Media Stories for 2018

Apple Spins 'Real Artists Ship' Into 'Share Your Gifts' 68
YouTuber Admits Aspects of Viral HomePod Glitter Bomb Video Were Faked 187
Senate Report Shows Russia Used Social Media To Support Trump In 2016 388
More People Get Their News From Social Media Than Newspapers, Study Finds 82
Your 4K Netflix Streaming Is On a Collision Course With Your ISP's Data Caps 163
Bloomberg is Still Reporting on Challenged Story Regarding China Hardware Hack 71
YouTube To Make New Originals Available For Free, Ad-Supported Viewing 63
India-Based Zapr Has Developed Tech That Listens To Ambient Sounds Around Users To Build Targeted Ad Profiles, Several Popular Local Services Use Its Tech 51
YouTube is Testing Having Two Skippable Ads Back-To-Back 181
Tech Shoppers in the UK Ditch Desktop PCs and DVD Players 123
A Look at the Growing Popularity Of Closed and Secret Groups on Facebook and How Some Media Outlets Have Built an Engaging Audience There 46
Most Americans Don't Think Social Networks Are Good For the World, Survey Finds 98
Senators Ask Four Major Carriers About Video Slowdowns 108
How Podcasts Became a Seductive -- and Sometimes Slippery -- Mode of Storytelling 35
YouTube King PewDiePie Surrenders Crown To Indian Record Label T-Series 92
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims 275
Attacks on the Media Are a Threat To Democracy, Justin Trudeau Says 391
Microsoft Launches Free AV1 Video Codec For Windows 10 48
The New York Times Digitizes Millions of Photos Going Back To 19th Century 29
NASA, ESA Release First 8K Video From Space 21
Pentagon Wants To Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance 421
Snap CEO Hired Chief Business Officer, Then Changed His Mind 83
Amazon Has Pulled Ads From Bloomberg Over Controversial 'Big Hack' Chinese Spy Story; Apple Has Not Invited Outlet's Reporters To a Product Event Next Week 119
A Reporter, Posing as Sketchy PR, Asked 28 Media Outlets If They'd Take Money To Publish Content Without Disclosing it Was Advertising. More Than Half Said Yes. 63
MPlayer, VLC Media Player Hit By Critical Vulnerability 72
Facebook Could Use Data Collected From Its Portal In-Home Video Device To Target You With Ads 62
Most Americans Can't Tell the Difference Between a Social Media Bot and A Human, Study Finds 140
Winamp Media Player To Return as a Platform-Agnostic Audio Mobile App Next Year; Desktop Application Receives an Update 175
Google Launches Third-Gen Chromecast With 60fps Video, Multiroom Audio Support 39
Firefox To Support Google's WebP Image Format For a Faster Web 53
Nintendo President: Our Future Is As an 'Entertainment' Company 60
The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy 184
VideoLAN Announces Dav1d, a New Libre and Open Source AV1 Decoder 88
Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed In Leaked Video 208
Comcast Outbids Fox With $40 Billion Offer For Sky In Auction 24
Facebook Will Start Fact-Checking Pictures, Videos 116
Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory 558
Teens Would Rather Text Their Friends Than Talk To Them In Person, Poll Shows 142
Researchers Come Out With Yet Another Unnerving, New Deepfake Method 54
DOJ: We Will Examine Social Media Firms That 'May Be Hurting Competition' 115
EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services 350
US Telcos Are Slowing Internet Traffic To and From Popular OTT Apps Like YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video, New Research Finds 168
Bullet, China's Latest Messaging App, Pops Shots at Top Local Rival WeChat 48
Reality Winner Sentenced To More Than 5 Years For Leaking Info About Russia Hacking Attempts 261
GOG Launches FCKDRM To Promote DRM-Free Art and Media 150
China's Huawei Caught Faking DSLR Shots as Smartphone Pictures in a Commercial 92
Netflix Will Now Interrupt Series Binges With Video Ads For Its Other Series 184
Zuckerberg Doesn't Care About Publishers; Media Firms That Don't Work With Us Will End Up 'In Hospice': Facebook Executive 93
VLC Blacklists Newer Huawei Devices To Combat Negative App Reviews 78
Leaked Videos Reveal Apple's Internal iPhone Repair Procedures 71
PeerTube, the 'Decentralized YouTube,' Succeeds In Crowdfunding 100
Egypt's New Law Targets Social Media, Journalists For 'Fake News' 79
Only 39 Percent of Viewers Choose Live TV As Their Default Option, Says Study 96
Alaska's Last Two Blockbusters Are Closing, Leaving Just One In the US 100
Has Video Refereeing Ruined The World Cup? 286
Gawker.com Sold To Bleacher Report Co-Founder Bryan Goldberg In Bankruptcy Auction 52
AV1 is Well On Its Way To Becoming a Viable Alternative To Patented Video Codecs, Mozilla Says 66
YouTube Is Fighting Conspiracy Theories With 'Authoritative' Context and Outside Links 311
AT&T Wants To Overhaul HBO, Says It Isn't Profitable Enough 290
Is Facebook a Publisher? In Public it Says No, But in Court it Says Yes 42
Most Americans Think Facebook and Twitter Censor Their Political Views 428
AT&T Removes HBO From an Unlimited Data Plan After Buying Time Warner 103
Home Security Camera Sends Video To Wrong User 91
Blogger Stabbed To Death After Internet Abuse Seminar 449
Venezuela Is Blocking Access To the Tor Network 186
Instagram Allows Longer Videos In Challenge To YouTube 53
YouTube Videos From Some High-Profile Channels Have Disappeared 111
The End of Video Coding? 137
Inventor Says Google Is Patenting His Public Domain Work 164
Imgur Launches Video 56
Comcast Confirms Plan To Buy 21st Century Fox and Control of Hulu 65
YouTube Unveils New Streaming Service 'YouTube Music,' Rebrands YouTube Red 107
Tesla Model X Breaks Electric Towing Record By Pulling Boeing 787 235
YouTube Rolls Out New Tools To Help You Stop Watching 26
Google News To Be Revamped, Incorporate YouTube Videos and Magazines 34
New Hacking Tool Lets Users Access a Bunch of DVRs and Their Video Feeds 15
YouTube Gets 1.8 Billion Logged-in Viewers Monthly 51
Google Says Chrome Blocks 'About Half' of Unwanted Autoplays 102
Chinese Government Admits Collection of Deleted WeChat Messages 39
YouTube Says Computers Helped It Pull Down Millions of Objectionable Videos Last Quarter 152
SmugMug Buys Flickr, Vows To Revitalize the Photo Service 61
YouTube Is Littered With Mass-Produced Videos Made By Automated Bots 99
AV1 Beats x264 and Libvpx-Vp9 in Practical Use Case 96
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stream/Capture Video? 155
Twitter Bans 270,000 Accounts For 'Promoting Terrorism' 95
The FCC Is Refusing To Release Emails About Ajit Pai's 'Harlem Shake' Video 84
Facebook Blames a 'Bug' For Not Deleting Your Seemingly Deleted Videos 66
EU's Long-Promised Digital Media Portability Rules Go Into Effect 35
Facebook Begins 'Fact-Checking' Photos, Videos 123
VR Researchers Manipulate Human Visual System To Create An Infinite Corridor In a Fixed Space 63
An Open Source, Royalty-Free AV1 Codec Has Been Released 104
China Regulator Bans TV Parodies Amid Content Crackdown 61
KeepVid Site No Longer Allows Users To 'Keep' Videos 73
Police Release First Video From Inside the Uber Self-Driving Car That Killed a Pedestrian 698
YouTube Bans Firearms Demo Videos, Entering the Gun Control Debate 667
EU Wants To Require Platforms To Filter Uploaded Content (Including Code) 110
YouTube Will Add Information From Wikipedia To Videos About Conspiracies 226
Scientists Prove That Truth is No Match For Fiction on Twitter 194
A Short Documentary About 81-Year-Old Commodore Amiga Artist, Programmer Samia Halaby 58
China Censors Social Media Responses To Proposal To Abolish Presidential Terms 163
HBO's Fahrenheit 451 Trailer Teases Dystopian World Filled With Burning 'Chaos' 171
Lawmakers Worry About Rise of Fake Video Technology 194
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Is Under Investigation Over $3.9 Billion Media Deal 145
Is Social Media Causing Childhood Depression? 131
YouTube Will Remove Ads, Downgrade Discoverability of Channels Posting Offensive Videos 314
Viacom To Launch Its Own Streaming Service this Year 64
Twitch To Ban Users For 'Hate' on Other Platforms 155
VLC 3.0 Adds Chromecast Support and More as the Best Free Media Player Gets Even Better 131
US Suicides Spiked 10 Percent After Robin Williams's Death, Study Finds 245
Now Google Might Make a Game Console and Game-Streaming Service 90
Pornhub Is Banning AI-Generated 'Deepfakes' Porn Videos 124
Facebook is Talking About Expanding Its TV-like Service, Watch, Into a Rival To YouTube 33
Are Music CDs Dying? Best Buy Stops Selling CDs 295
YouTube Will Put Disclaimers On State-Funded Broadcasts To Fight Propaganda 126
MPEG Founder Says the MPEG Business Model Is Broken 159
Burger King Makes the Case For Net Neutrality 246
China Is Quickly Switching From Pirating To Streaming 79
Netflix Is Now Worth More Than $100 Billion 49
Google Just Broke Amazon's Workaround For YouTube On Fire TV 264
Facebook Announces That It Has Invented a New Unit of Time 188
Facebook VP Says Company Won't Use Experts To Fix Fake News Because It is Worried About Criticism 155
Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? 271
Facebook Overhauls News Feed in Favor of 'Meaningful Social Interactions' 95
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Media Streaming Device? 206