News Stories for 2021

A Program for Cheaper Internet for Low-Income Americans Launches Today 101
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Books You Liked Reading This Year? 112
Plans To Capture CO2 From Coal Plants Wasted Federal Dollars, Watchdog Says 291
The Best Book of the Past 125 Years, According To NYT Book Review Readers 106
Using the Oceans To Store CO2 Could Help Avoid Climate Catastrophe 176
Mexico's Central Bank Will Launch Digital Currency by 2024 6
'Play-to-Earn' and Bullshit Jobs 175
US Hits Record Number of New Covid-19 Cases 353
Metaverse Property Mogul Touts 10-Fold Appreciation In Virtual Real Estate Portfolio 65
Scientists Find Unexpected Trove of Life Forms Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf 13
Biden Signs NDAA Relying on Voluntary Private-Sector Cybersecurity Collaboration 24
Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On 100
Cyberattack On One of Norway's Largest Media Companies Shuts Down Presses 11
Retailers Surrender To Unprecedented Costs On Online Returns 135
13 Battery Gigafactories Are Coming To the US By 2025 47
Winter Storms Are Breaking Snow and Temperature Records 97
Egyptian Pharaoh's Mummified Body Gives Up Its Secrets After 3,500 Years 12
Scientists Build New Atlas of Ocean's Oxygen-starved Waters 10
Virginia Family Gets Keys To Habitat For Humanity's First 3D-Printed Home in the US 33
'Widevine Dump': Leaked Code Downloads HD Video From Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix 24
California is Suing Walmart Over Alleged Improper Disposal of E-waste and Other Hazardous Materials 39
E.O. Wilson, Naturalist Dubbed a Modern-day Darwin, Dies at 92 32
New FSF Campaign Celebrates Smaller Steps Up 'Freedom Ladder' 23
Should Universities De-Prioritize English Departments for Engineering? 338
Rare Recordings of 1994 Talks By a 24-Year-Old Linus Torvalds Re-Discovered 34
New Era Begins: Construction Starts on 47-Acre Fusion Reactor Funded by Google and Bill Gates 215
Will It Take More Than Open Source Funding To Prevent the Next Log4j? 110
The Free Software Foundation Recommends Last-Minute Gift Ideas 44
Centralized Crypto Exchanges Saw Over $14 Trillion in Trading Volume this Year 32
Amazon Cloud Unit Draws Antitrust Scrutiny From Khan's FTC 14
SEC Rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin Trusts 36
White House Enlists Software Industry To Improve Open-Source Security 63
What Are FFP2 Masks, Mandatory in Some European Countries? 131
Potential DOJ Suits Against Apple and Google Delayed Amid Budget Woes 27
Decentralized Exchanges Saw Over $1 Trillion in Trading Volume This Year 15
FDA Authorizes Second COVID-19 Antiviral Pill 64
Skillsoft To Acquire Codecademy For $525 Million 6
US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID, SARS Variants 248
Twitch Co-Founder Gets Discord Hacked, $150,000 Stolen From Users In NFT Scam 22
5G Speeds In the US Rank Dead Last Among Early Adopters 77
Germany Is Closing Half of Its Reactors at Worst Possible Time 220
South Africa's Huge Omicron Wave Appears To Be Subsiding Just as Quickly As it Grew 99
A Growing Army of Hackers Helps Keep Kim Jong Un in Power 52
In a Boston Court, a Superstar of Science Falls To Earth 97
No Mountain High Enough: Study Finds Plastic in 'Clean' Air 53
EV Startup Nikola Agrees To $125 Million Settlement 41
California Approves Dropping Rodenticide On Farallon Islands 116
'World's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm' Produces First Power 205
US Returns $154 Million In Bitcoins Stolen By Sony Employee 37
US, Britain Help Ukraine Prepare for Potential Russian Cyberassault 39
Stablecoin Supply Grew By 388% this Year, Driven by DeFi and Derivatives 39
Libraries Enlist States in Fight Over ebook Rules 32
US Population Growth at Lowest Rate in Pandemic's First Year 117
WHO Sounds Warning Over Fast-spreading Omicron 215
Boeing, Airbus Executives Urge Delay in US 5G Wireless Deployment 82
Study Finds 'Serious Security Risks' In K-12 School Apps 16
The US Could Reliably Run On Clean Energy By 2050 214
The NCA Shares 585 Million Passwords With 'Have I Been Pwned' 20
Despite EU Court Rulings, Facebook Says US Is Safe To Receive Europeans' Data 32
Bitcoin's 'One Percent' Controls 27% of All Circulating Coins, Study Finds 73
EPA Issues New Rule To Curb Tailpipe Pollution, Fight Climate Change 223
Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Furious Rate, New Study Shows 129
2021 Had Six Different Cryptocurrency Heists Over $100 Million 55
Google's YouTube TV Reaches Deal to Restore Disney Channels 26
2021's Hugo Award Winners Include a Videogame, Plus Netflix and NBC Shows 71
Melting Glaciers May Create New Pacific Salmon Habitat, Study Finds 33
Scientists Discover Seaweed Species That Stops Cows from Emitting Methane 106
Can Invasive Fish Be Scared Off With a Menacing Robot Predator? 37
RadioShack Announces Ambitious New Cryptocurrency Exchange 104
Who's Paying to Fix Open Source Software? 142
Beatings, Doxxings, Harassment: the War Over Chinese Wikipedia 50
Imagining an All-Renewable Grid With No Blackouts Without Long-Duration Batteries 227
Hospital's Computer System Always Marks Up Costs Automatically, Leaked Records Show 224
FSF Adopts New Governance Measures: a Board Member Agreement and Code of Ethics 72
Boston Police Bought Spy Tech With a Pot of Money Hidden From the Public 63
US Regulators Flag Climate Change, Stablecoins As Potential Systemic Risks 70
Schools Across US Cancel Classes Over Unconfirmed TikTok Threats 44
Regulators Open Probe Into Red Hot 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Industry 65
The First True Millipede: New Species With More Than 1,000 Legs Discovered in Western Australia 34
Amazon UK Launches 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Product With Barclays 29
Fossil Fuel Combustion Kills More Than 1 Million People Every Year, Study Says 151
Giant Kites That Drag Cargo Ships Across Oceans Go On Trial 155
Comcast Will Keep Data Caps Out of the Northeast In 2022 26
Firefox Fixes Password Leak via Windows Cloud Clipboard Feature 13
The Millions of Tons of Carbon Emissions That Don't Officially Exist 62
Wind Power Becomes Spain's Leading Energy Source for 2021 89
India Defuses Its Population Bomb 156
US Builds New Software Tool To Predict Actions that Could Draw China's Ire 60
US Airlines Warn 5G Wireless Could Cause Havoc With Flights 89
New York City Is Banning Natural Gas Hookups To Fight Climate Change 456
Vodeo Becomes the First Unionized Games Studio In North America 57
US To Blacklist Eight More Chinese Companies, Including Drone Maker DJI 115
Pelosi Rejects Stock-Trading Ban For Members of Congress 177
US Surpasses 800,000 COVID-19 Deaths 180
Fed's Powell Says He Doesn't See Cryptocurrencies as 'Financial Stability Concern' 66
UK Reports Highest Number of Daily Covid Cases Since the Pandemic Began 180
Rocket Scientists and Brain Surgeons Aren't Necessarily More Clever, Study Finds 195
Bitcoin Could Become 'Worthless,' Bank of England Warns 271
USPS Built and Secretly Tested a Blockchain-Based Mobile Voting System Before 2020 60
YouTube TV Warns It May Lose All Disney-Owned Channels Amid Contract Dispute 72
Intel's Mystery Linux Muckabout is a Dangerous Ploy at a Dangerous Time 80
Bugs Across Globe Are Evolving To Eat Plastic, Study Finds 88
Apple and Google's Mobile Duopoly Likely To Face UK Antitrust Action 53
US Opens Probe Into Amazon Warehouse Fatal Collapse in Illinois 129
The Antarctic is Signaling Big Climate Trouble 115
First UK Death Recorded With Omicron Variant 179
Cable News Talent Wars Are Shifting To Streaming Platforms 77
Apple Is About To Become the World's First $3 Trillion Company 49
Ukraine Arrests 51 For Selling Data of 300 Million People In US, EU 11
Biden Will Sign an Executive Order To Move Government Services Online 172
Time Person of the Year: Elon Musk 248
Mozilla Expects To Generate More Than $500M in Revenue This Year 21
'The New Normal': US Blames This Winter's Severe Tornado's on Climate Change 150
Has the Corporate Climate Migration Begun? 92
Judges Read Capitol Rioters' Social Media Posts, Gave Them Stricter Sentences 424
Chicago Public Schools Partners With Google Instead of Code.org For CSEdWeek 7
FAA Says Lack of Federal Whistleblower Protections Is 'Enormous Factor' Hindering Blue Origin Safety Review 24
Acclaimed Sci-Fi Writer On How Humanity Will Endure the Climate Crisis 206
New Social Media Transparency Bill Would Force Facebook To Open Up To Researchers 22
'China Will Soon Lead the US in Tech' 289
The European Commission is Making its Software Open Source To Benefit Society 24
US Wins Appeal Over Extradition of WikiLeaks Founder 220
Revisiting the 'Tsar Bomba' Nuclear Test 143
Visa Launches Crypto Consulting Services 18
Microsoft Tempts Software Pirates With 50 Percent Discount On Office 76
NYC, Facing Housing Crisis, Targets Illegal Airbnb Owners 83
Microplastics Cause Damage To Human Cells, Study Shows 39
'Free PACER' Bill Advances Through Senate Judiciary Unanimously 31
US To Blacklist Chinese AI Company SenseTime Over Xinjiang Ahead of IPO 37
SF Millennium Tower Tilts Quarter Inch In Four Days 62
Virgin Media Fined $50K For Spamming Opted-Out Customers 13
Wikipedia Editors Very Mad About Jimmy Wales' NFT of a Wikipedia Edit 15
Biden Wants To Make Federal Government Carbon Neutral by 2050 106
Roku, Google Settle Messy Battle Over YouTube Distribution 34
LINE Pay Leaks Around 133,000 Users' Data To GitHub 8
The NIH Director On Why Americans Aren't Getting Healthier, Despite Medical Advances 208
Huge 20-Year Study Shows Trickle-Down Is a Myth, Inequality Rampant 646
UAE To Shift To Saturday-Sunday Weekend in Line With Global Markets 11
The CIA Is Deep Into Cryptocurrency, Director Reveals 39
Darpa Funded Researchers Accidentally Create the World's First Warp Bubble 189
Verizon Once Again Expands Its Snoopvertising Ambitions 14
Airplane Landings at Risk of Delays on FAA Move To Ease 5G Risk 42
Senate Confirms FCC Chair Rosenworcel To Another Term, Narrowly Avoiding a Republican Majority 41
Over 200 Papers Quietly Sue Big Tech 44
Biden's Cyber Leaders Go To Silicon Valley for More Help Fighting Hackers 25
Self-Described Bitcoin Creator Must Pay $100 Million In Suit 84
Earth is Getting a Black Box To Record Events that Lead To the Downfall of Civilization 120
Firefox 95 Will Include RLBox Sandboxing for Added Security 35
In Naming Omicron Variant, Authorities Skipped 'Xi' and 'Nu' 237
Companies Linked To Russian Ransomware Hide in Plain Sight 32
America Tries to Fill 600,000 Vacant Cybersecurity Positions 75
As Ice Melts, Arctic Ecosystem Confronts Emboldened Killer Whales 149
Another Crypto Heist: $150M+ Stolen from Trading Platform BitMart 59
The US Military Has Taken Action Against Ransomware Groups and 'Imposed Costs' 124
Someone Stole $120 Million in Crypto From a DeFi Website 72
Bitcoin, Ether, Other Cryptocurrencies Suddenly Drop More Than 16% 105
Debt Collectors Can Now Text, Email and DM You On Social Media 66
Zoom Will Soon Make It Obvious If You're Late To Your Next Big Meeting 16
US State Department iPhones Hacked With Israeli Company Spyware 40
Jimmy Wales is Selling His First Wikipedia Edit as an NFT 21
US Indicts Two Men for Running a $20 Million YouTube Content ID Scam 28
Another Porn Site Says Banks Forced It To Stop Paying Sex Workers 292
Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based On Mastodon 228
White House To Unveil Alliance To Curb Human Rights Abuse of Tech 39
FTC Sues To Stop Blockbuster Chip Deal Between Nvidia and Arm 46
Californian Firm Touts 'Mushroom Leather' as Sustainability Gamechanger 128
The US Crackdown on Chinese Economic Espionage is a Mess 65
US Government Agencies Bought Chinese Surveillance Tech Despite Federal Ban 21
Renewable Energy Has 'Another Record Year of Growth' Says IEA 128
HashiCorp's IPO Will Place It Among the Most Richly Valued Open Source Tech Companies 26
US Confirms Nation's First Case of Omicron Covid Variant In California 116
WHO Says Omicron Has Been Found in 23 Countries Across the World 259
Biden Administration Issues New Framework for Space Policy, With a Focus on Climate Change 31
Apple Renews Bid To Halt Court-Ordered App Store Change 33
Wanted: A Town Willing to Host a Dump for U.S. Nuclear Waste 335
Cyber Monday Online Sales Fall For the First Time Ever 95
Biden Administration Makes First Move on Data Privacy 45
Barbados, Formally Casting Off the Queen, Becomes a Republic 86
UK Regulators Order Facebook-owner Meta To Sell Giphy 27
Airbus A340 Plane Lands On Antarctica For First Time 92
Big Tech Firms Should Pay ISPs To Upgrade Networks, Telcos In Europe Claim 87
Nissan Lays Out $17.6 Billion Plan To Electrify Its Future 101
'Cyber Grinches' Snatching Toys Should Be Stopped, Lawmakers Say 161
Omicron Covid Variant Poses Very High Global Risk, Says WHO 480
UK Regulator Expected To Block Meta's Giphy Deal 14
Get Your Coins Moving: Some Parts of the US Face a Shortage of Quarters 203
Former Uber Employees Cleared of Illegal Spying 17
'Malicious Actors' are Compromising Google Cloud Accounts, Installing Cryptocurrency Miners 26
Raspberry Pi Trading Could Go Public This Spring 32
Addressing 'Bus Factor', PHP Gets a Foundation 69
Breakthrough By McMaster PhD Student Creates Laser In Silicon 60
Getting a Crypto Refund Can Be Very Expensive 132
Will a 'Lithium Rush' From California's Salton Sea Fund Its Environmental Remediation? 36
Biden Admin Announces Travel Ban for South Africa and 7 Other Countries, Citing New Variant 258
Google Makes Pledges on Browser Cookies To Appease UK Regulator 29
Saving History With Sandbags: Climate Change Threatens the Smithsonian 125
Huge Fines and a Ban on Default Passwords in New UK Law 110
China's New Space Reactor 'Will Be 100 Times More Powerful Than a Similar Device NASA Plans To Put on the Surface of the Moon by 2030' 134
UK Privacy Watchdog Warns Adtech the End of Tracking is Nigh 19
Black Friday is Causing Toxic Traffic Jams at US Ports and Warehouses 78
Verizon and AT&T To Temporarily Turn Down 5G Power To Address FAA Worries 24
The World Needs To Crack Battery Recycling, Fast 97
Centrist Dems Sink Biden's Nominee for Top Bank Regulator 213
Congress Decimates 911's Digital Upgrade 154
US Blacklists Chinese Quantum Computing Companies 74
US To Require Vaccines For All Border Crossers In January 241
California Moves To Recommend Delaying Algebra To 9th Grade Statewide 639
Mozilla Is Ending Support For Its Firefox Password Manager Sync App 26
Japan Allocates $5.2 Billion To Fund Chip Plants By TSMC and Others 16
Atom Bank Introduces Four-Day Work Week Without Cutting Pay 28
UK Visa Scheme for Prize-winning Scientists Receives No Applications 171
Crypto Oversight Road Map Is Set by US Banking Regulators 10
Moscow Tells 13 Mostly US Tech Firms They Must Set Up in Russia by 2022 147
Samsung Picks Texas Site for $17 Billion Advanced US Chip Plant 75
Niantic Raises $300 Million At $9 Billion Valuation To Build the 'Real-World Metaverse' 33
Rare Einstein Manuscript Set To Fetch Millions 23
US Lawmakers Call for Privacy Legislation After Reuters Report on Amazon Lobbying 30
Reducing Emissions by Reducing Agricultural Waste - Starting with Apple-Monitoring Tech 49
How Facebook and Google Actually Fund the Creation of Misinformation 196
'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Trailer Remade With Footage From the 1990's Cartoon 30
Intel's Expensive New Plan to Upgrade Its Chip Technology - and US Manufacturing 131
Cryptographers Aren't Happy With How You're Using the Word 'Crypto' 99
Why Colleges are Giving Up on Remote Education 111
Can We Fight Carbon Emissions With Roundabout Intersections? 303
How Bad is Online Shopping for the Environment? 103
Canadian Police Arrest Teen For Stealing $36.5 Million In Cryptocurrency 18
CDC Panel Unanimously Endorses Pfizer and Moderna Covid Boosters For All US Adults 168
Pentagon Asks Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle for Bids on New Cloud Contracts 14
The Amazon Lobbyists Who Kill US Consumer Privacy Protections 36
Visions of a US Computer Chip Boom Have Cities Hustling 41
Copy of US Constitution Sells for $43.2 Million as Crypto Group DAO Is Outbid 54
Winamp Prepares a Relaunch 84
Thousands of Firefox Users Accidentally Commit Login Cookies On GitHub 52
Programmer Restores YouTube Dislike Counts With Browser Extension 72
Starbucks Links With Amazon Go For First Cashierless Cafe 38
Nvidia Eyes $1 Trillion Club Following Blowout Earnings 24
Crypto Bid To Buy US Constitution Print Raises Millions 67
Jeff Bezos: Future Humans 'Will Visit the Earth the Way You Visit Yellowstone' 191
YouTube Co-Founder Predicts 'Decline' of the Platform Following Removal of Dislikes 125
US Says Iran-backed Hackers Are Now Targeting Organizations With Ransomware 18
The End of 'Click To Subscribe, Call To Cancel'? One of the News Industry's Favorite Retention Tactics is Illegal, FTC Says 85
Secretive Chinese Committee Draws Up List To Replace US Tech 101
Amazon To Stop Accepting Visa Credit Cards Issued in the UK, Citing High Fees 99
Bilibili, China's YouTube, Joins the Open Invention Network 7
FAA, FCC Are Making 'Progress' on 5G Signal Woes 22
Firefox Relay Offers Unlimited Email Aliases as Part of its New Premium Plan 55
Nvidia's Arm Deal Faces UK National Security Probe 11
The US Finally Adopts a National Recycling Strategy 94
Togo Made a Digital Government Stimulus System In Two Weeks 55
A Plan To Perfect the New York City Street 70

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