Technology Stories for 2022

The Shameful Open Secret Behind Southwest's Failure? Software Shortcomings 159
Inspired by Amazon, Paid Promotions Spread to Other Online Shopping Sites in 2022 12
Google Will Pay $9.5 Million To Settle Washington DC AG's Location-Tracking Lawsuit 9
The Dark Sky's iOS App Will Stop Working Imminently 52
Microsoft's $200 Surface Earbuds Have Seemingly Been Abandoned 32
The 240Hz OLED Gaming Displays Are Coming 97
Sage Accused of 'Strong Arm' Tactics Over Move To Software Subscriptions 98
Desktop GPU Sales Hit 20-Year Low 167
Police in China Can Track Protests By Enabling 'Alarms' on Hikvision Software 36
Google Voice Will Now Warn You About Potential Spam Calls 28
Software Engineer Charged For Theft Inspired By the Movie 'Office Space' 99
Waze Tests New Alerts Warning Drivers About Roads With a 'History of Crashes' 35
Tesla Model Y Is Now the Best-Selling Car In All of Europe 95
'Lifetime Value' Is Silicon Valley's Next Buzzword 32
HandBrake 1.6.0 Debuts AV1 Transcoding Support for the Masses 28
Europe Taps Tech's Power-Hungry Data Centers To Heat Homes 29
FTX Diverted $200 Million of Customer Money For Two Venture Deals, SEC Says 26
Solana Founders Scramble To Move Past FTX's Stain on Their Token 36
TSMC Starts Volume Production of Most Advanced Chips in Taiwan 58
Metaverse Off To Ominous Start After VR Headset Sales Shrank In 2022 133
Twitter Rival Mastodon Rejects Funding To Preserve Nonprofit Status 56
US To Require COVID Tests For Travelers Coming From China 85
Misleading Ads Fueled Rapid Growth of Online Mental Health Companies 50
US House Administration Arm Bans TikTok on Official Devices 23
Can the AI Driving ChatGPT Help To Detect Early Signs of Alzheimer's Disease? 31
Google Employees Brace for a Cost-Cutting Drive as Anxiety Mounts 66
No More TikTok On House of Representatives' Smartphones 78
Google Assistant Takes the Crown Beating Bixby and Siri In Voice Assistant Test 53
Southwest Canceled 5,400 Flights In Less Than 48 Hours 50
Baidu Starts Offering Nighttime Driverless Taxis in China 28
The Rise of China GPU Makers 78
US Copyright Office Finds 'Deep Disagreement' on Anti-Piracy Measures 63
Bitcoin Hashrate Drops Nearly 40% as Deadly US Storm Unplugs Miners 140
The Worst-Selling Microsoft Software Product of All Time: OS/2 for the Mach 20 127
Ask Slashdot: What Note-Taking App Do You Use? 187
Windows 95 Went the Extra Mile To Ensure Compatibility of SimCity, Other Games 53
Mozilla Just Fixed an 18-Year-Old Firefox Bug 61
Did YouTube Pay Too Much to Broadcast Sunday Football Games? 45
Microsoft Employee Accidentally Announces That Notepad is Getting Tabs in Windows 11 73
Patched Windows Bug Was Actually a Dangerous Wormable Code-Execution Vulnerability 20
Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 Launches Fund to Invest in Open Metaverse Projects 25
TikTok Spied On Forbes Journalists 59
Google's Quest for Clean Energy Impeded by Small-but-Dominant Utilities in Some US States 53
Rust-GPU Project Now Supports SPIR-V Ray-tracing 17
TikTok Banned on Government Devices Under Spending Bill Passed by Congress 52
Facebook Parent Meta To Settle Cambridge Analytica Case For $725 Million 25
'Easily' Replaceable Batteries May Soon Be Required By EU Law 192
Even the FBI Says You Should Use An Ad Blocker 87
DuckDuckGo Will Block Google's 'Invasive, Annoying' Sign-In Popups 39
Some Universities Are Now Restricting TikTok Access on Campus 36
Spam Texts Are Out of Control, Say All 51 Attorneys General 37
ChatGPT Is a 'Code Red' for Google's Search Business 89
Google is Making Its Internal Video-Blurring Privacy Tool Open Source 5
AI-Created Comic Has Been Deemed Ineligible for Copyright Protection 59
Kremlin-Backed Hackers Targeted a 'Large' Petroleum Refinery In a NATO Nation 68
Old Blu-Ray Players Can Be Turned Into Microscopes 20
Intimate Photos By Roomba Vacuums Leaked Online 52
The Intel P-Series Was a Step Back 48
New IRS Rules Could Affect Venmo, Zelle and CashApp Users 183
Comcast Agents Mistakenly Reject Some Poor People Who Qualify for Free Internet 42
Russian Arms Manufacturer Developing Tech To Hunt Starlink Dishes 129
Raspberry Pi 5 Not Launching Until After 2023 83
Audi Is Converting All Factories To Produce EVs As It Phases Out Gas Cars 133
AWS Wins 5-year, $700M+ Contract for Cloud Services To US Navy 25
Meta To Delay Closing Within Unlimited Deal by One Month 6
USPS Expects To Only Buy Electric Delivery Vehicles Starting in 2026 183
Facebook Held Back on Naming Cambridge Analytica in 2017 17
Congress Blew Its Last Chance To Curb Big Tech's Power 46
Taiwan Investigates TikTok For Suspected Illegal Operations 11
Tumblr Is Launching a Livestreaming Feature 8
Google Introduces End-to-End Encryption for Gmail 41
Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive? 134
Facebook's Meta Will Devote 20% of Costs To Metaverse Next Year 71
IRS Accidentally Releases 112,000 Taxpayers' Private Data Again 45
How Amazon Put Ukraine's 'Government in a Box' 23
Corsair Says Bug, Not Keylogger, Behind Some K100 Keyboards' Creepy Behavior 35
Google Can Now Read Doctors' Bad Handwriting 61
Meta Hit With EU Antitrust Charges Over Marketplace Service 32
New Nonprofit 'Flickr Foundation' Hopes to Preserve Its Billions of Photos For 100 Years 22
Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Modern Terminal Emulators? 286
How an Unlikely Subpoena to Google Helped Solve a Complex International Missing Person Case 46
America Now Requires Drone Manufacturers to Include 'Remote ID' Transmitting 186
John Carmack Resigns Meta VR Post, Leaves VR Industry, Criticizes Meta's 'Inefficiency' 163
PineTab 2 Is Another Try At a Linux-Based Tablet, Without the 2020 Supply Crunch 36
Google, Apple and Mozilla Team Up To Build a Better Browser Benchmark 26
Oregon City Drops Fight To Keep Google Water Use Private 74
Waymo's Driverless Robotaxis Are Now Doing Airport Trips in Phoenix 12
Tech Groups Ask Supreme Court To Review Texas Social Media Law 115
Stability AI Plans To Let Artists Opt Out of Stable Diffusion 3 Image Training 45
Google Debuts OSV-Scanner, a Go Tool For Finding Security Holes in Open Source 16
Meta Halts Construction of Two Data Centers In Denmark 10
Dutch Chip Equipment Maker ASML's CEO Pushes Back Against US Export Rules On China 66
15.5-Inch MacBook Air Expected To Launch In Spring 2023 24
TikTok Pushes Potentially Harmful Content To Users as Often as Every 39 Seconds, Study Says 77
New York Financial Regulator Issues Cryptocurrency Guidance for Banks 4
GPS Signals Are Being Disrupted in Russian Cities 175
Senate Passes Legislation To Ban TikTok From US Government Devices 50
Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom Launch Overture Maps Foundation To Develop Interoperable Open Map Data 34
Bezos and Gates Back Synchron in Drive for Brain Implant Breakthrough 44
Microsoft Bans Mining Cryptocurrency on Its Online Services 25
Rules On Liquids and Laptops To Be Eased At UK Airports From June 2024 80
US Is Seizing 48 Websites In Sting of Cyberattack-For-Hire Services 13
Apple Satellite Plans May Extend Beyond Emergencies, Suggests New Patent 28
US Authorities Charge 8 Social Media Influencers In Securities Fraud Scheme 25
Jack Dorsey Says He Will Give $1 Million Per Year To Signal App 73
You Can Hook Your MIDI Keyboard Up To a Website With Firefox 108 79
YouTube Moderation Bots Will Start Issuing Warnings, 24-Hour Bans 59
PayPal Launches Integration With MetaMask Wallet for Ethereum Transactions 20
Z-Wave Alliance Says Z-Wave Source Code Project Is Complete, Now Open And Widely Available To Members 51
Microsoft Targets Internet Expansion in Africa, Longer-Term Cloud Adoption 8
Ask Slashdot: What Should Mozilla Do To Boost Firefox's Market Share? 407
Tether To Phase Out Lending of Its Own Coins To Customers 21
Secret Software Change Allowed FTX To Use Client Money 62
Supreme Court Asks for Biden Administration's Views in Google Copyright Case 30
Tesla Launches Steam In Its Cars With Thousands of Games 105
Google Execs Warn Company's Reputation Could Suffer If It Moves Too Fast On AI-Chat Tech 57
China Readying $143 Billion Package For Its Chip Firms In Face of US Curbs 26
EU Advances Its Data-Flow Deal After US Makes Surveillance Changes 24
China Hits Back at US Chip Sanctions With WTO Dispute 39
Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Seek To Ban TikTok From the US 122
US Air Force Launches First Operational Hypersonic Missile 102
Google Delays Start of Manifest V2 Chrome Extension Deprecation 9
Raspberry Pi Inventory Improving, Could Reach Pre-Pandemic Levels In 2023 55
AI Art Apps Are Cluttering the App Store Following Lensa AI's Success 7
Poor Software Costs the US 2.4 Trillion 78
UK Arrests Five For Selling 'Dodgy' Point of Sale Software 23
PC Price Cuts Are Coming as Manufacturers Rethink Their Portfolios 42
Hype Around Esports Is Fading as Investors and Sponsors Dry Up 98
Support for Windows 7 and 8 Fully Ends in January, Including Microsoft Edge 81
Meta Kills Facebook Connectivity After Nearly a Decade 10
Japan To Join US Effort to Tighten Chip Exports To China 23
OSnews Decries 'The Mass Extinction of Unix Workstations' 284
WSJ: Europe, US Need Grand Bargain on Chips and EVs to Counter China 61
Is This Nature App the Key To Saving Civilization? 59
Can a 'Virtual' Manual Transmission Bring the Stick Shift to Electric Cars? 376
Google's Dart Programming Language Soon Won't Take 'Null' For an Answer 43
After US Sanctions, Huawei Seeks New Revenue By Licensing Its 5G Patents to Rival 15
To Pursue Climate Goals, JetBlue Switches from Carbon Offsets to Sustainable Aviation Fuels 41
Why Raspberry Pi's New Hire Caused a Social Media Firestorm 206
FCC Orders Telecoms To Block Scammers Targeting Student Loan Forgiveness Seekers 20
Microsoft Acquires Startup Developing High-Speed Cables for Transmitting Data 24
Amazon Wants To Kill the Barcode 84
Google Must Delete Search Results About You If They're Fake, EU Court Rules 46
SEC Issues New Guidance Requiring Companies To Disclose Cryptocurrency Risks 8
NASA'S ICON Space Weather Satellite Has Suddenly Gone Silent 29
Windows 11 Is Finally Getting a Built-In Screen Recording Tool 40
Vivaldi Integrates Mastodon In Its Desktop Browser 23
Google Combines Maps and Waze Teams Amid Pressure To Cut Costs 27
Chrome Gets Memory and Energy Saver Modes 30
EU Sets December 28, 2024, Deadline For All New Phones To Use USB-C for Wired Charging 113
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Is Said To Face Market Manipulation Inquiry 23
Pacific Island Nation of Vanuatu Has Been Knocked Offline For More Than a Month 27
Coinbase CEO Sees Revenue Falling 50% or More on Crypto Rout 32
Meta's Behavioral Ads Will Finally Face GDPR Privacy Reckoning In January 8
GOP-Led States Ban TikTok On Government Devices 84
Four-Person Dev Team Gets Apple's M-Series GPU Working On Linux 55
Microsoft Teams Adds Free Communities Feature To Take on Discord 52
Boeing's Last 747 Rolls Out of the Factory After More Than 50-Year Production Run 122
US To Spend $1.5 Billion To Jumpstart Alternatives To Huawei 48
Dwarf Fortress' Graphical Upgrade Provides a New Way Into a Wildly Wonky Game 43
New Winamp Update Adds Features, Fixes, and (Sigh) Support For 'Music NFTs' 47
Telegram Premium Tops 1 Million Subscribers 16
Amazon is Offering Customers $2 Per Month For Letting the Company Monitor the Traffic on Their Phones 64
Intel's Take on the Next Wave of Moore's Law 22
Apple Scales Back Self-Driving Car and Delays Debut Till '26 56
Google Search Brings Continuous Scrolling To Desktop 57
The World Cup of Microsoft Excel 26
France Bans Short Haul Domestic Flights in Favour of Train Travel 216
Syntax Errors Are the Doom of Us All, Including Botnet Authors 32
ConsenSys To Update MetaMask Crypto Wallet in Response To Privacy Backlash 7
Microsoft Eyes 'Super App' To Break Apple and Google's Hold on Mobile Search 69
Amazon Agrees Final Deal To Close EU Antitrust Probes 6
Meta Threatens To Pull News From Facebook If Congress Passes Media Bill 161
SpaceX Unveils 'Starshield,' a Military Variation of Starlink Satellites 83
How 'Goblin Mode' Became Oxford's Word of the Year 59
Judge Orders US Lawyer In Russian Botnet Case To Pay Google 15
Risky Online Behaviour Such as Piracy 'Almost Normalized' Among Young People, Says Study 156
FBI Joins Investigation Into North Carolina Power Outage Caused By 'Intentional' Attacks on Substations 235
Windows 11 Still Not Winning the OS Popularity Contest 207
DeepMind AI Topples Experts at Complex Game Stratego 21
AMD Says Transistor Tech Will Keep Moore's Law Alive For 6 To 8 Years 40
Business-Software Companies Say Customers Are Pulling Back Amid Economic Concerns 20
Adobe Will Sell AI-made Stock Images 46
AI-Generated Answers Temporarily Banned on Coding Site Stack Overflow 53
Amazon Builds a New Drone - But Is It Falling Behind Other Drone Delivery Services? 39
Senator Urges Automakers to Keep Making Cars with AM Radio 320
Driverless Electric Robot Tractors are Here, Powered by NVIDIA AI Chips 82
Chinese Joint Venture Will Begin Mass-Producing an Autonomous Electric Car 60
Becoming America's #2 Seller of Electric Vehicles, Ford Passes Kia in November 73
America's TSA Begins Quietly Testing Facial Recognition Tech at 16 Airports 87
Apple Now Calling AR/VR Headset Operating System 'xrOS' 30
Astronomers Say a New, Huge Satellite Is As Bright As the Brightest Stars 83
iPhone 14 Satellite Feature Saves Stranded Man In Alaska 49
Tesla Delivers Its First Electric Semi Trucks 136
Australia Says Law Making Facebook and Google Pay For News Has Worked 13
Huawei Teases a Smartwatch With Built-In Wireless Earbuds 4
DHS Board Starts Investigating Lapsus$ Teen Hacker Group 9
PCI Standards Group Deflects, Assigns Blame for Melting GPU Power Connectors 130
Google Shuts Down Duplex on the Web, Its Attempt To Bring AI Smarts To Retail Sites and More 8
US Army Planned To Pay Streamers Millions To Reach Gen-Z Through Call of Duty 85
Using Rust at a Startup: A Cautionary Tale 141
IBM and Maersk Abandon Ship on TradeLens Logistics Blockchain 28
Smartphones Wiped 97% of Compact Digital Camera Market 96
Pentagon Debuts Its New Stealth Bomber, the B-21 Raider 108
Meta Urges Washington To Take Hands-Off Approach To Regulating the Metaverse 54
BloomTech, Previously Lambda School, Cuts Half of Staff 13
Mozilla Acquires Active Replica To Build On its Metaverse Vision 39
Hive Social Turns Off Servers After Researchers Warn Hackers Can Access All Data 73
Google Reports Decline In Android Memory Safety Vulnerabilities As Rust Usage Grows 23
Hyundai App Bugs Allowed Hackers To Remotely Unlock, Start Cars 29
Kanye West Is No Longer Buying Parler 94
Web Browsers Drop Mysterious Company With Ties To US Military Contractor 57
Australia Will Now Fine Firms Up To $33.4 Million for Data Breaches 19
Messaging App Telegram Moving Into Crypto 29
Mozilla Acquires Team Behind Pulse, an Automated Status Updater for Slack 5
Just 22% of Techies in UK Aged 50 or Older, Says Chartered Institute For IT 105
Irish Companies Report Success With Trial of Four-Day Working Week 82
Rising Tether Loans Add Risk To Stablecoin, Crypto World 73
Google Takes Fight To Topple Record Fine Over Android To EU's Top Court 35
Chrome, Defender and Firefox 0-days Linked To Commercial IT firm in Spain 13
More Than 1 Billion People Expected To Be Using 5G By Year's End 55
Neuralink Expects Human Trials Within Six Months 118
Zuckerberg Says Apple's Policies Not 'Sustainable' 124
Google Stadia Hardware Refunds Will Be Issued Within Two Weeks 11
OnePlus Beats Google With Four Years of Major OS Updates 14
UK Internet Watchdog Increasingly Led by Ex-Big Tech Executives 18
Mark Zuckerberg Still 'Long-Term Optimistic' on Metaverse, Says Skepticism Doesn't Bother Him Too Much 82
Disney Made a Movie Quality AI Tool That Automatically Makes Actors Look Younger or Older 23
Crypto Exchange Kraken Cuts 1,100 Jobs To 'Weather Crypto Winter' 72
Microsoft Offers Fix for Windows 11 Gaming Performance Issues 24
Military Sim Developer Tired of Its Game Being Used To Fake War Footage 59
Influencers Were Paid By Google To Promote a Pixel Phone They Never Used 39
Amazon's New Chip Moves AWS Into High-Performance Computing 29
FTX-backed DEX Serum Calls Itself 'Defunct,' Promotes Community Fork 15
UK Waters Down Internet Rules Plan After Free Speech Outcry 36
AWS Announces Digital Sovereignty Pledge 37
Rolls-Royce Successfully Tests Hydrogen-Powered Jet Engine 133
'Gaslighting' Is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year For 2022 76
Microsoft Likely To Offer EU Concessions Soon in Activision Deal 9
Apple Has Threatened To Withhold Twitter From App Store, Elon Musk Says 410
Google Partners With Med Tech Company To Develop AI Breast Cancer Screening Tools 8
Singapore Branches Out Onto Internet of Trees 35
The Internet Archive's PalmPilot Emulation Project Lets You Relive Tech History 31
Meta Fined $277 Million for Leak of Half a Billion Users 22
Crypto Lender BlockFi Files for Bankruptcy as FTX Fallout Spreads 47
A Hundred UK Companies Sign Up For Four-day Week With No Loss of Pay 46
Frontier Airlines Gets Rid of Telephone Customer Service 57
'How Washington Chased Huawei Out of Europe' 102
Meta Claims US Military Linked to Online Propaganda Campaign 74
Automakers Are Locking the Aftermarket Out of Engine Control Units 175

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