News Stories for 2014

Firefox Will Soon Offer One-Click Buttons For Your Search Engines 101
Revisiting Open Source Social Networking Alternatives 88
Kim Dotcom Regrets Not Taking Copyright Law and MPAA "More Seriously" 151
Cameron Accuses Internet Companies Of Giving Terrorists Safe Haven 183
Conglomerate Rock From Mars: (Much) More Precious Than Gold 65
Officer Not Charged In Michael Brown Shooting 1128
Raspberry Pi-Powered Body Illusion Lets You Experience Parkinson's 38
Regin Malware In EU Attack Linked To US and British Intelligence Agencies 131
DHS Set To Destroy "Einstein" Surveillance Records 71
Complex Life May Be Possible In Only 10% of All Galaxies 307
Book Review: Bulletproof SSL and TLS 92
LinkedIn Study: US Attracting Fewer Educated, Highly Skilled Migrants 338
Married Woman Claims Facebook Info Sharing Created Dating Profile For Her 189
Apple To Donate Profit Portion From Black Friday For AIDS Fight 102
Cops 101: NYC High School Teaches How To Behave During Stop-and-Frisk 481
Bidding In Government Auction of Airwaves Reaches $34 Billion 85
How the World's Agricultural Boom Has Changed CO2 Cycles 186
2014 Hour of Code: Do Ends Justify Disney Product Placement Means? 125
Blame America For Everything You Hate About "Internet Culture" 376
Prospects Rise For a 2015 UN Climate Deal, But Likely To Be Weak 145
Spaceport America Loses $1.7 Million Due To Virgin Galactic Delays 46
How "Big Ideas" Are Actually Hurting International Development 92
Samsung Seeking To Block Nvidia Chips From US Market 93
Profanity-Laced Academic Paper Exposes Scam Journal 137
Judge Approves $450M Settlement For Apple's Ebook Price Fixing 69
Indian Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Snub Android One Phones 53
Critical XSS Flaws Patched In WordPress and Popular Plug-In 41
Startup Assembly Banks On Paid, Open-Source Style Development 33
Mozilla's 2013 Report: Revenue Up 1% To $314M; 90% From Google 161
Top NSA Official Raised Alarm About Metadata Program In 2009 110
Harvard Scientists Say It's Time To Start Thinking About Engineering the Climate 367
Culberson As Chair of NASA Fundng Subcommittee Makes Europa Mission More Likely 57
Google Launches Service To Replace Web Ads With Subscriptions 319
Coal Plants Get New Lease On Life With Natural Gas 143
Greenwald Advises Market-Based Solution To Mass Surveillance 157
Harvard Students Move Fossil Fuel Stock Fight To Court 203
Customers Creating Fake Amazon Pages To Get Cheap Electronics At Walmart 287
UNSW Has Collected an Estimated $100,000 In Piracy Fines Since 2008 98
Tracking a Bitcoin Thief, Part II: Illustrating the Issue of Trust In Altcoins 46
Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? 267
Interviews: Ask Adora Svitak About Education and Women In STEM and Politics 155
"Barbie: I Can Be a Computer Engineer" Pulled From Amazon 561
US Gov't Seeks To Keep Megaupload Assets Because Kim Dotcom Is a Fugitive 173
US Intelligence Unit Launches $50k Speech Recognition Competition 62
Millions of Spiders Seen In Mass Dispersal Event In Nova Scotia 81
Blowing On Money To Tell If It Is Counterfeit 114
Court Shuts Down Alleged $120M Tech Support Scam 129
Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine 400
Congress Suggests Moat, Electronic Fence To Protect White House 213
Number of Coders In Congress To Triple (From One To Three) 163
Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund 107
Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power 445
Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility 581
UK Hotel Adds Hefty Charge For Bad Reviews Online 307
City of Toronto Files Court Injunction Against Uber 169
Rooftop Solar Could Reach Price Parity In the US By 2016 516
NYT: Privacy Concerns For ClassDojo, Other Tracking Apps For Schoolchildren 66
Ask Slashdot: Professionally Packaged Tools For Teaching Kids To Program? 107
Laser Creates Quantum Whirlpool 59
US Marshals Auctioning $20M Worth of Silk Road's Bitcoins 119
Crowdfunded Linux Voice Magazine Releases First Issue CC-BY-SA 62
Uber Threatens To Do 'Opposition Research' On Journalists 299
Court Rules Google's Search Results Qualify As Free Speech 137
Machine-Learning Algorithm Ranks the World's Most Notable Authors 55
Do Good Programmers Need Agents? 215
Tor Eyes Crowdfunding Campaign To Upgrade Its Hidden Services 106
Toyota Names Upcoming Hydrogen Fuel Cell Car 194
Coding Bootcamps Presented As "College Alternative" 226
What the US Can Learn From Canada's Internet Policy 144
Group Tries To Open Source Seeds 100
Military Laser/Radio Tech Proposed As Alternative To Laying Costly Fiber Cable 150
State Department Joins NOAA, USPS In Club of Hacked Federal Agencies 54
World's Youngest Microsoft Certificated Professional Is Five Years Old 276
Billionaire Donors Lavish Millions On Code.org Crowdfunding Project 84
Longtime Debian Developer Tollef Fog Heen Resigns From Systemd Maintainer Team 550
Open Source Self-Healing Software For Virtual Machines 50
MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate 323
GTK+ Developers Call For Help To Finish Cross-Platform OpenGL Support 89
Can the US Actually Cultivate Local Competition in Broadband? 135
Machine Learning Used To Predict Military Suicides 74
Low Cost Ground Robot Chassis That Can Traverse Challenging Obstacles 38
Visual Studio 2015 Supports CLANG and Android (Emulator Included) 192
US DOE Sets Sights On 300 Petaflop Supercomputer 127
Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 340
R. A. Montgomery, Creator of the "Choose Your Own Adventure" Books, Dead At 78 80
Comcast Kisses-Up To Obama, Publicly Agrees On Net Neutrality 258
The Downside to Low Gas Prices 554
Entrepreneur Injects Bitcoin Wallets Into Hands 77
Ask Slashdot: Programming Education Resources For a Year Offline? 223
FCC Says Net Neutrality Decision Delay Is About Courts, Not Politics 60
How To Mathematically Predict Lightning Strikes 41
Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button 316
Google Wallet API For Digital Goods Will Be Retired On March 2, 2015 105
Education Chief Should Know About PLATO and the History of Online CS Education 134
Sony To Take On Netflix With Playstation Vue 130
Department of Justice Harvests Cell Phone Data Using Planes 202
Researchers Forecast the Spread of Diseases Using Wikipedia 61
Google Quadruples A.M. Turing Award To $1M 42
SatNOGS Wins the 2014 Hackaday Prize For Satellite Networked Open Ground Station 21
Assassin's Creed: Unity Launch Debacle Pulls Spotlight Onto Game Review Embargos 474
No, You Can't Seize Country TLDs, US Court Rules 120
Overbilled Customer Sues Time Warner Cable For False Advertising 223
Senate May Vote On NSA Reform As Soon As Next Week 127
How YouTube Music Key Will Redefine What We Consider Music 105
Microsoft Losing the School Markets To iPads and Chromebooks 219
How 4H Is Helping Big Ag Take Over Africa 377
US Weather System and Satellite Network Hacked 76
Google's Lease of NASA Airfield Criticized By Consumer Group 138
Hacker Builds a Dark Net Version of the FBI Tip Form 41
Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress 257
Microsoft To Open Source .NET and Take It Cross-Platform 525
US School Installs 'Shooter Detection' System 698
Duke: No Mercy For CS 201 Cheaters Who Don't Turn Selves In By Wednesday 320
U.S. and China Make Landmark Climate Deal 285
Denmark Faces a Tricky Transition To 100 Percent Renewable Energy 488
What Happens When Nobody Proofreads an Academic Paper 170
Groupon Backs Down On Gnome 114
FCC Confirms Delay of New Net Neutrality Rules Until 2015 127
US Postal Service Suspends Telecommuting Following Massive Breach 50
'Dark Magma' Could Explain Mystery Volcanoes 77
Apple's Luxembourg Tax Deals 158
Multi-Process Comes To Firefox Nightly, 64-bit Firefox For Windows 'Soon' 181
Fukushima Radiation Nears California Coast, Judged Harmless 114
Black IT Pros On (Lack Of) Racial Diversity In Tech 459
Google To Lease and Refurbish Naval Air Base For Space Exploration 89
Earth's Oxygen History Could Explain "Darwin's Dilemma" In Evolution 78
Gridlock In Action: Retailers Demand New Regulations To Protect Consumers 127
How To End Online Harassment 834
German Spy Agency Seeks Millions To Monitor Social Networks 59
Worrying Aspects of Linux Gaming 265
Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads 327
Pitivi Video Editor Surpasses 50% Crowdfunding Goal, Releases Version 0.94 67
The Disgruntled Guys Who Babysit Our Aging Nuclear Missiles 176
US Postal Service Hacked, 500k+ Employees and Public Data Breached 46
Book Review: Countdown To Zero Day 58
Canadian Police Recommend Ending Anonymity On the Internet 231
The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat 438
Report: Federal Workers, Contractors Behind Half of Government Cyber Breaches 61
President Obama Backs Regulation of Broadband As a Utility 706
Eben Upton Explains the Raspberry Pi Model A+'s Redesign 107
Nevada Earthquake Swarm Increases Chance of Larger Quake 65
How Alibaba Turned November 11 Into the World's Biggest Online Shopping Day 115
Berlin's Digital Exiles: Where Tech Activists Go To Escape the NSA 231
The Military's Latest Enemy: Climate Change 163
Judge Says Public Has a Right To Know About FBI's Facial Recognition Database 79
Mayday PAC Goes 2 For 8 224
Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months 173
Americans Rejoice At Lower Gas Prices 334
Florida-Based Magic Leap Builds Its Team With Bay Area Hires 161
Worldwide Aaron Swartz Day Memorial Hackathons This Weekend 76
New NXP SoC Gives Android Its Apple Pay 122
Zuckerberg: Most of Facebook Will Be Video Within Five Years 206
After Silk Road 2.0 Bust, Eyes Turn To 'Untouchable' Decentralized Market 108
British Spies Are Free To Target Lawyers and Journalists 184
Amazon's Luxembourg Tax Deals 200
New Website Offers Provably Fair Solutions To Everyday Problems 167
OpenSUSE 13.2 Released 42
Australian Post Office Opens Mail Forwarding Warehouse In the USA 142
Interviews: Ask Robert Ballard About Ocean Exploration 40
We Are Running Out of Sand 264
PC Cooling Specialist Zalman Goes Bankrupt Due To Fraud 208
Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber 389
Meet the 36 People Who Run Wikipedia 140
Using Naval Logbooks To Reconstruct Past Weather and Predict Future Climate 102
Marijuana Legalized In Oregon, Alaska, and Washington DC 588
Too Many Kids Quit Science Because They Don't Think They're Smart 273
Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches 388
EFF Begins a Campaign For Secure and Usable Cryptography 96
Google Releases Open Source Nogotofail Network Traffic Security Testing Tool 36
American Express Seeks To Swap Card Numbers For Secure Tokens 130
The Plane Crash That Gave Us GPS 236
Court Order: Butterfly Labs Bitcoins To Be Sold 66
Interviews: Ask Warren Ellis a Question 58
Online Payment Firm Stripe Boots 3D Gun Designer Cody Wilson's Companies 353
Some Virgin Galactic Customers Demand Money Back 165
New GCHQ Chief Says Social Media Aids Terrorists 228
Trisquel 7 Released 39
Flaw in New Visa Cards Would Let Hackers Steal $1M Per Card 126
"Car Talk" Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At Age 77 82
Gates Donates $500M+ To Fight Malaria and Other Diseases 106
Interviews: Ask CMI Director Alex King About Rare Earth Mineral Supplies 62
Adobe's Digital Editions Collecting Less Data, Says EFF 32
Scotland Builds Power Farms of the Future Under the Sea 216
Silicon Valley Swings To Republicans 485
Japan's Annual Nuclear Drill Highlights Problems 43
Chinese Hackers Mess With Texas By Attacking Fracking Firms 104
YouTube Opens Up 60fps To Everyone 152
Ferguson No-Fly Zone Revealed As Anti-Media Tactic 265
Pianist Asks Washington Post To Remove Review Under "Right To Be Forgotten" 257
US Midterm Elections Discussion 401
UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault 695
Rhode Island Comic Con Oversold, Overcrowded 126
Video Raises Doubts About Attkisson's Claims of Malicious Hacking 105
SpaceShipTwo Pilot Named; Branson Vows To 'Move Forward Together' 112
Drones Over Greenland Give Insight To Pollution's Effects On Melting 81
Kubuntu 15.04 Will Be Based On KDE5 45
Facebook Wants You To Vote Tuesday 165
World War II Tech eLoran Deployed As GPS Backup In the UK 139
It's Time To Revive Hypercard 299
Tao3D: a New Open-Source Programming Language For Real-Time 3D Animations 158
Qualcomm Begins Contributing To Reverse-Engineered Freedreno Linux Driver 19
Colleges Face New 'Gainful Employment' Regulations For Student Loans 331
Hungary's Plans For Internet Tax On Hold After Protests 48
Statisticians Study Who Was Helped Most By Obamacare 739
Mark Zuckerberg And John Doerr Donate $1M To Expand The Hour Of Code Campaign 24
Denmark Plans To Be Coal-Free In 10 Years 332
Researchers Claim Metal "Patch" Found On Pacific Island Is From Amelia Earhart 94
New Study Shows Three Abrupt Pulses of CO2 During Last Deglaciation 132
Vulnerabilities Found (and Sought) In More Command-Line Tools 87
A Mixed Review For CBS's "All Access" Online Video Streaming 85
Slashdot Asks: Appropriate Place For Free / Open Source Software Artifacts? 46
Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter 392
Drupal Warns Users of Mass, Automated Attacks On Critical Flaw 76
New Crash Test Dummies Reflect Rising American Bodyweight 144
MIT Professor Advocates Ending Asteroid Redirect Mission To Fund Asteroid Survey 116
Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records 190
The Most Highly Cited Scientific Papers of All Time 81
Secret Policy Allows GCHQ Bulk Access To NSA Data 95
Technology Group Promises Scientists Their Own Clouds 45
Imagining the Future History of Climate Change 495
YouTube Considering an Ad-Free, Subscription-Based Version 225
Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC Breached 265
Skilled Foreign Workers Treated as Indentured Servants 284
Verizon Launches Tech News Site That Bans Stories On US Spying 145
Pope Francis Declares Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Right 669
16-Teraflops, £97m Cray To Replace IBM At UK Meteorological Office 125
Help a Journalist With An NFC Chip Implant Violate His Own Privacy and Security 142
Tech Giants Donate $750 Million In Goods and Services To Underprivileged Schools 143
Location of Spilled Oil From 2010 Deepwater Horizon Event Found 73
Ken Ham's Ark Torpedoed With Charges of Religious Discrimination 451
OpenBSD Drops Support For Loadable Kernel Modules 162
FTC Sues AT&T For Throttling 'Unlimited' Data Plan Customers Up To 90% 179
Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay 631
EFF Rates Which Service Providers Side With Users 16
2600 Profiled: "A Print Magazine For Hackers" 71
Firefox OS Coming To Raspberry Pi 88
Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer 235
Black Swan Author: Genetically Modified Organisms Risk Global Ruin 432
Book Review: Measuring and Managing Information Risk: a FAIR Approach 46
Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease 1007
What Will It Take To Make Automated Vehicles Legal In the US? 320
Lava Flow In Hawaii Gains Speed, Triggers Methane Explosions 64
Steve Ballmer Gets Billion-Dollar Tax Write-Off For Being Basketball Baron 255
EU Court Rules Embedding YouTube Videos Is Not Copyright Infringement 68
Pentagon Builds Units To Transport Ebola Patients 117
Solving the Mystery of Declining Female CS Enrollment 608
Study: Past Climate Change Was Caused by Ocean, Not Just the Atmosphere 185
US Army May Relax Physical Requirements To Recruit Cyber Warriors 308
Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet 558
OpenSUSE Factory To Merge With Tumbleweed 24

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