News Stories for 2022

US House Committee To Hold Hearing on FTX Collapse and Crypto Fall Out 75
FBI is 'Extremely Concerned' about China's Influence Through TikTok on US Users 97
MrBeast Overtakes PewDiePie as Most-Subscribed YouTuber 55
US Fines Airlines More Than $7 Million for Not Providing Refunds 29
World Population Reaches 8 Billion 119
FTX Owes Money To More Than a Million People, Court Filing Suggests 91
Everyone Is Bullying the UK Government In Its Own Discord Server 46
Protocol, the Tech-News Focused Website, Will Shutter and Lay Off Its Entire Staff 30
LF Europe's Project Sylva Wants To Create an Open Source Telco Cloud Stack 7
Mystery of BBC Radio's First Broadcasts Revealed 100 Years On 13
YouTube Expands Shopping Features Following Digital Advertising Slowdown 28
Banking Giants and New York Fed Start 12-week Digital Dollar Pilot 57
A New Website Backed By Al Gore Tracks Big Polluters By Name 150
Paris Overtakes London As Europe's Largest Stock Market 110
Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms 6
Google Agrees To $392 Million Privacy Settlement With 40 States 31
India Wants 'Phase Down' on All Fossil Fuels at COP27 46
Jeff Bezos Says He Will Give Away Most of His Fortune 206
India Lifts Download Ban On VLC 11
Scientists Manufacture Material in a Lab That Doesn't Exist on Earth 62
US Funds $3M Research Project Into Lithium-Free Rechargeable Battery Technology 87
Crypto.com Sent $400M to the Wrong Recipient. Then Got It Back 32
Survey of 26K Developers Finds Java, Python, Kotlin, and Rust Growing Rapidly 67
Douglas Adams was Right. Science Journal Proves 42 Is the Address of the Universe 98
The Climate Issue Government Leaders Aren't Addressing: Livestock Farming 445
Survey Reveals the Most-Regretted (and Least-Regretted) College Majors 140
'Three-Body Problem' Animation Sci-Fi Series Starts Next Month 46
How Close Was America's FBI to Deploying Pegasus Spyware? 47
US Will Regulate Methane Leaks from Oil and Gas to Fight Climate Change 127
Reuters Reports $1B of Client Funds Missing at FTX 61
UN Initiative Will Use Satellites To Detect Methane Emission Hotspots 24
Carbon Dioxide Emissions Increased in 2022 as Crises Roiled Energy Markets 64
FTC Restores Rigorous Enforcement of Law Banning Unfair Methods of Competition 46
Why Correspondence Chess Is Still Popular Among Elite Players 28
US Launches Carbon Offset Program To Help Developing Countries Speed Clean Energy Transition 59
Sea Turtle Sanctuary Has Survived 40 Years. Climate Change May Kill It. 14
In France, All Large Parking Lots Now Have To Be Covered By Solar Panels 288
US Probes FTX Empire Over Handling of Client Funds and Lending 8
FIFA Hopes World Cup Fans Want To Buy Metaverse Merch 43
Mexico To Raise Climate Emissions Target For First Time Since 2016 23
Psychedelic Drug Research Held Back By UK Rules and Attitudes, Say Scientists 34
Sam Bankman-Fried's Net Worth Fell 93% In 1 Day, Loses Billionaire Status 37
Disney+ Reaches 164.2 Million Subscribers, Prepares For Ad-Supported Tier Launch 30
America's Slow-Moving, Confused Crypto Regulation Is Driving Industry Out of US 74
California Voters Weigh New Tax On Rich To Boost EV Adoption 133
Sony To Begin Plastic Packaging Phase-out Next Year 35
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Denied Bid for New Trial 64
Rate of Sea Level Rise 'Has Doubled Since 1993,' Report Finds 116
Airbnb Will Soon Let You Search By Total Price To Avoid Hidden Cleaning Fees 65
Michael Bloomberg Announces a New Initiative To Phase Out Coal in 25 Countries 40
Chinese Chip Designers Slow Down Processors To Dodge US Sanctions 55
Bar-tailed Godwit Sets World Record With 13,560km Continuous Flight 29
Fast Fashion Waste Is Choking Developing Countries With Mountains of Trash 79
Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Back Yard 21
We're On a Highway To Climate Hell, UN Boss Says 275
US Attorney Announces $3.36 Billion Crypto Seizure And Conviction In Connection With Silk Road Dark Web Fraud 58
New York City Finally Proposes Strict New Regulations for Airbnb Rentals 137
'The Disturbing Rise of Amateur Predator-Hunting Stings' 228
The Equipment Designed to Cut Methane Emissions is Failing 46
Why Hasn't the US Ended Daylight Saving Time? 290
Domains for Z-Library eBook Site Apparently Seized By US Department of Justice 63
$80M Fund Backs OrangeDAO's Revolutionary Plan to Mentor and Invest in Web3 Enterpreneurs 25
Apple Kills Fan's Long-Time Archive of WWDC Videos on YouTube 74
US May Soon Push Ambitious Antitrust Crackdown on Big Tech in Congress 44
Unpaid Volunteers At CyanogenMod Successor LineageOS Maintain Builds For Old Android Devices 17
Microsoft's GitHub Copilot Sued Over 'Software Piracy on an Unprecedented Scale' 97
British Government Is Scanning All Internet Devices Hosted In UK 34
Supreme Court To Consider Overseas Reach of US Trademark Law 46
US Govt Employees Exposed To Mobile Attacks From Outdated Android, iOS 18
Virgin Galactic Delays Development of Ship Capable of Higher Flight Rate 26
UK Parliament Group Starts NFT Inquiry as Crypto Scrutiny Grows 13
Latest US Defense-Intelligence Report on UFOs To Be Made Public Soon 58
Europe Warming Twice As Fast As Rest of the World, New Report Reveals 161
New Hampshire Set To Pilot Voting Machines That Use Open-Source Software 111
Vonage Will Pay $100 Million to Settle FTC Allegations of Trapping Consumers in Subscriptions 23
Delhi's Air a 'Crime Against Humanity' 67
Toxic Cleanup Technique Can Get More Rare Earth Metals Out of Ores 5
The Godot Game Engine Now Has Its Own Foundation 19
Wharton, Berkeley, NYU Offering Online MBAs For the First Time 22
US Pushes Japan and Other Allies To Join China Chip Curbs 58
New Hot Job: State High-Speed Internet Network Director 7
Judge Blocks Penguin Random House-Simon and Schuster Merger 58
Eric Schmidt Warns US Technology Edge Over China Slipping 96
Microsoft President Wants More Training for Workers To Fight Climate Change 34
CVS, Walgreens To Pay More Than $10 Billion To Settle Opioid Lawsuits 55
Work-From-Home Trend May Have Peaked In UK, LinkedIn Survey Finds 35
Air Force One Deal Has Cost Boeing Another $766 Million 138
US Banks Spent $1 Billion on Ransomware Payments in 2021, Treasury Says 18
FCC Commissioner Says Government Should Ban TikTok 80
UK Regulator Ofcom Sounds Death Knell of the Fax Machine 81
Leaked Documents Outline DHS's Plans To Police Disinformation 329
New York Could Become First State With a 'Right To Repair' Law for Electronic Devices 24
US Workers Have Gotten Way Less Productive 211
TuSimple Fires Its CEO Xiaodi Hou Amid Probe 9
FTC Accuses Ed Tech Firm Chegg of 'Careless' Data Security 20
White House Invites Dozens of Nations for Ransomware Summit 21
Can Technology Help Us Talk to Animals? 50
Can Talking to Strangers Make Us Smarter? 72
The World Is Running Out of Helium. Why Doctors are Worried 130
Space Station Astronauts Spot the World's Largest Methane Polluters 41
An Investigation of CS Instructor Obstacles, Workarounds, and Desires 36
Dogecoin Surges 70% After Elon Musk's Twitter Deal 80
Vanilla OS: More Than Just Vanilla GNOME With Ubuntu 39
As Governments Miss Climate Goals, Drought is Already Devastating Parts of Africa 165
Pranksters Posing as Laid-Off Twitter Employees Trick Media Outlets 123
Rural Areas To Get $759 Million in Grants for High-Speed Internet 72
US Embassies May Have Accidentally Improved Air Quality 26
Lego To Discontinue Mindstorms Robot Line After a 24-Year Run 43
Many Military UFO Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash 52
Americans Eye European Colleges To Save Money On Tuition 168
Mexico Scraps Daylight Savings Time Except Along Border 37
Europe Now Has So Much Natural Gas That Prices Just Dipped Below Zero 183
UN Warns Key Warming Threshold Slipping From Sight 142
Swarming Bees May Potentially Change the Weather 36
Google Agrees To Compliance Reforms in DOJ Settlement 9
EPA Awarding Nearly $1 Billion To Schools For Electric Buses 163
Saudi Arabia Pushes Ahead With Its Sci-fi City Vision 87
Atmospheric Levels of All Three Greenhouse Gases Hit Record High 143
Andreessen Horowitz Went All In on Crypto at the Worst Possible Time 41
Rishi Sunak Is the First Crypto Enthusiast To Serve In UK's Top Office 37
The Largest Electric School Bus Fleet In the US Launches In Maryland 70
Singapore Lowers 2030 Emissions Forecast, To Boost Hydrogen 50
UK Lawmakers Vote To Recognize Crypto as Regulated Financial Instruments 23
US Public's Trust in Science Shows Growing Partisan Gap 219
Purdue University Races To Expand Semiconductor Education To Fill Yawning Workforce Gap That Threatens Reshoring Effort 56
Bumble Open Sourced Its AI That Detects Unsolicited Nudes 49
Plastic Recycling a 'Failed Concept,' Study Says 207
Math Scores Fell In Nearly Every State, Reading Dipped On National Exam 196
FTC Brings Action Against CEO of Alcohol Delivery Company Over Data Breach 7
Freeway, Crypto Platform That Promised 43% Returns, Halts Withdrawals 42
Rishi Sunak To Be UK's Next Prime Minister 173
Facebook Warns It Could Block News in Canada Over Proposed Legislation 93
Report that Indian Official Tampers With Instagram Posts Retracted By 'The Wire' 9
Bill Gates' Climate-Oriented Venture Fund Will Now Also Invest in Climate Adaptation 40
Plans to Ban Solar Energy on England's Farmland Criticized by Landowners 193
Zeek Becoming Part of Microsoft Windows 21
Europe's Most Valuable Tech Company Tries To Avoid the Chip War 77
France Becomes Latest Country To Leave Controversial Energy Charter Treaty 50
Company That Makes Rent-Setting Software For Apartments Accused of Collusion, Lawsuit Says 116
Google Announces GUAC Open-Source Project On Software Supply Chains 2
US Eyes Expanding China Tech Ban To Quantum Computing and AI 47
The $1 Million Amazon Conflict: Washington's Ethics Czars Struggle To Enforce Stock-Trading Laws 26
Canonical Releases Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu 27
YouTube's Latest Revenue Grab: A 27% Price Increase For Family Plans 58
UK Regulator Proposes Easing Net Neutrality Rules Following Brexit 54
US To Launch 'Labeling' Rating Program For Internet-Connected Devices In 2023 36
OpenBSD 7.2 Released 21
Texas Sues Google for Allegedly Capturing Biometric Data of Millions Without Consent 38
Liz Truss Says She Will Resign as UK Prime Minister 271
TikTok Deal Likely To Leave US Data Leaking To China 31
Crustacean Decimation Due To Climate-Change-Driven Cannibalization 161
AT&T Hit With $23 Million Fine For Bribing Illinois Lawmaker 48
Firefox 106 Is Now Available With PDF Annotation, Firefox View 35
Former Celsius Exec Joins JPMorgan As Director of Crypto Regulatory Policy 9
Uber Now Delivers Cannabis in Canada, Says It's First Time a Major Third-Party Platform Is Able To Do So 51
The US Just Lost 26 Years' Worth of Progress On Life Expectancy 280
Ubuntu's New Terminal 'Ad' is Angering Users 106
FTC Wants To Add Right To Repair To Existing Energy Saving Rules 34
20 Nations At High Risk From Global Warming Might Halt Debt Payments 155
Fintech Giant 'The Clearing House' Joins Open-Source Patent Protection Powerhouse OIN 6
UK Holds Talks on How To Avoid Blackouts at Major Data Centers 54
Visa, Mastercard Draw New Government Scrutiny Over Debit-Card Routing 7
Zimbabwe's Currency Crackdown Spurs Wider Use of US Dollars 17
96 File Legal Action Demanding Coinbase Reimburse $21M Lost to Crypto Scammers 30
New Specialized Career Certifications Created by 'Grow with Google' Through University-Industry Partnerships 27
US Officials are Discussing How to Regulate Cryptocurrencies and Stablecoins 57
Also Joining a Silicon Valley Union: Waymo's Food Service Employees 89
Pine64 Announces 'Sub-$10, Linux-Capable' SBC - the Ox64 90
$3 Billion In Cryptocurrency Stolen This Year. So Far. 59
Is a 'Software Engineer' An Engineer? Alberta Regulator Says No, Riling the Province's Tech Sector 258
Apple Is Adding a Savings Account To Apple Card 19
FDA Officially Declares a Shortage of Adderall 66
Alaska Cancels Snow Crab Season As Estimated 1 Billion Crabs Disappear 62
Animal Populations Shrunk an Average of 69% Over the Last Half-Century, Report Says 29
Biden's Internet Promises in Limbo Amid Long Battle Over FCC Nominee 27
White House is Pushing Ahead Research To Cool Earth By Reflecting Back Sunlight 104
New Turkey Law Mandates Jail Time for Spreading 'Disinformation' 100
Google Starts Real-World Testing Its Giant Video Chat Booths 20
Firefox's New Service Gives You a Burner Phone Number To Cut Down on Spam 31
Greenland Ice Sheet May Be More Vulnerable To Climate Change, Study Finds 22
Inflation Sits at 8.2% as Core Prices Hit Four-Decade High 273
TikTok Chases Amazon With Plans For US Fulfillment Centers 30
GM Created a New Energy Business To Sell Batteries, Solar Panels 17
CNN Accused of Rug Pull as It Abandons Its NFT Project 30
Damien Hirst Just Burned 1,000 of His Paintings and Will Soon Burn Thousands More 113
Federal Officials Trade Stock in Companies Their Agencies Oversee 52
YouTube Is Introducing Handles, With Unique Human-Readable URLs For Every Channel 17
SEC Investigating Bored Ape Creator Yuga Labs Over Securities Violations 15
New Zealand Angers Its Farmers By Proposing Taxing Cow Burps 179
Google Selects Coinbase To Take Cloud Payments With Cryptocurrencies and Will Use Its Custody Tool 11
Biden Proposal Could Lead To Employee Status for Gig Workers 169
Hollywood and Netflix Report Top Piracy Threats To US Government 103
Crypto and Payments Firm MobileCoin Launches Stablecoin -- 'Electronic Dollars' 29
Russian-Speaking Hackers Knock Multiple US Airport Websites Offline 41
A Minecraft Player Set Out To Build the Known Universe, Block by Block 29
Farmers in Bangladesh Pump So Much Water It May Help Reduce Floods 25
Nations Agree To Curb Emissions From Flying by 2050 58
California Passes Law Banning Single-Use Plastic Grocery Bags by 2025 201
United Airlines Hopes to Use Electric Planes for Flights Under 200 Miles By 2030 108
Pro-Russian 'Hacktivists' Temporarily Disrupted Some US State Government Web Sites 20
YouTube, Spotify Remove QAnon Anthem After Original Composer Asserts Copyright 72
Canonical Launches New Free Tier for Its Security-Focused 'Ubuntu Pro' 46
Mastercard Introduces New Tool Helping Banks Block Fraud-Prone Crypto Exchanges 20
Are Single-Use Plastics Also Contributing to Climate Change? 143
Why Hurricane Ian Killed So Many People 174
UK Grid Operator: Plan For Three-Hour Power Blackouts In Event of Gas Shortages 110
William Shatner: My Trip To Space Filled Me With 'Overwhelming Sadness' 91
Decentralized Finance Pioneer, Set Up To Challenge Legacy Banking System, Moving $500 Million Into US Treasuries and Corporate Bonds 13
Biden Order Brings New Transatlantic Data Pact Ever Closer 22
The Biden Administration Issues Sweeping New Rules on Chip-Tech Exports To China 90
Michigan is Becoming the Center of US Battery Manufacturing 41
Americans Are Less Likely To Cancel Amazon Prime, Netflix Than Cut Spending On Food 157
Bloomberg: Investment In Renewable Energy Needs To Quadruple By 2030 102
Climate Change Made This Summer's Drought 20 Times More Likely, Study Finds 174
Boston Dynamics Pledges Not To Weaponize Its Robots 89
Biden Pardons All Federal Simple Marijuana Possession Offenses 316
'Princeton Isn't Free - But It Could Be' 73
Toxic Air Pollution Particles Found in Lungs, Livers and Brains of Unborn Babies 70
Spotify Acquires Company That Detects Harmful Content In Podcasts 104
Election Software Executive Arrested on Suspicion of Theft 220
Fraud, Scam Cases Increasing on P2P Payment Service Zelle, Senate Report Finds 54
Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Triggered Global Tsunami 26
Intel CTO Wants Developers To Build Once, Run On Any GPU 58
White House Unveils AI 'Bill of Rights' 51
VLC-Developer VideoLAN Sends Legal Notice To Indian Ministries Over Ban 12
New York Hires McKinsey for Containerization Study 48
Nuclear Fusion Plant To Be Built On Site of Britain's Last Coal-Fired Power Plants 149
Universities Adapt To Google's New Storage Fees, Or Migrate Away Entirely 91
NYU Organic Chemistry Professor Terminated For Tough Grading 319
FCC Threatens To Block Calls From Carriers For Letting Robocalls Run Rampant 78
Linux 6.0 Arrives With Support For Newer Chips, Core Fixes, and Oddities 26
UN Says Fed, Other Central Banks Risk Pushing Global Economy Into Recession, Requests Halt on Interest-Rate Increases 192
YouTube Asks Some Users To Purchase a Premium Subscription To Watch in 4K 82
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded To Svante Paabo 10
High Court Will Hear Social Media Terrorism Lawsuits 78
SEC Charges Kim Kardashian for Unlawfully Touting Crypto Security 94
Nord Stream Rupture May Mark Biggest Single Methane Release Ever Recorded, UN Says 604
Climate Change Is Turning Trees Into Gluttons 107
Debian Chooses Reasonable, Common Sense Solution To Dealing With Non-Free Firmware 65
Pentagon Is Far Too Tight With Its Security Bug Bounties 23
In a First, US Appoints a Diplomat For Plants and Animals 119
Chernobyl Black Frogs Reveal Evolution In Action 63
House Democrats Debut New Bill To Limit US Police Use of Facial Recognition 50
Roku Will Now Work With Nielsen To Track Cross-Media Viewership 6
Coroner Lists Instagram Algorithm As Contributing Cause of UK Teen's Death 49
Nick Holonyak Jr., Pioneer of LED Lighting, Is Dead at 93 13
What Is a 'Healthy' Food? The FDA. Wants To Change the Definition. 93
FDA Approves ALS Drug Whose Study Was Partly Funded By Ice Bucket Challenge 28
Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow And Other Authors Publish Open Letter Protesting Publishers' Lawsuit Against Internet Archive Library 29
MGM Paid Problem Gambler To Not Report Online Glitches 30

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