News Stories for 2022

Other Software Projects Are Now Trying to Replicate ChatGPT 20
Systemd's Growth Over 2022 236
Suddenly Everyone Is Hunting for Alternatives To the US Dollar 221
Tim Wu, Architect of Biden Antitrust Push, To Leave White House 20
NYC Could Lose 10,000 Airbnb Listings Because of New Short-Term Rental Law 114
Suit Accusing YouTube of Tracking Children Is Back On After Appeal 11
Britain's Renewable Power Hits New Peak, Fossil Fuel Also Rises 112
Department of Homeland Security Can't Even Secure Its Buildings Against People It Fired 49
New York Breaks the Right To Repair Bill as It's Signed Into Law 78
Group Shaping US Nutrition Receives Millions from Big Food Industry 33
FTX Diverted $200 Million of Customer Money For Two Venture Deals, SEC Says 26
Solana Founders Scramble To Move Past FTX's Stain on Their Token 36
Toronto-Waterloo Tech Workforce Expected To Surpass Silicon Valley In 2023 61
The Rise and Bigger Rise of Mediterranean Sea Levels 17
US To Require COVID Tests For Travelers Coming From China 85
Misleading Ads Fueled Rapid Growth of Online Mental Health Companies 50
US Charges Fraud in Mango Crypto Manipulation Case 6
Police, Prosecutors Used Junk Science To Decide 911 Callers Were Liars 95
US House Administration Arm Bans TikTok on Official Devices 23
A Startup Is Releasing Particles Into the Atmosphere To Tweak the Climate 147
Southwest Canceled 5,400 Flights In Less Than 48 Hours 50
Amazon Packages Burn in India, Final Stop in Broken Recycling System 56
Hackers Stole Data From Multiple Electric Utilities in Recent Ransomware Attack 16
US Copyright Office Finds 'Deep Disagreement' on Anti-Piracy Measures 63
Americans Duped Into Losing $10 Billion By Illegal Indian Call Centres in 2022 159
Big Nonprofit Hospitals Expand in Wealthier Areas, Shun Poorer Ones 216
Washington State Power-Station Attacks Are Latest Assault on Grid 116
FCC Can Finally Hammer Predatory Prison Phone Call Companies 89
How Kindle Novelists Are Using ChatGPT's AI 65
Mozilla Just Fixed an 18-Year-Old Firefox Bug 61
Did YouTube Pay Too Much to Broadcast Sunday Football Games? 45
Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 Launches Fund to Invest in Open Metaverse Projects 25
TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists 59
FSF Warns: Stay Away From iPhones, Amazon, Netflix, and Music Steaming Services 199
Google's Quest for Clean Energy Impeded by Small-but-Dominant Utilities in Some US States 53
Rust-GPU Project Now Supports SPIR-V Ray-tracing 17
Linux Foundation's 'AgStack Project' Plans First Dataset of the World's Agricultural Field Boundaries 19
TikTok Banned on Government Devices Under Spending Bill Passed by Congress 52
'Classifying Aging as a Disease Could Speed FDA Drug Approvals' 125
IRS Delays Gig-Tax Filing Rule for Side Hustles of More Than $600 125
EPA Tightens Rules on Pollution From Vans, Buses and Trucks 63
No Free PACER as US Lawmakers Exclude Proposal from Spending Bill 27
Friday Flight Cancellations Top 3,500, Disrupting Holiday Travel 39
A Modest Robot Levy Could Help Combat Effects of Automation On Income Inequality In US, Study Suggests 187
Some Universities Are Now Restricting TikTok Access on Campus 36
FTX Founder Bankman-Fried To Be Released on a $250 Million Bond Package While He Awaits Trial 46
Google is Making Its Internal Video-Blurring Privacy Tool Open Source 5
Chris Inglis, Biden's Top Cyber Adviser, Plans To Leave Government 27
SEC Heightening Scrutiny of Auditors' Crypto Work 19
OpenAI Releases Point-E, an AI For 3D Modeling 12
New IRS Rules Could Affect Venmo, Zelle and CashApp Users 183
Sam Bankman-Fried's Extradition Approved by Judge 27
Digital Dollar Is a Long Way From Reality, US Treasury Official Says 39
Two Men Accused of Hacking Into JFK Airport Cab Dispatch System 21
USPS Expects To Only Buy Electric Delivery Vehicles Starting in 2026 183
Congress Blew Its Last Chance To Curb Big Tech's Power 46
Bitcoin Addresses Tied To Defunct Canadian Crypto Exchange QuadrigaCX Wake Up 42
EU Agrees To the World's Largest Carbon Border Tax 97
Tumblr Is Launching a Livestreaming Feature 8
UK Govt: Netflix Password Sharing Is Illegal and Potentially Criminal Fraud 70
Sam Bankman-Fried Agrees To US Extradition 37
Scientists Freeze Great Barrier Reef Coral in World-First Trial 16
IRS Accidentally Releases 112,000 Taxpayers' Private Data Again 45
Epic Games, Maker of 'Fortnite,' To Pay $520 Million To Resolve FTC Allegations 24
Nations Promise To Protect 30% of Planet To Stem Extinction 31
US Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Says 'Maybe' to Banning Cryptocurrency 88
Op-Ed Argues 'Put Down the Burger' to Protect Earth's Biodiversity 234
Researchers Propose New Structures To Harvest Untapped Source of Freshwater 85
For the First Time Hundreds of Amazon Workers Will Go On Formal Strike in the UK 23
America's Workplace Safety Agency Announces Ongoing Investigations at Six Amazon Warehouses 26
How Scammers Took a Winnipeg Town For $430K Using Bitcoin 37
Xfce 4.18 Is Released 32
America Now Requires Drone Manufacturers to Include 'Remote ID' Transmitting 186
Amazon's Internal Study of Its Culture in 2021 Found 'Stress, Burnout, Churn' 54
As GitHub Retires 'Atom', Open Source 'Pulsar' Continues Its Legacy 24
Linux Foundation Announces an Open Map Project and 'Open Metaverse Foundation' 32
Senator Wyden Urges FTC Probe of Neustar Over Possible Selling of User Data to Government 25
PineTab 2 Is Another Try At a Linux-Based Tablet, Without the 2020 Supply Crunch 36
World's Largest Freestanding Cylindrical Aquarium Bursts In Berlin 64
Amazon's Plastic Waste Soared in 2021, Report Finds 25
Tech Groups Ask Supreme Court To Review Texas Social Media Law 115
A Stealth Effort To Bury Wood For Carbon Removal Has Just Raised Millions 144
'Germany's Half-a-Trillion Dollar Energy Bazooka May Not Be Enough' 322
Oregon Conifers Suffer Record Die-Off As Climate Crisis Hits Hard 116
Cambridge Student Solves 2,500-Year-Old Sanskrit Problem 70
Prosecutors Charge 6 People for Allegedly Waging Massive DDoS Attacks 16
New York Financial Regulator Issues Cryptocurrency Guidance for Banks 4
Senate Passes Legislation To Ban TikTok From US Government Devices 50
US Blacklists More Chinese Tech Companies 66
Rules On Liquids and Laptops To Be Eased At UK Airports From June 2024 80
NASA To Conduct First Global Water Survey From Space 6
US Is Seizing 48 Websites In Sting of Cyberattack-For-Hire Services 13
You Can Hook Your MIDI Keyboard Up To a Website With Firefox 108 79
YouTube Moderation Bots Will Start Issuing Warnings, 24-Hour Bans 59
Indonesia's New Criminal Code Bans Online Insults of the President 74
Z-Wave Alliance Says Z-Wave Source Code Project Is Complete, Now Open And Widely Available To Members 51
US Senators Warren, Marshall Introduce Digital Assets Anti-Money Laundering Bill 68
Bookforum Is Closing, Leaving Ever Fewer Publications Devoted To Books 21
Ask Slashdot: What Should Mozilla Do To Boost Firefox's Market Share? 407
Secret Software Change Allowed FTX To Use Client Money 62
UC Berkeley Launches SkyPilot To Help Navigate Soaring Cloud Costs 22
EU Advances Its Data-Flow Deal After US Makes Surveillance Changes 24
Scientists Achieve Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough With Blast of 192 Lasers 162
Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Seek To Ban TikTok From the US 122
CFTC Sues Bankman-Fried, FTX and Alameda for Law Violations 24
Rise of Open-Source Intelligence Tests US Spies 32
SEC Charges Sam Bankman-Fried With Defrauding Investors in FTX 98
US Air Force Launches First Operational Hypersonic Missile 102
Only a Quarter of US iPhones Are Sold Through Apple 31
Alameda Research Borrowed FTX Customer Funds Without Limits 26
UK Arrests Five For Selling 'Dodgy' Point of Sale Software 23
How Skyglow Pollution Is Separating Us From the Stars 46
Fossil Fuel Recruiters Banned From Three More UK Universities 174
US Justice Dept Split Over Charging Binance as Crypto World Falters 41
WSJ: Europe, US Need Grand Bargain on Chips and EVs to Counter China 61
Sam Bankman-Fried: I Hope to Make Money to Pay People Back 134
'The 10 Most Promising Breakthrough Innovations of 2022' 60
US Lawmakers Accuses Big Oil of a Long-Running Climate Disinformation Campaign 104
Inside the Frantic Texts Exchanged by Crypto Executives as FTX Collapsed 36
Eight US Power Stations Have Been Attacked Since Mid-November 201
To Pursue Climate Goals, JetBlue Switches from Carbon Offsets to Sustainable Aviation Fuels 41
UK To Consult On Central Bank Digital Currency In Coming Weeks 39
Saudi Arabia's Sci-Fi Megacity Is Well Underway 99
FCC Orders Telecoms To Block Scammers Targeting Student Loan Forgiveness Seekers 20
Crypto Exchange Coinbase Asks Users To Switch USDT for USDC 46
Colgate's 9 Billion Toothpaste Tubes Defy Effort To Recycle Them 76
Spyware Hacks of Federal Workers Could Run Into Hundreds, Lawmaker Says 10
SEC Issues New Guidance Requiring Companies To Disclose Cryptocurrency Risks 8
Class-Action Alleging Fortnite Is Addictive Will Go Ahead, Judge Rules 144
MPs and Peers Do Worse Than 10-Year-Olds in Maths and English Sats 108
South Korea To Move To Standardized, Internationally Recognized Age System 81
FTC Sues Microsoft To Block $69 Billion Activision Blizzard Acquisition 43
BlackRock Says Get Ready For a Recession Unlike Any Other 237
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Is Said To Face Market Manipulation Inquiry 23
Reverse Nature's Decline or There is No Future, UN Says 120
Pacific Island Nation of Vanuatu Has Been Knocked Offline For More Than a Month 27
UK Approves First Coal Mine In 30 Years 151
A New Global Plastics Treaty Is Coming For Your Bags and Bottles 166
Supercomputer Re-Creates One of the Most Famous Pictures of Earth 18
Amazon Joins Open Invention Network 4
Nigeria Limits ATM Cash Withdrawals To Encourage Digital Financial Transactions 50
GOP-Led States Ban TikTok On Government Devices 84
San Francisco Halts 'Killer Robots' Police Policy Following Backlash 106
Canada's Biggest Pension Fund Ends Crypto Investment Pursuit 53
Amazon Sued by District of Columbia for 'Stealing' Delivery Driver Tips 126
US To Spend $1.5 Billion To Jumpstart Alternatives To Huawei 48
Real-ID Requirement Pushed Back To 2025 145
New Winamp Update Adds Features, Fixes, and (Sigh) Support For 'Music NFTs' 47
Apple Loosens Grip On App Store Pricing With 700 New Price Points 24
Meta Threatens To Pull News From Facebook If Congress Passes Media Bill 161
Microsoft-Backed Start-Up Heirloom Uses Limestone To Capture CO2 114
Company 'Hijacks' Blender's CC BY-Licensed Film, YouTube Strikes User 74
Chinese Hackers Stole Millions Worth of US COVID Relief Money, Secret Service Says 28
FBI Joins Investigation Into North Carolina Power Outage Caused By 'Intentional' Attacks on Substations 235
As the Arctic Warms, Beavers Are Moving In 65
Meet DTV's Successor: NextGen TV 135
Over 50 Programmers Generate 50,000-Word Novels For 9th Annual 'Nanogenmo' Event 12
Senator Urges Automakers to Keep Making Cars with AM Radio 320
Should CS Be Required for a High School Degree? 197
California City Discovers It Doesn't Actually Know Where 60% of Its Recycling Goes 92
Stanford Investigates Its President Over Allegations of Past Research Misconduct 22
Graduate Students Analyze, Crack, and Remove Under-Desk Surveillance Devices 86
What is ChatGPT, the AI Chatbot That's Taking The Internet By Storm 82
What Happened After Matt Taibbi Revealed Twitter's Deliberations on Hunter Biden Tweets? 377
America's TSA Begins Quietly Testing Facial Recognition Tech at 16 Airports 87
FTX Subsidiary Plans Restarting Withdrawals in Japan, as US Requests Review of Fraud Allegations 17
2022's 'Earthshot Prizes' Recognize Five Innovative Responses to Climate Change 32
Prime Video Replaces Netflix As No. 1 Streaming Service In US 47
Australia Says Law Making Facebook and Google Pay For News Has Worked 13
Edward Snowden Receives Russian Passport 111
DHS Board Starts Investigating Lapsus$ Teen Hacker Group 9
US Army Planned To Pay Streamers Millions To Reach Gen-Z Through Call of Duty 85
Pentagon Debuts Its New Stealth Bomber, the B-21 Raider 108
Apple Blocks Coinbase Wallet App From Sending NFTs Because of In-App Purchase Dispute 32
Just 22% of Techies in UK Aged 50 or Older, Says Chartered Institute For IT 105
Chrome, Defender and Firefox 0-days Linked To Commercial IT firm in Spain 13
EU Unveils Plans To Cut Europe's Plastic and Packaging Waste 29
Judge Approves Apple's Massive MacBook Keyboard Lawsuit Payout 21
Google Stadia Hardware Refunds Will Be Issued Within Two Weeks 11
US Cable TV Companies Quietly Bled Another 785,000 Paying Customers Last Quarter 104
UK Internet Watchdog Increasingly Led by Ex-Big Tech Executives 18
Remittances Grow 5% in 2022, Despite Global Headwinds 22
San Francisco Supervisors Vote To Allow Police To Use Robots To Kill 129
Jiang Zemin, Leader Who Guided China Into Global Market, Dies at 96 49
UK Waters Down Internet Rules Plan After Free Speech Outcry 36
India To Start Pilot of Retail Digital Currency on Dec 1 11
UK Ditches Ban On 'Legal But Harmful' Online Content In Favor of Free Speech 80
Media Groups Urge US To Drop Julian Assange Charges 100
Comcast's Sneaky Broadcast TV Fee Hits $27, Making a Mockery of Advertised Rates 96
Mauna Loa Volcano In Hawaii Erupts For the First Time In Nearly 40 Years 22
A Hundred UK Companies Sign Up For Four-day Week With No Loss of Pay 46
Cheeky New Book Identifies 26 Lines of Code That Changed the World 48
US Goverment Investigating Real-Estate Tech Company Accused of Helping Landlords Collude 132
'How Washington Chased Huawei Out of Europe' 102
Meta Claims US Military Linked to Online Propaganda Campaign 74
Free Software Foundation Publishes Its 2022 'Ethical Tech Giving Guide' 16
'Partner-Swapping, Pills...' NY Post Investigates Sam Bankman-Fried's 'FTX Party House' 56
The US Bans Huawei, ZTE Telecommunications Equipment Sales Over Chinese Spying Fears 74
UK Bans Chinese Surveillance Gear From Sensitive State Premises 10
UK To Criminalize Deepfake Porn Sharing Without Consent 116
Amazon To Shut Down Its Online Learning Platform in India 9
Senators Alarmed Over Potential Chinese Drone Spy Threat 64
US Authorities Seize iSpoof, a Call Spoofing Site That Stole Millions 38
Harvard Paper To Central Banks: Buy Bitcoin 110
Storms Can Cause Landslides Days Later, Scientists Find 12
US Renewable Energy Will Surge Past Coal and Nuclear by Year's End 115
Congressmembers Tried to Stop the SEC's Inquiry Into FTX 147
Mercedes Locks Faster Acceleration Behind a $1,200 Annual Paywall 249
Zoom Shares Plunge 90% From Peak As Pandemic Boom Fades 75
AI-Assisted Coding Start-Up Kite Is Saying Farewell and Open-Sourcing Its Code 32
Tokyo Residents Urged To Wear Turtlenecks To Save on Energy Bills 61
France Says No To Office 365 and Google Workspace in School 56
UK Confirms Antitrust Probe Into Android-iOS 'Mobile Duopoly' 36
Christie's Cancels T Rex Skeleton Auction After Doubts Raised 45
Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users' Financial Information To Facebook 48
US Grants $1.1 Billion To Keep Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant Open 133
Did Sam Bankman-Fried's Millions Buy the Media's Loyalty? 77
Z-Library Responds to US Crackdown, Asks Authors for Forgiveness 24
ID.me Lied About Its Facial Recognition Tech, Congress Says 18
AMD Finally Opens Up Its Radeon Raytracing Analyzer 'RRA' Source Code 4
TSMC To Bring Its Most Advanced Chip Manufacturing To Arizona 63
Broadcom's Proposed $61 Billion VMware Acquisition Scrutinized by UK Regulators 11
The Red Sea's Coral Reefs Defy the Climate-Change Odds 18
US Government Begins Researching 'Climate Intervention' Geoengineering 78
FTX Owes Nearly $3.1 Billion to Top 50 of Its 1M Creditors. Celebrity Endorsers Sued 111
Debate at COP27: Nuclear Energy, Climate Friend or Foe? 273
Authors Offer Free Downloads for New Second Edition of 'Designing with LibreOffice' Book 36
Hard Science Fiction Master Greg Bear Dies at Age 71 41
Will FTX's Collapse Strand Scientists? 82
Microsoft, Meta and Others Face Rising Drought Risk to Their Data Centers 69
Facebook's Fact-checkers Will Stop Checking Trump After Announcement of Presidential Bid 297
Chinese Takeover of UK's Largest Chip Plant Blocked on National Security Grounds 45
Do Screens Before Bedtime Actually Improve Your Sleep? 45
The Creator of Homebrew's Plan To Get Open Source Contributors Paid - Using Blockchain 44
Bill Gates Pledges 5% of His Wealth to Africa's Health and Agriculture 73
Trump Posted Classified Satellite Imagery On Twitter As President 342
Earth Now Weighs Six Ronnagrams: New Metric Prefixes Voted In 81
China Tops US To Take Research Crown At Global Chip Conference 30
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Cashed Out $300 Million During Funding Spree 33
Justice Department Said To Investigate Ticketmaster's Parent Company 63
The Surprising Afterlife of Unwanted Atom Bombs 122
Fred Brooks Has Died 56
Feds Arrest Russians Accused of Running the Largest Pirated E-Book Library 73
Lab-Grown Meat is OK For Human Consumption, FDA Says 142
Scientists Are Uncovering Ominous Waters Under Antarctic Ice 37
Record Number of Parents Miss Work as Respiratory Illnesses Spike in Kids 101
Mozilla Looks To Its Next Chapter 111
Thanks To Open Source, 5G Cracks 50% of the Telecom Market 25
Iranian Hackers Breached Federal Agency Using Log4Shell Exploit 27
Netflix Gives Account Holders the Ability To Kick Freeloaders 30

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