News Stories for 2021

Crypto Nerds Are Trying To Buy the US Constitution 70
Roblox, Building Out the Metaverse, Looks To Bring Educational Videogames To Schools 40
Huawei Recruits Smartphone Partners To Sidestep US Sanctions 30
Heavy Rains and Storms in Egypt's Aswan Unleash Scorpions in People's Homes 71
Report: NVIDIA's ARM Takeover Faces Second Antitrust/National Security Inquiry 17
Neal Stephenson Discusses His New Climate Change Thriller - and Coining the Word 'Metaverse' 96
Will Cryptocurrency Face a Quantum Computing Problem? 68
France Expands Open Source Use, Seeking Interoperability, 'Digital Sovereignty', and 'Democratic Confidence' 24
The US Department of Homeland Security Urges 'Digital Literacy' 56
Penpot, the Vector Design Web-app Taking On Figma and Canva With FOSS, Hits Beta 55
196 Nations Agree to New Climate Change Deal At COP26 Summit 101
US Rollout of 5G Frequencies Delayed Over Aviation Safety Concerns. Are They Warranted? 31
Vizio's Profit On Ads, Subscriptions, and Data Is Double The Money It Makes Selling TVs 49
Apple-1 Computer Fetches $400,000 At US Auction 20
The Man Behind the 'Tic-Tac' UFO Videos Claim They've Been Here Since the 1950s 139
London's Thames, Once Biologically Dead, Has Been Coming Back To Life 53
Internet of Things Projected To Generate Up To $12.6 Trillion By 2030 31
William Shatner's Crewmate on Blue Origin Spaceflight Died Thursday in a Plane Crash 43
Slashdot Asks: Should YouTube Remove the Dislike Count? 141
America Is Hiring a Record Number of Robots 91
Australia Leads the World in Coal Emissions Per Capita 114
Microsoft To Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds 134
Biden Signs Bill To Secure Telecoms Against National Security Threats 27
Tech Billionaires Auctioning Twitter 'Follows' To Advance K-12 CS Education 21
New Mineral Discovered In Deep-Earth Diamond 19
Patreon's Building Native Video Hosting For Creators To Sidestep YouTube 64
US Joins Global Cybersecurity Partnership 16
Something Awful Founder Richard 'Lowtax' Kyanka Dies At 45 165
Google Wants To Save the Planet With Satellite Images 9
Global Temperatures Over Last 24,000 Years Show Today's Warming 'Unprecedented' 155
Microsoft Is Very Determined That Kids Will Learn To Code Using Minecraft 56
Justice Department Sues Uber Over Charging Wait-Time Fees for Disabled People 84
Tuvalu Looking at Legal Ways To Be a State if it is Submerged 59
YouTube is Removing the Dislike Count on All Videos Across its Platform 148
Number of Credit Cards in US Hits All-time High 76
India Holds Back on Climate Pledge Until Rich Nations Pay $1 Trillion 161
A Bitcoin Mine In Navajo Nation Flares Tensions 172
Rolls-Royce Gets Funding To Develop Mini Nuclear Reactors 161
The US Treasury Is Buying Private App Data to Target and Investigate People 44
Microsoft Launches Windows 11 SE Built for Low-cost Education PCs 62
New Bipartisan Bill Takes Aim at Algorithms 173
Blind People Won the Right To Break eBook DRM. In 3 Years, They'll Have To Do It Again 74
Google's Parent Company Briefly Hits $2 Trillion Valuation 11
Robinhood Says It Was Hacked and Extorted But Nobody Lost Any Money 16
US Charges Ukrainian, Russian, Over Cyberattack, Seizes $6 Million in Ransom Payments 13
McAfee To Be Taken Private in $14 Billion Deal Including Debt 18
These Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops 133
New Book Warns CS Mindset and VC Industry are Ignoring Competing Values 116
CNN: Foreign Hackers Breached Nine Organizations to Steal 'Key Data' from 'Sensitive Targets' 28
System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME 125
Wikipedia Criticized After Years of Using the Wrong Man's Picture to Depict a Serial Killer 113
Former Google CEO and Henry Kissinger: Manage 'Age of AI's Epoch-Making Transformations 50
FSF Celebrates New Copyright Exemptions, But Renews Call For Repealing all DRM Laws 34
As Demand for Green Energy Grows, Solar Farms Face Local Resistance 106
US Passes Massive Infrastructure Bill, Investing in Clean Energy, Electric Cars, and Broadband Internet 157
SolarWinds Investors Allege Board Knew About Cyber Risks 12
Drone Used In Attack On US Electrical Grid Last Year, Report Reveals 54
N.L. Health-Care Cyberattack Is Worst In Canadian History 24
OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL Coming To WSL2 For Intel GPUs 6
The US Has Big, New Plans To Pull CO2 Out of the Air 156
Half World's Fossil Fuel Assets Could Become Worthless by 2036 in Net Zero Transition 65
US Senate Bill Would Limit Big Tech Mergers 30
LA 'Jetpack Man' Was Probably a Balloon 67
Incoming New York Mayor Eric Adams Vows To Take First Three Paychecks In Bitcoin 59
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Will Survive if Warming Kept To 1.5 Degrees 52
Google Cloud Goes Deep Into Financial Services With $1 Billion CME Deal 12
US and 19 Other Countries Agree To Stop Funding Fossil Fuel Projects Abroad 62
Here's Why Rapid COVID Tests Are So Expensive and Hard To Find 75
First Pill To Treat Covid Gets Approval in UK 92
Low-Tech Video Game Streams Are Taking Off On TikTok 14
New NYC Mayor Eric Adams Wants the City To Have Its Own Cryptocurrency 59
Google Wants To Work with the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns 51
Cyber Official Warns 'American Way of Life' at Risk From Hackers 42
Biden Administration Blacklists NSO Group over Pegasus Spyware 18
Brown University Physics Student Manfred Steiner Earns Ph.D. at Age 89 54
Linux Foundation Adds Software Supply Chain Security To LFX 12
Kleiman v. Wright: $65 Billion Bitcoin Case Has Started 77
The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution In the US 41
US Charging Infrastructure Is Outpacing Forecasts, Study Finds 75
Zuckerberg's Meta Endgame Is Monetizing All Human Behavior 88
As Earth Warms, Human History Is Melting Away 37
The Free Laptop Program Built Into the Biden Reconciliation Plan 120
Code.org and Scratch Access Yanked By Chicago Schools Due To Student Privacy Law 76
Brazil Pledges To End Illegal Deforestation By 2028 89
Shiba Inu Passes Dogecoin as No. 10 Cryptocurrency 62
Squid Game Cryptocurrency Scammers Make Off With $2.1 Million 49
Stablecoins Are a Compelling Payment Option, But They Need To Be Regulated, Biden Administration Report Says 49
Biden Says US Will Meet Its Climate Goals, Urges Help for Developing Nations 142
India Will Reach Net-Zero Emissions by 2070, Modi Tells COP26 48
US Telecoms Are Going To Start Physically Removing Huawei Gear 59
'We Mapped Every Large Solar Plant on Earth Using Satellites and Machine Learning' 82
Is Carbon Capture Here? 188
Bitcoin White Paper's 13th Anniversary Celebrated with Decentralized Pizza (and Gilbert Gottfried) 72
US Copyright Office Broadens Exemptions for Repairing Consumer Devices 19
Richard Dawkins, Jimmy Wales - Unlike Facebook, No One Gets Special Treatment on Wikipedia 212
Why America is Experimenting With 'Postal Banking' 140
Scammers Are Creating Fake Students on Harvard.edu and Using Them to Shill Brands 18
'Ocean Cleanup' Successfully Removes 63,000 Pounds from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch 121
Why Aren't There More Open Source Solutions for Mobile Devices? 90
Did Trump's Truth Social Network Skirt US Securities Law? 158
Google Pays Fines to Russia for Failing to Delete Banned Content 23
The US Is Installing New Power- and Accuracy-Increasing Sensors on Its Nuclear Weapons 147
Linux Distros Beat Windows 11 in Phoronix Performance Testing 58
'A Mistake by YouTube Shows Its Power Over Media' 147
An NFT Just Sold for $532 Million, But Didn't Really Sell at All 81
The US Government Wants Signal's Private User Data That It Simply Doesn't Have 61
Mastodon Puts Trump's Social Network On Notice For Improperly Using Its Code 134
Ransomware Has Disrupted Almost 1,000 Schools In the US This Year 7
Billionaire Seeks To Build Largely Windowless Dorm In 'Social and Psychological Experiment' 136
GAO Recommends Reevaluation of Proposals for $10B NSA Cloud Contract 5
US Says It's Working With Taiwan To Secure Chip Supply Chain 55
Google Expands Skills Certificate Training 16
Endangered Birds Experience 'Virgin Birth,' a First for the Species 60
US Government Owes Over $100 Million For TSA's Patent Infringement 70
Global Covid Cases and Deaths Rise for the First Time in Two Months, WHO Says 184
US Climate Credibility on the Line as Biden Heads To COP26 173
Google Warns Customers About Antitrust Bills 42
Counting CO2 is Hard and Expensive, But Tech Firms Think They Have a Solution 61
Payments Company Stripe Is Kick Starting Market For Carbon Removal 23
France Moves To Shield Its Book Industry From Amazon 121
UK Reaches Highest COVID-19 Deaths Since March As New AY.4.2 Delta Sub-Variant Spreads 403
US Regulators Exploring How Banks Could Hold Crypto Assets 43
TikTok Tells US Lawmakers It Does Not Give Info To China 33
150 People Arrested in International Darknet Opioid Probe 30
Tech's Message To the Hill: We're Not Facebook 43
Biden Appoints Jessica Rosenworcel To Officially Lead the FCC 73
Greenhouse Gas Levels Hit a New High In 2020, Even With Pandemic Lockdowns 159
'Banning Anonymous Social Media Accounts Would Only Stifle Free Speech and Democracy' 152
Apple Very Likely to Face DOJ Antitrust Suit 36
Lambda School's Job-placement Rate May Be Far Worse Than Advertised 31
'Inside Microsoft's Open Source Program Office' 47
The Dirty Secret Behind China's Rising Emission Levels: Pollution from State-Run Companies 304
How Misinformation - and One Facebook Group - Threatened a Federal Investment in Montana 248
Trump's Truth App Bans Criticism of Itself - and Also 'Excessive Use of Capital Letters' 225
'Best Open Source Software of 2021' Identified by InfoWorld Listicle 58
Should the US Fund a 'National Cloud' for AI Research to Compete With China? 48
After Open Source Community Outcry, Microsoft Reverses Controversial .NET Change 56
$28B Startup Says Companies Were Refusing Their Free Open-Source Code as 'Not Enterprise-Ready' 49
Facebook Fined Record £50m By UK Competition Watchdog 15
Apple Updates App Store Guidelines To Permit Devs To Contact Customers About Other Payment Methods 8
Huawei, SMIC Suppliers Received Billions Worth of Licenses For US Goods 14
Bitcoin's Price Crashed 87% On Binance.US Thanks To a Bug 21
Leaked Email Allegedly Shows That Google Did Ask Roku For Special Treatment For YouTube 35
A Math Teacher is Putting Calculus Lessons on Pornhub 57
Intel Open-sources AI-powered Tool To Spot Bugs in Code 26
ISPs Want More Money Because So Many People Are Streaming Squid Game 127
Trump's TRUTH Social May Violate Terms of Open-Source Code It's Built On 254
Fed To Ban Policymakers From Owning Individual Stocks 68
Google Unmasks Two-year-old Phishing and Malware Campaign Targeting YouTube Users 19
Gov. Parson Doubles Down on Push To Prosecute Reporter Who Found Security Flaw in State Site 185
Roku Tells Customers it is Unable To Strike a Deal With YouTube 81
TV Prices Are the Highest They've Been In At Least Nine Years 87
Fossil Fuel Drilling Plans Undermine Climate Pledges, UN Report Warns 97
Raspberry Pi Suffers First Ever Price Increase 72
Giant Retailers Pledge To Leave Fossil-fueled Ships Behind 96
Eco-friendly, Lab-grown Coffee is On the Way, But It Comes With a Catch 67
Micron To Build $7 Billion Plant in Japan To Expand DRAM Production 29
New FCC Rules Could Force Wireless Carriers To Block Spam Texts 45
Boris Johnson Strikes Deal With Bill Gates To Boost Green Technology 64
How Much Dell Pays Engineers, Analysts and Salespeople 33
Homeopathy Doesn't Work. So Why Do So Many Germans Believe in It? 221
The FDA Wants You To Be Able To Buy a Hearing Aid Without a Prescription 76
99.9% of Scientists Agree Climate Emergency Caused by Humans 281
Give Us Your Biometric Data To Get Your Lunch In 5 Seconds, UK Schools Tell Children 121
SEC Says GameStop Stock Surge Due To Individual Investors, Doesn't Recommend Policy Change 39
Why a Bitcoin ETF On Futures Might Not Be Such a Good Idea 36
Credit Card PINs Can Be Guessed Even When Covering the ATM Pad 58
New York AG Orders Two Unregistered Crypto Lenders To Shut Down 26
A New Credit Card Arrives -- With a Silicon Valley Twist 124
£1M Inaugural 'Earthshot' Prize Recognizes Creative Solutions to Climate Problems 35
A Meteorite Crashed Through Somebody's Ceiling and Landed on Their Bed 197
International 'US Cyber Games' Competition Seeks Next Generation of Cybersecurity Experts 23
The Ups and Downs of Bitcoin's First Month in El Salvador 55
In New Sequel to 'The Circle', Dave Eggers Satirizes Algorithms Instead of Surveillance 29
Ransomware Summit Eyes Tighter Global Scrutiny for Crypto 22
American Bumblebees Have Disappeared From 8 States and Could Face Extinction 131
Bitcoin Tops $60,000, Rising 50% in 24 Days 103
Amazon's Ring Doorbell Can Violate Your Neighbor's Privacy, a UK Judge Rules 55
Jack Dorsey Says Square May Build Open-Source Bitcoin Mining System 31
Americans Perceive a Rise in Extreme Weather, Pew Finds 91
Peak Oil is Coming. That Won't Save the World 156
US Govt Reveals Three More Ransomware Attacks on Water Treatment Plants This Year 10
New Zealand Council Ends Contract With Wizard After Two Decades of Service 48
SEC Said To Allow Bitcoin Futures ETFs As Deadline Looms 28
Countries Are Gathering In an Effort To Stop a Biodiversity Collapse 70
PowerPC Fork of Firefox Reaches End of the Road 50
OpenBSD 7.0 Released 56
An Unprecedented Wave of Online Bank Fraud Is Hitting Britain 23
Canonical Releases Ubuntu Linux 21.10 Impish Indri 24
Biden Administration Plans For Massive Expansion of Wind Farms Off US Coasts 296
Aspirin Use To Prevent 1st Heart Attack or Stroke Should Be Curtailed, US Panel Says 87
US Overtakes China as Biggest Bitcoin Mining Hub After Beijing Ban 46
Best Buy's New $200/Yr Membership Locks PS5, Hot Holiday Items Behind Membership 50
Woman Allegedly Hacked Flight School, Cleared Planes With Maintenance Issues To Fly 67
Pentagon Says Hypersonic Weapons Are Too Expensive 95
A Record Number of Workers Are Quitting Their Jobs, Empowered by New Leverage 368
Credit-Card Firms Are Becoming Reluctant Regulators of the Web 97
Florida Judge Rules Section 230 Bars Defamation Claim Against the Wikimedia Foundation 72
Ex-minister Predicts 'Huge Battleground' Over UK's Plan To Set Internet Content Rules 46
California To Ban Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers and Mowers 374
Could Bitcoin Mining Really Provide Crucial Demand For Nuclear Power? 154
Should US Tax Collectors Get Reports From Banks About All Accounts Over $600? 190
Former Employees Allege Most of Ozy's 26M Newsletter Subscribers Were Purchased, Borrowed, or Kept Against Their Will 34
3 Degrees Warmer, with Twice as Many 100-Degree Days: How Climate Change Will Affect Texas 218
FSF Warns Windows 11 'Deprives Users of Freedom and Digital Autonomy' 121
Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes To Mozilla 139
White House Weighs Wide-Ranging Push For Crypto Oversight 50
136 Countries Agree To Minimum Corporate Tax Rate 76
Elon Musk's SpaceX Hits $100 Billion Valuation 59
Anyone Seen Tether's Billions? 79
The Ship That Became a Bomb 67
US Department of Justice Creates Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit 65
WSU Will Lead $125 Million Global Project To Find, Analyze Animal Viruses 34
Hackers of SolarWinds Stole Data On US Sanctions Policy, Intelligence Probes 12
Intel Not Considering UK Chip Factory After Brexit 283
Google and YouTube Will Cut Off Ad Money For Climate Change Deniers 248
Mnuchin Says Crypto Stablecoins 'Shouldn't Be Like Casino Chips' 55
Taiwan's TSMC, After US Request, Says It Won't Leak Sensitive Info 41
Firefox Now Shows Ads As Sponsored Address Bar Suggestions 140
Norway To Hit 100% Electric Vehicle Sales Early Next Year 234
Apple and Google Under Antitrust Scrutiny in Japan for Mobile OS 9
US To Tell Critical Rail, Air Companies To Report Hacks, Name Cyber Chiefs 23
A Controversial Autism Treatment Is About To Become a Very Big Business 141
Earth Is Getting Dimmer 40
US Presses Crypto Exchanges To Block Ransomware Profits 28
Cold Case Team Says It Has Identified the Zodiac Killer 45
Historic Go-ahead for Malaria Vaccine To Protect African Children 67
Russia Tells Its Space Reporters To Stop Reporting On the Space Program 54
Instagram Ditches the IGTV Brand, Combines Everything But Reels Into An 'Instagram Video' Format 9
UN Report Warns of Global Water Crisis Amid Climate Change 138
The Nation's Largest Public Library System Is Ending Late Fees Forever 135
Microsoft's .NET Foundation Under Fire As Resigning Board Member Questions Its Role 45
Ransomware Bill Would Give Victims 48 Hours To Report Payments 89
US Lawmakers Demand Facebook Probes; Whistleblower Says Children Harmed 100
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded To Scientists Whose Work Helps Predict Global Warming 103
FCC Plans To Rein In 'Gateway' Carriers That Bring Foreign Robocalls To US 63
Germany Unveils World's First Commercial Plant For Making Synthetic Kerosene 263
Bug Puts $162 Million Up For Grabs, Says Founder of DeFi Platform Compound 36
UK Plans To Invest 5 Billion Pounds In Retaliatory Cyberattacks 57
Ukrainian Cops Cuff Two Over $150 Million Ransomware Gang Allegations, Seize $1.3 Million In Cryptocurrency 8
Zuckerberg Loses $6 Billion In Hours As Facebook Plunges 98
Oracle Appeal Over JEDI Contract Turned Away by Supreme Court 14
McKinsey Never Told the FDA It Was Working for Opioid Makers While Also Working for the Agency 34
The World Wants Greenland's Minerals, but Greenlanders Are Wary 73
The Surprising Downsides To Planting Trillions of Trees 115
Call Center-Pranking 'Scambaiters' Amass Millions of Fans on Social Media 85
New Zealand Might Launch Its Own Digital Currency 36
Facebook Whistleblower Speaks, Shares Documents on Deliberate Lies and Disregard of Misinformation, Contacts US Regulators 151
Gas-Powered Leaf Blowers: the Most Polluting Machinery Still in Legal Use 362
FSF Announces 'JShelter' Browser Privacy Extension to Block Fingerprinting, Tracking, and Malware 40

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