The Internet Stories for 2014

India Blocks Code Sharing Websites On Anti-Terror Advisory 78
US Army Could Waive Combat Training For Hackers 223
Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? 312
Pew Survey: Tech Increases Productivity, But Also Time Spent Working 82
Security Research At the Hague, Netherlands: Mobile Network and Internet Threats 16
Over 78% of All PHP Installs Are Insecure 112
Gmail Access Starts To Come Back In China, State-Run Paper Blames Google 45
Aereo Gets OK From Bankruptcy Court To Auction Technology Assets 42
Google and Apple Weaseling Out of "Do Not Track" 145
N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" 206
India Faces Its First Major Net Neutrality Issue 61
The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week 63
Lizard Squad Targets Tor 83
MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language 194
US Internet Offers 10Gbps Fiber In Minneapolis 110
TripAdvisor Fined In Italy For Fake Reviews 88
Comcast's Lobbyists Hand Out VIP Cards To Skip the Customer Service Wait 131
Goodbye, Alek's Internet-Controlled Christmas Lights for Celiac Research 21
North Korean Internet Is Down 360
Viacom's Messy Relationship With YouTube and The Rise of Stephen Colbert 78
Cuba Says the Internet Now a Priority 115
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
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 Compromise ICANN, Access Zone File Data System 110
Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites 396
Book Review: Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress 31
Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS 388
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
Webcast Funerals Growing More Popular 70
The Pirate Bay Responds To Raid 302
Govt Docs Reveal Canadian Telcos Promise Surveillance Ready Networks 74
How Identifiable Are You On the Web? 160
Job Postings Offer Clues to Future of Google Fiber 38
Hollywood's Secret War With Google 176
Tracking the Mole Inside Silk Road 2.0 81
Australia Pushes Ahead With Website Blocking In Piracy Fight 100
BitTorrent Launches Project Maelstrom, the First Torrent-Based Browser 67
Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down 251
Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots 291
Swedish Police Raid the Pirate Bay Again 184
POODLE Flaw Returns, This Time Hitting TLS Protocol 54
Civil Rights Groups Divided On Net Neutrality 127
Canadian Agency Drops Cases Rather Than Deal With New Requirements For ISP Info 29
A Case Against Further Government Spectrum Auctions 66
US Treasury Dept: Banks Should Block Tor Nodes 84
EU May Not Unify Its Data Protection Rules After All 55
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electronics-Induced Inattentiveness? 312
Node.js Forked By Top Contributors 254
The Cost of the "S" In HTTPS 238
UK Completes 250km of Undersea Broadband Rollouts 70
What Canada Can Teach the US About Net Neutrality 80
IoT Is the Third Big Technology 'Wave' In the Last 50 Years, Says Harvard 196
Valve Rolls Out Game Broadcasting Service For Steam 92
A Mismatch Between Wikimedia's Pledge Drive and Its Cash On Hand? 274
SKA Telescope To Offer Neighbors Cheap Broadband 63
Security Experts Believe the Internet of Things Will Be Used To Kill Someone 165
Wikipedia's "Complicated" Relationship With Net Neutrality 134
BT Blocking Private Torrent Sites? 80
New Snowden Docs Show GCHQ Paid Telcos For Cable Taps 90
About 40% of World Population Online, 90% of Offliners In Developing Countries 45
Cameron Accuses Internet Companies Of Giving Terrorists Safe Haven 183
Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" 376
Great Firewall of China Blocks Edgecast CDN, Thousands of Websites Affected 128
Indian Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Snub Android One Phones 53
Leaked Documents Show EU Council Presidency Wants To Impair Net Neutrality 76
The Software Big Oil's PR Firm Uses To "Convert Average Citizens" 110
Nielsen Will Start Tracking Netflix and Amazon Video 55
Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund 107
Microsoft Azure Outage Across the Globe 167
Launching 2015: a New Certificate Authority To Encrypt the Entire Web 212
HTML5: It's Already Everywhere, Even In Mobile 133
NYC To Replace Most of Its Payphones With Free Gigabit WiFi In 2015 106
What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy 144
Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable 150
Can the US Actually Cultivate Local Competition in Broadband? 135
Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality 258
FCC Says Net Neutrality Decision Delay Is About Courts, Not Politics 60
Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button 316
Education Chief Should Know About PLATO and the History of Online CS Education 134
Sony To Take On Netflix With Playstation Vue 130
No, You Can't Seize Country TLDs, US Court Rules 120
Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? 405
Overbilled Customer Sues Time Warner Cable For False Advertising 223
AT&T To "Pause" Gigabit Internet Rollout Until Net Neutrality Is Settled 308
How Baidu Tracked the Largest Seasonal Migration of People On Earth 48
Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress 257
After Silk Road 2.0 Shutdown, Rival Dark Net Markets Grow Quickly 86
FCC Confirms Delay of New Net Neutrality Rules Until 2015 127
Police Body Cam Privacy Exploitation 301
How To End Online Harassment 834
Tor Project Mulls How Feds Took Down Hidden Websites 135
Canadian Police Recommend Ending Anonymity On the Internet 231
President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility 706
Mozilla Launches Browser Built For Developers 74
How Alibaba Turned November 11 Into the World's Biggest Online Shopping Day 115
Elon Musk's Next Mission: Internet Satellites 74
More Tor .Onion Sites May Get Digital Certificates Soon 52
Worldwide Aaron Swartz Day Memorial Hackathons This Weekend 76
Website Peeps Into 73,000 Unsecured Security Cameras Via Default Passwords 321
After Silk Road 2.0 Bust, Eyes Turn To 'Untouchable' Decentralized Market 108
Aereo Shutting Down Boston Office 40
Bounties vs. Extreme Internet Harassment 716
LibraryBox is an Open Source Server That Runs on Low-Cost Hardware (Video) 47
Meet the 36 People Who Run Wikipedia 140
Net Neutrality Alone Won't Solve ISP Throttling Abuse, Here's Why 200
Mozilla Teases First Browser Dedicated To Devs 132
Pianist Asks Washington Post To Remove Review Under "Right To Be Forgotten" 257
Real Net Neutrality Problem: 'Edge Provider' vs 'End User' 97
Free Broadband For NYC Public Housing? 250
Facebook Sets Up Shop On Tor 125
Hungary's Plans For Internet Tax On Hold After Protests 48
Swedish Regulator Orders Last "Hold-Out" ISP To Retain Customer Data 43
First Detailed Data Analysis Shows Exactly How Comcast Jammed Netflix 243
Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter 392
Power and Free Broadband To the People 262
Open Consultation Begins On Italy's Internet Bill of Rights 95
Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? 170
It's Official: HTML5 Is a W3C Standard 125
20 More Cities Want To Join the Fight Against Big Telecom's Broadband Monopolies 97
EU Court Rules Embedding YouTube Videos Is Not Copyright Infringement 68
US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors 308
Verizon Injects Unique IDs Into HTTP Traffic 206
Secretive Funding Fuels Ongoing Net Neutrality Astroturfing Controversy 56
How To Beat Online Price Discrimination 163
The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll 571
Will Fiber-To-the-Home Create a New Digital Divide? 291
DHS Investigates 24 Potentially Lethal IoT Medical Devices 79
Hungary To Tax Internet Traffic 324
Internet Broadband Through High-altitude Drones 99
32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks 175
China Staging a Nationwide Attack On iCloud and Microsoft Accounts 109
In UK, Internet Trolls Could Face Two Years In Jail 489
Ask Slashdot: Good Hosting Service For a Parody Site? 115
BBC Takes a Stand For the Public's Right To Remember Redacted Links 113
Kickstarter Cancels Anonabox Funding Campaign 76
Google Fiber To Launch In Austin, Texas In December 88
Adobe: Click-to-Play Would Have Avoided Flood of Java Zero-days 111
Worcester Mass. City Council Votes To Keep Comcast From Entering the Area 232
Commerce Secretary: US Wants Multi-Stakeholder Process To Preserve Internet 57
HBO To Offer Online Streaming Without TV Subscription 139
Google Finds Vulnerability In SSL 3.0 Web Encryption 68
Firefox 33 Arrives With OpenH264 Support 114
Netflix Video Speed On FiOS Doubles After Netflix-Verizon Deal 204
The Correct Response To Photo Hack Victim-Blamers 622
How Spurious Wikipedia Edits Can Attach a Name To a Scandal, 35 Years On 165
Snapchat Says Users Were Victimized By Their Use of Third-Party Apps 90
CSS Proposed 20 Years Ago Today 180
BitHammer, the BitTorrent Banhammer 429
Why the Trolls Will Always Win 728
Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over US Spying Will "Break the Internet" 179
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Build a Home Network To Fully Utilize Google Fiber? 279
Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services 346
Department of Defense May Give Private Cloud Vendors Access To Top Secret Data 60
Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year 155
Brown Dog: a Search Engine For the Other 99 Percent (of Data) 23
Belkin Router Owners Suffering Massive Outages 191
Complain About Comcast, Get Fired From Your Job 742
Why the FCC Will Probably Ignore the Public On Network Neutrality 336
The Single Vigilante Behind Facebook's 'Real Name' Crackdown 305
Internet Explorer Implements HTTP/2 Support 122
Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments 283
User Error Is the Primary Weak Point In Tor 70
Verizon Wireless Caves To FCC Pressure, Says It Won't Throttle 4G Users 46
Grooveshark Found Guilty of Massive Copyright Infringement 171
eBay To Spin Off PayPal 76
Analyzing Silk Road 2.0 68
FBI Plans To Open Up Malware Analysis Tool To Outside Researchers 31
CloudFlare Announces Free SSL Support For All Customers 67
Tor Executive Director Hints At Firefox Integration 117
Piracy Police Chief Calls For State Interference To Stop Internet "Anarchy" 302
FCC To Rule On "Paid Prioritization" Deals By Internet Service Providers 126
World's Smallest 3G Module Will Connect Everything To the Internet 118
Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory 116
Security Collapse In the HTTPS Market 185
BT and Coke To Offer Free Rural Wi-Fi In South Africa Through Vending Machines 71
Facebook To Start Testing Internet-Beaming Drones In 2015 42
Australian Senate Introduces Laws To Allow Total Internet Surveillance 212
Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan 590
To Fight $5.2B In Identity Theft, IRS May Need To Change the Way You File Taxes 410
Netflix Rejects Canadian Regulator Jurisdiction Over Online Video 184
Anonymous Peer-review Comments May Spark Legal Battle 167
SkyOrbiter UAVs Could Fly For Years and Provide Global Internet Access 48
Nobody's Neutral In Net Neutrality Debate 132
The Raid-Proof Hosting Technology Behind 'The Pirate Bay' 144
Amazon Purchases .buy TLD For $4.6 Million 67
Canadian Regulator Threatens To Impose New Netflix Regulation 324
Putin To Discuss Plans For Disconnecting Russia From the Internet 241
FCC Chairman: Americans Shouldn't Subsidize Internet Service Under 10Mbps 353
NSA Director Says Agency Is Still Trying To Figure Out Cyber Operations 103
AT&T Proposes Net Neutrality Compromise 243
Comcast Allegedly Asking Customers to Stop Using Tor 418
New Details About NSA's Exhaustive Search of Edward Snowden's Emails 200
Treasure Map: NSA, GCHQ Work On Real-Time "Google Earth" Internet Observation 267
Navy Guilty of Illegally Broad Online Searches: Child Porn Conviction Overturned 286
The MOOC Revolution That Wasn't 182
Amazon Is Killing Off Its Free P2P Money-Transfer Service WebPay On October 13 34
Verizon Working On a La Carte Internet TV Service 108
L.A. TV Stations Free Up Some Spectrum For Wireless Broadband 80
German Court: Google Must Stop Ignoring Customer E-mails 290
U.S. Threatened Massive Fine To Force Yahoo To Release Data 223
Net Neutrality Comments Surge Past 1.7M, an All-Time Record For the FCC 81
California Tells Businesses: Stop Trying To Ban Consumer Reviews 275
Google Hangouts Gets Google Voice Integration And Free VoIP Calls 162
Research Finds No Large-Scale Exploits of Heartbleed Before Disclosure 20
BBC: ISPs Should Assume VPN Users Are Pirates 363
Why Google Is Pushing For a Web Free of SHA-1 108
Comcast Using JavaScript Injection To Serve Ads On Public Wi-Fi Hotspots 230
Ontario Government Wants To Regulate the Internet 184
AT&T Says 10Mbps Is Too Fast For "Broadband," 4Mbps Is Enough 533
"Net Neutrality" Coiner Tim Wu Is Running For Lt. Governor of New York 40
Shadowy Tech Brokers Deliver Data To the NSA 35
Mozilla 1024-Bit Cert Deprecation Leaves 107,000 Sites Untrusted 67
UCLA, CIsco & More Launch Consortium To Replace TCP/IP 254
Buenos Aires Issues a 'Netflix Tax' For All Digital Entertainment 165
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler Says Switching ISPs Is Too Hard 145
New HTML Picture Element To Make Future Web Faster 161
Interview: Ask Christopher "moot" Poole About 4chan and Social Media 220
Net Neutrality Campaign To Show What the Web Would Be Like With a "Slow Lane" 91
Raspberry Pi Gets a Brand New Browser 107
Grand Ayatollah Says High Speed Internet Is "Against Moral Standards" 542
How Big Telecom Smothers Municipal Broadband 111
Indiana University Researchers Get $1 Million Grant To Study Memes 126
African States Aim To Improve Internet Interconnections 27
CenturyLink: Comcast Is Trying To Prevent Competition In Its Territories 110
Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? 355
Time Warner Cable Experiences Nationwide Internet Outage 133
Comcast Tells Government That Its Data Caps Aren't Actually "Data Caps" 341
Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,' According To a Koch-Backed Astroturf Group 531
Put A Red Cross PSA In Front Of the ISIS Beheading Video 300
Airbnb To Hand Over Data On 124 Hosts To New York Attorney General 149
Securing Networks In the Internet of Things Era 106
Illinois University Restricts Access To Social Media, Online Political Content 130
Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth 134
Students From States With Faster Internet Tend To Have Higher Test Scores 175
Researchers Made a Fake Social Network To Infiltrate China's Internet Censors 49
NSA Agents Leak Tor Bugs To Developers 116
FCC Warned Not To Take Actions a Republican-Led FCC Would Dislike 338
Future Hack: New Cybersecurity Tool Predicts Breaches Before They Happen 33
Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year 611
Tor Browser Security Under Scrutiny 80
Netflix CEO On Net Neutrality: Large ISPs Are the Problem 181
Plan Would Give Government Virtual Veto Over Internet Governance 65
Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? 382
ICANN Offers Fix For Domain Name Collisions 101
Broadband Subscribers Eclipsing Cable TV Subscribers 85
Leaked Documents: GCHQ Made Port-Scanning Entire Countries a Standard Spy Tool 58
Samsung Buys Kickstarter-Funded Internet of Things Startup For $200MM 107

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