The Almighty Buck Stories for 2015

Apple Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Allegedly Slowing the iPhone 4S With iOS 9 344
Paramount and CBS File Lawsuit Against Crowdfunded, Indie Star Trek Movie 228
Apple Settles a $348M Fine With Italian Authorities For Tax Evasion 87
Oracle Asked To Help Low-Income Residents Evicted For Its New Cloud Campus 202
Brazil's Biggest City Wants To Charge Fees For Uber Rides 77
Russia Cancels All Moon Missions Till 2025 135
Discogs Turns Record Collectors' Obsessions Into Big Business 31
European Payment Card Protocols Wide Open To Fraud 38
NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module 120
Dutch City To Experiment With Paying Citizens a "Basic Income" 474
Verizon Offering $650 To Switch To Their Network 83
Reluctance To Go Mobile Inhibiting Innovation In Financial Services 104
Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed 467
Core Bitcoin Devs Leave Project, Create New Currency Called Decred 122
Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It 440
How a Young IRS Agent Identified the Man Behind Silk Road 163
Dissecting a $231 Million High-Tech Boondoggle 139
Justice Department Shuts Down Huge Asset Forfeiture Program 232
Somebody Tried To Convince a Raspberry Pi Exec To Install Malware On Its Devices 119
Estimating SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Cost Savings 163
Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry 261
Hyatt Hotels Payment-Processing Systems Hit By Malware 32
DHS's Ongoing Drone Boondoggle 77
Apple To Pay Ericsson Patent Royalties On iPhones and iPads 75
Deadline for Better Encryption on Payment Systems Pushed Back Two Years 91
Currency Exchange Website Accused of Cyber Terrorism By Venezuelan Government 104
Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' 456
NSF and Federal Partners Award $37M To Advance Nation's Co-robots 13
LifeLock Agrees To Pay $100 Million Fine In Settlement With FTC 50
Do Tax Breaks For Data Centers Make Sense? 94
Economists Discuss the Financial Repercussions of the Destruction of the Death Stars 171
New WTO Trade Deal Will Exempt IT-Related Products From Import Tariffs 22
Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue 197
Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage 124
IBM and Linux Foundation To Create Blockchain For Major Financial Institutions 99
Budget Agreement Boosts US Science 52
Microsoft Starts Its Own Charity Organization: Microsoft Philanthropies 95
Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines 347
Hedge Fund Manager Criticizes Yahoo for Wasting $3 Billion On Poor Acquisitions 159
$7 Million Xprize For Deep Ocean Exploration 37
Elon Musk, Others Fund $1B Non-Profit To Advance AI Research, Ethics 56
LionsGate Wants Pirate Sites To Pay For 'Expendables' 3 Leak 91
Mozilla Hands Out Open Source Awards 44
Dow Chemical and DuPont Plan Huge Merger Followed By a Split 56
US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt 92
Torrent Sites Earned $70M After Dropping Malware On Visitors 91
"Happy Birthday To You" Set To Finally Reach the Public Domain 120
Wired Thinks It Knows Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is 291
Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock 174
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing 288
Canadian Cable Company Shames Non-Paying Customers Publicly On Facebook 149
Copyright Troll's Property Seized To Pay Bankruptcy Debts 69
Samsung Agrees To Pay Apple $548 Million Over Smartphone Patents 64
Keep Two Bank Accounts To Beat Cyber Attacks, Says Bank of England Adviser 172
How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself 240
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Approach Big Companies With Your Product? 174
After Demanding $3 Million Ransom, Hacker Dumps Massive Customer Financial Data 124
The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated 233
DOJ Cracking Down On Profit-Driven Policing, Audit Looks At How Far It's Spread 210
Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock 260
Patton Oswalt Recruited For New MST3K Cast 50
Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight 130
US Marshals Jump Into 'Cyber Monday' Mania 63
AT&T Will Raise Cost of Old Unlimited Data Plans By $5 In February 56
MST3K Kickstarter Poised To Break Kickstarter Record 104
Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans 230
Bill Gates To Headline Paris Climate Talks 93
DecryptorMax/CryptInfinite Ransomware Decrypted, No Need To Pay Ransom 49
'No Such Thing As a Free Gift' Casts a Critical Eye At Gates Foundation 156
The First Online Purchase Was a Sting CD (Or Possibly Weed) 53
Pressure From Uber Forces London Taxis To Finally Accept Cards 114
Critical Zen Cart Vulnerability Could Spell Black Friday Disaster For Shoppers 59
Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars 482
Insurer Refuses To Cover Cox In Massive Piracy Lawsuit 101
This Gizmo Knows Your Amex Card Number Before You've Received It 68
How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Are Losing Their Meaning 140
Cuban Talks Trash At Intel Extreme Masters, Drops $30K of F-Bombs For Charity 53
With $160 Billion Merger, Pfizer Moves To Ireland and Dodges Taxes 365
NASA Contracting Development of New Ion/Nuclear Engines 70
"Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages 818
FTC Amends Telemarketing Rule To Ban Payment Methods Used By Scammers 48
Coinbase Issues Bitcoin-Based Debit Card 52
Jolla Goes For Debt Restructuring 46
Exploit Vendor Publishes Prices For Zero-Day Vulnerabilities 21
French ITER Fusion Project To Take At Least 6 Years Longer Than Planned 193
EU Set To Crack Down On Bitcoin and Anonymous Payments After Paris Attack 275
Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research 79
Julia Programming Language Receives $600k Donation 106
Another Crowd-funded Drone Project Collapses 211
AMA Calls For Ban On Direct-To-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs 305
Value of University Degree Continues To Decline 393
Pandora To Buy Rdio Assets For $75M In Cash 20
Ask Slashdot: Undervalued, Livable American Tech Towns? 464
Beats Music To Shut Down November 30 61
Apple Apparently Planning Mobile Peer-To-Peer Payment Service 69
How Rocket League Brought Psyonix Back From the Brink 33
Broadband Bills Will Have To Increase To Pay For Snooper's Charter, MPs Warned 77
MST3K Is Kickstarting Back To Life 83
App Companies Propose New Model For Worker Benefits 113
Massive Hacking Ring Stole Data From 100 Million Bank Customers 38
Fantasy Sports Sites Ordered To Stop Taking Bets In New York State 125
Dorms For Grownups: a Solution For Lonely Millennials? 412
The Sophisticated Business of Today's Most Nasty Phishing Attacks 38
US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online 305
Science's "Breakthrough" Winners Earn Over $21 Million In Prizes 18
Electric-Car Startup Faraday Future Building a $1 Billion Factory In California 162
British Spaceplane Skylon Could Revolutionize Space Travel 226
Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated For Nobel Prize 153
Another $1 Million Crowdfunded Gadget Company Collapses 109
Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix 213
Y Combinator, the X Factor of Tech 54
Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score 386
Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B 132
US Government IT Outsourcing Is Poorly Managed 85
Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate 249
All Editors Quit Top Linguistics Journal To Protest Elsevier's Pricing 135
Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal 674
Bug Bounties Are Bonanza, For a Few Persistent Hackers 27
University Reprimands Professor For Assigning Cheaper Textbook 363
NASA's Bolden Claims NASA Is 'Doomed' Unless It Stays the Course To Mars 162
Tech Unemployment Rising In Some Categories 182
$600k Fine Over Data Center Death 169
$70k Salaries Didn't 'Backfire'; Gravity Payments' Profits Have Doubled 500
Carriers Selling Your Data: a $24 Billion Business 125
Chase and MasterCard Jump Into Mobile Payments 56
W3C Sets Up Web Payments Standards Group To Improve Check-Out Security 30
Drug Firm Offers $1 Version of $750 Daraprim Pill 168
Oklahoma Earthquakes Are a National Security Threat 166
Mozilla Giving $1 Million To Open Source Projects It Relies On 68
Government Team Experiments With Paying For Small Open Source Tasks 90
FCC Passes Landmark Reform of 'Egregious' Prison Phone Charges 173
EU Rules Bitcoin Is a Currency, Exchanges Are VAT-Exempt 75
The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents 492
Criminals Hacked Chip-and-PIN System By Perfecting Point-of-Sale Attack 145
A Scientist Is Selling the Right To Name His Newly-Discovered Moth On eBay 60
Wealth Therapy Tackles Woes of the Rich 444
Another 'StarCraft' Cheating Scandal Rocks Korea 95
Disruptive Bloodwork Startup May Offer Mostly Vaporware 174
In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users 398
Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns 136
FBI and Join UK Against Forces Against Spread of Dridex Banking Malware 70
Apple Loses Patent Suit To University of Wisconsin, Faces Huge Damages 312
Australians Set To Pay 50% More For Apps After Apple Price Spike 117
Why NASA Rejected Lockheed Martin's Jupiter For Commercial Resupply Services 2 36
Author Joris Luyendijk: Economics Is Not a Science 375
Facebook UK Paid £35m In Staff Bonuses, But Only £4,327 In Corporation Tax 262
The Payments World Really Wants To Know Who You Are 73
Dell To Buy EMC For $67 Billion 116
Can Star Trek's World With No Money Work In Real life? 563
The World of Luxury Bomb Shelters 286
2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors 370
NASA Releases 'Journey To Mars' Plan -- But Not a Budget 170
LogMeIn To Acquire LastPass For $125 Million 100
Verizon Boosts Price of Grandfathered Unlimited Data Plans By $20 176
Dell, EMC Said To Be In Merger Talks 97
NSF Awards $74.5 Million To Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research 9
Researchers Unable To Replicate Findings of Published Economics Studies 213
Privately Funded Lunar Mission Set a Launch Date For 2017 50
Danish Bank Leaves Server In Debug Mode, Exposes Sensitive Data In JS Comments 41
FAA Proposes $1.9 Million Fine For Unauthorized Drone Use 228
Why Is RAM Suddenly So Cheap? It Might Be Windows 209
NY Times Passes 1M Digital Subscribers 92
When Fraud Detection Shuts Down Credit Cards Inappropriately 345
Sprint To Begin Layoffs, Cut $2.5 Billion In Expenses 55
EPA Gave Volkswagen a Free Pass On Emissions Ten Years Ago Due To Lack of Budget 203
Oculus Founder Explains Why the Rift VR Headset Will Cost "More Than $350" 174
The Real Cost of Mobile Ads 117
Linux Foundation Puts the Cost of Replacing Its Open Source Projects At $5 Billion 146
$20 Million XPRIZE Takes On Carbon Emissions 47
Targeting Tools Help Personalize TV Advertising 60
iOS 9 'Wi-Fi Assist' Could Lead To Huge Wireless Bills 182
Why Kickstarter Became a Public Benefit Corporation (Video) 40
Study: $1.8 Billion In Reshipping Fraud With Stolen Cards Each Year 139
Samsung Pay Launches In the United States 105
How Can NASA's Road To Mars Be Made More Affordable? 211
Saudi Arabia Almost Bought Hacking Team 26
Curbing the For-Profit Cybercrime Food Chain 19
Why All Boards Need a Technology Expert 67
iOS Ad Blocker "Crystal" Will Let Companies Pay To Show You Ads 229
Who Will Pay For a Commercial Space Station After the End of the ISS? 211
Coke Discloses Millions in Grants for Health Research and Programs 133
Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication 372
Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" 535
Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Operator Pleads Guilty To $150M Fraud 114
Michigan Sues HP Over Decade Long, $49 Million Incomplete Project 203
Club Concorde Wants To Put a Concorde Back In the Air 124
UK Govt's Expensive Mobile Coverage Project Builds Just 8 Masts In 4 Years 75
Some Trump Donors Get Fleeced By 3rd-Party Payment System 113
AT&T Says Malware Secretly Unlocked Hundreds of Thousands of Phones 123
JetBrains Reconsiders Subscription Licensing Changes 51
Tracking a Bluetooth ATM Skimming Gang In Mexico 44
The Economics of Drug Sales On the Dark Web 53
Bitcoin Is Officially a Commodity 59
The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year 1291
NASA Delays Orion's First Manned Flight Until 2023 115
The Answer To the High Cost of College: 42% Cut In Tuition 143
AT&T Offers $250k Reward To Find the California Fiber-Optic Ripper 145
America's First Video Game Museum Is Trying To Level Up 51
Nine of World's Biggest Banks Create Blockchain Partnership 93
NYC Counting On Donations To Fund Required K-12 Computer Science Programs 21
The Force Awakens With Devon's $28,500 Star Wars Limited Edition Watch 112
Epson's 'Empty' Professional-Grade Cartridges Can Have 20 Per Cent of Their Ink Remaining 268
PayPal, Visa, MasterCard Prepare To Block Payments To Pirate Sites In France 82
Why the LHC May Mean the End of Experimental Particle Physics 191
Ellen Pao Drops Appeal of Gender Discrimination Suit 234
US Defense Secretary Mulls Rapid Grants For Tech Companies 58
Google's Android Pay Mobile Payments Service Arrives In US 101
Rupert Murdoch Buys National Geographic Magazine 286
Intel Drops Support For Science Talent Search 115
Why Apple's iPhone Upgrade Program Is a Bad Deal For Most 279
Researcher: The US Owes the World $4 Trillion For Trashing the Climate 528
Software Is Hiring, But Manufacturing Is Bleeding 102
Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President 281
Commercial Space Crew Supporters Posit a Conspiracy Theory Involving Funding Shortages 62
Google Donates €1 Million To Help Refugees In Need 320
Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money 284
JetBrains Moving Its Dev Tools To Subscription Model 141
TPP Scuttles Attempts To Fix Orphan Works 128
$415 Million Settlement Approved In Tech Worker Anti-Poaching Case 117
Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US 209
FTC: Machinima Took Secret Cash To Shill Xbox One 156
Wikipedia Blocks Hundreds of Accounts Doing Paid Editing 146
Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap 229
Cities Wasting Millions of Taxpayer's Money In Failed IoT Pilots 149
Ask Slashdot: What Would You Do If You Were Suddenly Wealthy? 842
Where the Tech Industry's Political Donations Are Going 130
CenturyLink Takes $3B In Subsidies For Building Out Rural Broadband 199
NSF Makes It Rain: $722K Award To Evaluate Microsoft-Backed TEALS 64
Inside the Booming, Unhinged, and Dangerous Malvertising Menace 259
More Cities Use DNA To Catch Dog Owners Who Don't Pick Up Waste 177
Will a Tighter Economy Rein In Startups? 109
Met Office Loses BBC Weather Forecasting Contract 119
Calls For Funding NASA Commercial Crew Grow 71
Not All Uber Drivers Like Surge Pricing, Either 250
UK Government Signs New Deal With Oracle 54
Finland Considers Minimum Income To Reform Welfare System 755
Stopping Universities From Hoarding Money 274
Google Targets Low-Cost Android One Phone At African Markets 43
The Crowdfunded Board Game Renaissance 57
Bitcoin Fork Divides Community 185
Mars One CEO Insists, Our Mars Colonization Plan Is Feasible 147
The 2015 Underhanded C Contest Has Begun 52
Paywalled Science Journals Under Fire Again 131
The Realities of a $50 Smartphone 141
SAP Paid Bribes To Panamanian Officials 72
Samsung Pay Launches In Korea In August, US In September 30
Facebook Awards Researchers $100k For Detecting Emerging Class of C++ Bugs 73
Drone Racing League Receives a $1 Million From Miami Dolphins Owner 46
Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? 519
US Busts Insider Trading Hackers 113

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