The Internet Stories for 2017

EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS 214
Kodi Media Player Arrives On the Xbox One 57
Germany Orders Amazon To Stop Taking Advantage of People Who Can't Spell 'Birkenstock' 162
Facebook's Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts To Stay Up 171
300,000 Users Exposed In Ancestry.com Data Leak 43
How Hotmail Changed Microsoft (and Email) Forever 84
Trump's Website Is Coded With a Broken Server Error Message That Blames Obama 168
There's No Evidence Comcast's New 'Network Investment' Is Because of Net Neutrality Repeal or Tax Cuts 177
Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time 111
Postcard From Pyongyang: The Airport Now Has Wi-Fi, Sort of 141
Web Trackers Exploit Flaw In Browser Login Managers To Steal Usernames 76
Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns 242
Uber Is Selling Its Money-Losing Car Lease Business 22
China Closes More Than 13,000 Websites in Past Three Years 73
Some Telcos and ISPs are Frustrating IPv6 Adoption 135
Republican's 'Net Neutrality' Proposal Called 'Bait and Switch' 121
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid 'Information Overload' 133
Russian Submarines are 'Prowling Around' Undersea Internet Cables 175
Can We Get Global Broadband From Low-Earth Orbit Satellites? 134
Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? 186
How To Check If You Interacted With Russian Propaganda On Facebook During the 2016 Election 226
Airlines With the Best In-Flight Wi-Fi 52
Firefox Is Now Available On Amazon's Fire TV, Bringing YouTube Access With It 49
Amazon Files For 'AmazonTube' and 'OpenTube' Trademarks As Fight With YouTube Gets Pettier 81
Kids In 'Netflix Only' Homes Are Being Saved From 230 Hours of Commercials a Year, Says Report 118
How Facebook's Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda 65
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook To Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads 340
The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right 260
Republican Lawmaker Introduces Net Neutrality Legislation 350
Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks 133
Cloud-Based Repository Leak Exposes 123 Million American Households 62
The White House Is Temporarily Shutting Down Its Petition Website 153
Microsoft Removes Google's Chrome Installer From the Windows Store 124
Chinese Backdoor Still Active on Many Android Devices 30
Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False 363
Two Major ISPs Are Suffering Outages, Making the Internet Really Slow Right Now 131
'There Will Be a [Senate] Vote' To Reinstate Net Neutrality, Schumer Says 278
Ajit Pai Taunts Net Neutrality Critics. Mark Hamill Taunts Ajit Pai 346
Do More People Use Firefox Than Edge and IE Combined? 152
'State of JavaScript' Survey Results: Good News for React and TypeScript 89
'The Gawker Foundation' is Crowdfunding a Bid To Re-Launch Gawker.com 91
Chrome 64 Beta Adds Sitewide Audio Muting, Pop-Up Blocker, Windows 10 HDR Video 43
ISPs Won't Promise To Treat All Traffic Equally After Net Neutrality 232
Canadian Cellphone Bills Are Some of the Highest In the World, Says Report 184
Google Is Using Light Beam Tech To Connect Rural India To the Internet 67
Motherboard and VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network 142
What Disney's Acquisition of Fox Means For the Future of Film and TV 139
Facebook Will Introduce Ads As Videos Start Playing 72
Lawmakers Are Fighting For Net Neutrality 215
PSA: AIM Will Be Discontinued Tomorrow 105
EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information On the Internet Is Not a Crime 175
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures 269
Author of BrickerBot Malware Retires, Says He Bricked 10 Million IoT Devices 149
Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code 113
T-Mobile Is Becoming a Cable Company 92
Patreon Scraps New Service Fee, Apologizes To Users 66
Net Neutrality Protests Move Online, Yet Big Tech Is Quiet 71
No Matter What Happens With Net Neutrality, an Open Internet Isn't Going Anywhere, Says Former FCC Chairman 177
Twitter Officially Launches 'Threads,' a New Feature For Easily Posting Tweetstorms 47
Searchable Database of 1.4 Billion Stolen Credentials Found On Dark Web 72
Ajit Pai Offers No Data For Latest Claim That Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs 211
129 Million Americans Can Only Get Internet Service From Companies That Have Violated Net Neutrality 143
FCC Explains How Net Neutrality Will Be Protected Without Net Neutrality Rules 246
AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed 291
Net Neutrality: 'Father Of Internet' Joins Tech Leaders in Condemning Repeal Plan 170
FCC Refuses Records For Investigation Into Fake Net Neutrality Comments 164
"The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" 289
Patreon Hits Donors With New Fees, Angering Creators 143
'Process Doppelganging' Attack Bypasses Most Security Products, Works On All Windows Versions 126
Chrome 63 Offers Even More Protection From Malicious Sites, Using Even More Memory 63
Zimbabwe's Internet Went Down for About Five Hours. The Culprit Was Reportedly a Tractor. 63
ISP Disclosures About Data Caps and Fees Eliminated By Net Neutrality Repeal 281
FCC Chair Ajit Pai Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Help Sick and Disabled People 207
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain Copyright To My Kids? 327
EU Urges Internet Companies To Do More To Remove Extremist Content 79
'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' 588
Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering 47
40 Percent of America Will Cut the Cord By 2030, New Report Predicts 114
ISPs and Movie Industry Prepare Canadian Pirate Site Blocking Deal 86
Cloudflare's CEO Has a Plan To Never Censor Hate Speech Again 395
Amazon Finally Launches In Australia 57
Gamer Streams Pay-Per-View UFC Fight By Pretending To Play It 75
Not Even Free TV Can Get People To Stop Pirating Movies and TV Shows 221
FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' 347
People Have Spent Over $1M Buying Virtual Cats on the Ethereum Blockchain 128
From the Arctic's Melting Ice, an Unexpected Digital Hub 67
How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping 283
StartCom Will Stop Issuing Certificates, Revoking Them All in 2020 42
How Converting A C++ Game to JavaScript Gave Us WebAssembly 139
Blockchains Are Poised To End the Password Era 129
Was Your Name Stolen To Support Killing Net Neutrality? 128
Russia Wants To Launch Backup DNS System By August 1, 2018 160
Vine Co-Founder Dom Hofmann Says He's Working On 'a Follow-Up To Vine' 54
Verizon Will Launch 5G Home Internet Access In 2018 115
Coinbase Ordered To Report 14,355 Users To the IRS 141
Snapchat Is Becoming the Anti-Facebook 47
PSA: Comcast Doesn't Really Support Net Neutrality 144
Facebook Rolls Out AI To Detect Suicidal Posts Before They're Reported 171
Comcast Hints At Plan For Paid Fast Lanes After Net Neutrality Repeal 308
Petition Calls for Ouster of FCC Chairman Pai 174
Taking The Profit Out Of Killing 'Net Neutrality' 257
Bloomberg Op-Ed: The Internet 'Already Lost Its Neutrality' 171
DC Fans Angry Over Rotten Tomatoes 'Justice League' Ratings 266
More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked 177
AT&T, Comcast Lawsuit Has Nullified a City's Broadband Competition Law 74
Pornhub Owner May Become the UK's Gatekeeper of Online Porn 95
Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent 553
Justin Trudeau Is 'Very Concerned' With FCC's Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality 244
Firefox Will Warn Users When Visiting Sites That Suffered a Data Breach 64
Cloudflare Might Be Exploring a Way To Slow Down FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Home Internet Speeds 308
'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality 183
YouTube To Implement New Guidelines To Protect Minors From Disturbing Content 95
Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results 83
FCC Ignored Your Net Neutrality Comment, Unless You Made a 'Serious' Legal Argument 279
Apple Scientists Disclose Self-Driving Car Research 34
Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed 279
Net Neutrality Advocates Plan Protests For December 7 at Verizon Stores 151
EU Agrees To End Country-Specific Limits For Online Retailers 72
Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? 354
FCC Will Also Order States To Scrap Plans For Their Own Net Neutrality Laws 280
To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet 196
Over 400 of the World's Most Popular Websites Record Your Every Keystroke 263
Another Tor Browser Feature Makes It Into Firefox: First-Party Isolation 93
Stock Music Artists Aren't Always Happy About How Their Music Is Used 147
Net Neutrality is Essentially Unassailable, Argues Billionaire Barry Diller 82
Verizon: No 4G-Level Data Caps For 5G Home Service 56
Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of the Web: 'The System is Failing' 165
Google Will Stop Letting Sites Use AMP Format To Bait and Switch Readers 57
Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet 125
Report Claims That 18 Nation's Elections Were Impacted By Social Engineering Last Year 235
Jack Dorsey Responds To Serial Killer Who Found His Victims Through Suicidal Twitter Posts 73
New EU Consumer Protection Law Contains a Vague Website Blocking Clause 45
Firefox Will Block Navigational Data URIs as Part of an Anti-Phishing Feature 70
Amazon Key Flaw Could Let Rogue Deliverymen Disable Your Camera 106
China Cyber Watchdog Rejects Censorship Critics, Says Internet Must Be 'Orderly' 78
The Brutal Fight To Mine Your Data and Sell It To Your Boss 75
Consumers Are Holding Off On Buying Smart-Home Gadgets Due To Security, Privacy Fears 143
Twitter Bans, Removes Verified Status of White Supremacists 707
Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? 589
Walmart Is Raising Prices Online To Increase In-Store Traffic 133
FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules 116
Google Returns As Default Search Engine In Firefox 136
Yelp Ordered To Identify User Accused of Defaming a Tax Preparer 142
Ads May Soon Stalk You on TV Like They Do on Your Facebook Feed 203
CompuServe's Forums Are Closing On December 15 142
Firefox Quantum Arrives With Faster Browser Engine, Major Visual Overhaul 323
All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly 243
Bitcoin Gold, the Latest Bitcoin Fork, Explained 96
Ask Slashdot: Which Software/Devices Are Unusable Without Connecting to the Internet? 201
Amazon Is Making a 'Lord of the Rings' Prequel Series 109
Firefox 57 Brings Better Sandboxing on Linux 124
Paradise Papers Expose Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme 146
Alphabet's Project Loon Delivers Internet To 100,000 People In Puerto Rico 34
Monopoly Critics Decry 'Amazon Amendment' 52
America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning 398
Chrome Update Kills Annoying Redirects and Trick-To-Click Popups 41
Nearly Half of Colorado Counties Have Rejected a Comcast-Backed Law Restricting City-Run Internet 128
Google To Add Restaurant Wait Times To Google Search, Maps 59
Twitter Officially Expands Its Character Count To 280 Starting Today 98
How Cloudflare Uses Lava Lamps To Encrypt the Internet 110
US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub 165
Twitter Exploit Let Two Pranksters Post 30,000-Character Tweet 65
Popular Firefox Bookmark Syncing Add-On Starts Losing... Bookmarks 67
Comcast's Xfinity Internet Service Is Down Across the US [Update] 104
Mozilla Might Distrust Dutch Government Certs Over 'False Keys' 112
Ask Slashdot: Should I Allow A 'Smart TV' To Connect To The Internet? 299
A Third of the Internet Experienced DoS Attacks in the Last Two Years 31
Chelsea Manning Archivist Excludes Hacktivist Jailed By Carmen Ortiz From Aaron Swartz Day 124
Australia Cockatoos Chew Billion-Dollar Broadband 82
Another Million Subscribers Cut the Pay TV Cord Last Quarter 105
Google Explains Tuesday's Drive, Docs Bug That Marked Some Files As Violating Terms of Service 97
The Mobile Internet Is the Internet 156
AT&T Admits Defeat In Lawsuit It Filed To Stall Google Fiber 34
Scientists Prove Emoticons Are Not Universally Understood 122
CIA Releases 321GB of Bin Laden's Digital Library 125
Russia's Anti-VPN Law Goes Into Effect 185
MIT Researchers Trained AI To Write Horror Stories Based On 140,000 Reddit Posts 37
Verizon Wants To Ban States From Protecting Your Privacy 183
Vendor Tracks LinkedIn Profile Changes To Alert Client Employers 101
Jimmy Wales' WikiTribune is Already Biased 164
Microsoft Engineer Installs Google Chrome During Presentation After Edge Freezes 174
Facebook Says 126 Million Americans May Have Seen Russia-Linked Political Posts 370
A Surge of Sites and Apps Are Exhausting Your CPU To Mine Cryptocurrency 128
The Meaning of AMP 95
Google Denies Demoting the Pirate Bay In Some Countries 24
TechCrunch Argues Social Media News Feeds 'Need to Die' 154
YouTube Is Fighting the 'Adpocalypse' With a Less Trigger-Happy Flagging System 218
Comcast Tries To Derail Fort Collins Community Broadband 93
The New York Times Launches Tor Onion Service To Overcome Censorship, Ensure Privacy 69
EA Shuts Down Fan-Run Servers For Older Battlefield Games 132
Reddit Conducts Wide-Ranging Purge of Offensive Subreddits 330
Twitter Says It Overstated Monthly-User Figures For 3 Years 36
Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad 453
Justice Department Demands Five Twitter Users' Personal Info Over an Emoji 59
Verizon Will Stop Throttling Video On Unlimited Plans If You Pay An Extra $10 Per Month 110
DUHK Crypto Attack Recovers Encryption Keys, Exposes VPN Connections 59
Snapchat Reportedly Stuck With 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Unsold Spectacles 63
Stephen Hawking's Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online 79
Silicon Valley 'Divided Society and Made Everyone Raging Mad', Argues Newsweek 320
2 Million IoT Devices Enslaved By Fast-Growing BotNet 69
Body Camera Giant Wants Police To Collect Your Videos Too 61
Twitter Plans To End Revenge Porn Next Week, Hate Speech In Two 293
Facebook Security Chief Says Its Corporate Network Is Run 'Like a College Campus' 85
Senators Announce New Bill That Would Regulate Online Political Ads 232
Verizon Loses 18,000 Pay TV Subscribers, Signals Delay For Live TV Streaming Service 42
Amazon Spends $350K On Seattle Mayor's Race 62
Google Engineers Explore Ways To Stop In-Browser Cryptocurrency Miners in Chrome 189
EU: No Encryption Backdoors But, Let's Help Each Other Crack That Crypto 83
Mozilla To Document Cross-Browser Web Dev Standards with Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and W3C 44
Russian Troll Factory Paid US Activists To Fund Protests During Election 665
Netflix, Amazon, Movie Studios Sue Over TickBox Streaming Device 135
Mobile Phone Companies Appear To Be Selling Your Location To Almost Anyone 149
Netflix Adds 5.3 Million Subs In Q3, Beating Forecasts 70
Google Chrome for Windows Gets Basic Antivirus Features 55
Cord-Cutters Drive Cable TV Subscribers to a 17-Year Low 201
Not Just Equifax. Rival Site Transunion Served Malware Too -- and 1,000 More Sites 68
Russia Reportedly Used Pokemon Go In an Effort To Inflame Racial Tensions 211
Over 500 Million PCs Are Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency, Researchers Reveal 78
'Maybe Wikipedia Readers Shouldn't Need Science Degrees To Digest Articles About Basic Topics' 304
Hollywood Studios Join Disney To Launch Movies Anywhere Digital Locker Service 48
Equifax Website Hacked Again, this Time To Redirect To Fake Flash Update 150
How Facebook Outs Sex Workers 635
US Government Has 'No Right To Rummage' Through Anti-Trump Protest Website Logs, Says Judge 277
PornHub Uses Computer Vision To ID Actors, Acts In Its Videos 135
FCC's Claim That One ISP Counts As 'Competition' Faces Scrutiny In Court 200
PSA: Microsoft Is Using Cortana To Read Your Private Skype Conversations 180
Equifax Made Salary, Work History Available To Anyone With Your SSN and DOB 169
Hulu Lowers Prices After Netflix Raises Theirs 108
Google Uncovers Russia-Bought Ads On YouTube, Gmail and Other Platforms 345
Java Coders Are Getting Bad Security Advice From Stack Overflow 236
Publishers Take ResearchGate To Court, Seek Removal of Millions of Papers 66
Browsers Will Store Credit Card Details Similar To How They Save Passwords 182
Disqus Confirms Over 17.5 Million Email Addresses Were Stolen In 2012 Hack of Its Comments Tool 81
Facebook Removed References To Russia From Fake-News Report 54
'Our Addiction To Links is Making Good Journalism Harder To Read' 92
Regulate Facebook Like AIM 105
Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service To Rival FedEx, UPS 88
Nearly 4 Million People In US Still Subscribe To Netflix DVDs By Mail 186
Cloudflare Ditches Sites That Use Coinhive Mining "malware" 84
Microsoft Brings Edge To Android and IOS 127
Mozilla To End All Firefox Support For XP, Vista In June 2018 131
Facebook Fought Rules That Could Have Exposed Fake Russian Ads 193
More Than 80 Percent of All Net Neutrality Comments Were Sent By Bots, Researchers Say 108
Google Chrome Will Block Tab-Under Behavior 66
North Korea Gets Second Route To Internet Via Russia Link 73
Equifax Says 2.5 Million More Americans May Be Affected By Hack 78
Ex-Verizon Lawyer Ajit Pai Confirmed To Second Term As FCC Chair 101
T-Mobile Won't Stop Claiming Its Network Is Faster Than Verizon's 106
Microsoft Shutters Groove Music, Will Move Users To Spotify 51
How Cisco Fixed An Undocumented SSH Support Tunnel In Umbrella 24

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