Politics Stories for 2016

Republicans Propose Bill To Impose Fines For Live-Streaming From House Floor 157
US Announces Response To Russian Election Hacking [Update] 821
GamerGate Critic Brianna Wu To Run For Congress 511
US Fails To Renegotiate Arms Control Rule For Hacking Tools 31
Electoral College Elects Donald Trump As President 1069
IBM Employees Protest Cooperation With Donald Trump 600
US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change 534
President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks 531
White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack 715
Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews 98
Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories 415
Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here 488
Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report 551
Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Will Advise Trump On Business Issues 244
IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump 244
Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other 292
Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change 858
Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account 470
DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State 146
President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election 557
White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law 48
US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook 88
Bitcoin Could Rise By 165% To $2,000 in 2017 Driven by Trump's 'Spending Binge' and Dollar Rally 255
Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism 588
T-Mobile CFO: Less Regulation, Repeal of Net Neutrality By Trump Would Be 'Positive For My Industry' 158
White House Silence Seems To Confirm $4 Billion 'Computer Science For All' K-12 Initiative Is No More 280
Are We Seeing Propaganda About Russian Propaganda? 335
The US Government Funds A War On Online Fake News 360
Drupal Event Apologizes For Giving Out Copies Of Playboy 251
Of 8 Tech Companies, Only Twitter Says It Would Refuse To Help Build Muslim Registry For Trump 588
Destructive Hacks Strike Saudi Arabia, Posing Challenge to Trump 184
Mozilla Puts New Money To Use Fighting For 'Internet Health' 110
Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules 1058
Trump Appoints Third Net Neutrality Critic To FCC Advisory Team 191
Reddit To Crack Down On Abuse By Punishing Hundreds of 'Toxic Users' 233
The Internet Archive Is Building a Canadian Copy To Protect Itself From Trump 590
EPA Increases Amount of Renewable Fuel To Be Blended Into Gasoline 351
Online Pranksters Mock Trump's $149 Christmas Ornament, Rename Trump Tower on Google Maps 524
Will Trump Protect America's IT Workers From H-1B Visa Abuses? 400
Lawrence Lessig Calls For The Electoral College to Choose Clinton Over Trump 1430
Advertising Company AppNexus Bans Breitbart News Over Hate Speech 434
Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn Had 'Forbidden' Internet Connection At the Pentagon, Says Report 314
Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines 299
Russian Hacker Conspiracy Theory is Weak, But the Case For Paper Ballots is Strong 286
Trump To Scrap NASA Climate Research In Crackdown On 'Politicized Science' 667
Clinton Urged To Challenge Election Results Due To Possible Hacking [Update] 1321
Snowden Can Be Asked To Testify In Person In Germany NSA Probe 72
Trump Says He's Going To 'Get Apple To Build a Big Plant In the United States' 471
American Computer Scientists Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton Receive Presidential Medals of Freedom 126
Trump Admits 'Some Connectivity' Between Climate Change and Human Activity 559
Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds 385
Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency 600
US Sets Plan To Build Two Exascale Supercomputers 59
Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team 395
Snopes.com Editor on Fake News: Social Media Is Not the Problem 624
Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? 241
Dutch Science Academy Plans A Women-Only Election 266
Mark Zuckerberg Announces Facebook Will Fight Fake News -- Next To An Ad With Fake News 149
France To Shut Down All Coal-Fired Power Plants By 2023 328
NSA Chief: Nation-State Made 'Conscious Effort' To Sway US Presidential Election 667
James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, Has Resigned 170
Steve Bannon Suggests Having Too Many Asian Tech CEOs Undermines 'Civic Society' 805
FCC Abides By GOP Request To Stop What It's Doing, Deletes Everything From Meeting Agenda 119
Facebook Users Interacted Most With Articles From Fox News, CNN and Breitbart In Month Leading Up To Nov 10 212
China Tells Trump Climate Change Isn't a Hoax it Invented 302
Cybersecurity CEO Gets Fired After Threatening To Kill Trump On Facebook 497
US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations 173
Google Surfaces Fake News About Election Results 243
China Threatens To Cut Sales of iPhones and US Cars if 'Naive' Trump Pursues Trade War 742
Is Technology A Bigger Story Than Donald Trump? 430
Will Trump's Presidency Bring More Surveillance To The US? 412
WikiLeaks Calls for Pardons From President Obama -- Or President Trump 445
The Internet Association, Whose Members Include Amazon, Facebook and Google, Writes Open Letter To Donald Trump 19
Peter Thiel Is Joining Donald Trump's Transition Team 820
Trump Picks Top Climate Skeptic To Lead EPA Transition 1066
How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality 235
Russian Hackers Launch Targeted Cyberattacks Hours After Trump's Win 160
Facebook on its Fake News Problem: 'There's So Much More We Need To Do' 284
Russia Says it Was in Touch With Trump Campaign During Election 469
Silicon Valley Investors Call For California To Secede From the US After Trump Win 1368
Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook 499
Slashdot Asks: Should The US Abolish The Electoral College? 1081
Donald Trump Wins US Presidency 2837
Automakers, Dependent on Mexico, Face a Rougher Road with Trump 106
Bitcoin Boosted by Safe-Haven Demand After Trump Victory 45
What the Trump Win Means For Tech and Science 382
4chan May Have Brought Down Pro-Clinton Phone Lines Before Election Day 99
Ask Slashdot: Should Web Browsers Have 'Fact Checking' Capability Built-In? 240
US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories 436
Uber, Lyft, Zipcar Offer Free Or Discounted Rides To Polls On Election Day 65
Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close 174
Edward Snowden Kills Team Trump's Conspiracy Theory By Explaining How The FBI Can Quickly Comb Through Email 488
Wikipedia's Not as Biased as You Might Think, Say Harvard Researchers 171
Security Firm Shows How To Hack a US Voting Machine 209
Secret Service, DHS Scramble To Secure America's Election 360
Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money 142
Why a Theoretical Physicist Wants All State Bills To Be Online Before Final Vote 304
Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law 248
White House, 35 States To Boost Electric Vehicle Charging Stations 72
UK's Brexit Cannot Pass Without Parliament Approval 609
Newly Published WikiLeaks Emails Show Clinton Campaign Communicated With State Department 454
Trump Organization Owns More Than 3,600 Domain Names, Many of Which Bash Trump 224
Microsoft Says Russia-Linked Hackers Are Exploiting Newly Discovered Flaw In Windows OS 111
Google's Schmidt Drew Up Draft Plan For Clinton In 2014 418
Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank 548
'Armies' of Twitter Bots Bolster Both The Trump And Clinton Campaigns 214
Pirate Party Gains Seats In Iceland's Election 105
Apple Shared User Data With Governments, Says WikiLeaks Email 106
FBI Probes Newly Discovered Hillary Clinton Emails and Reopens Investigation 822
Latest WikiLeaks Reveal Suggests Facebook Is Too Close For Comfort With Clinton 437
Should Journalists Ignore Some Leaked Emails? 361
John McAfee Thinks North Korea Hacked Dyn, and Iran Hacked the DNC 149
'Anonymous' Hacker Indicted As His Hunger Strike Continues 67
AI Platform Assesses Trump's and Clinton's Emotional Intelligence 184
Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech 235
How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell's Gmail Accounts 116
Hillary Clinton's Campaign Creates Way To Make Money From Donald Trump's Tweets 331
Donald Trump Running Insecure Email Servers 445
Mark Zuckerberg Defends Peter Thiel's Trump Ties In Internal Memo 562
Clinton Campaign Considered Bill Gates, Tim Cook For Vice President 171
Anti-Defamation League and Pepe the Frog's Creator Are Teaming Up To Save Pepe From Hate-Symbol Status 380
Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump 636
Hackers Steal Credit Card Data From Visitors of US Senate GOP Committee Website 29
WikiLeaks: Ecuador Cut Off Assange's Internet Access 315
Report: Russian Hackers Phished The DNC And Clinton Campaign Using Fake Gmail Forms 435
Transcripts of Clinton's Wall Street Talks Released in New Wikileaks Dump 394
CIA Prepping For Possible Cyber Strike Against Russia 352
Top Democrats Request FBI Investigation of Trump Campaign Ties To Russia Over Hacking 493
President Obama Orders Government To Plan For 'Space Weather' 169
Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election 367
Ken Bone May Have Violated FTC Guidelines With Uber Tweet 95
4Chan Hackers Claim To Have Remotely Wiped John Podesta's iPhone and iPad 269
Senator Wants Nationwide, All-Mail Voting To Counter Election Hacks 454
White House Vows 'Proportional' Response For Russian DNC Hack 396
WikiLeaks Publishes Cryptic UFO Emails Sent To Clinton Campaign From Former Blink 182 Singer 205
UK Is Banning Apple Watch From Cabinet Meetings Over Russian Hacking Fears 106
WikiLeaks Posts 2,000 More Emails From John Podesta 377
Dilbert Creator Scott Adams Endorses Gary Johnson For President 523
Milo Yiannopoulos Wants To Buy 4Chan, Promises Free Speech Haven 369
Sean Parker Contributes $9 Million As States Push To Legalize Marijuana 255
Clinton Responds To WikiLeaks During Debate, And Blames Russian Hackers 689
One U.S. Election-System Vendor Is Using Developers in Serbia 83
WikiLeaks Releases Paid Clinton Speech Excerpts, And Threatens To Expose Google 756
US Intel Officially Blames the Russian Government For Hacking DNC 287
Indonesia Wants To Criminalize Memes 163
Guccifer 2.0 Dumps a Bunch of Clinton Foundation Donor Data 404
FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say 500
WikiLeaks' Big Tuesday Announcement Will Now Take Place Via Video 380
Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump 843
Pennsylvania's Voting Machines Are Running Windows XP 140
Federal Prosecutors Actually Prosecute H1-B Fraud 111
Newsweek Website Attacked After Report On Trump, Cuban Embargo 342
Oscar Winners, Sports Stars and Bill Gates Are Building Lavish Bunkers 332
Four States Sue To Stop Internet Transition 296
Comey Denies Clinton Email 'Reddit' Cover-Up 459
US Believes Hackers Are Shielded By Russia To Hide Its Role In Cyberintrusions: WSJ 109
FBI Investigating Possible Hack of Democratic Party Staffer Cell Phones 107
Trump Takes On 'Crooked Hillary' With Snapchat Geofilter 136
Scientists Study How Non-Scientists Deny Climate Change 680
US Panel Extends Nuclear Power Tax Credit 259
Senators Accuse Russia Of Disrupting US Election 199
VR Devs Pull Support For Oculus Rift Until Palmer Luckey Steps Down 657
Senate Panel Authorizes Money For Mission To Mars 137
Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Is Secretly Funding Trump's Meme Machine 867
Taiwan Asks Google To Blur Its Military Facilities In South China Sea 52
Hacker Leaks Michelle Obama's Passport 122
Oversight Orders Reddit To Preserve Deleted Posts In Clinton Investigation 382
Trump Opposes Plan For US To Hand Over Internet Oversight To a Global Governance 527
Computer Specialist Who Deleted Clinton Emails May Have Asked Reddit For Tips 612
Robot Handcuffed and Arrested At Moscow Rally 46
Assange Agrees to US Prison If Obama Pardons Chelsea Manning 401
Ask Slashdot: Why Aren't Techies Improving The World? 537
FCC Republicans Refused To Give Congress Net Neutrality Documents 99
Colin Powell's Private Email Account Has Been Hacked 248
Guccifer 2.0 Releases More DNC Documents 333
Stanford Engineers Propose A Technology To Break The Net Neutrality Deadlock 199
Edward Snowden Makes 'Moral' Case For Presidential Pardon 387
Are Governments Denying Internet Access To Their Political Opponents? 149
Facebook Co-Founder Commits $20 Million To Help Defeat Trump 459
AAPS Doctors Run Survey On Hillary Clinton's Health 629
Researcher Gets 20 Days In Prison For Hacking State Websites As Political Stunt 85
White House Names Retired Air Force General As First Cyber Security Chief 36
New Snowden Leaks Reveal More About NSA Satellite Eavesdropping 100
US Investigating Potential Covert Russian Plan To Disrupt November Elections 531
Climate Deal: US and China Join Paris Climate Accords 163
Feds Spend Nearly $500K To 'Combat Online Trolling' 184
Clinton's First Email Server Was a Power Mac Tower 223
The Unsettling Relationship Between Russia and Wikileaks 271
Romanian Hacker 'Guccifer' Sentenced To 52 Months In US Prison 117
Apple CEO Tim Cook on EU Apple Tax Case: 'Total Political Crap' 410
FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems 163
'Social Media ID, Please?' Proposed US Law Greeted With Anger 220
US Patients Battle EpiPen Prices And Regulations By Shopping Online 396
White House Is Planning To Let More Foreign Entrepreneurs Work In the US 131
Facebook Says Humans Won't Write Its Trending Topic Descriptions Anymore 76
Hillary Clinton Used BleachBit To Wipe Emails 569
Facebook Knows Your Political Preferences 183
FBI Finds 14,900 More Documents From Hillary Clinton's Email Server 528
Nuclear Waste Accident 2 Years Ago May Cost More Than $2 Billion To Clean Up 20
Massachusetts Will Tax Ride-Sharing Companies To Subsidize Taxis 445
Group Wants To Shut Down Tor For a Day On September 1 229
Will Internet Voting Endanger The Secret Ballot? 219
How the H-1B Visa Program Impacts America's Tech Workers 332
Transfer of Internet Governance Will Go Ahead On Oct. 1 155
Your Political Facebook Posts Aren't Changing How Your Friends Think 399
DNC Creates 'Cybersecurity Board' Without Any Cybersecurity Experts 156
Can We Avoid Government Surveillance By Leaving The Grid? 264
Voting Machines Can Be Easily Compromised, Symantec Demonstrates 217
Hacker Publishes Cell Phone Numbers of House Democrats 82
Cracking The Code On Trump Tweets 330
Tor Promises Not To Build Backdoors Into Its Services 69
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Secretly Censored Abusive Responses To President Obama, Says Report 308
Hack of Democrats' Accounts Was Wider Than Believed, Officials Say 285
Assange Implies Murdered DNC Staffer Was WikiLeaks' Source 706
China To UK: 'Golden' Ties At Crucial Juncture Over Nuclear Delay 170
Immigration Attorneys: Industry Pushes Foreign Labor, Claiming 'US Students Can't Hack It In Tech' 472
32 States Offer Online Voting, But Experts Warn It Isn't Secure 182
Edward Snowden Is Not Dead Despite Mysterious Tweets, Says Glenn Greenwald 93
Assange Says Wikileaks is 'Working On' Hacking Donald Trump's Tax Return 231
Conservative Site Argues Profiting from Snowden 'Treason' May Violate Law 236
Malware Linked To Government of Kazakhstan Targets Journalists, Political Activists and Lawyers, Says Report 23
Ask Slashdot: Should The DHS Designate Elections As Critical Infrastructure? 279
Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff 447
Top DNC Staffers Leave Following WikiLeaks Email Scandal 424
Apple Replaces The Pistol Emoji With A Water Gun 246
Britain's Scientists Are 'Freaking Out' Over Brexit 517
Russian Government Gets 'Hacked Back', Attacks Possibly Launched By The NSA 173
Russia's Rise To Cyberwar Superpower 79
Bruce Schneier: Our Election Systems Must Be Secured If We Want To Stop Foreign Hackers 204
Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers 265
Judge Rules Political Robocalls Are Protected By First Amendment 191
FBI Probes Hacking of Democratic Congressional Group 159
Gary Johnson: I'd Consider Pardoning Snowden, Chelsea Manning 264
WikiLeaks Releases Hacked Voicemails From DNC Officials 177
Tech Takes Its K-12 CS Education and Immigration Crisis To the DNC 118
Trump Calls For Russia To Cyber-Invade the United States To Find Clinton's 'Missing' Emails 1017
'DNC Hacker' Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say 704
Facebook Admits Blocking WikiLeaks' DNC Email Links, But Won't Say Why 270
Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump 769
Homeland Security Border Agents Can Seize Your Phone 319
Star Trek's 50th Anniversary Celebrated at Comic-Con 106
Maximizing Economic Output With Linear Programming...and Communism 519
Avast Suckers GOP Delegates Into Connecting To Insecure Wi-Fi Hotspots 109
Hillary Clinton Chooses Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine As Running Mate 384
'The Hillary Leaks' - Wikileaks Releases 19,252 Previously Unseen DNC Emails 461
WikiLeaks Releases 300K Turkey Government Emails In Response To Erdogan's Post-Coup Purges 231
Library of Congress Hit With a Denial-Of-Service Attack 23
BuzzFeed and Washington Post To Use Robots For RNC Coverage 80
RNC Is Preparing For Cyberattacks 96
Cities Struggling To Crack Down On Airbnb Renters 260

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