News Stories for 2013

Why Scott Adams Wished Death On His Dad 961
Washington Post: Assange 'Unlikely To Be Prosecuted In US' 236
Salesforce.com To Review Controversial Hackathon Win 34
US Working To Kill UN Privacy Resolutions 197
Is a Postdoc Worth it? 233
Getting Evolution In Science Textbooks For Texas Schools 710
Book Review: Digital Outcasts 65
BBC: Amazon Workers Face "Increased Risk of Mental Illness" 321
Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries 730
San Quentin Inmates Learn Technology From Silicon Valley Pros 109
Singapore & South Korea Help NSA Tap Undersea Cables 137
Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog 242
Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Is Missing 138
Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto 172
China Creates Air Defence Zone Over Japan-Controlled Islands, Issues War Threat 519
Code.org: More Money For CS Instructors Who Teach More Girls 381
NYT: Healthcare.gov Project Chaos Due Partly To Unorthodox Database Choice 334
195K Bitcoin Transaction 167
Should the US Copy Switzerland and Consider a 'Maximum Wage' Ratio? 1216
FEC Will Not Allow Bitcoin Campaign Contributions 49
Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK 195
Another Casualty of Typhoon Haiyan: Geothermal Power 78
The US Now Faces the Same Dilemma Over Drones As It Did Over Nuclear Weapons 211
Study Finds Digital Activism Is Effective, Mostly Non-Violent 69
Virgin Galactic Now Taking Bitcoin For Suborbital Flights 70
Norway's Army Battles Global Warming By Going Vegetarian 495
Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google 278
FCC To Consider Cellphone Use On Planes 183
Samsung Ordered To Pay Apple $290M In Patent Case 219
Microsoft Certifications For High School Credits In Australia 126
Microsoft Adds Node.js Support To Visual Studio 197
Cyprus University Accepts Bitcoin For Tuition Fee Payments 157
Galileo Navigation System Gets Go-Ahead From EU Parliament 178
Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel 270
Glut In Stolen Identities Forces Price Cut 152
Students Tracked In UK College Via RFID For 1-3 Years 64
Elon Musk Talks About the Importance of Physics, Criticizes the MBA 343
Cute Cat Photos Are Data-Driven Science Behind Cunning New Language Learning App 80
Gartner: OpenStack Lacks Clarity 77
Wikimedia Sends Cease and Desist Letter To Firm Providing Paid Editing Services 186
Mir Won't Ship Even In Ubuntu 14.04 111
Google Maps, Lasers Reveal Vatican Catacombs 84
Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software? 237
CubeSat Launch Visible Around U.S. East Coast Tonight 34
Ubuntu Wants To Enable SSD TRIM By Default 135
2-D MMOG Glitch Released Completely Into the Public Domain 70
How Munich Abandoned Microsoft for Open Source 294
And Now For Something Completely Different: Monty Python Reunion Planned 168
Musk Lashes Back Over Tesla Fire Controversy 487
Nokia Shareholders Approve Sale To Microsoft 182
Why Not Fund SETI With a Lottery Bond? 191
How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations 152
An Anonymous US Law Enforcement Officer Claims US Wouldn't Arrest Julian Assange 399
How Snapchat Could March Startups Right Off the Cliff, Lemming-Style 143
Canonical Developer Warns About Banking With Linux Mint 206
Yahoo Encrypting Data In Wake of NSA Revelations 137
Interview: Ask Limor Fried About Open-Source Hardware and Adafruit 139
US Wary of Allowing Russian Electronic Monitoring Stations Inside US 232
GCC 4.9 Coming With Big New Features 181
Tremors Mean Antarctic Volcanism May Be Heating Up 132
How MOOC Faculty Exploit People's Desire To Learn 115
12-Lead Clinical ECG Design Open Sourced; Supports Tablets, Too 134
Comet ISON Nears Date With Sun 45
Scientists Propose Satellite Early Warning System For Forest Fires 91
Fukushima Disaster Leads Japan To Backpedal On Emissions Pledge 274
Getting the Dirt On Ancient Life With Coprolites 51
Dell's New Sputnik 3 Mates Touchscreen With Ubuntu 166
Lead Contractor On Health-Care Web Site Led By Execs From Troubled IT Company 227
Questions Raised By Education Dept's Road Show On College Value 95
Nathan Myhrvold's $500 Cookbook Now an $80 iPhone App 193
Can the US Be Weaned Off Ethanol? 330
Google's Wind, Solar Power Investments Top $1B 74
FBI Reports US Agencies Hacked By Anonymous 156
Arizona Approves Grid-Connection Fees For Solar Rooftops 363
Google Makes Latest Chrome Build Open PDFs By Default 202
Smithsonian Releases 3D Models of Artifacts 47
Woman Facing $3,500 Fine For Posting Online Review 519
Linux Format Magazine Team Quits, Launches New Profit-Donating Mag 90
How the NSA Is Harming America's Economy 330
MenuetOS, an OS Written Entirely In Assembly Language, Inches Towards 1.0 372
Global Warming Since 1997 Underestimated By Half 534
Zuckerberg To Teach 10 Million Kids 0-Based Counting 295
Amazon Hints At Details On Its CIA Franken-Cloud 67
NSA Wants To Reveal Its Secrets To Prevent Snowden From Revealing Them First 216
Clam That Was Killed Determining Its Age Was Over 100 Years Older Than Estimated 366
TSA Screening Barely Working Better Than Chance 337
ATF Tests Show 3D Printed Guns Can Explode 233
Startup Touts All-in-One Digital Credit Card 222
SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors 198
Google Books Case Dismissed On Fair Use Grounds 124
P2P Data Not Private, But It Could Be 59
Bitcoin Hits $400 Ahead of Senate Hearing On Virtual Currency 276
Could Slashdot (Or Other Private Entity) Sue a Spy Agency Like GCHQ Or NSA? 188
US Gov't Circulates Watch List of Buyers of Polygraph Training Materials 303
Italy Investigates Apple For Alleged Tax Fraud 175
US Intelligence Wants To Radically Advance Facial Recognition Software 178
SnapChat Turns Down $3 Billion Offer From Facebook 188
EFF Says Mark Shuttleworth Is Wrong About Trademark 103
Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services 222
Britain's Conservatives Scrub Speeches from the Internet 234
A Makerbot In Every Classroom 152
Puzzled Scientists Say Strange Things Are Happening On the Sun 342
Venezuela: Cheap Television Sets For All! 702
Soylent: No Food For 30 Days 440
Bill Gates's Plan To Improve Our World 445
Apple II DOS Source Code Released 211
Chicago State University Lawyers Attack Faculty Bloggers 94
The State of ReactOS's Crazy Open Source Windows Replacement 208
How 3 Young Coders Built a Better Portal To HealthCare.gov 499
Music Industry Issues Take Down Notices to 50 Major Lyrics Sites 281
Digital Textbook Startup Kno Was Sold For $15 Million 39
Desert Farming Experiment Yields Good Initial Results 178
Netflix, Youtube Surpass 50% Mark of Internet Traffic 249
WxWidgets 3.0: First Major Release in Several Years 147
Journalists Banned From Using Smartphones At 2014 Sochi Olympics? 114
MPAA Backs Anti-Piracy Curriculum For Elementary School Students 250
One Year Since John McAfee Fled Belize 66
British Intelligence Responds To Slashdot About Man-in-Middle Attack 256
China's "Singles Day" Is the World's Biggest Online Shopping Blitz 120
World War II's Last Surviving Doolittle Raiders Make Their Final Toast 211
Typhoon Haiyan Continues To Scourge Southeast Asia 114
GCHQ Created Spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot Sites To Serve Malware 335
There Would Be No Iranian Nuclear Talks If Not For Fracking 236
First Arab Supercar Costs $3.4 Million, Has Diamond-Encrusted Headlights 241
Twitter's Fake Followers Watching IPO Closely 120
Expansion of Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant Suspended 114
Scientists Invent Urine-Powered Robots 123
Mark Shuttleworth Apologizes for Trademark Action Against Fix Ubuntu 196
Where Does America's Fear Come From? 926
Square Is Discontinuing Monthly Pricing On February 1, 2014 114
British Operator EE Offers £8 Million Petabyte 4G Data Bundle 53
EPA Makes Most Wood Stoves Illegal 1143
Could We "Wikify" Scholarly Canons? 63
Ninth Anniversary of Firefox 1.0 Release 153
Bitcoin Donations To US Campaigns Might Soon Be Allowed 144
Wikimedia Launches Beta Program To Test Upcoming Features 25
Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? 125
Feedly Forces Its Users To Create Google+ Profiles 251
Amazon Gets Blow-Back Over Plan To Sell Kindles At Small Bookshops 176
Snowden Used Social Engineering To Get Classified Documents 276
Solid Concepts Manufactures First 3D-Printed Metal Pistol 333
Largest and Most Intense Tropical Cyclone On Record Hits the Philippines 160
UK Town To Get Driverless 'Pods' Mixing With Pedestrians 111
Canonical Targets Ubuntu Privacy Critic 259
"War Room" Notes Describe IT Chaos At Healthcare.gov 346
CIA Pays AT&T Millions To Voluntarily Provide Call Data 107
GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads 336
TrueCrypt To Go Through a Crowdfunded, Public Security Audit 104
Spooked By His Sci Fi, FBI Looked Into Asimov As Possible Communist Tipster 190
Elementary School Bans Students From Touching Each Other 336
US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat 520
Scientists Says Jellyfish Are Taking Over the Oceans 274
Healthcare.gov Official Resigns, Website Still a Disaster 559
Security Breach Forces Bitcoin Bank Inputs.io To Halt Operations 285
Alleged Secret Google Antitrust Proposals Leaked 116
Microsoft and Facebook Launch Internet Bug Bounty Program 57
Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government 510
Most Drivers Would Hand Keys Over To Computer If It Meant Lower Insurance Rates 449
Your Digital Life Will Only Get More Crowded... If You Let It 53
Republican Proposal Puts 'National Interest' Requirement On US Science Agency 382
Microsoft Makes an Astonishing $2 Billion Per Year From Android Patent Royalties 304
Blockbuster To Close Remaining US Locations 419
Amazon Offers Cut of Ebook Sales To Book Stores Selling Kindle 80
The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority 195
Anonymous Clashes With D.C. Police During Million Mask March 388
Apple Issues First Transparency Report 93
New Leaks Threaten Human Smuggling Talks and Lead To Hack Attacks On Australia 304
As IPO Nears, Do Twitter's Active User Claims Add Up? 73
Oil Recovery May Have Triggered Texas Tremors 172
Google Relying On People Power For 'Helpouts' 57
Brazil Admits To Spying On US Diplomats After Blasting NSA Surveillance 239
The Academy For Software Engineering: a High School For Developers 56
Bribe Devs To Improve Open Source Software 109
David Craddock and Two Blizzard North Co-Founders (Video 2 of 2) 14
Meet Slashdot 'Super Submitter' Esther Schindler (Video) 53
Fuel Cell-Powered Data Centers Could Cut Costs and Carbon 108
Hoax-Proofing the Open Access Journals 114
Snowden Publishes "A Manifesto For the Truth" 398
TSA Union Calls For Armed Guards At Every Checkpoint 603
Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden 504
Indonesian Erruption Forces Evacuation of 1300 36
Intel Open-Sources Broadwell GPU Driver & Indicates Major Silicon Changes 103
RAF Pilots Blinded At 1000 Mph By Helmet Technical Glitch 154
Full Details of My Attempted Entrapment For Teaching Polygraph Countermeasures 465
Mobile Devices Banned From UK Cabinet Meetings Over Surveillance Fears 116
Shutdown Illustrates How Fast US Gov't Can Update Its Websites 77
4 Prominent Scientists Say Renewables Aren't Enough, Urge Support For Nuclear 776
Why Organic Chemistry Is So Difficult For Pre-Med Students 279
Amazon Botches Sales Tax, Overcharges NJ 179
Exploiting Tomorrow's Solar Eclipse To Help Understand Sea Levels 92
SkyRunner Car Goes Off-Road and Off-Ground 26
HealthCare.gov: What Went Wrong? 400
GCHQ, European Spy Agencies Cooperate On Surveillance 145
Ask Slashdot: Easy, Open Source Desktop-Sharing Software? 116
OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 111
A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core 663
A Plan To Fix Daylight Savings Time By Creating Two National Time Zones 545
Dark Wallet Will Make Bitcoin Accessible For All — Except the Feds 206
Why Amazon Fights State Sales Tax, But Supports It Nationally 165
DoD News Aggregation Service "The Early Bird" Dead After 65 Years 25
Snowden Seeks International Help Against US Espionage Charges 351
Autonomous Dump Trucks Are Coming To Canada's Oil Sands 165
Inmates Program Logistics App For Prison 98
How Earth's Biosignature Will Change As the Planet Dies 95
Bill Gates: Internet Will Not Save the World 247
Gunman Opens Fire At LAX 520
Oracle Shareholders Vote Against Ellison's Compensation Package (Again) 213
Self-Published Zombie Titles Have Doubled Since 2012 74
Tech Titans Oracle, Red Hat and Google To Help Fix Healthcare.gov 404
Ask Slashdot: Package Redirection Service For Shipping to Australia? 206
David Craddock and Two Blizzard North Co-Founders Answer Your Questions (Video) 40
Book Review: Stay Awhile and Listen 66
Pen Testers Break Into Gov't Agency With Fake Social Media ID 109
Does Software Need a Siskel and Ebert? 169
Edward Snowden's New Job: Tech Support 328
State Technology Taxes Face Stiff Resistance 167
Spy Expert Says Australia Operating As "Listening Post" For US Agencies 165
NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters 394
Hackers Break Currency Validator To Pass Any Paper As Valid Euro 162
MELT, a GCC Compiler Plugin Framework, Reaches 1.0 58
Cable Lobbyist Tom Wheeler Confirmed As New FCC Chief 242
Cisco Releases Open Source "Binary Module" For H.264 In WebRTC 95
U.S. Will Not Provide Financing For New International Coal-Fired Power Plants 329
Drone-Mounted Laser Weapons Are On the Way 116
Magma Reservoir Under Yellowstone Is Much Bigger Than Previously Thought 93
Infosys Fined $35M For Illegally Bringing Programmers Into US On Visitor Visas 201
Book Review: Testing Cloud Services: How To Test SaaS, PaaS & IaaS 45
Firefox 25 Arrives With Web Audio API Support, Guest Browsing On Android 144
The Pentagon May Retire "Yoda," Its 92-Year-Old Futurist 254
Dell Is Now a Private Company Again 151
A Year After Sandy, Do You Approach Disaster Differently? 230
Chrome Will End XP Support in 2015; Firefox Has No Plans To Stop 257
UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations 431
Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos 453
Even the Author of the Patriot Act Is Trying To Stop the NSA 322
Web Literacy Standard Announced By Mozilla 64
Ubuntu's Mark Shuttleworth Wins Austria's Big Brother Award 116
Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? 569
Book Review: The App Generation 59
Stung By Scandal, South Korea Weighs Up Cost of Curbing Nuclear Power 200
Israel Helped the NSA Spy on Former French President According To Documents 215
30% of Americans Get News From Facebook According To Pew Research Poll 194
A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network 406
NSA Chief Keith Alexander Takes His PRISM Pitch To YouTube 165
Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study 640
New Technology For Converting a Metal To a Semiconductor With a Laser 42
Japan Refused To Help NSA Tap Asia's Internet 375
Inside South Africa's First Fully Digital Government School 47
France Moves To Protect Independent Booksellers From Amazon 264
German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010 280

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