News Stories for 2020

YouTube, Facebook and Twitter Align To Fight Covid Vaccine Conspiracies 116
SoftBank CEO Says He Doesn't Understand Bitcoin, and Watching the Price Fluctuate Was 'Distracting My Focus On My Own Business' 93
Facebook Antitrust Probes Will Target Acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram 13
YouTube Will Run Ads On Smaller Creators' Videos Without Paying Them 136
Star Wars Legend Alan Dean Foster Says Disney Is Withholding Book Royalties 279
BuzzFeed Strikes Deal To Buy HuffPost From Verizon Media 19
Election Misinformation Often Evaded YouTube's Efforts To Stop It. 203
Fearing Drama, Mozilla Opens Public Consultation Before Worldwide Firefox DoH Rollout 79
FCC Takes Spectrum From Auto Industry In Plan To 'Supersize' Wi-Fi 49
1% of People Cause Half of Global Aviation Emissions, Study Says 126
Google Pay Gets a Major Redesign With a New Emphasis on Personal Finance 17
FAA Chief '100% Confident' of 737 MAX Safety As Flights To Resume 170
After 12,523 Replacements, Feds Investigate Tesla Media Control Unit Failures 147
Companies Could Face Hefty Fines Under New Canadian Privacy Law 35
EU Plans To Increase Offshore Windfarm Capacity By 250% 111
$6 Billion Linux Deal? SUSE IPO Rumored 28
'Profitboss' Is Saving Restaurants From Heavy Delivery App Fees 27
YouTube Launches Audio Ads and Ad-Targetable Music Lineups, Taking Aim at Spotify 20
Jeff Bezos Announces First Beneficiaries of His $10 Billion Climate Fund 70
Firefox 83 Arrives With HTTPS-Only Mode and Faster Performance 56
Trump Administration, In Late Push, Moves To Sell Oil Rights In Arctic Refuge 373
Tesla To Be Added To S&P 500 Index 56
Hulu Hikes Prices of Live TV Packages by $10 per Month 60
The Curse of the Buried Treasure 85
Obama Says Social Media Companies 'Are Making Editorial Choices, Whether They've Buried Them in Algorithms or Not' 190
UK Should Revisit 5G Ban Now Trump is Defeated, Says Huawei 151
Another Cryptocurrency Heist, This Time $2 Million Stolen from Akropolis 60
Cheating-Detection Software Provokes 'School-Surveillance Revolt' 143
Doctor Who's Sonic Pioneers Will Turn the Internet Into a Giant Musical Instrument 12
Data Breach Exposes 27 Million Texas Driver's License Records 34
Why Apple Silicon Needs an Open Source Fortran Compiler 113
Twitch Users Protest Its DMCA Policy By Streaming Videos With Homemade Sound Effects 126
YouTube Criticized For Not Removing Post-Election Misinformation 183
Ubuntu Patches Bug That Tricked Gnome Desktop Into Giving Root Access 25
Showing Cold Symptoms, Elon Musk Tests Positive - and Negative - for Covid-19 216
Election Was Most Secure In American History, US Officials Say 423
In Rural 'Dead Zones,' School Comes On a Flash Drive 92
Rising Levels of Carbon Dioxide Increasing Extreme Weather Events in Australia, Report Finds 43
Ubisoft Montreal Staffers Barricade on Roof Amid Possible Hostage Situation [Updated] 53
YouTube Cancels Rewind Video Amid Pandemic 32
Microsoft's 2020 Hour of Code Lesson Doubles As Unconscious Bias Training 164
Ending Greenhouse Gas Emissions May Not Stop Global Warming, Study Says 303
Screening Travelers For Symptoms of COVID-19 Was Ineffective, CDC Study Says 88
PayPal Now Lets All US Users Buy, Sell and Hold Cryptocurrency 41
Commerce Department Announces Stay of TikTok Shutdown Order 21
Trump Eyes Digital Media Empire To Take on Fox News 230
Hurricanes Might Not Be Losing Steam As Fast As They Used To 20
Twitch Says It's In Talks To License Music, Tells Users To Delete Videos With Unauthorized Tracks 76
Occidental Is First US Oil Major To Target Net Zero Emissions 52
Rolls Royce Plans 16 Mini-Nuclear Plants For UK 213
Swiss Report Reveals New Details On CIA Spying Operation 36
Disaster 'Prepping' Was Once an American Pastime. Today, It's Mainstream Again. 229
TikTok Says the Trump Administration Has Forgotten About Trying To Ban it, Would Like To Know What's Up 138
UK Firm To Turn Moon Rock Into Oxygen and Building Materials 54
Body Found In Canada Identified As Neo-Nazi Spam King 90
Microsoft Engineer Gets Nine Years For Stealing $10 Million From Microsoft 41
Steve Bannon Caught Running a Network of Misinformation Pages On Facebook 184
Chinese Glaciers Melting At 'Shocking' Pace, Scientists Say 73
Second Cable Breaks at Puerto Rico's Arecibo Telescope 17
Emissions From US Industrial Facilities Fell Nearly 5% In 2019 108
Students Have To Jump Through Absurd Hoops To Use Exam Monitoring Software 221
Trudeau Promises To Connect 98% of Canadians To High-Speed Internet By 2026 126
Microsoft: Make 11-Year-Olds 'Future Ready' With Minecraft Python Hour of Code 51
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Has Applied To Become a Citizen of Cyprus 179
Voters Overwhelmingly Back Community Broadband In Chicago and Denver 103
NASA Administrator Says He Plans To Leave Position Under Biden Administration 197
FTC Announces a Settlement With Zoom Over Security Issues 9
As UK Military Begins Mass Coronavirus Testing, Head of Armed Forces Ponders Robot Soldiers 47
UK Agency Demands Company Stop Using Name Which Includes an HTML Closing Tag 107
Scientists Discover Two New Mammals in Australia 27
How Long Do Most Species Last Before Going Extinct? 35
Should Retraining Programs for Laid-Off Retail Workers Include Computer Programming? 233
Antitrust Investigations and Policy Towards China: How Biden's Victory Impacts Tech 61
President Biden Will Rejoin the World Health Organization on His First Day 281
What Biden's Victory Means For Net Neutrality - and for Ajit Pai 173
Former Astronaut Wins US Senate Seat Once Held By Republican John McCain 82
Uber and Lyft Will Push For More Laws Classifying Drivers as Independent Contractors 73
EFF Argues RIAA is 'Abusing DMCA' to Take Down YouTube-DL 49
A Biden Victory Positions America For a 180-Degree Turn On Climate Change 251
Election-Related Misinformation on Social Media Still 'Readily Viewable' - If It's In Spanish 44
Defeating Trump, Joe Biden Declared Winner of US Presidential Election 958
T-Mobile Will Stop Saying Its 5G Network Is Better Than It Actually Is 36
Google Photos Tests Locking Color Pop Behind a Google One Paywall 21
Debt Collectors Will Soon Be Allowed To Reach You By Text Or On Facebook 92
Facebook Will Announce Presidential Election Result in Facebook and Instagram Notifications 189
What Would We Experience If Earth Spontaneously Turned Into A Black Hole? 126
India and Pakistan Dominate WHO's Air Pollution Database 18
Woman Sheds Coronavirus For 70 Days Without Symptoms 126
Several US Utilities Back Out of Deal To Build Novel Nuclear Power Plant 207
Proctoring Software Company Used DMCA To Take Down a Student's Critical Tweets 130
San Francisco Voters Approve Taxes On Highly Paid CEOs, Big Businesses 181
Sportsbet Says It Will Pay Out Early On Biden As US President 245
US Formally Withdraws From Paris Climate Agreement 250
Silk Road Bitcoins Worth $1 Billion Change Hands After Seven Years 73
Kim Dotcom Can Be Extradited To US But Can Also Appeal 56
Proposition 24 Passes in California, Pushing Privacy Rights To the Forefront Again 19
Portland, Maine Votes in Favor of Facial Recognition Ban 38
Uber, Lyft Prevail To Keep California Workers Independent 156
Trump Attacks Legitimate Vote-Counting Efforts and Claims Fraud Without Basis 691
GPS and Water Don't Mix. So Scientists Have Found a New Way To Navigate Under the Sea 15
Oregon Becomes First State To Legalize Psychedelic Mushrooms 111
Baby Shark Becomes YouTube's Most-Watched Video of All Time 61
Linux Mint Introduces Its Own Take On the Chromium Web Browser 33
Spotify Will Boost Music In Exchange For Cut of Royalties 36
Election Hoax Spreading Through Text Messages In Michigan 78
The Tech Antitrust Problem No One Is Talking About: US Broadband Providers 66
New Online Bookshop Unites Indies To Rival Amazon 14
Internet Archive Adds Fact Checks To Explain Web Page Takedowns 115
UK Contact Tracing App Failed To Flag People Exposed To COVID-19 46
Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, Has Died 7
GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned 111
Twilio Wraps $3.2 Billion Purchase of Segment After Warp-Speed Courtship 9
Tech Startups Say New Pay Rules for H-1B Visas Are Unaffordable 236
No, Sean Connery Did Not Write a Mean Letter To Steve Jobs 26
Slump in Air Travel Hindered Weather Forecasting, Study Shows 14
Why You Can't Rely on Election Forecasts 376
Should Computer Programming Classes Focus on Projects Instead of 'Logic Puzzles'? 108
A Few Trick-or-Treaters in Canada Receive a Surprising Treat: Bitcoin 37
Support Grows For Universal Basic Income Trials in UK 177
Zuckerberg Acknowledges 'Risk of Civil Unrest' After US Elections, Promises Newsfeed Updates 314
The US Military Has Experienced 55,443 COVID-19 Cases - Including Vice Chief of Space Force 45
Trump's TikTok Ban Temporarily Blocked by US Judge 85
'Don't Even Try Paying With Cash in China' 146
Software Freedom Conservancy: Microsoft Should Resign from RIAA Over Youtube-DL Takedown Demand 48
While Europe Accounts for 46% of COVID-19 Cases, Taiwan Goes 200 Days Without a Local Infection 305
US and UK Citizens Are World's Biggest Sources of Plastic Waste 103
Sony Close To Buying Crunchyroll For Nearly $1 Billion 19
Russian Hackers Targeted California, Indiana Democratic Parties In Repeat of 2016 Attacks 58
These Drones Will Plant 40,000 Trees in a Month. By 2028, They'll Have Planted 1 Billion 50
RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites 99
Privacy Investigation Finds 5 Million Shoppers' Images Collected At Malls Across Canada 36
Humans Have Been Living In Space For 20 Years Straight 56
'Sleeping Giant' Arctic Methane Deposits Starting To Release, Scientists Find 280
Intel Begins Their Open-Source Driver Support For Vulkan Ray-Tracing With Xe HPG 10
Facebook Is Losing Users In the US and Canada 103
Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept 374
Netflix is Raising the Price of Its Most Popular Plan To $14 Today, Premium Tier Increasing To $18 94
Taiwan's UMC To Pay $60 Million Fine To Settle US Trade Secrets Case 12
FBI, DHS Warn Hospitals of 'Credible Threat' from Hackers 20
Facebook Targeted In UK Legal Action Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal 23
NASA Discovers a Rare Metal Asteroid That's Worth $10,000 Quadrillion 192
Scientists Discover Coral Reef Taller Than the Empire State Building 30
World's First Ocean Hybrid Platform Converts Tidal Waves Into Energy 39
NSA Ducks Questions About Backdoors In Tech Products 84
Wikimedia Is Moving To GitLab 12
Amazon Argues Users Don't Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content 140
Inside Uber and DoorDash's Push To Win the Most Expensive Ballot Race in California History 91
White House Science Office Says Trump Ended COVID-19 Pandemic as US Hits Record Cases 445
Poll Shows Bipartisan Support For Tech Antitrust Action 51
Facebook Approves Trump Ads That Violate Its Pre-Election Rules 102
Microsoft Teams Passes 115 Million Daily Active Users 43
SpaceX Starlink Public Beta Begins: It's $99 a Month Plus $500 Up Front 236
US Grid-Battery Costs Dropped 70% Over 3 Years 92
RIAA's YouTube-DL Takedown Ticks Off Developers and GitHub's CEO 58
Japan's New Leader Sets Ambitious Goal of Carbon Neutrality by 2050 48
UK Mobile Networks Banned From Selling Locked Phones 33
YouTube Will Warn Users That Election Day Results 'May Not Be Final' 351
The Explosive Problem of 'Zombie' Batteries 120
'Iranian YouTube' CEO Sentenced To 10 Years Over Video Uploaded By User 125
CBP Refuses To Tell Congress How It's Tracking Americans Without a Warrant 72
Schools Clamored for Seesaw's App. That Was Good News, and Bad News. 18
America and France Reach New All-Time Highs For COVID-19 Infections 402
Is X.Org Server Abandonware? 123
Snopes.com Exposes 4chan Campaign to 'Kindle Mistrust in Snopes' 264
So How Good Is Edge on Linux? 52
The Battle Over Chips is About to Get Uglier 74
Chrome Caught Exempting Google Sites From User Requests To Delete Data 50
Slashdot Asks: How Do You Feel About Btrfs? 236
Greenpeace Claims Fukushima Water Release Could Change Human DNA 200
Debian Donates 10,000 Euros to Fund Free and Decentralized Livestreaming 20
Hackers Behind Life-Threatening Attack On Chemical Maker Are Sanctioned 77
First 'Murder Hornet' Nest In US Is Found In Washington State 120
'youtube-dl' Downloading Software Removed From GitHub By RIAA Takedown Notice 186
Patreon Is Banning QAnon, Joining Facebook, YouTube and Others 172
Uber and Lyft Need To Make Drivers Employees, Appeals Court Rules 88
T-Mobile Screwups Caused Nationwide Outage But FCC Isn't Punishing Carrier 38
National Guard Called In To Thwart Cyberattack in Louisiana Weeks Before Election 31
Death of Sea Life Off Russia Peninsula 'Caused by Algae' 24
Expensify's CEO Emailed Users To Encourage Them To 'Vote For Biden' 328
Why Intel's Stock Just Dropped 10% After Reporting Earnings 57
It's Official: Solar Is the Cheapest Electricity In History 325
Drivers Sue Uber Over Pressure To Support Prop 22 77
Iran Behind Supposed 'Proud Boys' Voter-Intimidation Emails, Feds Allege 95
Burger King Plans To Test Reusable Containers Starting Next Year 61
Ubuntu Linux 20.10 'Groovy Gorilla' is Here With Renewed Raspberry Pi Focus 20
WHO To Grant Wikipedia Free Use of Its Published Material To Combat Covid Misinformation 51
Firefox 'Site Isolation' Feature Enters User Testing, Expected Next Year 14
Edward Snowden Granted Permanent Residency In Russia 178
YouTube Is So Flooded With Political Ads It Can't Place Them All 84
Huawei Announces Last Major Phone Before US Ban Forces Rethink 20
Senate Republicans Vote To Subpoena Facebook and Twitter CEOs About Alleged Censorship 343
Wisconsin Report Confirms Foxconn's So-Called LCD Factory Isn't Real 109
Google AI Tech Will Be Used For Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows 76
FCC Defends Helping Trump, Claims Authority Over Social Media Law 116
Activists Turn Facial Recognition Tools Against the Police 78
Quibi Is Shutting Down 60
Mozilla Fears 'Collateral Damage' in Google Antitrust Case 73
Amazon Launches Program To Pay Consumers For Their Data On Non-Amazon Purchases 51
Employers Warn of Rising Political Tensions At Work 579
GM To Invest More Than $2 Billion In US Manufacturing To Increase Electric Vehicle Production 67
US Accuses Google of Protecting Illegal Monopoly 143
OpenStack Foundation Transforms Into the Open Infrastructure Foundation 16
OpenBSD Turns 25 With a New Release 28
EU Shoots For $11.7B 'Industrial Cloud' To Rival US 77
US Charges Russian Hackers Behind NotPetya, KillDisk, OlympicDestroyer Attacks 33
Drivers To Be Banned From Picking Up Mobile Phones 163
Is QAnon an 8Chan Game Gone Wrong? 190
'No, Microsoft Won't Rebase Windows to Linux' Argues Canonical's Manager for Ubuntu on WSL 98
Make Remote Work Permanent? No Way, Say Bay Area Leaders 169
Google/EdX Are Charging $298 For Their Remake of a Free 2012 How-to-Google Course 22
College President Resigns After 712 Students Test Positive For Covid-19 153
Trump Scrambles To Loosen America's Biometric Data and Gig Worker Regulations 184
US Surpasses 8 Million Coronavirus Cases 431
Billionaire CEO of Software Company Indicted For Alleged $2 Billion Tax Evasion Schemes 75
Nikola Stock Falls 14 Percent After CEO Downplays Badger Truck Plans 20
San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up To 31%, Most in US 141
Elon Musk's Las Vegas Loop Might Only Carry a Fraction of the Passengers It Promised 119
Group Files 'Largest FOIA of All Time' 29
Has Apple Abandoned CUPS, Linux's Widely Used Open-Source Printing System? Seems So 120
Chilling Report Suggests 1 Out of 5 Countries Could Be Headed For Ecosystem Collapse 116
FCC Will Move To Regulate Social Media After Censorship Outcry 325
Google Music Shuts Down Smart Speaker Support and Music Store 46
Microsoft Will Share Digital Revenues With GameStop On Every Xbox It Sells 29
'Person In Jetpack' Spotted Flying Again Near LA Airport 111
Robinhood Estimates Hackers Infiltrated Almost 2,000 Accounts 19
FCC To Move on Trump Plan To Weaken Social Media Legal Shield 247
YouTube Bans QAnon, Other Conspiracy Content That Targets Individuals 117
Amazon To Escape UK Digital Services Tax That Will Hit Smaller Traders 58
FAA Revamps Space Launch Rules as SpaceX, Blue Origin Expand 11
Senate To Subpoena Twitter CEO Over Blocking of Disputed Biden Articles 580
YouTube Bans Coronavirus Vaccine Misinformation 152
The Great Barrier Reef Has Lost Half Its Corals 57
Florida Could Become First State To Offer Digital Driver's Licenses 55
Elon Musk Cuts Price of Tesla Model S To $69,420 95
China Starts Digital Yuan Trial By Giving $30 To 50,000 People 55
German Ship Completes Historic Arctic Expedition 23
There's Another Huge Right To Repair Fight Brewing In Massachusetts 117
KDE Plasma 5.20 Released 45
Netflix Ends Free Trials In the US 35
iPhone 12 Lineup Does Not Ship With a Power Adapter; Apple Begins Selling 20W USB-C Adapter for $19 83
Virginia's Voter-Registration Site Goes Offline on Last Day To Register 112
The Digital Divide Starts With a Laptop Shortage 125
World's First Hydrogen Double Deckers Arrive In Aberdeen 112
How Many Americans Still Secretly Use Their Ex's Passwords 42
Harvard, Oxford, Stanford Docs Among Leaders of Global Anti-Lockdown Movement 340
UK Government Scraps Ad That Encouraged People Working in the Arts To Reskill by Turning To a Career in Cybersecurity 91
Is Digital Banking the Wave of the Future? 117
SpaceX's First Military Contracts: One-Hour Cargo Deliveries By Rocket and Missile-Tracking Satellites 101
Google Halts Its Curated News Plan in Australia, Calling Government's Rules 'Unworkable' 52
Many Amazon Returns Are Just Destroyed or Sent to Landfills 76

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