News Stories for 2018

Cloudflare Partners With Microsoft, Google and Others To Reduce Bandwidth Costs 43
Amazon's Aggressive Anti-Union Tactics Revealed In Leaked Video 208
Amazon Is Opening a New Store That Sells Items From Its Website Rated 4 Stars and Above 51
Uber Settles Data Breach Investigation For $148 Million 18
Mozilla Rolls Out Recovery Key Option For Firefox Accounts 36
Study of 1.6 Million Grades Shows Little Gender Difference in Math and Science at School 370
Ex-NSA Employee Gets 5 Years In Prison For Taking Home Top Secret Files 174
A 17-Year-Old Has Become Michigan's Leading Right To Repair Advocate 79
Humans Are Causing the Earth To Wobble More Than It Should, NASA Finds 205
Millennials More Likely To Fall For Scams Than Baby Boomers 293
Google Ends Cryptocurrency Ad Ban For Certain Kinds of Ads 58
Uber Wins Key Ruling In Its Fight Against Treating Drivers As Employees 177
Safari's 'Siri Suggested' Search Results Highlighted Conspiracy Theories, Fake News 120
Trump Administration Asks For Public Input on Data Privacy 117
Uber Drivers and Other Gig Economy Workers Are Earning Half What They Did Five Years Ago 153
Greece Uses High-Tech Drones To Fight Tax Evasion In Holiday Hotspots 71
Tech Giants Spend $80 Billion To Make Sure No One Else Can Compete 112
Apple Completes Shazam Acquisition, Will Make App Ad-Free For Everyone 60
Wendy's Faces Lawsuit For Unlawfully Collecting Employee Fingerprints 127
MIT Develops New Type of Battery That Gobbles Up Carbon Dioxide 59
Ecuador Wanted To Make Julian Assange a Diplomat and Send Him To Moscow 130
Britain To Create 2,000-Strong Cyber Force, Boost Budget By £250M 68
Comcast Outbids Fox With $40 Billion Offer For Sky In Auction 24
NSA's 'Codebreaker Challenge' Features Exploiting Blockchain To Steal Ethereum 56
Did John Deere Just Swindle California's Farmers Out of Their Right to Repair? 175
New Custom Linux Distro is Systemd-Free, Debian-Based, and Optimized for Windows 10 165
Streaming Accounts For 75 Percent of Music Industry Revenue In the US 55
Massive Undersea Walls Could Stop Glaciers From Melting, Scientists Say 142
FCC Angers Cities, Towns With $2 Billion Giveaway To Wireless Carriers 131
Divers Are Attempting To Regrow Great Barrier Reef With Electricity 23
Magic Leap is Pushing To Land a Contract With US Army To Build AR Devices For Soldiers To Use On Combat Missions, Documents Reveal 78
Romanian Ransomware Suspect Pleads Guilty To Hacking CCTVs in Washington DC 25
Giant Spiderweb Cloaks Land in Aitoliko, Greece 42
Apple's New Strategy: Sell Pricier iPhones First 115
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Predicts the Internet Will Split in Two By 2028 -- and One Part Will Be Led By China 178
Microplastics Can Spread Via Flying Insects, Research Shows 38
Facebook Will Open a 'War Room' Next Week To Monitor Election Interference 218
Walmart Is Putting 17,000 Oculus Go Headsets In Its Stores To Help Train Employees In VR 27
Amazon Plants Fake Packages In Delivery Trucks As Part of Undercover Ploy To 'Trap' Drivers Stealing 236
Time To Regulate Bitcoin, Says UK Treasury Committee Report 111
Gunman Shoots 4 at Middleton Software Company; Dies in Shootout With Police 385
US Senate Staff Targeted By State-Backed Hackers, Senator Says 62
California May Ban Terrible Default Passwords On Connected Devices 155
AI Could Devastate the Developing World 165
Zaif Cryptocurrency Exchange Suffers $60 Million Hack 32
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
Despite Data Caps and Throttling, Industry Says Mobile Can Replace Home Internet 134
Alibaba's Jack Ma Backs Down From Promise To Trump To Bring 1 Million Jobs to the US 145
Amazon is Reportedly Planning Up To 3,000 Cashierless Stores By 2021 19
Box-Office Giant Ticketmaster Recruits Pros For Secret Scalper Program 143
Senate Passes Music Modernization Act With Unanimous Support 159
Facebook Wanted Banks To Fork Over Customer Data Passing Through Messenger 71
Wharton Professor Says America Should Shorten the Work Day By 2 Hours 456
Linux On Windows 10: Running Ubuntu VMs Just Got a Lot Easier, Says Microsoft 193
EU Drops Court Case After Apple Repays More Than $16 Billion In Taxes and Interest To Ireland 118
Tesla Is Facing US Criminal Probe Over Elon Musk Statements 203
Cyber Sleuths Find Traces of Infamous iPhone and Android Spyware 'Pegasus' in 45 Countries 24
Rice University Says Middle-Class And Low-Income Students Won't Have To Pay Tuition 250
Video Game Loot Boxes Under Scrutiny By 16 Gambling Regulators 100
Saudi Arabia Invests $1 Billion In Potential Tesla Rival 177
US Congress Passes Bill To Help Advanced Nuclear Power 333
New Trump Tariffs Won't Include Fitness Trackers Or the Apple Watch 81
IBM is Being Sued For Age Discrimination After Firing Thousands 115
Ajit Pai Calls California's Net Neutrality Rules 'Illegal' 285
Altaba To Settle Lawsuits Relating To Yahoo Data Breach For $47 Million 18
The Latest Course Catalog Trend? Blockchain 101 91
Is Tech Billionaires' Educational Philanthropy a Bug Or a Feature? 154
Linus Torvalds Reflects On How He's Been Hostile To Linux Community Members Over the Years, Issues Apology, and Announces He Will Be Taking Some Time Off 985
Microsoft Windows U-turn Removes Warning About Installing Chrome, Firefox 100
American Eating Habits Are Changing Faster than Fast Food Can Keep Up 374
Survey Finds 85% of Underserved Students Have Access To Only One Digital Device 216
Why Edinburgh's Clock is Almost Never on Time 96
How Tech Companies Responded To Hurricane Florence 79
To Fight Climate Change, California Says 'We're Launching Our Own Damn Satellite' 308
58% of Silicon Valley Tech Workers Delayed Having Kids Because of Housing Costs 209
US Lawmakers Say AI Deepfakes 'Have the Potential To Disrupt Every Facet of Our Society' 198
Drone Startup Airware Is Shutting Down After Raising $118 Million 38
San Francisco Gets Its First Cashierless Store 94
What Cardiologists Think About the Apple Watch's Heart-Tracking Feature 90
Almost Half of US Cellphone Calls Will Be Scams By Next Year, Says Report 278
Google-Funded Study Finds Cash Beats Typical Development Aid 117
'Seven Dirty Words' Restriction Policy Lifted from .US Domain Name Registrations 87
Slashdot Asks: What Book(s) Are You Reading This Month? 261
How the Weather Channel Made That Insane Hurricane Florence Storm Surge Animation 144
FCC Data Exaggerates Broadband Access On Tribal Lands 54
FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory 261
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Showing 'Signs of Recovery' 50
Limo Firm To Uber: You Misclassify Your Drivers As Contractors, Which Is Unfair 69
Facebook Will Start Fact-Checking Pictures, Videos 116
Windows, Linux Kodi Users Infected With Cryptomining Malware 58
Auto, Tech Industries Urge Congress To Pass Self-Driving Legislation 72
Leaked Video Shows Google Executives' Candid Reaction To Trump Victory 558
Mozilla Enables WebRender By Default On Firefox Nightly 101
Jeff Bezos Announces $2 Billion Philanthropic Effort To Help Homeless Families and Start Preschools in Low-income Communities 146
US Carriers Introduce Project Verify To Replace Individual App Passwords 92
UK's GCHQ Intelligence Agency Violated Human Rights With Its Mass Surveillance Tactics, Top European Court Rules 45
China Now the Most Prolific Contributor To Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Math 201
Boring Company Approved To Build Futuristic Garage That Would Connect To Underground Commuter Tunnel 89
Tesla Issues Software Update To Extend Some Cars' Batteries Due To Hurricane Florence 242
Cryptocurrency's 80 Percent Plunge Is Now Worse Than the Dot-Com Crash 178
Some Students Say Having To Speak in Front of the Class is an Unreasonable Burden For Those With Anxiety and Are Requesting Alternative Options 513
Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% 670
Microsoft is Interrupting Chrome and Firefox Installations To Promote Its Edge Browser in the Newest Windows 10 Build 234
FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes 341
T-Mobile, Ericsson Sign $3.5 Billion 5G Agreement 16
Teens Would Rather Text Their Friends Than Talk To Them In Person, Poll Shows 142
Solid-State Battery Startup Claims Breakthrough For Electric Vehicles 142
Boeing Is Calling Back Its Retirees To Try To Fix Delays At Its 737 Jetliner Plant 63
Researchers Come Out With Yet Another Unnerving, New Deepfake Method 54
Marshall Islands Warned Against Adopting Digital Currency 71
Google Replaces Its USB-C Headphone Adapter With a More Expensive Version 86
FCC Says It Needs More Time To Review T-Mobile, Sprint Merger 22
Swiss Village Votes for Free Money. Now It Just Needs the Cash 191
A Look at the Dark Side of the Lives of Some Prominent YouTubers, Who Are Increasingly Saying They're Stressed, Depressed, Lonely, and Exhausted 192
Trump To Target Foreign Meddling In US Elections With Sanctions Order 187
Four-Day Working Week For All is a Realistic Goal This Century, UK Trade Unions Say 186
The EU Could Vote To Wreck the Internet Tomorrow 215
Amazon is Stuffing Its Search Results Pages With Ads 158
California Governor Says 100 Percent Clean Electricity Not Enough, State Must Go Carbon Neutral 449
Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major 216
NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft 141
Cryptocurrency Wipeout Deepens To $640 Billion As Ether Leads Declines 174
About a Quarter of Rural Americans Say Access To High-Speed Internet Is a Major Problem 157
Ajit Pai Helped Charter Kill Consumer-Protection Rules In Minnesota 116
Replace 'Tech' With 'Banks,' and We've Seen a Big Comeuppance Before 116
New York State Approves Two Dollar-based Cryptocurrencies 95
Net Neutrality Gives 'Free' Internet To Netflix and Google, ISP Claims 361
Crypto Growth Nears 'Ceiling,' Ethereum Co-Founder Buterin Says 87
Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean 227
Mozilla Working On Google Translate Integration In Firefox 51
An Autonomous Sailboat Successfully Crosses Atlantic Ocean 59
Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai 412
Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center 72
Apple Is Building An Online Portal For Police To Make Data Requests 75
OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction 204
Trump Tells Apple To Make Products In the US To Avoid China Tariffs 568
Despite 'Painful' Spectre Response, Linus Torvalds Says He Still Loves Speculative Execution 82
Instead of Bobbleheads, Baseball Stadium Tries Handing Out Crypto Tokens 51
Beta Release Nears For BeOS-inspired Open Source OS Haiku 69
Wikipedia Seeks Photos of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in Brazil Museum Fire 56
Apple Says New China Tariffs Would Boost Prices On Some Products 240
Alibaba's Jack Ma, China's Richest Man, To Retire From Company He Co-Founded 40
Silicon Valley University Asks Professors To Offer Students Affordable Housing 171
AT&T Offers Unlimited Plan Deal For First Responders, But It Can Be Throttled 70
Trump Ups Ante on China, Threatens Duties on Nearly All its Imports 326
In UK, Consumers Are Now More Aware That They Can Ditch Their Phone Bundles, And Are Increasingly Doing So 33
The Pentagon is Investing $2 Billion into AI 49
Why Is American Mass Transit So Bad? It's a Long Story. 463
Scooter Use is Rising in Major Cities. So Are Trips To the Emergency Room. 136
Berlin Anti-Gentrification Activists Say They Have Occupied Google's Office in Kreuzberg To Fight Against the Skyrocketing Rents 161
Pretty Clear GRU's Goal Was To Weaken a Future Clinton Presidency, Former Facebook CSO Says 345
NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar 174
World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England 175
Icelanders Seek To Keep Remote Nordic Peninsula Digital-Free 71
Professor Who Coined Term 'Net Neutrality' Thinks It's Time To Break Up Facebook 107
Blockchains Are Not Safe For Voting, Concludes NAP Report 106
Software Developers Are Now More Valuable To Companies Than Money, Says Survey 168
Computer Chips Are Still 'Made in USA' 114
Tor Browser Gets a Redesign, Switches To New Firefox Quantum Engine 49
One Year After the Massive Equifax Data Breach, Pretty Much Nothing Has Changed 120
IBM Used NYPD Surveillance Footage To Develop Technology That Lets Police Search by Skin Color 241
DOJ To Announce Charges Against North Koreans For Sony Hack, Wannacry Attack 58
DOJ: We Will Examine Social Media Firms That 'May Be Hurting Competition' 115
White House Says Anonymous 'Coward' Behind New York Times Op-Ed Should Resign 898
Facebook Accuses BlackBerry of Stealing Its Voice-Messaging Tech 28
Theranos To Close Shop 107
EU To Move Ahead With Cultural Quotas For Streaming Services 350
Facebook, Twitter Execs Admit Failures, Warn of 'Overwhelming' Threat To Elections 250
Amazon Accelerating Effort To Bring CS To More Than 133,000 US Schools 77
More Than 1 In 4 American Users Have Deleted Facebook, Pew Survey Finds 113
Firefox 62 Arrives With Variable Fonts, Automatic Dark Theme on macOS, and Better Scrolling on Android 114
New Software Can Predict Landslides Weeks Before They Happen 35
Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak 255
European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals 123
Twitter Says Trump Not Immune From Getting Kicked Off 342
Mercedes Unveils First Tesla Rival In $12 Billion Attack 246
The No. 1 Office Perk? Natural Light, According To Hundreds of Employees 157
US Telcos Are Slowing Internet Traffic To and From Popular OTT Apps Like YouTube, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video, New Research Finds 168
Britain Faces an AI Brain Drain as Tech Giants Raid Top Universities 68
West Virginia Offers Free Cybersecurity Training To the Elderly 45
Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance Argues 'Privacy is Not Absolute' in Push For Encryption Backdoors 421
Germany, Seeking Independence From US, Pushes Cyber Security Research 160
Bullet, China's Latest Messaging App, Pops Shots at Top Local Rival WeChat 48
Governments 'Not on Track' To Cap Temperatures at Below 2 Degrees: UN 420
Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies Are Useless, The Economist Says 276
50% of Parents in the US Believe Coding Most Beneficial Subject For Their Children, 75% Believe Big Tech Firms Should Be Involved in Helping Schools: Study 219
YouTube Download Sites Are the Biggest Piracy Threat To Music Industry, Industry Figures Say 149
Inside the Haywire World of Beirut's Electricity Blackouts, and the Struggle Faced By Residents To Keep Their Lights and Wi-Fi On and Gadgets Charged 115
How Can We Fix The Broken Economics of Open Source? 203
Google Funds A Starfish-Killing Robot To Save Australia's Great Barrier Reef 122
30% of America's Student Loan Borrowers Can't Keep Up After Six Years 287
Open Source Devs Reverse Decision to Block ICE Contractors From Using Software 427
Boeing Wins Bid To Build the Navy's Carrier-Launched Tanker Drone 79
Lego Wants To Completely Remake Its Toy Bricks Using Plant-Based Or Recycled Materials 120
FCC Criticized For Surrendering Power To Punish Verizon After Firefighters Got Throttled During Wildfire 161
Linus Torvalds No Longer Knows the Whole Linux Kernel and That's OK 119
Murder Suspect Jailed Over Refusing To Reveal Password In the UK 165
'Gold Standard' State Net Neutrality Bill Approved By California Assembly 126
80-Year-Old Inventor Gil Hyatt Says Patent Office is Waiting For Him To Die 108
Startups Ditching Silicon Valley For New Cities 123
US Accuses China of 'Super Aggressive' Spy Campaign on LinkedIn 50
EU Backs Ending Daylight Saving Time 260
Popular College Majors Changed Abruptly After the Financial Crisis 254
John McAfee's 'Unhackable' Bitfi Wallet Got Hacked -- Again 108
Google, Harvard Use AI To Predict Earthquake Aftershocks 16
Physicists Measure Gravity With Record Precision 161
Google Bought Mastercard Data To Link Online Ads To Store Purchases, Says Report 137
Justice Department Warns It Might Not Be Able To Prosecute Voting Machine Hackers 102
Silicon Valley Has Been Treating Workers 'Miserably' Since the 1970s, Economic Historian Says 153
Microsoft Will Require Business Partners To Offer Paid Parental Leave 165
In an Accidental Email To TechDirt Editor, Telco Lobbyists Outline How They Intend To Shift The Blame For Privacy, Net Neutrality and More To Internet Companies 144
Senator Orrin Hatch Asks FTC To Investigate Competitive Effects of Google's Conduct in Search and Digital Advertising 110
In Venezuela, 'Cutting-Edge' Cryptocurrency is Nowhere To Be Found 129
Climate Change Could Lead To Nutrient Deficiency For Hundreds of Millions 249
Texas Lawmakers Press NASA To Base Lunar Lander Program In Houston 128
Google Debunks Trump's Claim It Censored His State of the Union Address 508
Locals Reportedly Are Frustrated With Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars 277
Air Canada Mobile App Breach Affects 20,000 People 15
Facebook Says It Aims To Power Itself With 100% Renewable Energy by 2020 110
California Moves To Require 100% Clean Electricity by 2045 282
How Many Days Americans Waste Commuting In The Course Of A Lifetime, Mapped By City 165
FCC Can Define Markets With Only One ISP as 'Competitive', Court Rules 163
University of Texas is Getting a $60 Million Supercomputer 88
How Do Things Stick To Us in a Culture Where Information and Ideas Are Up So Quickly That We Have No Time To Assess One Before Another Takes Its Place? 134
What Dropbox Dropping Linux Support Says 424
Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data To Sell Advertisers 88
After Court Order, 3D-Printed Gun Pioneer Now Sells Pay-What-You-Want CAD Files 338
China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus 239
Internet Groups Urge US Court To Reinstate 'Net Neutrality' Rules 109
US Government Takes Steps to Bolster CVE Program 22
Trump Accuses Google of Rigging Search Results To Favor 'Bad' News About Him 1024
Tourism is Compromising the World's Largest Telescope 99
Scientists Discover Hidden Deep-Sea Coral Reef Off South Carolina Coast 49
Big Telecom Is Using Robocalls To Fight a Net Neutrality Bill in California 126
Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing To OpenStreetMap 70
Y Combinator Plans To Start Doling Out $60 Million Next Year to Study Universal Basic Income 376
Federal Judge Rules Against Trump Administration on 3-D Gun Blueprint Case 418
Ubuntu and CentOS Are Undoing a GNOME Security Feature 66
Scientists Warn the UN of Capitalism's Imminent Demise 622
Tech Industry Pursues a Federal Privacy Law, on Its Own Terms 49
Mass Shooting Reported at Madden Video Game Tournament in Florida 1293
India's Biometric Database Is Creating A Perfect Surveillance State -- And U.S. Tech Companies Are On Board 82
It's Not Technology That's Disrupting Our Jobs 128
Bitcoin Mining Now Accounts For Almost One Percent of the World's Energy Consumption 172
Read Two Of This Year's 2018 Hugh Award Winners Online 133
EFF Defends Bruce Perens In Appeal of Open Source Security/Spengler Ruling 132
No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election 73
Linux Turns 27 170
Airbnb Sues New York City To Block User-Data Bill Over Privacy 64

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