News Stories for 2019

YouTube Needs To Chill With Its Annoying Premium Spam 117
Why 536 Was 'the Worst Year To Be Alive' 146
Jeff Bezos' Plan to Save Earth? 'Move All Heavy Industry into Space' 210
Price of Bitcoin Plummets Below 'Psychological' $7,000 Level After China Promises Crackdown 131
Ask Slashdot: Are We Teaching Children The Wrong Way To Read? 333
NYC Creates a High-Level Position To Oversee Ethics In AI 58
Federal Court Approves First 'Pirate' Site Blockade In Canada 24
DOD Joins Fight Against 5G Spectrum Proposal, Citing Risks To GPS 33
Sacha Baron Cohen Gave the Greatest Speech on Why Social Networks Need To Be Put On Check 194
FCC Bars Huawei, ZTE From Billions in Federal Subsidies 27
AT&T Promises Low-Band 5G for 5 Cities in Weeks, 15 by Early 2020 35
How Lax Oversight Of Electronic Health Records Puts Patients At Risk 26
Apple CEO Tim Cook: China Really Hasn't Pressured Us. 79
One-Third of Tropical African Plant Species at Risk of Extinction 43
Oxford Dictionaries Declares 'Climate Emergency' the Word of 2019 118
Apple's Hour of Code Plans Include 'Coding Labs' For 3-Year-Olds 65
Finland Has an App Showing Shopping's True Carbon Footprint 57
Apple Pulls All Customer Reviews From Online Apple Store 25
UK Gambling Machines Loaded With AI 'Cool Off' System 42
One Reason the US Military Can't Fix Its Own Equipment 85
No, That Mac Factory in Texas Is Not New 310
Vertebrates Became Predators By Tweaking the Neural Crest 15
System76 Will Start Designing and Building Its Own Linux Laptops Beginning January 2020 24
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Teach Inventing To Kids? 137
Uber To Allow Audio Recording of Rides, Aiming To Launch Feature In US 26
PayPal To Acquire Shopping and Rewards Program Honey For $4 Billion 13
Senators Press Amazon For Answers On Ring's Sloppy Security Practices 12
'Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is a Coward' 96
New York State Attorney General Investigating WeWork 20
Zero-Commission Trading is Coming To Crypto 37
Amazon Is Planning To Open Cashierless Supermarkets Next Year 77
FCC Chairman Wants Public Auction To Repurpose Satellite Bands For 5G 65
Senator Introduces Bill That Would Block US Companies From Storing Data In China 49
Google Is Putting An Algorithmic Audio News Feed On Its Assistant 22
Cops Put GPS Tracker On Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft For Removing It 286
The Flat-Earth Conspiracy Continues To Spread Around the Globe 388
Some Fitbit Users Say They're Getting Rid of the Devices Because They Don't Trust Google 64
Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation 227
China Now Launches More Rockets Than Anyone In the World 65
'Royalty-Free' Music Supplied By YouTube Results In Mass Video Demonetization 156
Woman Who Inherited Huntington's Disease Sues Doctors 142
The World's Fastest Supercomputers Hit Higher Speeds Than Ever With Linux 124
Juul Sued by California for Marketing E-Cigarettes To Teens 68
New York City Ride-Hailing Upstart Juno Shuts Down 15
US Firms Get 90-Day Extension To Work With Huawei On Rural Networks 37
Facebook, Google Donate Heavily To Privacy Advocacy Groups 30
College Students Say Ditching Their Smartphones For a Week Changed Their Lives 91
Wind Farms Are Sending Giant Turbine Blades To Landfills 334
Why Firefox Fights for the Future of the Web 57
Microsoft To Kids With Chromebooks: No 2019 Minecraft Hour of Code For You! 72
Leaked Russian Interference Report Raises Questions About Brexit, UK Election Security 174
Foreigners Visiting China Are Increasingly Stumped By Its Cashless Society 155
UK's Labor Party Promises Free Fiber Broadband For All, Paid For By Taxing Tech Companies 139
Most Americans Think They're Being Constantly Tracked, Study Finds 73
US Workers Show Little Improvement In 21st Century Skills 88
Fuel Cell Drone Makes An Epic Ocean Crossing 31
White House Unveils Rules Requiring Online Disclosure of Hospital Prices 119
Andrew Yang Wants To Tax Digital Ads, Launch a New Algorithm Regulator 126
Amazon Appeals Pentagon's Choice of Microsoft For $10 Billion Cloud Contract 78
Uber Hit With $650 Million Employment Tax Bill In New Jersey 152
Wikipedia's Co-Founder Takes On Facebook With Ad-Free Social Network 79
FCC Sued By Dozens of Cities After Voting To Kill Local Fees and Rules 106
PayPal Pulls Out of Pornhub, Hurting 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Performers 235
Apple Is Considering Bundling Digital Subscriptions as Soon as 2020 35
George Lucas Has Apparently Changed the Famous Greedo Scene In 1977's Star Wars Again, For Disney+ 284
GitHub Faces More Resignations In Light of ICE Contract 226
GitHub Places Open-Source Code In Arctic Cave For Safekeeping 50
YouTube's New Kids' Content System Has Creators Scrambling 97
Silicon Valley's Singularity University Is Cutting Staff, CEO Exits 47
Mozilla, Intel, and More Form the Bytecode Alliance To Take WebAssembly Beyond Browsers 91
Transcription Platform Rev Slashes Minimum Pay for Workers 112
Next in Google's Quest for Consumer Dominance -- Banking 91
Dell Unveils Subscription Model To Counter Amazon, Microsoft 29
UCLA Now Has the First Zero-Emission, All-Electric Mobile Surgical Instrument Lab 26
A Fired Kickstarter Organizer Is Trying To Unionize Tech Workers Using Kickstarter 62
A US Federal Court Finds Suspicionless Searches of Phones at the Border is Illegal 127
Facebook Unites Payment Service Across Apps With Facebook Pay 15
Disney Plus' Launch Marred by Complaints of Service Failures, Login Problems 58
Amazon's $1.5 Million Political Gambit Backfires in Seattle City Council Election 170
IRS Identifies 'Dozens' of New Crypto, Cybercriminals 57
EPA To Limit Science Used To Write Public Health Rules 273
Microsoft Vows To 'Honor' California's Sweeping Privacy Law Across Entire US 30
Canada's OpenText To Buy Cloud Security Firm Carbonite For $1.42 Billion 15
Google's Secret 'Project Nightingale' Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans 67
YouTube Says it Has 'No Obligation' To Host Anyone's Video 209
Thousands of Bots Are Retweeting Claims of Voter Fraud In Kentucky 314
YouTube's Moderation Questioned After Banning Accounts For Too Many Emojis 44
Are Forced Subscriptions Driving 3D Users To Open Source Tools? 136
The Dangers of 'Black Box' AI 72
NPM Adds Command-Line Option To Help Fund Open-Source Coders 15
Scammers Are Actively Exploiting A Firefox Bug 26
Singapore Wants To Become an Asian Hub For Virtual Banks 16
WeWork Says It Will Divest All 'Non-Core' Businesses 42
Share of Cryptocurrency Jobs Grew 1,457% In 4 Years 25
Six Arrested For Selling Chinese Gear To Military As 'Made In America' 95
Vaping Illnesses Linked To Vitamin E Acetate, CDC Says 51
Amazon Is Accused of Forcing Up Prices in Antitrust Complaint 19
Firefox Turns 15 50
In China, Shutterstock Censors Hong Kong and Other Searches 50
DNS-over-HTTPS Will Eventually Roll Out in All Major Browsers, Despite ISP Opposition 119
Ambrosia, the Young Blood Transfusion Startup, Is Quietly Back in Business 83
The Cost For Each SLS Launch Is Over $2 Billion 99
Sea Levels Will Rise For Centuries Even If Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goals Are Met 280
AT&T Switches Customers To More Expensive Plans Without Asking Them First 105
California Wildfires Spark Interest In DIY Home Protection 91
DHS Will Soon Have Biometric Data On Nearly 260 Million People 40
Google-Funded Library Programs Teaching Google-Provided Curricula 18
OpenAI Has Published the Text-Generating AI it Said Was Too Dangerous To Share 62
A Ton of People Received Text Messages Overnight That Were Originally Sent on Valentine's Day 82
The July Galileo Outage: What Happened and Why 49
A Bipartisan Group of Senators Wants To Extend the Space Station To 2030 56
Vast Dragnet Targets Theft of Biomedical Secrets For China 58
Former Twitter Employees Charged With Spying For Saudi Arabia 32
UPS Drone Makes First Home Prescription Deliveries For CVS 20
Earth Just Experienced Its Hottest-Ever October 275
Fitbit Says Data of Its 28 Million Users Will Not Be Sold Or Used For Google Ads 56
Leaked Documents Show Facebook Leveraged User Data To Fight Rivals and Help Friends 22
'Alarming' Loss of Insects and Spiders Recorded 167
IBM Calls For Regulation To Avoid Facial Recognition Bans 60
SoftBank Reveals $6.5 Billion Loss From Uber, WeWork Turmoil 33
'Game-Changer' Warrant Let Detective Search Genetic Database 108
More Than 11,000 Scientists From Around the World Declare a 'Climate Emergency' 395
Uber Test Vehicles Involved In 37 Crashes Before Fatal Self-Driving Incident 92
AT&T Users Whose 'Unlimited Data' Was Throttled Get $60 Million In Refunds 44
One Bitcoin 'Whale' May Have Fueled the Currency's Price Spike in 2017 45
A Glitch in Robinhood App is Allowing Users To Trade Stocks With Excess Borrowed Funds, Giving Them Access To What Amounts To Free Money 68
Digital Authoritarianism Is On the Rise Around the World, Report Warns 41
Undercover Reporter Reveals Life In a Polish Troll Farm 101
US Begins Formal Withdrawal From Paris Climate Accord 245
ISPs Lied To Congress To Spread Confusion About Encrypted DNS, Mozilla Says 70
Enjoy Netflix While It Lasts. It Can't Keep Going Like This Forever. 194
Buying Fitbit Won't Save Google's Failing Wear OS 27
Oracle Revives Charges That Pentagon Bid Was Tainted by Amazon Conflicts 47
L.A. Suspends Uber's Permit To Rent Out Electric Scooters and Bikes 33
'I Worked on Political Ads at Facebook. They Profit By Manipulating Us.' 190
The Internet Archive Is Making Wikipedia More Reliable 56
Google Contest Requires Teachers To Praise Google's CS Curriculum For Children 31
Does Linux Have a Marketing Problem? 263
Firefox To Hide Notification Popups By Default Starting Next Year 48
Will Amazon Poach CS Profs Needed To Produce CS Grads Promised For Amazon HQ2? 49
Iceland Livestreams 10-Year-Old McDonald's Cheeseburger That Won't Decompose 200
Gaggle Knows Everything About Teens And Kids In School 57
14-Year-Old Inventor Solves Blind Spots 125
Senator Introduces Bill Banning Facial Recognition Tech In Public Housing 47
Pentagon Awaits Possible Amazon Challenge Over Cloud Deal 50
US Opens National Security Investigation Into TikTok 30
Deadspin is Dead After Refusing To 'Stick To Sports' 251
Google, Walmart Help Drive India Payments Past 1 Billion Transactions 8
Mozilla To Stop Supporting Sideloaded Extensions In Firefox 34
Uber Allegedly Paid $100K Ransom and Had Hackers Sign NDAs After Data Breach 20
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Group Are Merging To Become World's Fourth-Largest Automaker 87
US Interior Department To Ground Its Drones Over Chinese Spying Risk 33
Google's Sidewalk Labs Leaked Document Reveals Company's Early Vision For Data Collection, Tax Powers, Criminal Justice 39
Netflix Expands Into a World Full of Censors 44
Defense Innovation Board Unveils AI Ethics Principles For the Pentagon 34
Coca-Cola, Nestle, and PepsiCo Are the Top 3 Plastic Polluters on the Planet 181
ACLU Sues FBI, DOJ Over Facial-Recognition Technology, Criticizing 'Unprecedented' Surveillance and Secrecy 28
Zuckerberg Doubles Down on Facebook Political Ads Policy After Twitter Ban 177
Huawei Gave Its Blacklist Verdict By Posting 66 Percent Gain In Smartphone Shipments 134
Asthma Carbon Footprint 'As Big As Eating Meat' 221
NHS Pagers Are Leaking Medical Data 29
Juul Shipped At Least A Million Contaminated Pods, New Lawsuit Says 159
Facebook Agrees To Pay Cambridge Analytica Fine To UK 31
Salesforce Transit Center: San Francisco's $2.2 Billion Cracks 81
After Spike In Deaths, New York To Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes 201
US Court Shields Internet Subscribers From Futile Piracy Complaints 48
Sea-Level Rise Could Flood Hundreds of Millions More Than Expected 214
Google Ex-CEO Eric Schmidt Says Curbs on Chinese Hiring Hurts Tech 90
Google Backs San Jose Housing Project as Part of Funding Pledge 48
China To Funnel $29 Billion Towards its Chip Ambitions 68
Origin of Modern Humans 'Traced To Botswana' 67
Ask Slashdot: How Was the Quality of Your Academic Tech Education? 96
FCC Moves To Cut Off Huawei, ZTE From Subsidies 36
Adobe Gets US License To Operate In Venezuela Despite Sanctions 31
A Google Staffer Helped Sell Trump's Family Separation Policy, Despite The Company's Denials 223
Indian Tech Startups Have Raised a Record $11.3B This Year 3
Dissent Erupts at Facebook Over Hands-Off Stance on Political Ads 123
UK Set To Allow Huawei in 'Non-Contentious' Parts of 5G Networks 19
The World's First Banner Ad Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary 24
Pando Editor Sells Site, Quits Journalism, Citing Sexual Harassment and Threats in Silicon Valley 137
2.35 Million Lose Power In California As State Faces Extreme Weather and Wildfires 269
'Ocean Cleanup' Project Unveils New Solar-Powered Robot That Collects Plastic From Rivers 27
Does The Green Economy Create More Jobs Than The Fossil Fuel Industry? 206
Calculation Errors and Inadequate Peer Review Led To Miami Bridge's Collapse 73
Migrating Russian Eagles Run Up Huge Data Roaming Charges 37
Satellite Captures Rare Images of Atmospheric Gravity Waves 45
SUVs Second Biggest Cause of Emissions Rise, Figures Reveal 188
Microsoft Beats Amazon To Win the Pentagon's $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract 51
HBO Max Will Reportedly Get a Cheaper, Ad-Supported Tier In 2021 12
Man Sues AT&T, Saying He Lost $1.8 Million In Cryptocurrency With SIM Card Hack 41
Algorithms Will Be 'Driving the Majority of Facebook News,' Says Facebook 11
The FCC is Using Streaming Services as an Excuse To Raise Cable Rates 52
Glacial Rivers Absorb Carbon Faster Than Rainforests, Scientists Find 16
Chuck Schumer Proposes 'Large Discounts' To Trade in Gas-Powered Cars For Electric Ones 262
'Pwnagotchi' Is the Open Source Handheld That Eats Wi-Fi Handshakes 29
Netflix and Spotify Might Be Required To Issue Emergency Alerts From the Government Just Like TV and Radio 55
Organic Farming is Actually Worse For Climate Change 280
Mozilla: Cloudflare Doesn't Pay Us For Any DoH Traffic 93
How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched To LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache 88
Facebook Is Launching a News Section -- and Will Pay Some Publishers Millions 28
Researchers Find Racial Bias In Hospital Algorithm 114
US Military Could Collapse Within 20 Years Due To Climate Change, Report Commissioned By Pentagon Says 262
BBC News Launches 'Dark Web' Tor Mirror 41
Microsoft, Intel Draft 500,000+ JROTC Kids To Fight National CS Talent Shortage 67
The Iranian Developer Deadlock: Stuck Between Censorship and US Sanctions 52
Why Aren't We Curious About the Things We Want To Be Curious About? 90
Maybe It's Not YouTube's Algorithm That Radicalizes People 341
Netflix Launches $4 Mobile-only Monthly Plan in Malaysia 20
How DARPA Trucked Its Massive Radio-Frequency Testbed Across the United States 22
Forecast Suggests Rainforest Could Stop Producing Enough Rain To Sustain Itself By 2021 164
Tesla Returns To Profitability, Smashes Analyst Estimates 230
Open Database Leaked 179GB In Customer, US Government, and Military Records 15
Just 6% of US Adults On Twitter Account For 73% of Political Tweets, Study Finds 80
America's Pile of Uneaten Bacon Is the Biggest in 48 Years 218
The World's Top Economists Just Made the Case For Why We Still Need English Majors 169
Apple Pay Overtakes Starbucks as Most Popular Mobile Payment Platform in the US 67
2,000 WeWork Employees To Lose Their Jobs As Former CEO Adam Neumann Prepares To Walk Away With at Least $1 Billion 261
AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills For Moving Data 64
'Hyperstealth' Invisibility Cloak Developed For Military Use 113
Facebook To Face $35 Billion Class-Action Lawsuit Over Misuse of Facial Recognition Data 23
Company Offers To Pay You $130,000 To Put Your Face On a Robot 35
US Senators Want Social Media Users To Be Able To Take Their Data With Them 52
More Than Half of the World's Banks Are Already in a Weak Position Before Any Downturn That May Be Coming 100
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Will Tell Congress That Embattled Libra Crypto Project Will 'Extend America's Financial Leadership' 42
Facebook Pledges $1 Billion for California Housing 96
Firefox To Get Page Translation Feature, Like Chrome 50
Firefox 70 Arrives With Social Tracking Blocked By Default 40
47 US Attorneys General Are Investigating Facebook For Antitrust Violations 40
In a First, FTC Bans Company From Selling 'Stalkerware' 42
US Takes Step To Require DNA Samples From Asylum-Seekers 357
Tom DeLonge's UFO Research Group Signs Contract With US Army To Develop Far-Future Tech 77
Air Pollution 'Triggers Hundreds More Heart Attacks and Strokes,' Study Finds 58
Ocean Acidification Can Cause Mass Extinctions, Fossils Reveal 90
Facebook Shuts Down New Accounts From Iran and Russia Spreading Disinformation 113
Colorado Drops Its T-Mobile-Sprint Lawsuit After Dish Agrees To House Headquarters In the State 13
Andrew Yang Wants a Thorium Reactor By 2027 256
UK Man Invents Aluminum-Air Battery In His Garage 212
New Facebook Features Fight Election Lies Everywhere But Ads 47
Apple CEO Tim Cook Joins Influential Chinese University Board 44
Traffic Lights Worldwide Set To Change 161
The Chinese Threat To American Speech 233
Lawmakers Slam Apple for 'Censorship' of Apps at China's Behest 55
Venezuela's Water System is Collapsing 229
40% Of America's Schools Have Now Dropped Their SAT/ACT Testing Requirement 224
Mozilla is Sharing YouTube Horror Stories To Prod Google For More Transparency 58
Facebook Forges Ahead With Libra Despite Some Major Setbacks 44
'How Andrew Yang Would Fix The Internet' 100
Is America's Federal Banking System Considering Its Own Digital Cryptocurrency? 73
Would You Trust Amazon To Run Free and Fair Elections? 80
The Most Important Right-To-Repair Hearing Yet Is On Monday 32

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