News Stories for 2020

T-Mobile Data Breach Exposed Phone Numbers, Call Records 14
Mitsubishi Heavy To Build Biggest Zero-Carbon Steel Plant 135
'Companies Are Fleeing California. Blame Bad Government.' 497
The ESPN+ Annual Subscription is Going Up by $10 56
Ticketmaster Pays $10 Million Criminal Fine for Invading Rival's Computers 64
New Train Hall Opens at Penn Station, Echoing Building's Former Glory 88
Amazon To Buy Podcast Maker Wondery 5
Global Digital-Tax Detente Ends, as US and France Exchange Blows 70
McConnell Ties Full Repeal of Section 230 To Push for $2,000 Stimulus Checks 455
VMware Sues Former Executive Who Left for CEO Job at Nutanix 35
Surprise Ending for Publishers: In 2020, Business Was Good 25
Brexit Deal Mentions Netscape Browser and Mozilla Mail 194
Coinbase To Suspend Trading in XRP 44
Apple Launches First-Generation College Student Mentorship Program 21
US To Allow Small Drones To Fly Over People at Night 165
China Jails Citizen Journalist for Wuhan Reports 211
Will America's Next President Change Its Space Program? 134
Bitcoin Surges 50% in Just One Month. CNN Ponders 'Insane' Record Run 190
Should Cellphone Chargers Be Sold Separately? 214
Due to Popular Demand, GM May Build More of Its 'Hummer EV' Electric Pickups 96
Mass Die-Off of Birds in Southwest US 'Probably Linked to Climate Crisis' 109
Many Formerly-Skeptical Americans are Now Eager to Get Covid-19 Vaccines 247
Ask Slashdot: How Long Should a Vendor Support a Distro? 137
America Creates a 770-Mile Corridor for Testing Supersonic Aircraft Up to Mach 3 75
'Unforced Error' in Suspected Russian Data Breach May Have Led to Its Discovery 50
A Deepfake Queen Delivered an Alternative Christmas Speech to Warn about Misinformation 47
A New Population of Blue Whales Was Discovered Hiding in the Indian Ocean 45
IBM Will Pay $24.25 Million To Resolve FCC Probes 13
Discovery of 'Cryptic Species' Shows Earth is Even More Biologically Diverse 37
What Are You Paying For in a $300 Chess Set? Mostly the Knights 126
Video Taken By Pilots of What Could Be the Elusive Los Angeles Jet Pack Guy Emerges 61
VISA Continues Pornhub Ban, To Allow Card Use On Some of Its Parent's Sites 83
Why on Earth Is Someone Stealing Unpublished Book Manuscripts? 42
NYC is Paying $2 Million For Anti-Plagiarism Software After Firing Teachers 44
US Cyber Agency Says SolarWinds Hackers Are 'Impacting' State, Local Governments 35
ExamSoft Flags One-Third of California Bar Exam Test Takers For Cheating 82
China Wants Hefty Fines For Viral Video Creators Who Binge Food and Drinks 99
Pfizer To Supply US With 100 Million More Vaccine Doses 57
DeepMind's AI Agent MuZero Could Turbocharge YouTube 22
Google CEO Criticises Antitrust Regulation 30
Telegram, Nearing 500 Million Users, To Begin Monetization 54
5G Auction Shatters Record as Bidding Tops $66 Billion 32
Conferences Plot a Comeback Even Before Vaccines Are Widely Distributed 65
US Approves NYSE Listing Plan To Cut Out Wall Street Middlemen 51
Scientists and Philosopher Team Up, Propose a New Way To Categorize Minerals 16
MIT Electrical Engineer Selected For US Senate 120
SEC Formally Sues Cryptocurrency Company Ripple 40
Scientists and Philosopher Team Up, Propose a New Way To Categorize Minerals 42
Justice Department Sues Walmart, Saying it Fueled the Nation's Opioid Crisis 129
New York Halts Use of Facial Recognition in Schools 51
More Than 70 West Point Cadets Accused Of Cheating In Academic Scandal 151
What Scientists Know About the Coronavirus Variant Spreading In the UK 125
Firefox To Ship 'Network Partitioning' As a New Anti-Tracking Defense 65
YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Used To Upload 'Pirate' Movies and File DMCA Notices 53
The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony 114
Civil Rights Groups Move To Block Expansion of Facial Recognition in Airports 26
T-Mobile Won't Claim it Has a More Reliable 5G Network Following Ad Board Decision 8
Cable Companies Can No Longer 'Rent' You the Router You Already Own 62
China Used Stolen Data To Expose CIA Operatives in Africa and Europe 56
US Relief Package Provides $7 Billion for Broadband 71
Successful IT Workers Applaud Non-Traditional Paths to Tech 149
Its Official: America's Space Force is Better than Its Other Military Branches at 'Call of Duty' 69
Elon Musk Tweeted About a Bitcoin Rival. It Soared 20% 43
Should America's Next President Abolish the Space Force? 330
Firefox 84 Claims Speed Boost from Apple Silicon, Vows to End Flash Support 40
Could Nuclear Power Be Used For Carbon Capture? 197
A New Release For GNU Octave 59
RubyGems Catches Two Packages Trying to Steal Cryptocurrency with Clipboard Hijacking 14
New UK Strain of Coronavirus More Infectious, Say Government Scientists 156
US Space Force Members Are Now Called 'Guardians' 132
In Jakarta EE 9 'javax' is Finally Renamed 'jakarta' 53
Are Cryptocurrencies Becoming Mainstream Investments? 135
Battery Prices Have Fallen 88 Percent Over the Last Decade 159
Law Banning 'Rental' Fees For Customer-Owned Routers Takes Effect Sunday 39
U.S. Charges China-based Zoom Executive With Disrupting Tiananmen Crackdown Commemorations 56
UK Use of Software Linked To Russia-Hack Runs Deep 29
US Blacklists Dozens of Chinese Firms Including SMIC 66
Australian 'Super Seaweed' Supplement To Reduce Cattle Gas Emissions Wins $1 Million International Prize 72
After Canceling Exam, College Board Touts Record Number of AP CSP Exam Takers 47
Hackers Tied To Russia Hit US Nuclear Agency, Three States 100
'Evil Mobile Emulator Farms' Used To Steal Millions From US and EU Banks 59
Google Sued by States for Abuse of Search-Market Dominance 15
Goodreads Is Retiring Its Current API, and Book-Loving Developers Aren't Happy 69
Publishing Saw Upheaval in 2020, But 'Books Are Resilient' 20
Trump Considers Clemency For Silk Road 'Kingpin' Ross Ulbricht 169
The Orion Spacecraft Is Now 15 Years Old and Has Flown Into Space Just Once 185
Boring Company Proposes Massive Vegas Expansion Following Monorail Bankruptcy 128
UK Politicians Call For 'Making the Resale of Goods Purchased Using An Automated Bot an Illegal Activity' 126
The First Person In the UK To Have Air Pollution Listed As a Cause of Death 79
Bitcoin Breaks Above $20,000 for the First Time Ever 76
40 Girls Do Porn Victims Are Suing Pornhub For $1 Million Each 313
Twitter Is Shutting Down Its Periscope Apps 6
Senator Tries To Block Frontier's FCC Funding, Citing ISP's Various Failures 34
FDA Authorizes 1st Home Coronavirus Test That Doesn't Require A Prescription 61
California Fines Uber $59 Million for Stonewalling Questions About Sexual Assaults 54
CloudLinux To Invest More Than a Million Dollars a Year Into CentOS Clone 85
Reddit Is Buying TikTok Rival Dubsmash 20
Countries Roll Out 2030 Paris Accord Goals Amid US Absence 128
Electoral College Certifies Biden's Victory, As Trump Still Refuses To Concede 550
Vista Acquires IT Education Platform Pluralsight for $3.5B 9
Suspected Russian Hackers Breached Department of Homeland Security 55
John le Carre, Author of Spy Novels, Dies at Age 89 29
Covid-19 Deaths Rose In US College Towns When Students Returned 264
Russia Breached Update Server Used by 300,000 Organizations, Including the NSA 115
U.S. Schools are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Uses to Investigate Terrorists 115
US Treasury Department Breached by 'Hackers Backed By Foreign Government' 64
A History of the American Energy System In One Chart 64
America's Covid-19 Hospitalizations Hit a Record High For the 7th Straight Day 236
NVIDIA Apologizes, 'Walks Back' Threat to Withhold GPUs From Reviewer 111
America's Covid-19 Deaths Likely to Exceed 9/11's Death Toll Every Day, For Two Months 387
Open Source Developers Say Securing Their Code Is 'Insufferably Boring' and 'Soul-Withering' 150
Google Plans to Calculate 'Criticality' Scores for Open Source Projects 40
Twitter Disabled 'Likes' and 'Replies' on False Trump Tweets. Inadvertently. 191
FDA Approves Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use in America 222
Google Will Let You Limit the Alcohol and Gambling Ads You See 31
Key People Are Leaving Facebook and Torching the Company In Departure Notes 104
Big Tech Firms To Face 6% Fines If Breach New EU Content Rules 42
How the Nature Conservancy, the World's Biggest Environmental Group, Became a Dealer of Meaningless Carbon Offsets 53
Oracle Is Moving Its Headquarters From Silicon Valley To Austin, Texas 111
Elon Musk On the Problem With Corporate America: 'Too Many MBAs' 195
Amazon Plans To Help 29 Million People Grow their Tech Skills With Free Cloud Computing Training by 2025 44
Lockdown Gardening in Britain Leads To Archaeological Discoveries 66
EU Member States Agree 55% Cut in Carbon Emissions by 2030 65
CISA and FBI Warn of Rise in Ransomware Attacks Targeting K-12 Schools 13
Proposed US Law Could Slap Twitch Streamers With Felonies For Broadcasting Copyrighted Material 208
FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Pfizer's Covid Vaccine For Emergency Use 152
Brave Browser-Maker Launches Privacy-Friendly News Reader 12
MasterCard, VISA To Stop Processing Payments On Pornhub 114
Microsoft Exposes Adrozek, Malware That Hijacks Chrome, Edge, and Firefox 17
FCC Orders Equipment Removed in Step Aimed at Huawei, ZTE 56
Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity 183
UK Warns People With Serious Allergies To Avoid Pfizer Vaccine 175
Hyundai To Acquire Boston Dynamics For Nearly $1 Billion 20
How People Across the World Spend Their Time and What it Tells us About Living Conditions 45
FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization 122
YouTube Waits Until a Month After the Election To Act on False Claims of Election Fraud 419
Human 'Stuff' Now Outweighs All Life on Earth 98
Microsoft, Unilever Join Amazon's Pledge To Fight Climate Change 28
Mount Everest, Earth's Tallest Mountain, Just Got Taller By About a Meter 44
Pornhub Ends Unverified Uploads and Bans Downloads 123
Google Says It is Expanding Fuchsia's Open Source Model 79
Senate Votes To Advance Nomination of Trump FCC Nominee 94
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestle Named Top Plastic Polluters For Third Year In a Row 158
Pornhub Might Lose Visa and Mastercard After NYT Exposé 157
IKEA Is Killing Off Its Catalog After 70 Years 60
SpaceX Gets $886 Million From FCC To Subsidize Starlink In 35 States 129
Exxon Holds Back on Technology That Could Slow Climate Change 94
In Rare Show of Solidarity, 14 Key Nations Commit To Protect Oceans 74
Amazon Fire TV Adds Local News In 12 U.S. Cities, With 90 More Coming In 2021 20
Everest Gets an Altitude Adjustment: Nepal and China Agree on Height 107
US Air Pollution Monitoring Network Falling Into Disrepair 97
Will Businesses Make 2021 The Year of the Linux Desktop? 214
Richard Stallman Answers Questions at EmacsConf 2020 57
How Bill Gates Would Fight Climate Change 217
New Report: Havanna Syndrome Could Be Directed Microwave Energy 86
Legendary Science Fiction Author Ben Bova Has Passed At the Age of 88 53
Python Beats Java Again in New GitHub Annual Report 54
Are America's Hospitals Becoming Overwhelmed? 312
TikTok Misses US Deadline For Sale Without Punishment 36
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Status Lowered To 'Critical' and Deteriorating 43
Google Fiber Rolls Out Insanely Fast 2Gbps Service In Two Lucky US Cities 91
Divers Discover Nazi WW2 Enigma Machine in Baltic Sea 48
S&P Dow Jones Indices To Launch Cryptocurrency Indexes In 2021 42
More Than 500,000 Full Electric Cars Sold So Far This Year In Europe 314
US Broadband Speeds Jumped 90% In 2020. But No, It Had Nothing To Do With Net Neutrality. 90
US Used Patriot Act To Gather Logs of Website Visitors 34
YouTube Will Remind Users To 'Keep Comments Respectful' Before Posting 117
Trump Administration Claims Facebook Improperly Reserved Jobs for H-1B Workers 123
Warner Bros. To Debut Entire 2021 Film Slate, Including 'Dune' and 'Matrix 4,' Both on HBO Max and In Theaters 97
US States Plan To Sue Facebook Next Week 38
Trump To Congress: Repeal Section 230 Or I'll Veto Military Funding 511
UK Seeks Site For World's First Fusion Power Station 47
South Africa's Lottery Probed As 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 Drawn 195
Google Says Its News Showcase Will Add Free Access To Paywalled Stories 13
Google Illegally Spied On Workers Before Firing Them, US Labor Board Alleges 116
Discovery To Launch Streaming Service in January Starting at $4.99 Per Month 65
ACLU Sues DHS Over Purchase of Cellphone Location Data Used To Track Immigrants 60
How Prestige Journals Remain Elite, Exclusive And Exclusionary 82
UK Becomes the First Country To Approve Pfizer/BioNTech Coronavirus Vaccine, Roll Out To Start Next Week 109
Massachusetts Lawmakers Vote To Pass a Statewide Police Ban On Facial Recognition 50
Italy Fines Apple $12 Million For Unfair Claims About iPhone Water Resistance 68
Ford Calls On Automakers To Support California Fuel Economy Deal 168
Hector Martin Promises To Bring Linux To the M1 Chip 139
Tesla Whistleblower Martin Tripp Ordered To Pay $400,000 To Settle Hacking Case 60
Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico Collapses as Engineers Feared 216
Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Case Fan To Prevent Overheating 118
Pirate Bay Founder Warns US Govt Against Mafia-Esque Copyright Lobby 32
Facebook, Google to Face New Antitrust Suits in US 19
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Will Step Down on January 20 103
The Supreme Court Will Hear Its First Big CFAA Case 61
Are Tech Workers Fleeing the San Francisco Bay Area? 196
Bloomberg Columnist: Bitcoin is Part of a Real Monetary Revolution 152
Report Claims America's CIA Also Controlled a Second Swiss Encryption Firm 100
That Mysterious Silver Monolith In the Utah Desert Has Disappeared 73
What Hunting Bigfoot Taught a Republican Congressman about Misinformation, Political Extremists, and Grift 180
What Happened After Silicon Valley Tried to Make Telecommuting Permanent 114
Conspiracy Theorists Who'd First Popularized QAnon Now Accused of Financial Motives 152
After 17 Years OS X Notifier App 'Growl' Retired 17
America's Top Court Strikes Down Covid-19 Restriction On Religious Groups 465
Amazon and Apple 'Not Playing Their Part' in Tackling Electronic Waste 74
Huge Reservoir of Fresh Water Found Beneath the Sea Off Hawaii 83
China Rises as World's Data Superpower as Internet Fractures 113
India Enters Recession as Virus Pummels No. 3 Asian Economy 64
UK To Set Up 'Pro-Competition' Regulator To Put Limits on Big Tech 42
Britain Commits $333 Million To Help Carriers Replace Huawei 5G 56
Tired of Mockery, Austrian Village Changes Name 190
Russia Wants To Ban Social Media Sites Discriminating Against Russian News Outlets 34
Cambridge University Says Darwin's Iconic Notebooks Were Stolen 52
1% of Farms Operate 70% of World's Farmland 115
Struggling Electric Jet Startup Zunum Sues Boeing For Fraud and Misuse of Trade Secrets 23
GM To Leverage Customer Data In New Insurance Business 45
IRS Could Search Warrantless Location Database Over 10,000 Times 16
France Orders Tech Giants To Pay Digital Tax 81
Three Members of TMT Cybercrime Group Arrested in Nigeria 15
ZTE's Designation as Security Threat Affirmed by US FCC 27
Elon Musk Overtakes Bill Gates To Grab World's Second-Richest Ranking 144
Amazon Partners With the US Government To Stop the Sale of Counterfeit Goods 72
Linus Torvalds Would Like To Use An M1 Mac For Linux, But... 246
Twitter Will Warn You If You 'Like' Misleading Tweets 175
'I Should Have Loved Biology' 133
LA To Launch First 'Transportation Technology Innovation Zone' 11
Amazon Warehouse Workers In Alabama File To Hold Unionization Vote 75
Utah Helicopter Crew Discovers Mysterious Metal Monolith Deep in the Desert 128
China Requires Real Names, Bans Spending By Teens In New Curbs On Livestreaming 57
Apple Makes Another Concession On App Store Fees 19
Comcast To Enforce 1.2TB Data Cap In Entire 39-State Territory In Early 2021 230
Apple's Security Chief Indicted in Santa Clara County Sheriff Concealed-gun Permit Scandal 217
Biden's Top Tech Adviser Makes Regulation More Likely 96
Oxford's 2020 Word of the Year? It's Too Hard to Isolate 38
How Powerful Forces Collaborated to Peddle Misinformation about the Origins of the Coronavirus 280
Is Bitcoin's Growth Driven By Speculative Investors? 130
US Postal Service Announces a Nationwide Digital 'Operation Santa' 25
How Firefox Boosted Its JavaScript Performance 51
US Congress Passes an IoT Security Bill 'That Doesn't Totally Suck' 80
Experimental Antibody Treatment for Covid-19 Patients Wins 'Emergency Approval' in America 81
'Ubuntu Web Remix' Distro Offers Firefox-Based Chrome OS Alternative 47
In the Last Week America Experienced 1 Million New Coronavirus Cases 276
Email and Web Traffic Redirected for Multiple Cryptocurrency Sites After GoDaddy Attack 10
In Historic Test, US Navy Shoots Down an Intercontinental Ballastic Missile 175
Assigning Homework Exacerbates Class Divides, Researchers Find 312
After Restoring YouTube-dl, GitHub Revamps Its Copyright Takedown Policy 24
Deep Frozen Arctic Microbes Are Waking Up 67
The US Could Soon Ban the Selling of Carrier-Locked Phones 62
US Emissions To Drop 9% In 2020, Putting Country Back On Track For Paris Commitment 106
Apple is Lobbying Against a Bill Aimed at Stopping Forced Labor in China 87
The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders 71
Biden Team Lacks Full US Cybersecurity Support in Transition Fracas 212
Study Identifies Reasons for Soaring Nuclear Plant Cost Overruns in the US 95
Microsoft's Next Phase of Climate Lobbying 15
Solar Power Stations in Space Could Be the Answer To Our Energy Needs 233

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