The Internet Stories for 2016

Creepy Site Claims To Reveal Torrenting Histories 211
Has the Internet Killed Curly Quotes? 207
Governments Shut Down the Internet More Than 50 Times in 2016 34
Facebook Buys Data From Third-Party Brokers To Fill In User Profiles 116
Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources Site No Longer Says Humans Cause Climate Change 371
Seattle Man Accused of Using Social Media To Set Up Fake Porn Agency 215
Facebook Developing Copyright ID System To Stem Music Rights Infringement 42
Republicans Propose Bill To Impose Fines For Live-Streaming From House Floor 157
Czech Republic Sets Up Counter-Terrorism Unit To Counter Fake News Threat 119
Nevada Website Bug Leaks Thousands of Medical Marijuana Dispensary Applications 55
Ask Slashdot: Is Computing As Cool and Fun As It Once Was? 449
Destructive KillDisk Malware Turns Into Ransomware 56
Frequent Flyer Points Put at Risk By Website Flaws 19
FDA Releases New Cybersecurity Guidelines For Medical Devices 40
Uber Launches 'Uber Freight' Website To Prepare the World For Autonomous Delivery Trucks 92
Millions of Websites Vulnerable Due To Security Bug In Popular PHP Script 104
The Farmer Who Built Her Own Broadband 157
How Social Isolation Is Killing Us 297
BitTorrent Live's 'Cable Killer' P2P Video App Finally Hits iOS 37
Mozilla Will Support Firefox For XP and Vista Until At Least September 2017 73
YouTube Views Are Down Across the Board, Analysis Says 122
US Government Begins Asking Foreign Travelers About Social Media 121
Wikipedia Announces the Most Edited Articles of 2016 78
Google's Free Wi-Fi in India Now Live in 100 Railway Stations; 15,000 New Users Connect to Web Everyday 46
Firefox Takes the Next Step Towards Rolling Out Multi-Process To Everyone 154
Hotbed of Cybercrime Activity Tracked Down To ISP In Region Where Russia Is Invading Ukraine 70
Canada's CRTC Declares Broadband Internet Access a Basic Service 48
Yahoo Email Scan Shows US Spy Push To Recast Constitutional Privacy 65
A Ham Radio Software Company Has Been Blacklisting Users For Leaving Negative Reviews 177
White Hat Security Group Hacks Marvel Twitter Accounts 27
Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? 766
Using Multiple Social Networks May Lead To Depression and Anxiety, Says Study 119
Russian Hackers Stole $5 Million Per Day From Advertisers With Bots and Fake Websites 93
Mark Zuckerberg Demos Jarvis, His Own Home AI Assistant 100
South Carolina Bill Wants To Put Porn Blocks On New Computers 351
Google Releases Tool To Find Common Crypto Bugs 22
Facebook Messenger Launches 6-Screen Group Video Chat 16
Most Firefox Users Still Running Windows 7 210
The Linux Foundation Offers 50% Discounts On Training 39
Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? 153
Are Remote Offices Becoming The New Normal? 250
Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor 149
Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech 321
Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel 158
YouTube Bans North Korea's State-Owned TV Channel 55
AT&T, Verizon Tell FCC To Back Off On Net Neutrality Complaints 102
T-Mobile Exempts AT&T's DirecTV Now Service From Data Caps 22
Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews 98
China Takes Action On Thousands Of Websites For 'Harmful', Obscene Content 60
Another One Bites the Dust: Cisco Discontinues Its $1B Cloud Initiative as AWS, Azure and Others Expand 34
The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent Websites To Be Blocked In Australia, Federal Court Rules 112
Newly Uncovered Site Suggests NSA Exploits For Direct Sale 33
Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Information From Over 1 Billion Accounts 71
AT&T's DirecTV Now Plagued With Outages and Sports Blackouts 42
Flash Will Soon Be 'Click-To-Run' in Microsoft Edge 72
Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet 256
UK 4G Coverage Worse Than In Romania and Peru, Watchdog Finds 83
Snowden: 'The Central Problem of the Future' Is Control of User Data 157
Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters 63
Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent 219
PwC Sends Legal Threats To Researchers Who Found Critical Security Flaw 188
Quest Diagnostics Says Personal Health Information of 34,000 Customers Hacked 69
Google, Cuba Sign Deal Allowing Faster Access To Company's Data 42
EFF: The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able To Cut Off Your Internet Access 88
First Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Available 28
Xbox One Games Arrive On Oculus Rift With New Streaming App 16
Comcast Raises Controversial 'Broadcast TV' and 'Sports' Fees $48 Per Year 166
Google Global Cache Is Coming to Cuba 46
Does The 'Snoopers Charter' Also Enshrine Lying In Court? 123
David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test 309
A 'Turkish Hacker' Is Giving Out Prizes For DDoS Attacks 33
US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes 87
Google Starts Using HTML5 By Default Instead of Flash For Some Chrome Users 40
Google Is Testing User Ratings For Movies, TV Within Search Results 11
Google Now Lets Developers Write Apps For the Assistant On Google Home 39
US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook 88
Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls 103
Yik Yak Lays Off 60 Percent of Employees As Growth Collapses 71
Watchdog Group Claims Smart Toys Are Spying On Kids 70
Audi Cars Now Talk To Stop Lights In Vegas 105
Information Overload No Problem For Most Americans: Survey 75
Apple Launches Single Sign-On Service To Make Logging Into TV Apps Less Time-Consuming 29
New Stegano Exploit Kit Hides Malvertising Code In Banner Pixels 207
T-Mobile CFO: Less Regulation, Repeal of Net Neutrality By Trump Would Be 'Positive For My Industry' 158
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft Will Create 'Hash' Database To Remove Extremist Content 262
Facebook Begins Asking Users To Rate Articles' Use of 'Misleading Language' 113
Windows 10 'Home Hub' Is Microsoft's Response To Amazon Echo and Google Home 101
Fake News Prompts Gunman To 'Self-Investigate' Pizza Parlor 789
Google Preparing 'Invisible ReCAPTCHA' System For No User Interaction 57
Millions In US Still Living Life In Internet Slow Lane 209
Opera Developer Comes With Address Bar Speculative Prerenderer Feature 59
For The UK's 'Snoopers' Charter', Politicians Voted Themselves An Exemption 134
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish US Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 90
Chrome 55 Now Blocks Flash, Uses HTML5 By Default 98
Lawyer Sues 20-Year-Old Student Who Gave a Bad Yelp Review, Loses Badly 90
UK Homes Lose Internet Access After Cyber-Attack 33
International Authorities Take Down Massive 'Avalanche' Botnet, Sinkhole Over 800,000 Domains 53
French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites 414
ULA Unveils Website That Lets You Price Out a Rocket 'Like Building a Car' 58
Twitters Says It Will Ban Trump If He Breaks Hate-Speech Rules 1058
Firefox Zero-Day Can Be Used To Unmask Tor Browser Users 55
Trump Appoints Third Net Neutrality Critic To FCC Advisory Team 191
Reddit To Crack Down On Abuse By Punishing Hundreds of 'Toxic Users' 233
Seagate Introduces External Hard Drive That Automatically Backs Up To Amazon's Cloud 106
Facebook Is Bringing Games Like Pac-Man, Space Invaders To Messenger and Your News Feed 22
It Will Soon Be Illegal To Punish Customers Who Criticize Businesses Online 155
The UK Is About to Legalize Mass Surveillance [Update] 394
CNN Acquires Social-Video Startup Beme, Co-Founded By YouTube Star Casey Neistat 62
EU's Law Enforcement Agency Closes 4,500 Websites Peddling Fake Brands 72
AT&T Unveils DirecTV Now Streaming TV Service With Over 100 Channels 80
48 Organizations Now Have Access To Every Brit's Browsing Hstory 251
You Can Now Rent A Mirai Botnet Of 400,000 Bots 62
Crowdsourced Volunteers Search For Solutions To Fake News 270
Delete Yourself From Many Internet Sites By Pressing This Button 46
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
Locky Ransomware Uses Decoy Image Files To Ambush Facebook, LinkedIn Accounts 36
Nearly 40% of Americans Would Give Up Sex For Better Online Security, Survey Finds 230
Telegram Launches Telegraph, An Anonymous Blogging Platform 30
Google's AI Translation Tool Creates Its Own Secret Language 69
UK Plans To Censor Online Videos Of 'Non-Conventional' Sex Acts 135
Opera Browser Asked to Blacklist Pirate Sites in 'Turbo Mode' 39
Tech Firms Seek To Frustrate Internet History Log Law 85
WordPress Auto-Update Server Had Flaw Allowing Persistent Backdoors In Websites 33
Google Will Tell You How Crowded Places Are In Real Time 64
Facebook Said To Create Censorship Tool To Get Back Into China 45
Google Search Results Have Liberal Bias, Study Finds 385
Hacker Explains How He Hacked Into Tel Aviv's Public Wi-Fi Network In Three Days 45
Trump: I'll Ditch TPP Trade Deal on Day One of My Presidency 600
Facebook's Solar-Powered Drone Under Investigation After 'Accident' 45
Almost Half the World Will be Online by End of 2016 19
'ClickClickClick' Site Reveals How Much Browsers Know About Your Online Behavior 74
Trump Names Two Opponents of Net Neutrality To Oversee FCC Transition Team 395
Instagram Launches Disappearing Live Video and Messages 18
4K Netflix Arrives On Windows 10, But Only Via Microsoft's Edge Browser 126
Microsoft Partners With D-Link To Deliver Speedier Wi-Fi in Rural Regions 41
Ask Slashdot: Could A 'Smart Firewall' Protect IoT Devices? 230
Should Domain-Name Registrations Require A Verifiable Real Name? 241
Amazon Now Sells Cars 59
Major Cyberlocker EX.UA To Shut Down Amid Police Crackdown 12
IRS Demands Identities of All US Coinbase Traders Over Three Year Period 124
When a City Has Gigabit Internet, Prices For Slower Speed Tiers Drop: Study 42
Internet of Things Set To Change the Face of Dementia Care 58
Windows 10 Informs Chrome and Firefox Users That Edge is 'Safer' 123
New Chrome Extension Automatically Negotiates With Comcast For Rate Discounts 62
Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down 86
Mozilla Launches Firefox Focus, a Stripped-Down Private Browser For iOS 35
AOL To Cut 500 Workers To Narrow Focus On Mobile, Video 60
LinkedIn Blocked By Russian Government 68
SpaceX Files FCC Application For Internet Access Network With 4,425 Satellites 121
A $5 Tool Called PoisonTap Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute 172
Police Raid Pirate Site, Seize 60 Servers Following MPAA Complaint 60
Smaller ISPs Have Happier Customers, UK Based Study Says 54
Comcast Takes $70 Gigabit Offer Away From Cities Near Chicago 79
Mozilla Releases Firefox 50 127
US Internet Firms Ask Trump To Support Encryption, Ease Regulations 173
Google To Prohibit Fake News Websites From Using Its Ad-Selling Software 294
Charter Customer Sues Over Hidden Fees, Claims 'Massive Billing Fraud' 96
Google Surfaces Fake News About Election Results 243
Internet Freedom Wanes As Governments Target Messaging, Social Apps 60
Microsoft Survey Shows Negative Online Interactions Affect People In Real Life 60
Ethernet Consortia Wants To Unlock a More Time-Sensitive Network 110
OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set Version 3.0 Released 17
'Lurking Malice' Study Finds Malware Hiding In The Cloud 45
Re-Discovering The 'Lost Civilization' of Dial-Up BBS's 181
The Internet Association, Whose Members Include Amazon, Facebook and Google, Writes Open Letter To Donald Trump 19
HTC Vive Goes Wireless 29
Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead 62
FBI Operated 23 Tor-Hidden Child Porn Sites, Deployed Malware From Them 176
IMDb Sues California To Overturn Law Forcing Them To Remove Actors' Ages 68
UK Bookstores Found Selling Banned US Bomb-Making Handbooks 108
Browser Use On Mobile Devices Exceeds PC Browsing Worldwide: StatCounter 34
How President Trump Could Destroy Net Neutrality 235
Instagram Brings Mentions, Links, and Boomerang To Stories 4
Google Says There Are Now 2 Billion Active Chrome Installs 48
Facebook Achieves 20Gbps Data Rate Over MMW Radio Spectrum 61
Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook 499
Google Safe Browsing Adds 'Repeat Offender' Category 18
Apple Now Sells Refurbished iPhones 26
4chan May Have Brought Down Pro-Clinton Phone Lines Before Election Day 99
Facebook Threatens LinkedIn With Job Opening Features 38
Unsealed Court Docs Show FBI Used Malware Like 'A Grenade' 59
Gmail's iPhone App Now Has 'Undo Send' and Faster Search 29
Facebook Users Sue Over Alleged Racial Discrimination In Housing, Job Ads 177
Google Will Display Election Results As Soon As Polls Close 174
Chrome Now Accounts For 55% of All Web Browsing 113
User Forks FileZilla FTP Client After Getting Hacked 166
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Browse the Web Anonymously? 177
The FBI Spent Two Years Investigating An Online Cult That Didn't Exist 134
Teenagers In Macedonia Launch Fake Pro-Trump Sites To Earn Money 142
Aaron Swartz Remembered With Annual Hackathon In San Francisco 18
Why a Theoretical Physicist Wants All State Bills To Be Online Before Final Vote 304
Turkey Doubles Down On Censorship With Block On VPNs, Tor 99
Munich Court To Try Facebook's Zuckerberg For Inciting Hatred 179
More Than 50 Percent of All Pages In Chrome Are Loaded Over HTTPS Now 136
Judge Refuses To Block New York 'Ballot Selfie' Law 248
Mirai Botnet Attackers Are Trying To Knock Liberia Offline 73
Facebook Deletes Music Piracy Groups Following Complaints 26
Chipmaker Broadcom To Buy Network Gear Maker Brocade For $5.5 Billion 33
Another Internet Outage Takes Down Services in US and UK 34
Tim Berners-Lee Warns of Danger of Chaos in Unprotected Public Data 20
National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube 693
Trump Organization Owns More Than 3,600 Domain Names, Many of Which Bash Trump 224
New, More-Powerful IoT Botnet Infects 3,500 Devices In 5 Days 56
Google Joins Mozilla and Apple In Distrusting WoSign and StartCom Certificates 86
Instagram's New Shoppable Photos Are a Glimpse At Its E-Commerce Future 11
Montreal Police Monitored iPhone of La Presse Journalist Patrick Lagace 56
Mobile Browsing Just Overtook the Desktop For the First Time 80
Despite Its Nefarious Reputation, New Report Finds Majority of Activity On Dark Web is Totally Legal and Mundane 83
Cable TV Price Increases Have Beaten Inflation Every Single Year For 20 Years 112
AT&T Falsely Claimed Pro-Google Fiber Rule Is Invalid, FCC Says 22
Wordpress Founder Accuses Wix Of Stealing Code 176
Archive.org Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary 42
AT&T Service Outages Hit The Midwest Friday 21
Amazon Launches Prime In China 28
City ISP Makes Broadband Free Because State Law Prohibits Selling Access 54
Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race 197
Pornhub Offers To Buy Vine Because 'Six Seconds Is More Than Enough' 58
Lawsuit Seeks To Block New York Ban On 'Ballot Selfies' 317
A Radiologist Has the Fastest Home Internet In the US 135
FCC Imposes ISP Privacy Rules and Takes Aim At Mandatory Arbitration 51
Wikipedia Community and Internet Archive Partner To Fix One Million Broken Links on Wikipedia 21
Hotel CEO Openly Celebrates Higher Prices After Anti-Airbnb Law Passes 310
WhatsApp Is Rolling Out Video Calls On Its Android App 42
How Vigilante Hackers Could Stop the Internet of Things Botnet 64
Comcast Sues Nashville To Halt Rules That Give Google Fiber Faster Access To Utility Poles 95
Dyn DNS DDoS Likely The Work of Script Kiddies, Says FlashPoint 85
Intel Announces Atom E3900 Series - Goldmont for the Internet of Things 68
Google Fiber Pauses Operations, CEO Leaves, and About 9 Percent of Staff Is Being Let Go 204
Scientists Create AI Program That Can Predict Human Rights Trials With 79 Percent Accuracy 83
Apple Has Created 'Detailed Mockups' of iMessage For Android 143
Yahoo Scanning Order Unlikely To Be Made Public: Reuters 61
Benchmark Battle October 2016: Chrome Vs. Firefox Vs. Edge 137
The Phone Hackers At Cellebrite Have Had Their Firmware Leaked Online 29
Latest WikiLeaks Reveal Suggests Facebook Is Too Close For Comfort With Clinton 437
Twitter Plans To Cut About 300 Jobs As Soon As This Week: Bloomberg 105
People Like Netflix's Original Content More Than Its Other Content: AllFlicks 77
Alibaba Founder To Chinese Government: Use Big Data To Stop Criminals 46
Electronic Surveillance Up 500% In DC Area Since 2011, Almost All Sealed Cases 41
New York Times Buys The Wirecutter For $30 Million 40
Slashdot Asks: How Can We Prevent Packet-Flooding DDOS Attacks? 351
American 'Vigilante Hacker' Defaces Russian Ministry's Website 210
Dyn Executive Responds To Friday's DDOS Attack 77
Google Has Quietly Dropped Ban On Personally Identifiable Web Tracking 155
Cisco Develops System To Automatically Cut-Off Pirate Video Streams 112
Russians Seek Answers To Central Moscow GPS Anomaly 176
WikiLeaks To Its Supporters: 'Stop Taking Down the US Internet, You Proved Your Point' 338
Mirai and Bashlight Join Forces Against DNS Provider Dyn 56
Facebook Employees Tried To Remove Trump Posts As Hate Speech 235
43 Million Weebly and 22 Million Foursquare Accounts Stolen 15

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