Software Stories for 2018

Here's What 2019 Holds For Paint.NET 142
How Google Software Won 2018 75
Logitech Will Restore Third-Party Harmony Home Automation 42
An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions To 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem 87
Big Ben Brought Back To Life Through Snapchat AR Lens 29
Microsoft Issues Emergency Fix For Internet Explorer Zero Day 39
Two Android Apps Used In Combat By US Troops Contained Severe Vulnerabilities 54
Google Lens Can Now Recognize a Billion Items 40
Logitech Disables Local Access On Harmony Hubs, Breaks Automation Systems 151
Cydia's App Store For Jailbroken iPhones Shuts Down Purchases 40
50 Years On, We're Living the Reality First Shown At the 'Mother of All Demos' 82
Vine, HQ Trivia Co-Founder Colin Kroll Found Dead of Suspected Overdose 98
The Last Independent Mobile OS 60
Sean Parker Builds Beach-Access App To Atone For His Rule-Violating Wedding 73
Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? 179
Tesla Model 3 Modded To Run Ubuntu 87
Apple Will Update iPhones In China To Avoid a Ban On Sales 33
Discord Store To Offer Developers 90 Percent of Game Revenues 47
Microsoft Is Readying a Consumer Microsoft 365 Subscription Bundle 92
Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered By Yahoo Mail, Gmail 59
Louisiana Adopts Digital Driver's Licenses 151
Border Agents Fail To Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says 89
China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG 183
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret 98
Google Play Services Drops Support For Android Ice Cream Sandwich 85
After 23 Years, IBM Sells Off Lotus Notes 105
DeepMind Produces a General-Purpose Game-Playing System, Capable of Mastering Games Like Chess and Go Without Human Help 124
Facial Recognition Has To Be Regulated To Protect the Public, Says AI Report 55
Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias 150
Eastern European Banks Were Attacked Via Backdoors Directly Connected To Local Networks, Report Finds 43
Quantum Computers Pose a Security Threat That We're Still Totally Unprepared For 193
Google Is Shutting Down Its Allo Messaging App, Says Report 62
Facebook Ends Platform Policy Banning Apps That Copy Its Features 28
Google Bridges Android, iOS Development With Flutter 1.0 116
Japan's Final Pager Provider To End Its Service In 2019 45
The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House 55
The New Word Processor Wars: A Fresh Crop of Productivity Apps Are Trying To Reinvent Our Workday 193
Fortnite Dev Launches Epic Games Store That Takes Just 12% of Revenue 177
Nvidia Uses AI To Render Virtual Worlds In Real Time 44
Two iOS Fitness Apps Were Caught Using Touch ID To Trick Users Into Payments of $120 64
Robot Janitors Are Coming To Mop Floors At a Walmart Near You 86
Proposed Regulations Would Allow the Majority of US Homes To Be Bought and Sold Without Being Appraised by a Human 182
Automakers Give the Chinese Government Access To Location Data of Electric Cars 32
Airbnb Will Start Designing Houses In 2019 30
Intel Publishes Its First Modern Windows Driver for PCs 78
Google Shut Out Privacy, Security Teams From Secret China Project 138
Democrats Demand Info On Law Enforcement's Use of Amazon Facial Recognition Tool 54
Japan Researchers Develop Automated Technique For Anime Colorization Using Deep Learning 77
IBM Aims To Meld AI With Human Resources With Watson Suite 74
Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Build 18290 With Start Menu Improvements 205
Lowe's To Sell Off Its 'Under-Performing' Iris Smart Home Automation Business 119
Amazon Starts Selling Software To Mine Patient Health Records 84
Google Is Being Vague With Disclosure In Early Real-World Duplex Calls 71
Amazon Launches Cloud-Based Robotics Testing Platform 19
GM To Idle Five Factories In North America, Cut More Than 14,000 Jobs As It Focuses On Autonomous, Electric Vehicles 379
Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General 200
How A Mysterious Tech Billionaire Created Two Fortunes -- And a Global Software Sweatshop 192
New Web App Uses Machine Learning To Analyze, Repair Your Technical Resume 48
Paralyzed Individuals Operate Tablet With Brain Implant 61
Microsoft, Google and Qualcomm Working On Chrome For Windows On ARM 53
Ford Eyes Use of Customers' Personal Data To Boost Profits 79
Tumblr Removed From Apple's App Store Over Child Porn Issues 73
Instagram Is Cracking Down On Services That Sell Likes, Followers 25
Google Patents Motorized, Omnidirectional VR Sneakers 60
Facebook Filed a Patent To Predict Your Household's Demographics Based On Family Photos 98
Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu 18.04 Will Get a 10-Year Support Lifespan 110
Virginia To Produce 25K-35K Additional CS Grads As Part of Amazon HQ2 Deal 165
Dutch Government Report Says Microsoft Office Telemetry Collection Breaks EU GDPR Laws 87
Lock-Screen Bypass Bug Quietly Patched In Handsets 21
MiSafes' Child-Tracking Smartwatches Are 'Easy To Hack' 29
Why Sleep Apnea Patients Rely On a Lone, DRM-Breaking CPAP Machine Hacker 154
How Google Photos Became a Perfect Jukebox for Our Memories 72
Mozilla's 'Privacy Not Included' Gift Report Highlights Security Concerns 45
Many Free Mobile VPN Apps Are Based In China Or Have Chinese Ownership 67
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims 275
Facebook To Let French Regulators Investigate On Moderation Processes 54
Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 Service Launches on Android and iOS 105
US Military Publicly Dumps Russian Government Malware Online 74
Microsoft Launches Free AV1 Video Codec For Windows 10 48
Amazon's Consumer Business Has Turned Off Its Oracle Data Warehouse 134
Google Is Using AI To Digitize 5 Million Historical Photos 30
Vine's Successor Byte Launches Next Spring 31
Chinese News Agency Adds AI Anchors To Its Broadcast Team 79
Cisco Removed Its Seventh Backdoor Account This Year, and That's a Good Thing 102
Google Sends Final Software Update To Legacy Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P Phones 107
Facebook's GraphQL Gets Its Own Open-Source Foundation 33
Microsoft Has Built Its New Campus In Minecraft To Introduce Employees 23
Microsoft's Cortana Boss Javier Soltero Is Leaving the Company 31
Ask Slashdot: Do Older IT Workers Doing End-User Support Find It Gets Harder With Age? 221
7-Eleven Tests Cashier-Free Shopping In 14 Stores 90
EFF Unveils VR Tool To Help People Spot Surveillance Devices In Their Communities 24
20th Century Fox Is Using AI To Analyze Movie Trailers, Find Out What Films Audiences Will Like 123
File-Sharing Software On State Election Servers Could Expose Them To Intruders 125
Apple Used To Be an Inventor. Now It's Mainly a Landlord. 205
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To the Prank Apps That Used To Be Popular? 134
Iran Allegedly Hit By Computer Virus More Violent Than Stuxnet 181
Android Pie Has a Battery Life Problem 76
Can a Robot Learn a Language the Way a Child Does? 86
Experimental AI Lie Detector Will Help Screen EU Travelers 102
Kids' Apps Are Flooded With Ads 123
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Released 53
Fedora 29 Released 31
Civil Servant Watching Porn At Work Blamed For Government Malware Outbreak 180
Google Pixel 3 XL Bug Adds Second Notch To Side of the Screen 44
Copyright Law Just Got Better for Video Game History 46
Canonical Releases Statistics Showing Adoption of Snap Packages 62
Google's Smart City Dream Is Turning Into a Privacy Nightmare 61
Microsoft Closes Its $7.5 Billion Purchase of GitHub 87
Tech To Blame For Ever-Growing Car Repair Costs, AAA Says 294
AI-Generated Portrait Sells For Nearly Half a Million In Auction 82
Feds Say Hacking DRM To Fix Your Electronics Is Legal 124
Facebook Uses Machine Learning To Remove 8.7 Million Child Exploitation Posts 210
New Study Claims Data Harvesting Among Android Apps Is 'Out of Control' 97
In First Ruling of Its Kind, Apple and Samsung Fined For Deliberately Slowing Down Old Phones 187
Experimental Android App Determines Alertness By Examining Eyes 22
Will Tech Leave Detroit In the Dust? 102
Winamp 5.8, the First Update In 4 Years, Is Released 198
Some Google Pixel Owners' Camera Photos Aren't Saving 47
Buggy Software in Popular Connected Storage Drives Can Let Hackers Read Private Data 44
iPhone's New Parental Controls Block Sex Ed, Allow Violence and Racism 185
OpenBSD 6.4 Released 121
Microsoft Making More of the Windows 10 Built-In Apps Removable 82
Ask Slashdot: Should Open-Source Developer Teams Hire Professional UI/UX Designers? 249
GPU-Z Can Now Detect Fake NVIDIA Graphics Cards 60
Google Maps Adds EV Charging Station Info 34
Sony Tries Using Blockchain Tech For Next-Gen DRM 100
Medtronic Locks Down Vulnerable Pacemaker Programming Kit Due To Cybersecurity Concerns 40
The Full Photoshop CC Is Coming To the iPad In 2019 101
Printer Makers Are Crippling Cheap Ink Cartridges Via Bogus 'Security Updates' 202
Winamp Media Player To Return as a Platform-Agnostic Audio Mobile App Next Year; Desktop Application Receives an Update 175
New Startup By a Trio of Doctors Uses Phone App To Collect Measures of People's Cognition and Emotional Health and Attempts To Detect Signs of Depression 50
Facebook Is Testing An Unsend Feature For Messenger 24
Google AI Claims 99 Percent Accuracy In Metastatic Breast Cancer Detection 34
The UK Invited a Robot To 'Give Evidence' In Parliament For Attention 18
The US Military Wants To Teach AI Some Basic Common Sense 94
CoinMiners Use New Tricks To Impersonate Adobe Flash Installers 47
Razer Phone 2 Launches With Notch-less Display, Wireless Charging, and RGB Lighting 72
Google Home Hub Is Nothing Like Other Google Smart Displays 44
Internet Archive Launches a Commodore 64 Emulator 77
Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature 116
Pentagon's New Next-Gen Weapons Systems Are Laughably Easy To Hack 93
Google's Human-Sounding Phone Bot Is Coming To the Pixel Next Month 26
KDE Plasma 5.14 Released 41
Microsoft Rereleases Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Fixes Data Deletion Bug 79
Apple Releases iOS 12.0.1 With Fixes For Wi-Fi 2.4GHz Bug, Lightning Charging Issue 84
Google Drops Out of Pentagon's $10 Billion Cloud Competition 103
Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever 201
iFixit Confirms You Can Still Repair Your Own iMac Pro Or MacBook Pro -- At Least For Now 44
National Theater In London Offers Glasses With Live Subtitles 46
Microsoft Open Sources Parts of Minecraft's Java Code 79
Slack Prepares Analytics Tool To Compete With G Suite and Office 365 23
Instagram Tests Sharing Your Location History With Facebook 26
Apple's New Proprietary Software Locks Kill Independent Repair On New MacBook Pros 442
BlackBerry Races Ahead of Security Curve With Quantum-Resistant Solution 39
Honda Will Use GM's Self-Driving Technology, Invest $750 Million In Cruise Startup 27
New Autonomous Farm Wants To Produce Food Without Human Workers 92
Microsoft Is Embracing Android As the Mobile Version of Windows 76
Microsoft Announces App Mirroring To Let You Use Any Android App On Windows 10 59
AmigaOS 3.1.4 For Classic Amigas Released 69
Windows 10 October 2018 Update Is Now Available; Features 'Your Phone' Android Messaging App, Dark Theme For File Explorer, and Other Tweaks 67
Ex-Apple Engineers Unveil a Next-Generation Sensor For Self-Driving Cars 32
A Computer Has Written A 'Novel' Narrating Its Own Cross-Country Road Trip 36
Apple Demands $9 Billion From Google For Default Search On iOS 122
An Ex-NSA Hacker Who Has Organized the First-Ever Mac Security Conference 46
iPhone XS Passcode Bypass Hack Exposes Contacts, Photos 23
BitTorrent and Tron Hope Other Clients Will Embrace Blockchain-Powered 'Paid' Seeding 42
Apple's Device Enrollment Program Can Leak Sensitive Data About Devices, Owners 24
Microsoft Will End Support For Skype Classic In November 51
Delta Computer Glitches Force Flight Halts Third Year In a Row 69
Ex-NSA Employee Gets 5 Years In Prison For Taking Home Top Secret Files 174
Microsoft To Bring Multi-User Virtualization To Windows, Office With Windows Virtual Desktop Service 83
Xbox Announces Mouse and Keyboard Support 66
Apple Completes Shazam Acquisition, Will Make App Ad-Free For Everyone 60
Slack Buys and Shuts Down Intelligent Email App Astro 50
Mitsubishi Recalls 68,000 SUVs Over Bad Software 82
Microsoft Launches Office 2019 For Windows and Mac 143
Meet the World's First Self-Driving Car From 1968 58
PlayStation Now Is Making Its Games Downloadable 32
Instagram Says It's Not Working On a Regram Feature 12
Telltale Games Hit With Major Layoffs As Part of a 'Majority Studio Closure' 95
David Patterson Says It's Time for New Computer Architectures and Software Languages 360
'It Just Seems That Nobody is Interested in Building Quality, Fast, Efficient, Lasting, Foundational Stuff Anymore' 560
China Blocks Twitch 72
California May Ban Terrible Default Passwords On Connected Devices 155
Evernote Slashes 15 Percent of Its Workforce 63
John Hancock Will Include Fitness Tracking In All Life Insurance Policies 295
Alibaba To Set Up New Chip Company Amid Fear of US Tech Dependency 60
'WaitList.dat' Windows File May Be Secretly Hoarding Your Passwords, Emails 40
We Hold People With Power To Account. Why Not Algorithms? 143
Linux On Windows 10: Running Ubuntu VMs Just Got a Lot Easier, Says Microsoft 193
Google's Android OS To Power Dashboard Displays 77
Hackers Hijack Surveillance Camera Footage With 'Peekaboo' Zero-Day Vulnerability 25
US Lawmakers Say AI Deepfakes 'Have the Potential To Disrupt Every Facet of Our Society' 198
San Francisco Gets Its First Cashierless Store 94
Some Linux Gamers Using Wine/DXVK To Play Blizzard's Overwatch Banned 81
Nintendo Switch Cloud Save Data Disappears If You Cancel Subscription 71
Windows, Linux Kodi Users Infected With Cryptomining Malware 58
Tesla Issues Software Update To Extend Some Cars' Batteries Due To Hurricane Florence 242
European Parliament Passes Resolution Calling For An International Ban On Killer Robots 115
Researchers Come Out With Yet Another Unnerving, New Deepfake Method 54
Safe AI Requires Cultural Intelligence 79
MIT Machine Vision System Figures Out What It's Looking At By Itself 36
Apple Recalls a Number of iPhone 8 Devices For Manufacturing Defect 79
Progressive Web Apps Moving Mainstream As Twitter Makes Its Mobile Site the Main 76
Quantum Computing Is Almost Ready For Business, Startup Says 41
Nintendo's Promised Cloud Saves On Switch Won't Work For Every Game 34
Huawei Caught Cheating Performance Test For New Phones 74
380,000 Card Payments Compromised In British Airways Breach 50
Valve Explains How It Decides Who's a 'Straight Up Troll' Publishing Video Games On Steam 77
Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey 168
BitTorrent Embraces Streaming Torrents, Takes uTorrent Web Out of Beta 46
New Software Can Predict Landslides Weeks Before They Happen 35
Mobile Spyware Maker mSpy Leaks Millions of Sensitive Records 18
Bullet, China's Latest Messaging App, Pops Shots at Top Local Rival WeChat 48
16-Year-Old RSS Reader App NetNewsWire Returns To Founder Brent Simmons, Who Promises To Keep It Free and Open Source and Release v5.0 Soon 18
Linus Torvalds No Longer Knows the Whole Linux Kernel and That's OK 119
Apple Records First-Ever Accident In Self-Driving Car Program 74
John McAfee's 'Unhackable' Bitfi Wallet Got Hacked -- Again 108
Google, Harvard Use AI To Predict Earthquake Aftershocks 16
Adobe's Next Major Creative Cloud Release Won't Support Older OSes 308
Microsoft Removes Device Install Limits For Office 365 Subscribers 78
Tesla Files Patent For Automatic Turn Signals 161
Google's Assistant Is Now Bilingual 78
Google Is Revamping the Wear OS Smartwatch UI 38
Nintendo Shuts Down Tool Used To Build Pokemon Fan Games 78
Chinese Phone Maker Huawei Risks Alienating Its Loyal Customer Base By Taking a Strong Stand Against Unlocking of Its Handsets, Users Say 148
Linux Apps Are Not Coming To Many Still-Supported Chromebooks 61
Windows 95 Is Now An App You Can Download and Install On macOS, Windows, and Linux 183
Netflix Is the Latest Company To Try Bypassing Apple's App Store 71
Microsoft Hit With US Bribery Probe Over Deals in Hungary 52
Intel's Reworked Microcode Security Fix License No Longer Prohibits Benchmarking 76
Apple Removes Facebook's Onavo Security App From the App Store 98
Intel Publishes Microcode Security Patches With No Benchmarks Or Profiling Allowed 373
LA County Gets State Approval of New Vote-Counting System Using Open-Source Software 95
Facebook Wants To Use Machine Learning To Make MRIs Faster 67
'Legacy System' Exposed Black Hat 2018 Attendees' Contact Info 21
BitTorrent Founder Bram Cohen Has Left the Company 53
China Aims To Narrow Cyberwarfare Gap With US 55
'Americans Own Less Stuff, and That's Reason To Be Nervous' 554
Stolen Android Anti-Piracy Software Dumped On Github 33
Volkswagen's CEO Was Told About Emissions Software Months Before Scandal, Says Report 93
OpenAI Is Beating Humans At 'Dota 2' Because It's Basically Cheating 99
Flight-Simulator Enthusiasts Confident of Real-World Skills 179
Google Is Developing Native Hearing Aid Support For Android 50
Nintendo's Switch Has Been Hiding a Buried 'VR Mode' For Over a Year 38
Did Apple Secretly Crush An App Store Competitor In Japan? 89
Valve Seems To Be Working On Tools To Get Windows Games Running On Linux 196
Tinder Founders Sue Dating App's Owners For At Least $2 Billion 26
Apple Pulls iOS 12 Beta 7 Update Due To Performance Issues 44
Android Pie Breaks Pixel XL's Ability To Fast Charge 79

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