News Stories for 2024

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
Who Uses Legacy Admissions? 62
America's Last Top Models 17
US House Passes Bill To Force ByteDance To Divest TikTok or Face Ban 233
Spotify To Test Full Music Videos in Potential YouTube Faceoff 20
'Larger Than Everest' Comet Could Become Visible To Naked Eye This Month 54
Across the Nation, Lawmakers Aim To Ban Lab-Grown Meat 428
FAA Audit of Boeing's 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues 85
No Big North Sea Fossil Fuel Country Has Plan To Stop Drilling in Time For 1.5C Goal 151
How China Came To Dominate the World in Solar Energy 101
The IRS Launches Direct File, a Pilot Program For Free Online Tax Filing Available in 12 States 56
Surgeons Perform UK's First Operation Using Apple's Vision Pro Headset 47
YouTube Stops Recommending Videos When Signed Out of Google 90
U. of Texas at Austin Will Return To Standardized Test Requirement 93
US Will 'Do Whatever It Takes' To Curb China Tech, Raimondo Says 106
US Must Move 'Decisively' To Avert 'Extinction-Level' Threat From AI, Gov't-Commissioned Report Says 139
Canada's 'Online Harms' Bill Would Be an Assault On Free Speech, Civil Liberties Groups Say 200
OpenTTD (Unofficial Remake of 'Transport Tycoon Deluxe' Game) Turns 20 17
Mock 'News' Sites With Russian Ties Pop Up in U.S. 199
One Year Later, 81% of SVB's Clients Still Bank With Them - and Big Banks Got Bigger 22
Lead From Gasoline Blunted the IQ of About Half the U.S. Population, Study Says 243
PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' To Officially Be Removed from Food Packaging, FDA Says 39
'Canonical Turns 20: Shaping the Ubuntu Linux World' 38
US Cybersecurity Agency Forced to Take Two Systems Offline Last Month After Ivanti Compromise 4
13-Year-Old Wins Science Fair with 'Death Ray' Experiment. Sort of... 83
How $138B in US Student Loans Were Cancelled - Roughly One-Third of Planned Amount 162
Earth Has Its Warmest February Ever - the 9th Record-Setting Month in a Row 91
United Plane Veers Off Runway in Third Boeing Incident This Week 132
Pentagon Review Finds No Evidence of Alien Cover-Up 106
President Biden Calls for Ban on AI Voice Impersonations 145
China Readies $27 Billion Chip Fund To Counter Growing US Curbs 13
10 Years On, Is the World Any Closer To Finding MH370? 90
Mexico Argues Glyphosate In GM Corn Is Unsafe For Human Consumption 106
Microscopic Plastics Could Raise Risk of Stroke and Heart Attack, Study Says 57
Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default 75
Is America Running Out of Electrical Power? 267
US Lost Record $12.5 Billion To Online Crime In 2023, Says FBI 33
Feds To Offer New Support To Open-Source Developers 12
SEC Approves Rule Requiring Some Companies To Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions 27
Teachers Are Embracing ChatGPT-Powered Grading 121
Rising Temperatures and Heat Shocks Prompt Job Relocations, Study Finds 55
Satellite To 'Name and Shame' Worst Oil and Gas Methane Polluters 53
How Much Energy Will New Semiconductor Factories Burn Through in the US? 41
Screen Time Robs Average Toddler of Hearing 1,000 Words Spoken By Adult a Day, Study Finds 86
Man Charged With Smuggling Greenhouse Gases Into US 94
Why Desktop Linux Is Finally Growing In Popularity 188
Oregon OKs Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans the Blocking of Aftermarket Parts 75
The Arctic Ocean Could Be 'Ice-Free' Within the Decade, Researchers Warn 117
In a First, US Students Will Take the SAT Entirely Online 76
US Sanctions Founder of Spyware Maker Intellexa for Targeting Americans 30
New Proposal Could Ban Landlords From Charging for Cable and Internet in Bulk 64
Linux Passes 4% Desktop Market Share 199
Discord Leaker Jack Teixeira Pleads Guilty, Seeks Light 11-Year Sentence 50
Opus 1.5 Gets a Serious Machine Learning Upgrade 19
JetBlue and Spirit Call Off Their Merger 38
New Ratings for the 'Greenest' Car in America Might Surprise You 199
How AI is Taking Water From the Desert 108
'Communications of the ACM' Is Now Open Access 25
Linux Foundation Launches Open Source Fraud Prevention Solutions, Supported By Gates Foundation 20
Did Remote Working Doom a San Francisco Macy's? 215
French Court Issues Damages Award For Violation of GPL 52
TurboTax and H&R Block Want 'Permission to Blab Your Money Secrets' 29
Watch the Moment 43 Unionized YouTube Contractors Were All Laid Off 178
Ransomware Attack Hampers Prescription Drug Sales at 90% of US Pharmacies 81
Helium Discovery In Northern Minnesota May Be Biggest Ever In North America 34
Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That's Only About Roads 57
Police Now Need Warrant For IP Addresses, Canada's Top Court Rules 36
Worldwide Obesity Tops 1 Billion 144
Carbon Emissions Reached Record High in 2023, IEA Says 72
Government Watchdog Hacked US Federal Agency To Stress-Test Its Cloud Security 21
AI-Generated Articles Prompt Wikipedia To Downgrade CNET's Reliability Rating 54
Calendar Meeting Links Used To Spread Mac Malware 17
The FBI Is Using Push Notifications To Catch Sexual Predators 34
Avoiding Common Pitfalls When First Contributing To Open Source 20
'Paying People To Work on Open Source is Good Actually' 40
US Will Investigate National Security Risks Posed By Chinese-made 'Smart Cars' 68
Winklevoss Twins' Start-Up Will Pay Burned Customers $1 Billion 17
Wildfires Threaten Nuclear Weapons Plant In Texas 68
Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source 5
KDE Plasma 6 Released 35
AI, Drones, Security Cameras: San Francisco Mayor's Arsenal To Fight Crime 65
White House Looks To Curb Foreign Powers' Ability To Buy Americans' Sensitive Personal Data With Executive Order 117
Zurich Paid 30,000 Workers Double In $200 Million Bank Glitch 28
Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier' Began Melting In Mid-20th Century, Study Finds 60
US Judge Halts Government Effort To Monitor Crypto Mining Energy Use 90
'Open Documentation Academy' Offers On-Ramp To OSS 4
Uber-Like Surge Pricing Is Coming For Fast Food 198
Apple Sues To Win Trademarks For Augmented-Reality Software 28
Tumblr and Wordpress Are Preparing To Sell User Data To OpenAI and Midjourney, Report Says 42
Underwater Cables in Red Sea Damaged Months After Houthis Threatened To Do Just That 131
US Leading Global Alliance To Counter Foreign Government Disinformation 122
Canada To Compel Digital Platforms To Remove Harmful Content 81
Half of College Graduates Are Working High School Level Jobs 266
Supreme Court Hears Landmark Cases That Could Upend What We See on Social Media 282
$1 Billion Donation Will Provide Free Tuition at a Bronx Medical School 85
Are Corporate Interests Holding Back US Electrical Grid Expansion? 133
Julia v1.10 Improves Performance, and Gnuplot Gets Pie Charts 14
Texas Just Got a New 1.1-Million-Panel Solar Farm 93
What Happened After Peter Thiel Paid 271 Students to Drop Out of College? 114
License Plate-Scanning Company Violates Privacy of Millions of California Drivers, Argues Class Action 49
New York Will Start Requiring Credentials for All CS Teachers 48
Service Mesh Linkerd Moves Its Stable Releases Behind a Paywall 13
US Court Stalls Energy Dept Demand For Cryptocurrency Mining Data 103
Microplastics Found In Sediment Layers Untouched By Modern Humans 45
US Man Accused of Making $1.8 Million From Listening In On Wife's Remote Work Calls 107
Google Is Sunsetting the Google Pay App 14
Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price 28
Google Tests Removing the News Tab From Search Results 37
The Sun Just Launched Three Huge Solar Flares in 24 Hours. 50
Leisure Firm in UK Told Scanning Staff Faces is Illegal 17
UnitedHealth Says Change Healthcare Hacked by Nation State, as US Pharmacy Outages Drag On 15
JSTOR is Now Available in 1,000 Prisons 22
Switzerland Calls On UN To Explore Possibility of Solar Geoengineering 92
Yale Reinstates Standardized Test Requirement For Admission 74
Bluesky Now Open To Federation 26
AT&T Restores Service After Massive, Nationwide Outage 55
Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of EPA's 'Good Neighbor' Rule on Power Plant Pollution 98
GPay App and P2P Payments Will Stop Working in the US This June 4
FTC To Ban Avast From Selling Browsing Data For Advertising Purposes 28
Four-day Week Made Permanent For Most UK Firms In World's Biggest Trial 108
Popular Meditation App Must Pay 30% App Store Fee On 'Tips' Sent To Teachers 53
China's Rush To Dominate AI Comes With a Twist: It Depends on US Technology 32
US Offers Up To $15 Million For Information on LockBit Leaders 22
Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare 70
Darwin Online Has Virtually Reassembled the Naturalist's Personal Library 24
Disney Strikes Deal For Sony To Take Over Its DVD, Blu-ray Disc Business 82
YouTube Dominates TV Streaming In US, Per Nielsen's Latest Report 22
Cox Communications Wins Order Overturning $1 Billion US Copyright Verdict 17
Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License 12
Cox Communications Wins Order Overturning $1 Billion US Copyright Verdict 42
Wikileaks Founder in Last-Ditch Bid To Avoid US Extradition 215
Biden Administration Is Said To Slow Early Stage of Shift To Electric Cars 343
Capital One Is Buying Discover 178
Tech Leaders Fled San Francisco During the Pandemic. Now, They're Coming Back. 122
FBI Warns Chinese Malware Could Threaten Critical US Infrastructure 78
VC Firm Sequoia Capital Begins Funding More Open Source Fellowships 15
Thanks to Machine Learning, Scientist Finally Recover Text From The Charred Scrolls of Vesuvius 45
Ocean Temperatures Are Skyrocketing 110
Linux Becomes a CVE Numbering Authority (Like Curl and Python). Is This a Turning Point? 20
US Cities Try Changing Their Zoning Rules to Allow More Housing 191
Some 'Apple Pay'/Chase Customers Experienced an Outage 21
Could Solar Water Heaters Become Popular Again? 123
Will 'Precision Agriculture' Be Harmful to Farmers? 61
SoftBank's Son Seeks To Build a $100 Billion AI Chip Venture 18
Algebra To Return To San Francisco Middle Schools This Fall 97
NY Governor Wants To Criminalize Deceptive AI 39
No 'GPT' Trademark For OpenAI 22
DOJ Quietly Removed Russian Malware From Routers in US Homes and Businesses 71
Amazon Joins Companies Arguing US Labor Board is Unconstitutional 122
RFK Jr. Wins Deferred Injunction In Vax Social Media Suit 323
Air Canada Found Liable For Chatbot's Bad Advice On Plane Tickets 72
Scientists Resort To Once-Unthinkable Solutions To Cool the Planet 205
UK Falls Into Recession 224
Nvidia Becomes Third Most Valuable US Company 75
NYC Sues Social Media Companies Over Youth Mental Health Crisis 63
US Military Notifies 20,000 of Data Breach After Cloud Email Leak 11
Lyft's CEO Says 'My Bad' on Margin Error, 'It Was One Zero' 22
California Banned Single-Use Plastic Bags. Now It's Tossing More Plastic. 192
The US Military is Embedded in the Gaming World. Its Target: Teen Recruits 109
AMD's CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm Is Now Open Source 29
Firefox Maker Mozilla Is Cutting 60 Jobs After Naming New CEO 106
FTC Chair Khan: Stop Monopolies Before They Happen 40
NYC Fails Controversial Remote Learning Snow Day 'Test,' Public Schools Chancellor Says 60
FCC Commissioner Wants To Investigate Apple Over Beeper Mini Shutdown 63
Amazon Prime Video Drops Dolby Vision, Atmos Unless You Pay Extra 90
Climate Change Reversing Gains In Air Quality Across the US, Study Finds 121
Amazon Hides Cheaper Items With Faster Delivery, Lawsuit Alleges 23
The US Government Makes a $42 Million Bet On Open Cell Networks 26
Google Scholar is Manipulatable 16
Morgan Stanley Says Firms Are Focused on Costs Like Never Before 40

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