News Stories for 2017

CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video 163
Verizon Will Launch 5G Home Internet Access In 2018 115
System76 Will Disable Intel Management Engine On Its Linux Laptops 149
Russia Says It Will Ignore Any UN Ban of Killer Robots 132
Prepare for the New Paywall Era 263
Google Faces Lawsuit For Gathering Personal Data From Millions of iPhone Users 35
Nasdaq Plans To Offer Bitcoin Futures In Early 2018 100
Bacteria Found On ISS May Be Alien In Origin, Says Cosmonaut 240
375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests 236
DNA Analysis Finds That Yetis Are Actually Bears 121
Physicists Made An Unprecedented 53 Qubit Quantum Simulator 70
Coinbase Ordered To Report 14,355 Users To the IRS 141
Snapchat Is Becoming the Anti-Facebook 47
EPA Confirms Tesla's Model 3 Has a Range of 310 Miles 283
Microsoft: We're Razing Our Redmond Campus To Build a Mini City 98
Scientists Call For Ban On Glitter, Say It's a Global Hazard That Pollutes Oceans 121
Bitcoin Tumbles From Record High After Exchanges Confirm Outage 130
FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media 193
A Supreme Court Case This Week Could Change US Digital Privacy Standards 74
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Criticizes Companies That Oppose His Efforts To Repeal Net Neutrality Rules 349
Bitcoin Hits $10,000 Because Ceilings Are Just a Construct, Man 348
Tom Baker Returns To Finish Shelved Doctor Who Episodes Penned By Douglas Adams 83
White House Weighs Personal Mobile Phone Ban For Staff 113
Plex's DVR Can Now Automatically Remove Commercials For You 75
Comcast Hints At Plan For Paid Fast Lanes After Net Neutrality Repeal 308
Computer Science GCSE in Disarray After Tasks Leaked Online 53
Reddit, Twitter, and 200 Others Say Ending Net Neutrality Could Ruin Cyber Monday 88
'Complicit' Is The Word Of The Year In 2017, Dictionary.com Says 68
Justices Ponder Need For Warrant For Cellphone Tower Data 200
Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says 218
Tim Wu: Why the Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality 251
YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results 155
Petition Calls for Ouster of FCC Chairman Pai 174
Could Collapsing Antarctic Glaciers Raise Sea Levels Sooner Than Expected? 418
Clear Linux Beats CentOS, openSUSE, and Ubuntu in (Enterprise) Benchmark Tests 136
Amazon: Heat From Data Centers Will Be Used as a Furnace 52
Big Tobacco Loses 11-Year Fight, Forced To Broadcast 'Dangers of Smoking' Ads 274
Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin? 189
FBI Failed To Notify 70+ US Officials Targeted By Russian Hackers 94
Russia and The US Fight Over Who Gets To Extradite A Hacker 98
Patent Trolls Are Losing More. Will America's Supreme Court Change That? 127
Taking The Profit Out Of Killing 'Net Neutrality' 257
Firefox Quantum Is 'Better, Faster, Smarter than Chrome', Says Wired 383
Bitcoin and Ethereum Prices Are Surging Again 116
After Bankrupting Gawker, Peter Thiel Demands a Chance to Buy Them 149
Google Flagged Its Own Chromebook Ad As Spam On YouTube 35
Why Do Employers Require College Degrees That Aren't Necessary? 358
Bloomberg Op-Ed: The Internet 'Already Lost Its Neutrality' 171
Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips 103
Lightning Can Trigger Nuclear Reactions, Creating Rare Atomic Isotopes 75
Living In Nuclear Disaster Fallout Zone Would Be No Worse Than Living In London, Research Suggests 278
More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked 177
Tesla's Electric Semi Trucks Are Priced To Compete At $150,000 189
AT&T, Comcast Lawsuit Has Nullified a City's Broadband Competition Law 74
Amazon's Jeff Bezos Surpasses $100 Billion Net Worth 65
Legislators Take Aim At Star Wars Battlefront II, EA Over 'Gambling In Games' 72
Pornhub Owner May Become the UK's Gatekeeper of Online Porn 95
Linux Pioneer Munich Confirms Switch To Windows 10 336
Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can't Afford Them 252
There's Now a Dark Web Version of Wikipedia 20
A Third of Americans Still Buy and Rent Videos 126
More Young People Are Becoming Farmers 117
Thank You, Phish Fans, For Caring About Net Neutrality 79
Brands Pull YouTube Ads Over Images of Children 125
Belgium Denounces Loot Boxes as Gambling; Hawaiian Legislator Calls Them 'Predatory' 203
New Uber CEO Knew of Hack for Months 27
Broadband Firms in UK Must Ditch 'Misleading' Speed Ads 69
Justin Trudeau Is 'Very Concerned' With FCC's Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality 244
Firefox Will Warn Users When Visiting Sites That Suffered a Data Breach 64
'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality 183
YouTube To Implement New Guidelines To Protect Minors From Disturbing Content 95
Flowing Water On Mars' Surface May Just Be Rolling Sand Instead 81
We'll Never Legalize Bitcoin, Says Russian Minister 55
Uber Is Under Investigation By Multiple States Over a 2016 Data Breach 25
FCC Ignored Your Net Neutrality Comment, Unless You Made a 'Serious' Legal Argument 279
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? 252
Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed 279
Night Being 'Lost' To Artificial Light 119
'The Death of the MBA' 162
The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers 220
Apple Only Wants To Put Its Stores Where White People Live, Investigation Reveals 497
China's Tencent Breaks Through $500bn Stock Market Capitalisation 77
Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs 273
Facebook Still Lets Housing Advertisers Exclude Users By Race 197
Russia Detects a Significant Radiation Spike In Mountains Close To Soviet-Era Nuclear Plant 125
How the Sugar Industry Tried To Hide Health Effects of Its Product 50 Years Ago 283
$31 Million In Tokens Stolen From Dollar-Pegged Cryptocurrency Tether 63
Sacramento Regional Transit Systems Hit By Hacker 35
FCC Will Also Order States To Scrap Plans For Their Own Net Neutrality Laws 280
Uber Fined $8.9 Million In Colorado For Allowing Drivers With Felonies, Motor Violations To Work 108
Why Apple's HomePod Is Three Years Behind Amazon's Echo 96
FCC Announces Plan To Repeal Net Neutrality 331
Apple's New iPhone Built With Illegal Overtime Teen Labor 157
To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet 196
Trump Administration Tightens Scrutiny of Skilled Worker Visa Applicants 263
Google Cloud Platform Cuts the Price of GPUs By Up To 36 Percent 28
Google Is Working On Fuchsia OS Support For Apple's Swift Programming Language 54
US Sues To Block AT&T Purchase of Time Warner 64
An Ethereum Startup Just Vanished After People Invested $374K 190
Dark Side of Gig Economy: Some Instacart Workers Go On Strike Over Pay That Can Be as Low as $1 Per Hour 436
Another Tor Browser Feature Makes It Into Firefox: First-Party Isolation 93
Spam Is Back 154
Stock Music Artists Aren't Always Happy About How Their Music Is Used 147
Upsurge in Big Earthquakes Predicted for 2018 88
Net Neutrality is Essentially Unassailable, Argues Billionaire Barry Diller 82
What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change 624
Bitcoin Prices Surge 26% in November, Pass $8000 221
Firefox vs Chrome: Speed and Memory 160
46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure 295
Apple Is Served A Search Warrant To Unlock Texas Church Gunman's iPhone 450
Microsoft Debuts Minecraft-Themed Coding Tutorial 24
Facebook Open Sources Its Network Routing Platform Open/R 28
EFF Beats 'Stupid' Patent Troll In Court 70
FOSS Community Criticizes SFLC over SFC Trademark War 64
Is Firefox 57 Faster Than Chrome? 234
The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers 578
'Robots Are Not Taking Over,' Says Head of UN Body of Autonomous Weapons 77
Massive US Military Social Media Spying Archive Left Wide Open In AWS S3 Buckets 85
Microsoft and GitHub Team Up To Take Git Virtual File System To MacOS, Linux 150
Proprietary Software is the Driver of Unprecedented Surveillance: Richard Stallman 197
Why is this Company Tracking Where You Are on Thanksgiving? 98
Stanford Trains AI To Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than a Radiologist In Just Two Months 75
Report Claims That 18 Nation's Elections Were Impacted By Social Engineering Last Year 235
Virgin Hyperloop One Eyes India For Possible High-Speed Routes 38
FCC Repeals Decades-Old Rules Blocking Broadcast Media Mergers 146
Federal Extreme Vetting Plan Castigated By Tech Experts 160
Firefox Will Block Navigational Data URIs as Part of an Anti-Phishing Feature 70
Internal Kaspersky Investigation Says NSA Worker's Computer Was Infested with Malware 141
Foreign Students Have Begun To Shun the United States 756
Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away 175
Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? 589
Russia Posts Video Game Screenshot As 'Irrefutable Proof' of US Helping IS 132
TechShop Announces Chapter 7 Bankruptcy; Closes All Locations 66
FCC Plans December Vote To Kill Net Neutrality Rules 116
Companies Wake Up To the Problem of Bullies At Work 217
Amazon Is Cutting Prices at Whole Foods Again 122
Technology Invading Nearly All US Jobs, Even Lower Skilled, Study Finds 139
Is American English Going To Take Over British English Completely? 526
'Black Friday Is Dying' 290
Boeing 757 Testing Shows Airplanes Vulnerable To Hacking, DHS Says 140
Google Returns As Default Search Engine In Firefox 136
Why Google Should Be Afraid of a Missouri Republican's Google Probe 231
All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux 288
FDA Approves Digital Pill That Tracks If Patients Have Ingested Their Medication 72
Pentagon To Make a Big Push Toward Open-Source Software Next Year 99
Thirty Countries Use 'Armies of Opinion Shapers' To Manipulate Democracy 181
Without Humans, Artificial Intelligence Is Still Pretty Stupid 96
About 15 Percent of US Agencies Detected Kaspersky Software on Networks 81
Ads May Soon Stalk You on TV Like They Do on Your Facebook Feed 203
EA's 'Star Wars' PR Disaster Finally Pushed Gamers Into Open Revolt Against Loot Boxes 307
Firefox Quantum Arrives With Faster Browser Engine, Major Visual Overhaul 323
Digital Technology Can Help Reinvent Basic Education In Africa 70
Study Finds SpaceX Investment Saved NASA Hundreds of Millions 156
All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly 243
Bitcoin Gold, the Latest Bitcoin Fork, Explained 96
Uber Drivers In Lagos Are Using a Fake GPS App To Inflate Rider Fares 86
China Overtakes US In Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List 110
Solar Companies Are Scrambling to Find a Critical Raw Material 134
More Than 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Issue 'Warning To Humanity' 405
Firefox 57 Brings Better Sandboxing on Linux 124
Not Every Article Needs a Picture 134
Verizon, AT&T Announce Plans To Build and Share Hundreds of New Cell Towers 34
Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars 142
Munich Council: To Hell With Linux, We're Going Full Windows in 2020 544
Amazon Developing a Free, Ad-Supported Version of Prime Video: Report 74
Qualcomm Board of Directors Unanimously Rejects Broadcom's Unsolicited Proposal 31
New Study Suggests We Don't Understand Supervolcanoes 105
Asgardia Becomes the First Nation Deployed in Space 176
North Korean Hackers Are Targeting US Defense Contractors 146
New Samsung Video Demos Linux on Galaxy Smartphones 100
What Happens to Open Source Code After Its Developer Dies? 78
CopperheadOS Fights Unlicensed Installations On Nexus Phones 97
Lockheed Martin To Build High-Energy Airborne Laser For Fighter Planes 80
Bill Gates Just Bought 25,000 Acres in the Arizona Desert 313
Magazine For Museums Publishes Its 2040 Issue -- 23 Years Early 40
H1-B Administrators Are Challenging An Unusually Large Number of Applications 304
One Bitcoin Transaction Now Uses As Much Energy As Your House In a Week 227
How Two Scientists Accurately Predicted Global Warming in 1967 218
The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Voting With Paper 219
NASA Discovers Mantle Plume That's Melting Antarctica From Below 244
Paradise Papers Expose Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme 146
EA Buys Out a Game Studio After Shutting Another One Down 3 Weeks Ago 57
Bitcoin Drops Over $1,000 In Value Over 48 Hours 107
Following Equifax Breach, CEO Doesn't Know If Data Is Encrypted 104
Here Comes the World's Biggest Shopping Spree -- Again 38
Uber Drivers Have Rights on Wages and Time Off, UK Panel Rules 125
The Booming Japanese Rent-a-Friend Business 276
Ask Slashdot: How Many Books Do You Read a Month? 173
DOJ: Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access To Is 'Unreasonable' 510
YouTube Says It Will Crack Down On Bizarre Videos Targeting Children 109
Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms 181
Monopoly Critics Decry 'Amazon Amendment' 52
WikiLeaks Starts Releasing Source Code For Alleged CIA Spying Tools 102
Qualcomm Eyes Intel With Centriq 2400 Arm Server Chip 23
iPhone X Costs Apple $370 in Materials: IHS Markit 120
Philippine Outsourcing Industry Braces For AI 44
The Bitcoin Bubble 284
America's 'Retail Apocalypse' Is Really Just Beginning 398
Federal Prosecutors Charge Man With Hiring Hackers To Sabotage Former Employer 18
Nearly a Third of Millennials Say They'd Rather Own Bitcoin Than Stocks 312
Nearly Half of Colorado Counties Have Rejected a Comcast-Backed Law Restricting City-Run Internet 128
Justice Department Tells Time Warner It Must Sell CNN Or DirecTV To Approve Its AT&T Merger 118
The Inside Story of Venture Capital's Messiest Breakup 20
China Spreads Propaganda to U.S. on Facebook, a Platform it Bans at Home 103
2x Called Off: Bitcoin Hard Fork Suspended for Lack of Consensus 50
Google Wants Google Doodles Taught In Public School, Warns Kids They Best Behave 146
Raja Koduri, AMD's Radeon Tech Group Leader, Resigns 38
Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors 224
EPA Approves Release of Bacteria-Carrying Mosquitoes To 20 States 133
New Technology Should Be Neither Feared Nor Trusted 61
The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal 719
Apache OpenOffice: We're OK With Not Being Super Cool 106
Andrew Ng Wants a New 'New Deal' To Combat Job Automation 160
Someone 'Accidentally' Locked Away $300M Worth of Other People's Ethereum Funds 141
The Crisis in Local News 118
Uber Commits $5 Million To Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence Prevention 78
Florida Attempts the Largest Hydraulic Restoration Project In the World To Save the Everglades 98
US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub 165
Should Private Companies Be Allowed To Hit Back At Hackers? 141
Apple Wins $120 Million From Samsung In Slide-To-Unlock Patent Battle 72
Paradise Papers Leak Reveals Apple's Secret Tax Bolthole 174
Popular Firefox Bookmark Syncing Add-On Starts Losing... Bookmarks 67
'Something Is Wrong On the Internet' 365
Comcast's Xfinity Internet Service Is Down Across the US [Update] 104
Amazon Discounts Other Sellers' Products as Retail Competition Stiffens 98
Qualcomm Set To Reject $130bn Bid From Broadcom 29
The Disappearing American Grad Student 268
The US Has Destroyed A Critical Sea Ice-Measuring Satellite 283
'Panama Papers' Group Strikes Again with 'Paradise Papers' 402
Failure of Sprint/T-Mobile Merger Means a Missed Chance To Save $30B 127
Mozilla Might Distrust Dutch Government Certs Over 'False Keys' 112
Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years 181
New Victims in the 'Billionaire War on Journalism' 207
Many US States Consider Abandoning Daylight Savings Time 366
Peter Thiel Could End Up Owning Gawker 68
Appeals Court Rules: SCO v. IBM Case Can Continue 131
Firefox Borrows From Tor Browser Again, Blocks Canvas Fingerprinting 92
Software Freedom Law Center Launches Trademark War Against Software Freedom Conservancy 113
Audacity 2.2.0 Released 103
Equifax Investigation Clears Execs Who Dumped Stock Before Hack Announcement 155
TorMoil Vulnerability Leaks Real IP Address From Tor Browser Users; Security Update Released 21
Bitcoin Mining Heats Home For Free In Siberia 106
Broadcom Explores Buying Qualcomm 69
Republican Tax Plan Kills Electric Vehicle Credit 481
Shoppers More Likely To Return Items Bought Online Than in Store 117
Google Wins Ruling to Block Global Censorship Order 89
Australia Cockatoos Chew Billion-Dollar Broadband 82
CNN Plans To Offer Subscriptions for Digital News Next Year 60
BMW Recalling One Million Vehicles in North America 70
Malware Developer Who Used Spam Botnet To Pay For College Gets No Prison Time 57

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