solar Power and Batteries Are Encroaching On Natural Gas In Energy Production 182
Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services 208
Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code 113
T-Mobile Is Becoming a Cable Company 92
Patreon Scraps New Service Fee, Apologizes To Users 66
Universities Spend Millions on Accessing Results of Publicly Funded Research 76
Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year 177
No Matter What Happens With Net Neutrality, an Open Internet Isn't Going Anywhere, Says Former FCC Chairman 177
What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? 130
AMD Is Open-Sourcing Their Official Vulkan Linux Driver 75
Why Meteoroids Explode Before Hitting the Earth 58
The Silicon Valley Paradox: One In Four People Are At Risk of Hunger 372
Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government 468
Trump Signs Into Law US Government Ban on Kaspersky Lab Software 140
SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO 43
SEC Warns 'Extreme Caution' Over Cryptocurrency Investments As Many People Take Out Mortgages To Buy Bitcoin 233
Why Google and Amazon Are Hypocrites 245
129 Million Americans Can Only Get Internet Service From Companies That Have Violated Net Neutrality 143
France To Ban Mobile Phones In Schools 191
Bitcoin Fees Are Skyrocketing 272
In-Store WiFi Provider Used Starbucks Website To Generate Monero Coins 30
AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed 291
President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon 307
The Case that Bitcoin Is a Bubble 264
Bitcoin Futures Surge In First Day Of Trading 64
Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? 751
Launch of Bitcoin Futures Trading Crashes CBOE Site 97
Coinbase Warns During Times of High Volatility, Access Could Become 'Unavailable' 90
FCC Refuses Records For Investigation Into Fake Net Neutrality Comments 164
Touting Government/Industry 'Partnership' on Security Practices, NIST Drafts Cybersecurity Framework Update 15
San Diego Comic-Con Wins Trademark Suit Against 'Salt Lake Comic Con' 117
China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship 150
Google Glitch Took Thousands of Chromebooks Offline 77
Updated Debian Linux 9.3 and 8.10 Released 49
"The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" 289
Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory 54
Toyota's New Power Plant Will Create Clean Energy From Manure 75
People Who Can't Remember Their Bitcoin Passwords Are Really Freaking Out Now 202
Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot 140
Apple Is Reportedly Buying Shazam For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars 60
YouTube to Launch New Music Subscription Service in March 59
'Face Reality! We Need Net Neutrality!' Crowd Chants Across the Country 296
About 40 Percent of Bitcoin Is Held By 1,000 Users. If a Few of Them Want To Sell, That Could Tank Values 241
November Jobs Report: Economy Adds 228,000 Jobs; Unemployment Steady 119
The US Is Testing a Microwave Weapon To Stop North Korea's Missiles 217
ISP Disclosures About Data Caps and Fees Eliminated By Net Neutrality Repeal 281
Bank of America Wins Patent For Crypto Exchange System 52
Tesla Could Be Hogging Batteries and Causing a Global Shortage, Says Report 159
Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate 101
Cryptocurrency Miners Are Using Old Tires to Power Their Rigs 79
No One Makes a Living on Crowdfunding Website Patreon 183
Kaspersky To Close Washington Office But Expand Non-State Sales 65
San Francisco To Restrict Goods Delivery Robots 114
Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day 464
The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning 231
Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn 379
Victims of Mystery Attacks In Cuba Left With Anomalies In Brain Tissue 233
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit That Claims Google Paid Female Employees Less Than Male Colleagues 257
Warrantless Surveillance Can Continue Even If Law Expires, Officials Say 68
ReactOS 0.4.7 Released 94
FCC Chair Ajit Pai Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Help Sick and Disabled People 207
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain Copyright To My Kids? 327
NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen 79
Facebook and YouTube Are Full of Pirated Video Streams of Live NFL Games 231
Air Pollution Harm To Unborn Babies May Be Global Health Catastrophe, Warn Doctors 132
'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' 468
Facebook Tops List of Best Places To Work -- Again 102
Yahoo Sues Mozilla For Breach of Contract -- So Mozilla Counter Sues Yahoo 112
'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' 588
New Evidence Points To Icy Plate Tectonics On Europa 67
US Says It Doesn't Need a Court Order To Ask Tech Companies To Build Encryption Backdoors 249
'Watershed' Medical Trial Proves Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed 224
Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering 47
40 Percent of America Will Cut the Cord By 2030, New Report Predicts 114
ISPs and Movie Industry Prepare Canadian Pirate Site Blocking Deal 86
Tencent Says There Are Only 300,000 AI Engineers Worldwide, But Millions Are Needed 116
Google Is Pulling YouTube Off the Fire TV and Echo Show as Feud With Amazon Grows 238
Trump Is Looking at Plans For a Global Network of Private Spies 481
Contributors To Prominent Publications Have Taken Payments in Exchange For Positive Coverage 130
YouTube To Hire More Than 10,000 Content Moderators on Staff Next Year To Stop Its Child Exploitation Problem 92
The World's Astonishing Dependence On Fossil Fuels Hasn't Changed In 40 Years 243
State Board Concedes It Violated Free Speech Rights of Oregon Man Fined For Writing 'I Am An Engineer' 178
Apple To Start Paying Ireland the Billions It Owes In Back Taxes 124
FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' 347
Vidme To Shut Down On Dec 15th 2017 49
Nations Agree To Ban Fishing in Arctic Ocean For At Least 16 Years 96
NYTimes Editorial Board: The FCC Wants To Let Telecoms Cash In on the Internet 268
To Solve the Diversity Drought in Software Engineering, Look to Community Colleges 336
The Winklevoss Twins Are Now Bitcoin Billionaires 155
People Have Spent Over $1M Buying Virtual Cats on the Ethereum Blockchain 128
Why 'Shark Tank' Investor Kevin O'Leary Refuses To Spend $2.50 On a Cup of Coffee 750
From the Arctic's Melting Ice, an Unexpected Digital Hub 67
Silicon Valley Billionaires Award $22 Million in 'Breakthrough Prizes' 23
Should Teachers Get $100 For Steering Kids To Google's 'Hour of Code' Lesson? 89
'24 Pull Requests' Suggests Contributing Code For Christmas 30
Nobel Prize-Winning Economist Says Bitcoin 'Ought to be Outlawed' 461
Is Open Source Innovation Now All About Vendor On-Ramps? 58
Massive Financial Aid Data Breach Proves Stanford Lied For Years To MBAs 116
How Converting A C++ Game to JavaScript Gave Us WebAssembly 139
Valuable Republican Donor Database Breached -- By Other Republicans 73
Free Game Company Sues 14-Year-Old Over 'Cheats' Video -- Claiming DMCA Violation 239
Understanding the New Red Hat-IBM-Google-Facebook GPL Enforcement Announcement 96
Mozilla Releases Open Source Speech Recognition Model, Massive Voice Dataset 58
Drone Pilot Arrested After Flying Over Two Stadiums, Dropping Leaflets 108
Electric Cars Are Already Cheaper To Own and Run Than Petrol Or Diesel, Says Study 474
Tesla Proves To Be Too Pricey For Germany, Loses Tax Subsidies 121
Was Your Name Stolen To Support Killing Net Neutrality? 128
Health Risks To Farmworkers Increase As Workforce Ages 77
Tesla Switches on Giant Battery To Shore Up Australia's Grid 173
Mozilla Revenue Jump Fuels Its Firefox Overhaul Plan 127
House Panel Advances Bill on Key Surveillance Measure 70
Vine Co-Founder Dom Hofmann Says He's Working On 'a Follow-Up To Vine' 54
Democrat Senators Introduce National Data Breach Notification Law 162

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