News Stories for 2024

The 'Ceph' Community Now Stores 1,000 Petabytes in Its Open Source Storage Solution 16
Court Upholds New York Law That Says ISPs Must Offer $15 Broadband 44
IRS Free Tax Filing Pilot Saved Consumers $5.6 Million In Prep Fees 34
Thoma Bravo To Take UK Cybersecurity Company Darktrace Private In $5 Billion Deal 6
Judge Dismisses Superconductivity Physicist's Lawsuit Against University 21
British Intelligence Moves To Protect Research Universities From Espionage 8
Chinese Drone Maker DJI Might Get Banned Next in the US 106
Europeans 'Less Hard-Working' Than Americans, Says Norway Oil Fund Boss 199
Open Sourcing DOS 4 81
US Teacher Charged With Using AI To Frame Principal With Hate Speech Clip 120
US 'Know Your Customer' Proposal Will Put an End To Anonymous Cloud Users 43
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' Officially Released 34
Twilio Founder Buys Satire Site 'The Onion' 30
Stripe To Start Taking Crypto Payments, Starting With USDC Stablecoin 8
New Rule Compels US Coal-Fired Power Plants To Capture Emissions - or Shut Down 89
US Fertility Rate Falls To Lowest In a Century 264
Vast DNA Tree of Life For Plants Revealed By Global Science Team 10
Airlines Required To Refund Passengers For Canceled, Delayed Flights 75
Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users 111
Updating California's Grid For EVs May Cost Up To $20 Billion 116
Biden Signs TikTok 'Divest or Ban' Bill Into Law 119
US Bans Noncompete Agreements For Nearly All Jobs 111
Oracle Is Moving Its World Headquarters To Nashville 67
FTC To Vote On Noncompete Ban 95
No One Buys Books Any More 165
California Is Grappling With a Growing Problem: Too Much Solar 335
Home Assistant Has a New Foundation, Goal To Become a Consumer Brand 33
Europe Baked in 'Extreme Heat Stress' Pushing Temperatures To Record Highs 112
Study: Alphabetical Order of Surnames May Affect Grading 72
Biden Marks Earth Day by Announcing $7 Billion in Solar Power Grants 106
Russian Court Sentences Meta Spokesperson To Six Years in Absentia, Calls Meta 'Extremist Organisation' 115
What Happened After Amazon Electrified Its Delivery Fleet? 202
Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director: Microsoft is a National Security Risk 124
Startup is Building the World's Largest Ocean-Based Carbon Plant - and It's Scalable 57
Is Rivos Building an RISC-V AI Chip? 10
LXQt 2.0 Released: Lightweight Desktop is Almost Wayland Compatible 66
How a Renewable Energy-Powered Bitcoin Startup Helps Electrify Rural Africa 66
Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage 90
Could the Earth's Record Hot Streak Signal a New Climate Era? 170
US Passes Bill Reauthorizing 'FISA' Surveillance for Two More Years 45
Sell or Be Banned: Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives 96
Data Centers Are Turning to an Old Source of Power: Coal 58
Ocean Spray Emits More PFAS Than Industrial Polluters, Study Finds 74
openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds 22
Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders 34
Android Gets a New Software-Based AV1 Decoder 13
Firefox Nightly Expands To Linux On ARM64 4
EPA Will Make Polluters Pay To Clean Up Two 'Forever Chemicals' 39
FBI Says Chinese Hackers Preparing To Attack US Infrastructure 116
Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System 10
Ubuntu 24.04 Yields a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows 11 On Ryzen 7 Framework Laptop 63
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules 146
Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash 19
Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students 39
Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme 9
Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 84
Canadian Science Gets Biggest Boost To PhD and Postdoc Pay in 20 Years 23
Odds of US TikTok Ban Increase After House Fast-Tracks Revised Bill, Picking Up Key Senate Support 63
US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight 69
Sweden Becomes 38th Country To Sign NASA's Artemis Accords For Moon Exploration 14
House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties 54
Feds Appoint 'AI Doomer' To Run US AI Safety Institute 37
Trump Media Shares Down 14% After Company Says Truth Social To Launch TV Streaming 124
What Caused the Storm That Brought Dubai To a Standstill? 63
Average World Incomes To Drop By Nearly a Fifth By 2050, Study Says 123
State Tax Officials Are Using AI To Go After Wealthy Payers 106
Creating Sexually Explicit Deepfake Images To Be Made Offense in UK 125
US Senate To Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call 'Stasi-Like' 55
Justice Department To File Antitrust Suit Against Ticketmaster-Parent Live Nation 48
YouTube's Ad Blocker Crackdown Now Includes Third-Party Apps 204
World's Coral Reefs Hit By a Fourth Mass Bleaching Event, NOAA Says 57
California Exceeds 100% of Energy Demand With Renewables Over a Record 30 Days 215
The IRS's New Tax Software: Rave Reviews, But Low Turnout 90
UK Starts Drafting AI Regulations for Most Powerful Models 18
Senator Warren Claims TurboTax 'Relentlessly' Upsells Customers in Letter To FTC 93
Emissions Dropped 1.8% Every Year in California's Bay Area. Researchers Credit EVs 164
California Replaces Gas Plant with Giant, Billion-Dollar Grid Battery 169
America's Legal System May Be 'Closing In' on Regulating Cryptocurrencies 45
Will the US-China Competition to Field Military Drone Swarms Spark a Global Arms Race? 28
Axios CEO Believes AI Will 'Eviscerate the Unprepared' Among Media Companies 50
Canonical Says Qualcomm Has Joined Ubuntu's 'Silicon Partner' Program 8
APT Interface 'Revamped' For Ubuntu 24.10 and Debian Trixie with Colors and Columns 25
Data Collected by the US Justice Department Exposed in Consultant's Breach 9
Will America's Next Soldiers Be Machines? 131
US Government Says Recent Microsoft Breach Exposed Federal Agencies to Hacking 15
Cloud Brightening Research Begins in California 60
The Linux Foundation's 'OpenTofu' Project Denies HashiCorp's Allegations of Code Theft 33
Should the US Ban Chinese EVs? 283
Japanese Astronauts To Land On Moon As Part of New NASA Partnership 17
House Votes To Extend -- and Expand -- a Major US Spy Program 85
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers 21
Google Threatens To Cut Off News After California Proposes Paying Media Outlets 91
Canadian Legislators Accused of Using AI To Produce 20,000 Amendments 62
Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI 115
Harvard Reinstates Standardized Testing Requirement 84
Code.org Launches AI Teaching Assistant For Grades 6-10 In Stanford Partnership 16
America's Chip Renaissance Needs Workers 117
UK Considers Banning Smartphone Sales To Children Under 16 108
Saudi Arabia 'Forced To Scale Back' Plans For Desert Megacity 199
UK To Deploy Facial Recognition For Shoplifting Crackdown 113
Biden Considering Request To Drop Assange Charges 146
New Bill Would Force AI Companies To Reveal Use of Copyrighted Art 57
More Books Than Ever Targeted For Bans 250
Auto Insurance Prices Have Gone Nuts 179
SEC Moves To Sue Uniswap in Bid To Hobble Fast-Growing DeFi Sector 16
The US is Right To Target TikTok, Says Vinod Khosla 90
EPA Announces First-Ever National Regulations For 'Forever Chemicals' in Drinking Water 49
Consumers Will Finally See FCC-Mandated 'Nutrition Labels' For Most Broadband Plans 56
March Marks Yet Another Record In Global Heat 158
Texas Will Use Computers To Grade Written Answers On This Year's STAAR Tests 41
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress 27
The World Doesn't Need More Journal Apps 37
England Could Produce 13 Times More Renewable Energy, Using Less Than 3% of Land 222
Peter Higgs, Physicist Who Discovered Higgs Boson, Dies Aged 94 28
EPA Limits Pollution From Chemical Plants 67
US To Award Samsung Up To $6.6 Billion Chip Subsidy For Texas Expansion 48
FCC Chair Rejects Call To Impose Universal Service Fees on Broadband 21
TSMC Wins $6.6 Billion US Subsidy for Arizona Chip Production 85
One of Disneyland's Longest-Running Attractions is Ditching Fossil Fuels 99
NIST Blames 'Growing Backlog of Vulnerabilities' Requiring Analysis on Lack of Support 22
US Energy Department Announces 'Blueprint' for Slashing Emissions From Buildings and Reducing Energy Use 76
Rust, Python, Apache Foundations and Others Announce Big Collaboration on Cybersecurity Process Specifications 42
Professors Are Now Using AI to Grade Essays. Are There Ethical Concerns? 102
Wait, Does America Suddenly Have a Record Number of Bees? 77
Four Baseball Teams Now Let Ticket-Holders Enter Using AI-Powered 'Facial Authentication' 42
US Invests $20 Billion More to Finance Clean-Energy Projects 86
AI's Impact on CS Education Likened to Calculator's Impact on Math Education 102
Is The US About To Pass a Landmark Online Privacy Bill? 35
OpenBSD 7.5 Released 62
Biden Takes Aim At SpaceX's Tax-Free Ride In American Airspace 222
Trudeau Pushes 3D-Printed Homes To Solve Canada Housing Crisis 174
Heat-Trapping CO2, Methane Levels In the Air Last Year Spiked To Record Highs 81
FCC Won't Block California Net Neutrality Law, Says States Can 'Experiment' 25
UK Govt Office Admits Ability To Negotiate Billions in Cloud Spending Curbed By Vendor Lock-in 32
Roblox Executive Says Children Making Money On the Platform Isn't Exploitation, It's a Gift 60
Traders Are Betting Millions That Trump Media 'Meme Stock' Will Tumble 151
YouTube Says OpenAI Training Sora With Its Videos Would Break Rules 19
Amazon Still Has a Serious Plastic Waste Problem in the US 36
Only 57 Companies Produced 80% of Global Carbon Dioxide 167
Cable Lobby Vows 'Years of Litigation' To Avoid Bans on Blocking and Throttling 91
Business Schools Are Going All In on AI 39
Tennessee Passes 'Chemtrail' Bill Banning Airborne Chemicals 202
Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft For Shoddy Security 81
Missouri County Declares State of Emergency Amid Suspected Ransomware Attack 41
UK and US Sign Landmark Agreement On AI Safety 6
Taiwan Quake Puts World's Most Advanced Chips at Risk 99
'Russia Might Have Caused Havana Syndrome' 188
Bitcoin Tumbles $5,000 In 24 Hours As Interest Rates Jump 57
Yahoo Is Buying Artifact, the AI News App From the Instagram Co-Founders 14
California Introduces 'Right To Disconnect' Bill That Would Allow Employees To Possibly Relax 91
White House Makes Last-ditch Push for Internet Subsidy Program 82
Databricks Claims Its Open Source Foundational LLM Outsmarts GPT-3.5 17
Telegram Challenges Meta With the Launch of New 'Business' Features, Revenue-Sharing 6
Record Heat in Europe, Asia Closes Another Extremely Warm Month For Planet 91
Arizona's Governor Signs Bill Making Pluto the Official State Planet 118
After Outer Space, 93-Year-Old William Shatner Leads Cruise to Antarctica 51
YouTube Inspires 'True Crime Junkies' to Buy Sonar-Equipped Boat and Solve Cold-Case Mysteries 35
Thorium: The Fastest Open Source Chromium-based Browser? 55
America's FDA Forced to Settle 'Groundless' Lawsuit Over Its Ivermectin Warnings 350
WSJ: 'America Made a Huge Bet On Sports Gambling. The Backlash Is Here' 75
In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10.0 Finally Released 37
Can Apps Turn Us Into Unpaid Lobbyists? 73
Major Mobile NFT Shooter Game 'MadWorld' Uses Linux Foundation Subsidiary's Game Engine 29
More AI Safeguards Coming, Including Right to Refuse Face-Recognition Scans at US Airports 23
America's DHS Is Expected to Stop Buying Access to Your Phone Movements 49
Bill Gates Says Texas Shows America's Clean-Energy Future 120
Are State Governments Slowing the Build-Out of America's EV Charging Stations? 120
Congress Bans Staff Use of Microsoft's AI Copilot 32
'Garbage Lasagna': Dumps Are a Big Driver of Warming, Study Says 61
LinkedIn Moves In On TikTok's Turf With Short-Form Videos 13
Negativity Drives Online News Consumption 57
Algorithms Can Aid Price Collusion, Even If No Humans Actually Talk To Each Other, US Enforcers Say 67
Hillary Clinton, Election Officials Warn AI Could Threaten Elections 255
Chronic Student Absenteeism Soars Across US 119
Canonical Now Doing Manual Reviews For New Packages Due To Scam Apps 37
Methane From Landfills Is a Big Driver of Climate Change, Study Says 128
Michigan Nuclear Plant Aims To Be First Ever To Reopen In US 109
US, UK Investigate $20 Billion of Crypto Transfers To Garantex Russian Exchange 30
Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork 12
New York City Welcomes Robotaxis - But Only With Safety Drivers 34
'Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab' 120
Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced To 25 Years in Prison 143
A Faster Spinning Earth May Cause Timekeepers To Subtract a Second From World Clocks 118
Why the US Could Be On the Cusp of a Productivity Boom 129
Amazon Fined In Poland For Dark Pattern Design Tricks 16
US Offers $10 Million Bounty For Info on 'Blackcat' Hackers Who Hit UnitedHealth 15
Heat and Drought Are Sucking US Hydropower Dry 70
UK Court Denies Bid To Extradite Assange To the US 151
Visa and Mastercard Agree To $30 Billion Settlement Over Credit Card Fees 90
US Sanctions Spree Continues With 15 More For Russian Entities 129
Ubuntu Linux LTS Releases Get Up To 12 Years of Support 60
US, UK Announce Sanctions Over China-Linked Election Hacks 29
UK Blames China for Massive Breach of Voter Data 21
Boeing CEO, Many Other Top Execs To Step Down in Leadership Shakeup at Embattled Plane Maker 119
California's Successful Dam-Removal Project Continues 120
Has 'Silicon Valley-style Startup Disruption' Arrived for Book Publishing? 37
Judge Orders YouTube to Reveal Everyone Who Viewed A Video 169
Say Hello To Biodegradable Microplastics? 60
Google Teams with 'Highlights', Shows How Goofus and Gallant Use the Internet 19
A Problem for Sun-Blocking Cloud Geoengineering? Clouds Dissipate 57
Truck-To-Truck Worm Could Infect Entire US Fleet 50
Database For UK Nurse Registration 'Completely Unacceptable' 42
Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits To Running People-Search Networks 9
DOT Wants To Know How Big Airlines Use Passenger Data 11
Security and Climate Change Drive a Return To Nuclear Energy as Over 30 Nations Sign Summit Pledge 89
Geologists Reject Declaration of Anthropocene Epoch 41
US Cyber Investors Pledge Spyware is Off Limits - With a Catch 7
Higher Temperatures Mean Higher Food and Other Prices 96
E-Waste Is Growing 5x Faster Than It Can Be Recycled, Says UN 74
UnitedHealth Group Paid More Than $2 Billion To Providers Following Cyberattack 26
Redis To Adopt 'Source-Available Licensing' Starting With Next Version 44
Epic, Spotify, Others Back DOJ Lawsuit Against Apple 68
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem 112
US Sues Apple, Alleges Tech Giant Exploits Illegal Monopoly 125
GNOME 46 Released 49
EPA Sets Strict New Limits On Tailpipe Emissions That Could Boost EV Sector 282
Woman With $2.5 Billion In Bitcoin Convicted of Money Laundering 70
Intel Prepares For $100 Billion Spending Spree Across Four US States 18
US Broadband Providers To Begin Providing New Comparison Labels 19
Why Do People Let Their Life Insurance Lapse? 94
Intel Awarded Up To $8.5 Billion in CHIPS Act Grants, With Billions More in Loans Available 29
'Disabling Cyberattacks' Are Hitting Critical US Water Systems, White House Warns 77
Only Seven Countries Meet WHO Air Quality Standard, Research Finds 56
Kids' Cartoons Get a Free Pass From YouTube's Deepfake Disclosure Rules 20
Nicholas Hawkes, 39, Becomes First in England To Be Jailed for Cyber Flashing 159
Mozilla Firefox 124 Is Now Available for Download 27
Global Ocean Heat Has Hit a New Record Every Single Day For the Last Year 130
EPA Bans Chrysotile Asbestos 98
Indiana Becomes 9th State To Make CS a High School Graduation Requirement 42
US Supreme Court Seems Wary of Curbing US Government Contacts With Social Media Platforms 113
Grok AI Goes Open Source 38
YouTube Now Requires Creators To Label AI-Generated Content 29
32-Hour Workweek for America Proposed by Senator Bernie Sanders 390
Why Oregon's Drug Decriminalization Failed 194
Did the Plastic Industry Knowingly Push Recycling Myths For Decades? 101
Free/Libre 'GnuCOBOL' Compiler Reaches Maturity, Can Compete with Proprietary Offerings 49
Pornhub Disables Website In Texas After Age-Verification Lawsuit 187
Amazon Violated Rights of Workers Trying to Unionize, Labor Regulators Find 24
Linux Distributors' Alliance Continues Long-Term Support for Linux 4.14 19
First Large Offshore US Wind Farm Delivers Power To Local Grid 99
FTC Goes Undercover Against Fake Antivirus Companies 5
Southern Oregon Now Boasts World's Largest Dark Sky Sanctuary 20
CIA Used Chinese Social Media In Covert Influence Operation Against Xi Jinping's Government 114
Refund Fraud Schemes Promoted Online Are Costing Amazon and Other Retailers Billions 52
US Investigators Say Video Footage Overwritten of Work On Boeing Jet's Door Plug 114
SXSW Audiences Loudly Boo Festival Videos Touting the Virtues of AI 65
Playing Thriving Reef Sounds On Underwater Speakers 'Could Save Damaged Corals' 31
Nvidia Founder Tells Stanford Students Their High Expectations May Make It Hard For Them To Succeed 98
Bitcoin Fog Crypto Mixer Found Guilty of Money Laundering, Jury Finds 15
Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers In the Race To Get Hired 67

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