News Stories for 2023

North Greenland Ice Shelves Have Lost 35% of Their Volume In Last Half-Century, Study Finds 113
Intel To Build 'Secure Enclave' Chip Facilities For Defense Applications 21
After Big Drop in ISP Competition, Canada Mandates Fiber-Network Sharing 28
Tech Groups Fear New Powers Will Allow UK To Block Encryption 40
US Military Members' Personal Data Being Sold By Online Brokers, Report Finds 32
California Wants To End Cupertino's Tax Deal With Apple 82
Washington DC Gives Residents Free AirTags To Help Track Stolen Cars 110
YouTube Tests a 'Play Something' Button 24
EPA To Push Ban of Toxic Chemical Found in Drinking Water 29
How Red Hat Divided the Open Source Community 191
Maine Considers Giving the Boot To Corporate Electric Utilities 176
Will Sodium Batteries Become an Alternative To Lithium? 129
Bill Gates Urges 'Impatient Optimism' on Climate Change Innovations 79
Amazon and Meta Promise UK Regulators to Stop Unfairly Undercutting Rivals 16
Spacecraft Metals Left In the Wake of Humanity's Path To the Stars 20
America is Seeing a 'Dramatic Rise' in Home Schooling 378
When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked 'Halloween Documents' 59
Researchers Found an Abundance of Helium In Canada's Baffin Island 39
CNN Criticizes Microsoft's 'Making a Mess of the News' By Replacing MSN's Staff With AI 74
US Approves Massive Windfarm Project Off the Coast of Virginia 72
Mozilla Introduces Firefox Nightly .deb Packages for Debian-based Linux Distros 23
Will 'News Influencers' Replace Traditional Media? 123
YouTube Crackdown Leads To 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Ad Blocker Uninstalls 208
Jeff Bezos Moves To Florida 165
Fusus' AI-Powered Cameras Are Spreading Across the United States 33
US House Panel Seeks Ban On Federal Purchases of China Drones 33
Mint Is Shutting Down, and It's Pushing Users Toward Credit Karma 41
Max Removes 4K Streaming, Other Perks From Ad-Free Plan 70
Rishi Sunak Finds US Reluctant To Give Ground on AI Safety To UK 48
Mozilla's 'Failed' Bet on Yahoo Takes Spotlight in Google Trial 15
DoorDash Warns No Tipping May Result In Slower Delivery 400
Offshore Wind Firm Cancels New Jersey Projects, As Industry's Prospects Dim 171
Microsoft Accused of Damaging The Guardian's Reputation With AI-Generated Poll 123
YouTube Is Getting Serious About Blocking Ad Blockers 286
Bcachefs Merged Into the Linux 6.7 Kernel 39
Alliance of 40 Countries To Vow Not To Pay Ransom To Cybercriminals, US Says 52
The AV1 Video Codec Gains Broader Hardware Support 44
Asteroid Dust Caused 15-Year Winter That Killed Dinosaurs, Scientists Say 135
Canada Bans WeChat, Kaspersky Apps On Government Devices 33
FDA Warns of Infection Risk From 26 Big-Brand Eye Drops 37
The Race To Destroy PFAS, the Forever Chemicals 36
UK Confirms Plans To Bring Crypto Under Stricter Regulation 24
Biden Signs Executive Order To Oversee and Invest in AI 36
$127 Billion in US Student Loans Now Flagged for Cancellation - About 30% of Planned Amount 234
Linux Mint Gets 'Experimental' Wayland Support in December 57
America's Net Neutrality Question: Should the FCC Define the Internet as a 'Common Carrier'? 132
How the US is Preparing For a Post-Quantum World 45
Tens of Millions Now Work in the $250B 'Creator Economy' 95
Apple Backs US Government's Push for a National Right-to-Repair Bill . (But What About Parts Pairing?) 30
81st World Science Fiction Convention Announces 2023 Hugo Awards 22
England To Diverge From EU Water Monitoring Standards 55
New Agreement Enables US Launches From Australian Spaceports 24
Scientists Call Out Rogue Emissions From China at Global Ozone Summit 60
Barcode Leads To Arrest of Texas Litterbug Behind 200 Pounds of Dumped Trash 106
T-Mobile Walks Back Forced Plan Migration, Won't Make People Switch Plans After All 25
Privacy Advocate Challenges YouTube's Ad Blocking Detection Scripts Under EU Law 85
Google Fiber Is Getting Outrageously Fast 20Gbps Service 53
UK Regulator Trying To Block Release of Shell North Sea Documents 61
The UK's Controversial Online Safety Bill Finally Becomes Law 185
Bloomsbury Chief Warns of AI Threat To Publishing 44
GM Offers Chevy Bolt Owners $1,400 For Dealing With Software-Limited, Fire-Prone Batteries 36
Network State Conference Announced in Amsterdam for October 30 4
White House To Unveil Sweeping AI Executive Order Next Week 26
Boeing Has Now Lost More Than $1 Billion on Each of Air Force One's Two New Jets 132
Sergey Brin's Airship Gets FAA Clearance 74
Scientist, After Decades of Study, Concludes: We Don't Have Free Will 347
Biden Administration Moves To Ban Solvent Trichloroethylene, Linked To Cancer 85
Okta Cybersecurity Breach Wipes Out More Than $2 Billion In Market Cap 40
ICE Uses Tool To Find 'Derogatory' Speech Online 63
Apple To Make Tools and Parts To Fix Phones and Computers Available Nationwide, White House Says 32
How Economists Got It Wrong for 3 Years. 160
Meta Sued by California, States Over Harmful Youth Marketing 36
Global Shift To Clean Energy Means Fossil Fuel Demand Will Peak Soon, IEA says 176
UK Set To Reject Big Tech Call for Antitrust Appeals Route 4
Millions of Smart Meters Will Be Defunct When 2G and 3G Turns Off 137
US Wants To Officially Treat Crypto Anonymity Services As Suspected Money Launderers 54
Big University Endowments Hampered by Startup Write-Downs 34
Nestle, Volvo Among 130 Companies Urging COP28 Agreement To Ditch Fossil Fuels 75
Rapid Ice Melt in West Antarctica Now Inevitable, Research Shows 142
White House Announces 31 Tech Hubs To Improve American Competitiveness 23
Martin Goetz, Who Received the First Software Patent, Dies at 93 35
California Law Limits Bitcoin ATM Transactions to $1,000 to Thwart Scammers 37
Newspapers Want Payment for Articles Used to Power ChatGPT 151
'Solar for Renters' Offers Americans Netflix-Style Subscriptions to Clean Energy 39
Plans Abandoned for First 1,300-Mile Carbon-Capture Pipeline Across the US 85
Amazon Workers' Sci-Fi Writing Is Imagining a World After Amazon 39
How Ubuntu Linux Snuck Into High-End Dell Laptops 48
Unless Open Source Evolves, HashiCorp CEO Predicts OSS-Free Silicon Valley 84
Scammers Try Hosting Their Malware on a Binance Network 21
What Happens When Major Online Platforms Lower Traffic to News Sites? 101
21 Species Moved From 'Endangered' to 'Extinct' in America 34
Amazon Eliminated Plastic Packaging At One of Its Warehouses 21
Thousands of Remote IT Workers Sent Wages To North Korea To Help Fund Weapons Program, Says FBI 44
US Chip Curbs Give Huawei a Chance To Fill the Nvidia Void In China 23
OpenBSD 7.4 Released 8
Pipeline Dreams: The Desert City Out To Surpass Phoenix By Importing Water 125
Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying For People Addicted To Drugs 265
Code.org Presses Washington To Make Computer Science a High School Graduation Requirement 95
Julian Assange To Be Made Honorary Citizen of Rome 97
CFPB Moves To Bar Financial Firms From 'Hoarding' a Consumer's Data 9
US Is Receiving Dozens of UFO Reports a Month, Pentagon Official Says 59
AlmaLinux Stays Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compatible Without Red Hat Code 34
Amazon Plans To Deploy Delivery Drones In the UK and Italy Next Year 16
American Employees Reinvent the Sick Day 314
Scientists Call on Ministers To Cut Limits For 'Forever Chemicals' in UK Tap Water 16
American Work-From-Home Rates Drop To Lowest Since the Pandemic 147
Joseon Becomes First-ever Globally Recognized Cyber Nation-state 115
IRS Will Pilot Free, Direct Tax Filing In 2024 88
20,000 Britons Approached By Chinese Agents On LinkedIn, Says MI5 Head 19
US Tightens Curbs on AI Chip Exports To China, Widening Rift With US Businesses 21
EU To Crack Down Further on Microplastics After Glitter Ban 49
Google Asks Congress To Not Ban Teens From Social Media 118
Binance To Halt New UK Customers From Using Crypto Exchange 6
Why the US Government Has $5 Billion in Bitcoin 34
Have Economists Contributed to Inequality? 299
California Begins World's Largest Dam Removal/River Restoration Projects 135
Google's AI-Powered 'Project Green Light' Speeds Traffic, Reduces Fuel Consumption and Carbon Emissions 93
Long-Dormant Viruses Are Now Waking Up After 50,000 Years as Planet Warms 171
Two 'Godzilla' Scifi Novellas Finally Get English Translations, Capturing 1950s Horror at Nuclear Weapons 28
Report Finds Few Open Source Projects are Actively Maintained 53
GNU's 40th Anniversary: the FSF's Meeting with Old and New Friends 17
Climate-Driven Heat Extremes May Make Earth Too Hot for Billions of Humans 227
How a Series of Air Traffic Control Lapses Nearly Killed 131 People 58
First 'Doctor Who' Writer Honored. His Son Contests BBC's Rights to 'Unearthly Child' 53
US Antitrust Enforcer Continues Fighting Microsoft/Activision Deal, Calls it 'A Threat to Competition' 28
FTX Thief Cashes Out Millions During Bankman-Fried Trial 30
Hydro Dams Are Struggling To Handle the World's Intensifying Weather 59
Biden Awards $7 Billion For 7 Hydrogen Hubs In Climate Fight Plan 96
Across US, Chinese Bitcoin Mines Draw National Security Scrutiny 23
Sandvine Scraps Plan To Market Tool in US That Tracks Encrypted Messages 7
Antarctica Has Lost 7.5tn Tonnes of Ice Since 1997, Scientists Find 71
Ubuntu 23.10 Is a Minotaur That Moves Faster and Takes Up Less Space 26
People Send 20 Billion Pounds of 'Invisible' E-Waste To Landfills Each Year 106
Europe Mulls Open Sourcing TETRA Emergency Services' Encryption Algorithms 18
ACT Test Scores For US Students Drop To a 30-Year Low 102
Who Runs the Best US Schools? It May Be the Defense Department 94
Half a Billion Cheap Electrical Items Go To UK Landfills in a Year, Research Finds 63
YouTube TV, Which Costs $73 a Month, Agrees To End '$600 Less Than Cable' Ads 19
YouTube Passes Netflix As Top Video Source For Teens 97
CBC Stops Broadcasting Official Time Signal 70
T-Mobile Forcibly Moving People On Older Plans To More Expensive Ones 64
FTC Lays Out New Rule That Could End Hidden Fees 90
US Space Force Pauses Generative AI Use Based on Security Concerns 20
New York's Airbnb Ban Is Bolstering a Rental Black Market 106
Climate Crisis Will Make Europe's Beer Cost More and Taste Worse, Say Scientists 118
EU Will Do 'as Much as Possible' To Drive Out Fossil Fuels, Climate Chief Says 71
UK Opposition Leader Targeted By AI-Generated Fake Audio Smear 49
South Korea Firms Get Indefinite Waiver On US Chip Gear Supplies To China 16
Microplastics Detected in Clouds Hanging Atop Two Japanese Mountains 39
Net Neutrality's Court Fate Depends on Whether Broadband is 'Telecommunications' 84
Can These Fungus-Studying Scientists Make the Planet More Resilient to Climate Change? 49
Why Is California's Population Falling? Housing Costs 286
Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo Release Patches for 'Looney Tunables' Linux Vulnerability 22
States Are Calling For More K-12 CS Classes. Now They Need the Teachers. 114
Germany Will Keep Keep Its Coal Power Plants on Standby For Another Winter 189
For 'Cybersecurity Awareness Month' America's Cybersecurity Agency Shares Four Online Safety Tips 34
Some US Lawmakers Want to Restrict American Companies From Working on RISC-V Chip Technology 162
The Ozone Hole Above Antarctica Has Grown To Three Times the Size of Brazil 85
US Nutrition Panel's Ties To Top Food Giants Revealed In New Report 41
Man Jailed In UK's First Treason Conviction In 40 Years Was Encouraged By AI Chatbot 21
Atari Releasing New Cartridge For Its 46-Year-Old 2600 Console 18
US Science Agencies on Track To Hit 25-Year Funding Low 108
EV Buyers Will Get an Instant Rebate of as Much as $7,500 Starting in 2024 145
Biden Administration Backs Strong Rules To Close Digital Divide 82
ICE, CBP, Secret Service All Illegally Used Smartphone Location Data 61
Hundreds of US Schools Hit By Potentially Organized Swatting Hoaxes, Report Says 60
Lockheed CEO Pitches Pentagon on Subscription Software 29
September Broke the Global Heat Record by a 'Gobsmackingly Bananas' Margin 142
Tech-Backed Code.org Picks 'Creativity With AI' As Theme For 2023 Hour of Code 3
UN Report Urges Global End To Fossil Fuel Exploration by 2030 120
Underground Thermal Energy Networks Are Becoming Crucial To the US's Energy Future 35
UK Universities Take $50 Million in Fossil Fuel Funding Since 2022 32
Los Angeles is Using AI To Predict Who Might Become Homeless and Help Before They Do 112
New Group Attacking iPhone Encryption Backed By US Political Dark-Money Network 52
Report Claiming Net Zero Will Cost UK Trillions Retracted Due To 'Factual Errors' 118
Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded To 3 Scientists for Illuminating How Electrons Move 30
Dish Dealt First-Ever Space-Debris Fine For Misparking Satellite 63
UK Passport Images Database Could Be Used To Catch Shoplifters 67
YouTuber Jailed For Large-Scale Cable Piracy Scheme 20
SBF Considered Paying Trump $5 Billion Not To Run For President 173
Americans Are Still Spending Like There's No Tomorrow 249
US Energy Department Funds 'Energy Earthshots' to Speed Clean-Energy Innovations 77
San Francisco's Empty Offices Might Start Converting Into Housing 147
Will EVs Send OPEC Into a Death Spiral? 206
Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress 89
GNU Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary 49
Heat Pumps Twice As Efficient As Fossil Fuel Systems In Cold Weather 196
New in Firefox 118: Private Local, Browser-Based Website Translating 13
Canonical's Snap Store Restricts Uploads Following Possible Security Issue 29
NSA Is Starting an AI Security Center 13
Six Young People Take 32 Countries To Court Over Climate Change 219
Search For Phone Signal Caused Oil Spill, Say Japanese Investigators 62
How a Thinktank Got the Cost of Net Zero for the UK Wildly Wrong 124
Richard Stallman Says He Has Cancer 143
Senator Dianne Feinstein, Oldest Member of Congress, Dies at 90 386
New York Bans Facial Recognition In Schools 22
Nissan To Go All-Electric By 2030 Despite UK's Petrol Ban Delay 240
Disney's Password-Sharing Crackdown Has Begun 34
Freelancers Aren't Happy With Japan's New Invoice System 33
Swiss Glaciers Lose 10% of Their Volume in Two Years 65
Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show 63
Security Researcher Warns of Chilling Effect After Feds Search Phone At Airport 97
'Code.org In Farsi' To Bring Tech-Backed Nonprofit's K-12 CS Curricula To Iran 34
Bids For ISS Demolition Rights Are Now Open, NASA Declares 102
Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Lowest Winter Maximum On Record 55
US Sues eBay Over Sale of Harmful Products 101
US FTC Revives Microsoft-Activision Deal Challenge 22
Burkey Belser, Designer of Ubiquitous Nutrition Facts Label, Dies At 76 26
Google Podcasts Shutting Down In 2024 For YouTube Music 22
Chase UK To Ban Cryptocurrency Purchases Over Fraud Fears 60
Private Equity Is Piling Debt on Itself Like Never Before 86
FCC To Reintroduce Rules Protecting Net Neutrality 80
FTC and 17 States Sue Amazon, Alleging Illegal Online-Marketplace Monopoly 55
Getting Data From NSA Takes 'Days' So Federal Counterintelligence Agency Turned To Private Company, Documents Show 33
Ford Pauses Construction On $3.5 Billion EV Battery Plant In Michigan 134
US Exploring Potential Space Force Hotline With China 43
FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training 32
Amazon Restricts Authors From Self-Publishing More Than Three Books a Day After AI Concerns 57
Los Alamos's New Project: Updating America's Aging Nuclear Weapons 192
Developer Creates 'Dark Style' GNOME Extension for Ubuntu 23.10 18
Privately-Owned High-Speed Rail Opens New Line in Florida, Kills Pedestrian 220
Has America Passed the 'Tipping Point' for Purchasing Electric Vehicles? 314
US Defense Department Funds Design Analysis for a Transportable Micro Nuclear Reactor 120
Can Philanthropy Save Local Newspapers? 122
New Study Could Upend How We Think About the Ozone Layer and Health 30
California Startup Hopes to Harvest Desalinated Drinking Water from the Ocean Floor 135
Fed's Cook Sees Signs of AI Improving US Labor Productivity 85
US and China Launch Economic and Financial Working Groups With Aim of Easing Tensions 11
Cruise CEO Says SF 'Should Be Rolling Out the Red Carpet' for Robotaxis, Threatens To Maybe Leave Town 125
95% of NFTs May Now Be Worthless 178
Google Mourns Veteran Engineer Luiz Andre Barroso Who Invented the Modern Data Center 35
Rishi Sunak Presses On With Net Zero U-Turn 192
Rupert Murdoch To Step Down as Chair of Fox and News Corp After Seven-Decade Career 167
New Revelations From the Snowden Archive Surface 151
French Drillers May Have Stumbled Upon a Mammoth Hydrogen Deposit 121
Parents In US Offered Refunds For Purchases Kids Made In Fortnite 29
FCC Plays Whack-a-Mole With Telcos Accused of Profiting From Robocalls 58
Terraform Fork Gets Renamed OpenTofu, Joins Linux Foundation 30
Almost Everyone in Europe is Breathing Toxic Air 114
China Accuses US of Hacking Huawei Servers as Far Back as 2009 29
Space Drugs Factory Denied Reentry To Earth 66
Most US Adults Don't Believe Benefits of AI Outweigh the Risks, New Survey Finds 96
UK Parliament Passes Online Safety Bill 75
Antarctic Sea-Ice at 'Mind-Blowing' Low Alarms Experts 200
US News' 2024 College Ranking Boosts Public Universities 28
US Federal Agencies Seek to Streamline 'Hodgepodge' of Cyber Reporting Rules 7
One of the FBI's Most Wanted Hackers Is Trolling the US Government 52
Court Blocks California's Online Child Safety Law 23
Textbook Publishers Sue Shadow Library LibGen For Copyright Infringement 30
'In Most Industries, Regulation Tends To Prevent Competition' 261

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