Technology Stories for 2014

WikiLeaks Claims Employee's Google Mail, Metadata Seized By US Government 53
India Blocks Code Sharing Websites On Anti-Terror Advisory 78
US Army Could Waive Combat Training For Hackers 223
Google Researcher Publishes Unpatched Windows 8.1 Security Vulnerability 129
Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? 312
The Coming Decline of 'Made In China' 327
Pew Survey: Tech Increases Productivity, But Also Time Spent Working 82
Doppler Radar Used By Police To Determine Home Occupancy 139
War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons 290
Peter Diamandis: Technology Is Dissolving National Borders 129
Security Research At the Hague, Netherlands: Mobile Network and Internet Threats 16
Out With the Red-Light Cameras, In With the Speeding Cameras 335
Over 78% of All PHP Installs Are Insecure 112
CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' 197
Gmail Access Starts To Come Back In China, State-Run Paper Blames Google 45
The One Mistake Google Keeps Making 386
Debris, Bodies Recovered From AirAsia Flight 8501 132
BU Students Working On a Cheaper, Gentler Suborbital Rocket 43
10 Years In, Mars Rover Opportunity Suffers From Flash Memory Degradation 105
United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info 349
Ask Slashdot: What Tech Companies Won't Be Around In 10 Years? 332
The New (Computer) Chess World Champion 107
Quake On an Oscilloscope 71
Aereo Gets OK From Bankruptcy Court To Auction Technology Assets 42
Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push 248
Kim Dotcom's Mega Again Announces Encrypted Browser-Based Chat Service 40
Gmail Reportedly Has Been Blocked In China 145
Twitter Bug Locks Out Many Users 69
School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees 355
Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry 278
New Proposed Path for Manned Trips to Mars: Let Mars' Gravity Capture Spacecraft 105
5,200 Days Aboard ISS, and the Surprising Reason the Mission Is Still Worthwhile 219
AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore 275
Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices 420
Facebook Apologizes For 'Year In Review' Photos 218
Phoronix Lauds AMD's Open Source Radeon Driver Progress For 2014 44
Google and Apple Weaseling Out of "Do Not Track" 145
Startup Acquisitions Herald Virtual, Augmented Reality Apps From Facebook 11
N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" 206
Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' 279
First Airbus A350 XWB Delivered, Will Start Service in January 65
India Faces Its First Major Net Neutrality Issue 61
Prosecutors Raid LG Offices Over Alleged Vandalism of Samsung Dishwashers 87
The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week 63
Lizard Squad Targets Tor 83
Tesla Roadster Update Extends Range 128
Paul Graham: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In 552
Net Neutrality Comments Overtaxed FCC's System 32
High Speed DIY M&M Sorting Machine Uses iPhone Brain 85
MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language 194
Bill Gates Sponsoring Palladium-Based LENR Technology 183
Kodak-Branded Smartphones On the Way 94
US Navy Sells 'Top Gun' Aircraft Carrier For One Penny 118
Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features 66
Federal Judge: Facebook Must Face Suit For Scanning Messages 48
Inside China's 'Christmas Factory' Town, Yiwu 32
Startups: the Crazy Ones, the Misfits, the Rebels ... the Dumb Ones 34
DARPA Wants Help Building a Drone That Flies Like a Hawk 42
App Gives You Free Ebooks of Your Paperbacks When You Take a "Shelfie" 131
Google Motion Denied In Lawsuit Against Mississippi Attorney General 23
US Internet Offers 10Gbps Fiber In Minneapolis 110
The History of the NORAD/Microsoft and Google Santa Trackers 59
How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us To Greater Harm 116
Human Eye's Oscillation Rate Determines Smooth Frame Rate 187
Study: Police Body-Cams Reduce Unacceptable Use of Force 368
TripAdvisor Fined In Italy For Fake Reviews 88
De-escalating the Android Patent War 63
Tech's Gender Gap Started At Stanford 224
Docker Image Insecurity 73
The Slow Death of Voice Mail 237
Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi 293
How a Wildfire Helped Spread the Hashtag 36
Comcast's Lobbyists Hand Out VIP Cards To Skip the Customer Service Wait 131
Devuan Progress Report Published 184
NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development 164
Goodbye, Alek's Internet-Controlled Christmas Lights for Celiac Research 21
Google Unveils New Self-Driving Car Prototype 90
North Korean Internet Is Down 360
TSA Has Record-Breaking Haul In 2014: Guns, Cannons, and Swords 276
Texas Instruments Builds New Energy Technology For the Internet of Things 54
Chromebook Gets "OK Google" and Intel's Easy Migration App 35
Major Security Vulnerabilities Uncovered At Frankfurt Airport 91
How a Massachusetts Man Invented the Global Ice Market 83
Librarians: The Google Before Google 94
"Infrared Curtain" Brings Touchscreen Technology To Cheap Cars 123
Viacom's Messy Relationship With YouTube and The Rise of Stephen Colbert 78
The Magic of Pallets 250
26 Foot Long Boat 3D Printed In 100,000 Different Pieces 58
Cuba Says the Internet Now a Priority 115
Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic 114
Judge: It's OK For Cops To Create Fake Instagram Accounts 209
Bitcoin Exec To Spend Two Years Behind Bars For Silk Road Transactions 69
Google+ Will Make Your Videos Look Better 37
Seattle Police Held Hackathon To Redact Footage From Body Cameras 93
Ask Slashdot: Is an Open Source .NET Up To the Job? 421
Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety 285
Google Sues Mississippi Attorney General For Conspiring With Movie Industry 114
Boeing and BlackBerry Making a Self-Destructing Phone 75
65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers 246
Tor Network May Be Attacked, Says Project Leader 86
Tesla About To Start Battery-Swap Pilot Program 133
All the Evidence the Government Will Present In the Silk Road Trial Is Online 52
Anyone Can Now Launch Their Own Version of the Pirate Bay 81
Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower 221
Marissa Mayer's Reinvention of Yahoo! Stumbles 222
Extracting Data From the Microsoft Band 51
"Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too 230
Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? 232
Australia Moves Toward New Restrictions On Technology Export and Publication 91
India Successfully Test Fires Its Heaviest Rocket 56
Will Ripple Eclipse Bitcoin? 144
Hackers Compromise ICANN, Access Zone File Data System 110
Who's To Blame For Rules That Block Tesla Sales In Most US States? 141
Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC 68
Startup Helps You Build Your Very Own Picosatellite On a Budget 21
Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites 396
Navy Develops a Shark Drone For Surveillance 45
Google Strikes Deal With Verizon To Reduce Patent Troll Suits 20
NASA Tests Feasibility of 3D Printing on the Moon and Other Planets 58
Book Review: Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress 31
Research Highlights How AI Sees and How It Knows What It's Looking At 130
Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland 177
New Cargo Ship Is 488 Meters Long 116
Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS 388
A New Law For Superconductors 53
ODF Support In Google Drive 40
Single Group Dominates Second Round of Anti Net-Neutrality Comment Submissions 218
A Domain Registrar Is Starting a Fiber ISP To Compete With Comcast 65
Verizon "End-to-End" Encrypted Calling Includes Law Enforcement Backdoor 170
Ask Slashdot: How Should a Liberal Arts Major Get Into STEM? 280
In IT, Beware of Fad Versus Functional 153
Uber Limits 'God View' To Improve Rider Privacy 76
Virtual Reality Experiment Wants To Put White People In Black Bodies 448
Touring a Carnival Cruise Simulator: 210 Degrees of GeForce-Powered Projection 42
Skype Unveils Preview of Live English-To-Spanish Translator 99
The Joker Behind the Signetics 25120 Write-Only Memory Chip Hoax 100
Webcast Funerals Growing More Popular 70
BT To Buy UK 4G Leader EE For £12.5 Billion 39
Telepresence Store Staffed Remotely Using Robots 52
Graphene: Fast, Strong, Cheap, and Impossible To Use 187
Snowden Leaks Prompt Internet Users Worldwide To Protect Their Data 53
Want To Influence the World? Map Reveals the Best Languages To Speak 150
Jaguar and Land Rover Just Created Transparent Pillars For Cars 191
The Pirate Bay Responds To Raid 302
The Personal Computer Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain 115
Waze Causing Anger Among LA Residents 611
Interviews: Ask Jonty Hurwitz About Art and Engineering 31
Govt Docs Reveal Canadian Telcos Promise Surveillance Ready Networks 74
Why Didn't Sidecar's Flex Pricing Work? 190
Sir Richard Branson Quietly Shelves Virgin Submarine Plan 47
Eric Schmidt: To Avoid NSA Spying, Keep Your Data In Google's Services 281
SpaceX Set To Create 300 New US Jobs and Expand Facilities 43
How Identifiable Are You On the Web? 160
Spanish Media Group Wants Gov't Help To Keep Google News In Spain 191
Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? 259
French Cabbies Say They'll Block Paris Roads On Monday Over Uber 295
Forbes Blasts Latests Windows 7 Patch as Malware 230
Job Postings Offer Clues to Future of Google Fiber 38
Google Suggests Separating Students With 'Some CS Knowledge' From Novices 307
Facebook Drops Bing Search Results 33
OpenMotics Offers Open Source (and Open Hardware) Home Automation 36
California's Hydrogen Highway Adds Another Station 87
Ask Slashdot: Best Software To Revive PocketPCs With Windows Mobile 5-6? 110
Airbus Attacked By French Lawmaker For Talking To SpaceX 168
Seagate Bulks Up With New 8 Terabyte 'Archive' Hard Drive 219
Cardboard Hits Half a Million Mark, Gets an SDK 28
Google Earth API Will Be Retired On December 12, 2015 75
Doctors Replace Patient's Thoracic Vertebrae With 3D-Printed Replica 55
Tour the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum - Part Two (Video) 14
Hollywood's Secret War With Google 176
BGP Hijacking Continues, Despite the Ability To Prevent It 57
2014 Geek Gift Guide 113
Is Enterprise IT More Difficult To Manage Now Than Ever? 241
3D Printer Owner's Network Puts Together Buyer's Guide 62
Tracking the Mole Inside Silk Road 2.0 81
Computer Error Grounds Flights In the UK 68
Ford Ditches Microsoft Partnership On Sync, Goes With QNX 233
Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them 515
Google Closing Engineering Office In Russia 157
Facebook Offers Solution To End Drunken Posts 134
"Lax" Crossdomain Policy Puts Yahoo Mail At Risk 50
Lenovo Recalls LS-15 Power Cords 71
Are the TSA's New Electronic Device Screenings Necessary? 184
How Your In-Store Shopping Affects the Ads You See On Facebook 69
Congress Passes Bill Allowing Warrantless Forfeiture of Private Communications 379
U.S. Passenger Vehicle Fleet Dirtier After 2008 Recession 176
In Iowa, a Phone App Could Serve As Driver's License 207
Army Building an Airport Just For Drones 48
Google News To Shut Down In Spain On December 16th 183
California Sues Uber Over Practices 139
Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG 377
Why Open Source Matters For Sensitive Email 73
Australia Pushes Ahead With Website Blocking In Piracy Fight 100
US Navy Authorizes Use of Laser In Combat 225
BitTorrent Launches Project Maelstrom, the First Torrent-Based Browser 67
Fraud Bots Cost Advertisers $6 Billion 190
LA Mayor Proposes Earthquake Retrofits On Thousands of Buildings 178
An Algorithm To Prevent Twitter Hashtag Degeneration 162
AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us 417
Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down 251
$35 Quad-core Hacker SBC Offers Raspberry Pi-like Size and I/O 140
AMD Offers a Performance Boost, Over 20 New Features With Catalyst Omega Drivers 73
Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots 291
Fedora 21 Released 106
Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again 184
Tour the Vintage Radio and Communications Museum (Video) 19
CIA Lied Over Brutal Interrogations 772
Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service 59
High Temperature Superconductivity Record Smashed By Sulfur Hydride 80
Just-Announced X.Org Security Flaws Affect Code Dating Back To 1987 172
Microsoft's New Windows Monetization Methods Could Mean 'Subscriptions' 415
Court Orders Uber To Shut Down In Spain 280
Material Possiblities: A Flying Drone Built From Fungus 52
Unity 8 Will Bring 'Pure' Linux Experience To Mobile Devices 125
POODLE Flaw Returns, This Time Hitting TLS Protocol 54
Civil Rights Groups Divided On Net Neutrality 127
Bluetooth Gains Direct Internet Access, Security Enhancements 47
China Plans Superheavy Rocket, Ups Reliability 86
Ask Slashdot: Are Any Certifications Worth Going For? 317
The Failed Economics of Our Software Commons 205
Google Releases Android Studio 1.0, the First Stable Version of Its IDE 115
Civil Case Uses Fitbit Data To Disprove Insurance Fraud 99
Uber Banned In Delhi After Taxi Driver Accused of Rape 180
Heathrow Plane In Near Miss With Drone 325
How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Twitterbot 54
Tesla Wants Texas Auto Sales Regulations Loosened 137
Spectrum Vega: A Blast From the Past 110
Twitter Use By Romney and Obama In 2012 Highlight the Speed of Social Media 47
Canadian Agency Drops Cases Rather Than Deal With New Requirements For ISP Info 29
Neglecting the Lessons of Cypherpunk History 103
45-Year Physics Mystery Shows a Path To Quantum Transistors 56
A Case Against Further Government Spectrum Auctions 66
Man Caught Trying To Sell Plans For New Aircraft Carrier 388
US Treasury Dept: Banks Should Block Tor Nodes 84
EU May Not Unify Its Data Protection Rules After All 55
Orion Capsule Safely Recovered, Complete With 12-Year-Old Computer Guts 197
Ofcom Will Remove Mandatory Ham Callsign ID Interval, Allow Encryption For Some 57
Make a Kids' Power Wheel Toy Awesome for $500 (Video) 39
Should IT Professionals Be Exempt From Overtime Regulations? 545
In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite 102
Trains May Soon Come Equipped With Debris-Zapping Lasers 194
Why Apple, Google, and FB Have Their Own Programming Languages 161
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electronics-Induced Inattentiveness? 312
Why Elon Musk's Batteries Frighten Electric Companies 461
Node.js Forked By Top Contributors 254
Ron Wyden Introduces Bill To Ban FBI 'Backdoors' In Tech Products 109
How Astronomers Will Take the "Image of the Century": a Black Hole 129
Every Weapon, Armored Truck, and Plane the Pentagon Gave To Local Police 191
Ultrasound Used To Create Haptics That Can Be Touched and Felt 41
Ocean-Going Robot Fleet Completes Fish Tracking Mission 10

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