News Stories for 2019

Spouse of Ring Exec Among Lawmakers Trying To Weaken California Privacy Law 45
Milton's Notes On Shakespeare Appear To Have Been Found 32
Drivers May Choose Electric Car Alert Sounds, US Proposal Says 144
CentOS 8 To Be Released Next Week 25
Apple Takes On EU's Vestager In Record $14 Billion Tax Fight 72
Facebook Advertisers Can Write Their Own Headlines For Shared News Stories 17
Netflix Lands 'Seinfeld' Rights in $500M-Plus Deal After Losing 'Friends' and 'The Office' 115
The World Has a Third Pole -- and It's Melting Quickly 146
There's a Lost Continent 1,000 Miles Under Europe 30
SoftBank Backers Rethink Role in Next Vision Fund on WeWork 23
Amazon Changed Search Algorithm in Ways That Boost Its Own Products 74
Russia Carried Out a 'Stunning' Breach of FBI Communications System, Escalating the Spy Game on US Soil 104
Extreme Weather Events This Decade Have Cost America $750B 151
Pine64 Confirms $25 'PineTime' Smartwatch for Linux Smartphones 43
Inspired By Harry Potter, 150 Colleges Now Have Quidditch Teams 91
The Next Energy-Efficient Architecture Revolution: A House Built By Robots 54
Google's Search Results Begin Prioritizing 'Original Reporting' 34
Ten Drones Attack Saudi Arabia's Oil and Gas Facilities 293
Was Advertising in Open Source Software a Useful Experiment? 64
Java EE 'Goes All In' on Open Source with Jakarta EE 8 54
Richard Stallman Challenges 'Misleading' Coverage of His Comments on Marvin Minsky 383
Are Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Really Healthier Than Meat? 211
France Took One Look At Facebook's Cryptocurrency and Said, 'Hell, Non' 94
Linux Foundation Survey Proves Open-Source Offices Work Better 35
London's Hidden Cable Tunnels Could Warm Thousands of Homes 57
Disney CEO Bob Iger Resigns From Apple Board As Companies Come Into Conflict On Streaming 8
Ask Slashdot: Why Isn't Geothermal Energy Getting As Much Attention As Solar and Wind? 152
Alabama Tracking Students' Locations To Penalize Them For Leaving Games Early 114
Huawei CEO Offers To License 5G Tech To American Companies In Peace Offer To Trump 38
Los Angeles OKs a Deal For Record-Cheap Solar Power and Battery Storage 142
Mozilla Launches Paid Premium Support for Enterprise Customers 19
EPA Rolls Back Obama-Era Regulations On Clean Water 206
SpaceX Says It Will Deploy Satellite Broadband Across US Faster Than Expected 60
Andrew Yang Announces Universal Basic Income Pilot Program At Debate 379
GNOME 3.34 Released 28
Israel Accused of Planting Mysterious Spy Devices Near the White House 113
Climate Change is Real and Things Will Get Worse -- But Because We Understand the Driver of Potential Doom, It's a Choice, Not a Foregone Conclusion 268
Loot Boxes in Games Are Gambling and Should Be Banned For Kids, Say UK MPs 65
145 Executives Demand Senate Action on Gun Violence 497
Government Orders Google: Let Employees Speak Out 72
McDonald's Is To Replace Human Workers With Voice-Based Tech In US Drive-Throughs 345
Taylor Swift Reportedly Threatened To Sue Microsoft Over Racist Twitter Bot 84
Open-Source Database Scylla Gains DynamoDB Compatibility 8
Expert Predicts 25% of Colleges Will 'Fail' in the Next 20 Years 199
Court Rules That 'Scraping' Public Website Data Isn't Hacking 25
California Bill Makes App-Based Companies Treat Workers as Employees 188
Amazon Probed by US Antitrust Officials Over Marketplace 31
281 Alleged Email Scammers Arrested In Massive Global Sweep 57
Diesel Cars Emit More Air Pollution On Hot Days, Study Finds 107
Is Microsoft a Digital Nation and Does It Have a Secretary of State? 24
'Ban All Watches From Exams To Stop Cheating' 136
Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain 49
Storm Area 51 Festival Canceled Because It Was a 'Possible Humanitarian Disaster' 96
51 Tech CEOs Send Open Letter To Congress Asking For a Federal Data Privacy Law 35
Trump Says He Fired National Security Advisor John Bolton -- But Bolton Says He 'Offered To Resign' 241
We Need To Prepare for the Future of War, NSA Official Says 57
Mozilla Launches VPN as Part of Resurrected Firefox Test Pilot Program 11
EU Reappoints Top Antitrust Cop Who Led Crackdown on Tech Giants 12
Scientists Discover New Evidence of the Asteroid That Killed Off the Dinosaurs 54
US Charges Chinese Professor With Fraud For Allegedly Taking Tech From a California Company To Benefit Huawei 50
Amazon Employees Are Walking Out Over the Company's Huge Carbon Footprint 89
NYC Mayor and Presidential Hopeful Bill De Blasio Wants a Tax On Robots 88
YouTube Creators Are Turning the Site Into a Podcast Network 25
Someone Just Moved $1B in Bitcoin 34
YouTube Promised To Halt Comments on Kids Videos Already. It Hasn't. 60
Nearly Every State Is Launching An Antitrust Investigation Of Google 38
Juul Violated Federal Rules by Marketing Vaping Products as Safer Than Cigarettes, FDA Says 95
If You Asked Equifax For $125, You Need To Update Your Request 56
The Fake Town Where Everybody Knows Your Name 58
Manjaro Linux Tries Forming A Company To Fund Full-Time Development 26
Purism Finally Starts Shipping Its Privacy-Focused 'Librem 5' Smartphone 46
One of America's Biggest Markets for AI-Powered Security Cameras: Schools 56
YouTube's Fine Criticized As Proof US Government Is 'Not Serious' About Big Tech Crackdown 63
The Washington Post's Newest Product: Personalized Newsletters 22
Firefox Will Soon Encrypt DNS Requests By Default 147
MIT Media Lab Chief Joi Ito Resigns Following Ronan Farrow's New Yorker Expose 75
South Africa, UK Acknowledge Mass Surveillance By Tapping Undersea Internet Cables 56
Parts of Wikipedia Went Offline After 'Malicious' DDoS Attack 47
Streaming Makes Up 80 Percent of the Music Industry's Revenue 32
Feds Order Apple and Google To Hand Over Names of 10,000+ Users of Gun Scope App 123
US To Collect Social Media Profiles From Immigrants, Asylum Seekers, and Refugees 85
Israeli Spyware Firm NSO Group is Wildly Profitable Despite Concerns Over Misuse of its Technology, Leaked Financials Show 8
New York Attorney General is Investigating Facebook For Possible Antitrust Violations 16
DMVs Are Selling Your Data to Private Investigators 106
Facebook Wants To Be the Hot New Dating App 87
Connecticut Governor Calls For 100 Percent Carbon-Free Power By 2040 192
Silicon Valley Heavyweights Fire Up Plan For an Open Lunar Settlement 197
Apple Plans Return of Touch ID and New Cheap iPhone 25
Samsung Announces Standards-Compliant Key-Value SSD Prototype 74
Europe Will Not Accept US Verdict On 737 Max Safety 115
Federal Judge Says Terrorist Watchlist Is Unconstitutional 165
Why California May Go Nuclear 292
Free Software Advocate Richard Stallman Spoke at Microsoft Research This Week 94
How Amazon's Shipping Empire Is Challenging UPS and FedEx 89
22 Million Pounds of Plastics Enter the Great Lakes Each Year 98
Lab-Testing Startup uBiome Files For Bankruptcy 5
Senator: Mark Zuckerberg Should Face 'the Possibility of a Prison Term' 135
Mozilla Outlines Plan For Manifest V3 Extensions API 13
Trump Administration Is Rolling Back Rules Requiring More Energy-Efficient Bulbs 391
Michigan Set To Become First State To Ban Flavored E-cigarettes 100
WeWork CEO Returns $5.9 Million For 'We' Trademark To Company After Criticism 66
Amazon and Walmart's Flipkart Pledge To Scrap Single-Use Plastic Packaging in India 16
Google To Pay $170 Million To Settle FTC Claims That YouTube Collected Kids Data Illegally 23
Google's Paid Search Ads Are 'Shakedown' and 'Ransom', Basecamp CEO says 120
Fraudsters Deepfake CEO's Voice To Trick Manager Into Transferring $243,000 39
A Fingerprint of Earth From Space 14
E-Bikes Are Now Allowed In US National Parks 72
YouTube Removes 17,000 Channels For Hate Speech 409
Tesla Batteries Are Keeping Zimbabwe's Economy Running 82
Walmart Ends All Handgun Ammunition Sales and Asks Customers Not To Carry Guns Into Stores 654
Firefox 69 Ratchets Up Tracking Protection, Switching it On by Default 31
Hurricane Dorian Is Barely Moving at All. Here's Why That Makes it Especially Dangerous 141
Upcoming Firefox Update Will Decrease Power Usage on macOS by Up To Three Times 84
Hong Kong Protester Forum Says Some DDoS Attacks Came From China 58
Don't Get Locked Up Into Avoiding Lock-in 63
Trump Heaps More Tariffs on China, Still No Deal in Sight 359
All UK Airports To Install 3D Baggage Scanning Technology By 2022 19
Greg Kroah-Hartman Reveals His New Favorite Linux Distro 97
IS AMD Returning to Open-Source BIOS/Coreboot Support? 25
US Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Sets New Record For Time In Space 50
Google Contractors In Pittsburgh Are Unionizing With a Steel Workers Union 89
Why We Should Teach Kids to Call the Robot 'It' 111
Google to Pay More Than $150 Million in YouTube Privacy Case 8
The Plan To Use Fitbit Data To Stop Mass Shootings Is One of the Scariest Proposals Yet 244
Miami Orders Scooters Removed From Streets Before Hurricane Dorian Turns Them Into Projectiles 35
New Zealand Measles Outbreak Prompts Travel Warning 26
Is Tech's 'Free' Business Model For K-12 CS Education Good Or Bad? 46
Trump Launches Space Command 190
FTC Is Investigating Juul's Marketing Practices 47
Microsoft Is Killing EPUB Support In Edge Classic 68
China Intercepts WeChat Texts From US and Abroad, Researcher Says 27
EPA To Roll Back Regulations On Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas 141
Uber CEO Sees Path To Profitability Despite Bumps in the Road 40
Uber, Lyft Propose $21/Hour Minimum Wage For Drivers After Wave Of Protests 103
Ransomware Hits Hundreds of Dentist Offices in the US 76
DOJ: Former FBI Director James Comey Violated Policy On His Trump Memos -- But Won't Be Prosecuted 197
Inside Plex's Quest To Become a One-Stop Shop for Digital Media 29
Illinois County To Use Algorithm To Automatically Expunge Old Marijuana Convictions 65
TSA Bans Star Wars Coke Bottles That Resemble Grenades 194
US Cyberattack Hurt Iran's Ability To Target Oil Tankers, Officials Say 58
Ringing the Changes: How Britain's Red Phone Boxes Are Being Given New Life 30
The Missing Piece of Amazon's New York Debacle: It Kept a Burn Book 130
Netflix-like Pirate Sites Offered More Video Than the Real Netflix, Feds Say 31
YouTube's CEO Explains Why It Leaves Up 'Controversial or Even Offensive' Videos 134
Australian Who Says He Invented Bitcoin Ordered To Hand Over Up To $5B 27
US Border Officials Are Increasingly Denying Entry To Travelers Over Others' Social Media 191
Telegram Will Launch Its Gram Cryptocurrency By October 31 Or Bust 28
Microsoft Readies exFAT Patents For Linux and Open Source 119
Doorbell-Camera Firm Ring Has Partnered With 400 Police Forces, Extending Surveillance Reach 223
North Carolina Sues 8 E-Cigarette Companies For Allegedly Marketing To Kids 81
College Board Drops Plans For SAT Student 'Adversity Scores' 131
Jakarta Has Sunk By Up To 4 Meters, Forcing Indonesia To Build a New Capital 90
Purdue Pharma Offers $10-12B To Settle Opioid Claims 68
Brazil Says It Will Reject Millions in Amazon Aid Pledged at G7 240
Verizon's Anti-Robocall Service Will be Automatically Enabled on Android Phones 33
Uber And Lyft Take A Lot More From Drivers Than They Say 28
Bernie Sanders Thinks We May Want to Tax Silicon Valley to Save Journalism 189
Netflix Has Now Shipped 5 Billion DVDs To Its Members 29
US Officials Fear Ransomware Attack Against 2020 Election 147
It Was Sensitive Data From a US Anti-Terror Program -- and Terrorists Could Have Gotten To It For Years, Records Show 40
$572 Million Decision Against Johnson & Johnson in Landmark Opioid Trial 296
Macron Says France and US Have Reached a Deal To End a Standoff Over a French Tax on Big Internet Companies 106
Consumer Groups Seek To Defend California Data Privacy Law 16
KFC is Testing Beyond Meat 'Chicken' in an Atlanta Restaurant 160
Microsoft Is Requiring Lynda.com Users To Create LinkedIn Profiles 55
100-Year-Old James Lovelock Predicts Humans Will Be Replaced by Self-Aware AI 166
Celebrating the 28th Anniversary of the Linux Kernel 60
New 60-Mile Pumice Raft Could Help Restore Australia's Great Barrier Reef 37
XKCD Contest Winners Force Book Tour Stop In Juneau Alaska 22
Standard, a Javascript Style Guide Library With 3M Downloads Per Month, Now Showing Ads When Installed Via NPM 82
Russia's Floating Nuclear Power Plant Begins 2,650-Mile Sea Voyage 115
UK Cybersecurity Agency Urges Devs To Drop Python 2 50
Brazil Tries Deploying Its Military To Fight Fires in the Amazon 44
2019 Hugo Award Winners Include a Fan Fiction Site and 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' 120
Why Are 'Supply Chain Attacks' on Open Source Libraries Getting Worse? 44
Seattle Has Figured Out How To End the War On Drugs 316
YouTube Says It Will Now Remove 'Violent' and 'Mature' Videos Pretending To Be Kid-Friendly 40
Google Agrees To Meet With YouTubers Union Right Before Deadline 42
Qualcomm Wins a Pause In Enforcement of FTC Ruling 5
Uber's $1-Per-Ride 'Safe Rides Fee' Had Nothing To Do With Safety 51
Top US Publishers Sue Amazon's Audible For Copyright Infringement 39
Trump Orders US Businesses To Find Alternative To China 473
Americans Are Waiting Three Years To Replace Their Phones, Study Finds 149
Google Doesn't Want Staff Debating Politics at Work Anymore 301
Members of Facebook's 'Crypto Mafia' Reportedly Getting Cold Feet About Libra Currency 31
Amazon Will No Longer Use Tips To Pay Delivery Drivers' Base Salaries 88
Vaping Is Suspected In Severe Lung Illnesses 166
Streaming Video Will Soon Look Like the Bad Old Days of TV 140
HP Names Head of Printer Division As New CEO 27
YouTube Pressured To Ban Chinese State Media Ads That Spread Misinformation About Protesters 29
Apple Advises Owners of Its New Credit Card To Keep It Away From Leather, Denim 153
Amazon Rainforest is Burning at an Unprecedented Rate 98
The FCC Has No Idea How Many People Don't Have Broadband Access 72
Phone Companies, State Attorneys General Announce Broad Campaign To Fight Robocalls 40
The Planet Needs a New Internet 201
Justice Department Indicts 80 Individuals, Most in Nigeria, in a Massive Business Email Scam Bust 41
Splunk To Buy Cloud-Monitoring Software Maker SignalFx For $1.05 Billion 6
California High School In Silicon Valley Is Locking Up Students' Cellphones 319
DoorDash Still Pockets Workers' Tips Almost a Month After It Promised To Stop 81
How Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book 167
T-Mobile 'Put My Life in Danger' Says Woman Stalked With Black Market Location Data 79
Apple, Google, and Mozilla Block Kazakhstan's HTTPS Intercepting Certificate 80
YouTube Removes Videos of Robots Fighting For 'Animal Cruelty' 94
Man Sued For Using Bogus YouTube Takedowns To Get Address For Swatting 78
IBM is Moving OpenPower Foundation To The Linux Foundation 46
Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students' Essays 90
The Truth About Faster Internet: It's Not Worth It 253
States To Launch Antitrust Investigation Into Big Tech Companies 47
35 Million-Year-Old Asteroid Left a Trail of Destruction Across the Eastern US 36
Jaguar and Audi SUVs Fail To Dent Tesla's Electric-Car Dominance 215
Pentagon Conducts First Test of Previously Banned Missile 142
Terrorists Turn To Bitcoin For Funding, and They're Learning Fast 62
How Malformed Packets Caused CenturyLink's 37-Hour, Nationwide Outage 29
Paging Big Brother: In Amazon's Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite 43
Newt Gingrich Trying To Sell Trump on a Cheap Moon Plan 95
An Ode To Microsoft Encarta 81
Small Companies Play Big Role in Robocall Scourge, But Remedies Are Elusive 56
Wireless Carrier Throttling of Online Video Is Pervasive: Study 49
Massive Ransomware Attack Hits 23 Local Texas Government Offices 52
A New Idea For Fighting Rising Sea Levels: Iceberg-Making Submarines 226
XKCD Author Challenges Serena Williams To Attack A Drone 87
Slackware, the Longest Active Linux Distro, Finally Has a Patreon Page 49
Google Open-Sources Live Transcribe's Speech Engine 14
How Should Schools Grade Unexpected-But-Correct Answers On Coding Tests? 177
YouTube's Algorithms Blamed For Brazil's Dangerous Conspiracy Video-Sharing on WhatsApp 69
Dreams of Offshore Servers Haunt The Ocean-Based Micronation of 'Sealand' 43
Chrome and Firefox Changes Spark the End of 'Extended Validation' Certificates 56
US Set To Give Huawei Another 90 Days To Buy From American Suppliers 18
YouTube To Allow Everyone To Watch YouTube Originals For Free 57
A New Species of Leech Is Discovered Near Washington, D.C. 80
Anime Studio, Khara, Is Planning To Use Open-Source Blender Software 20
Uber, Lyft Finally Admit They're Making Traffic Congestion Worse In Cities 83
Customs Computer Systems Down Nationwide, Causing Massive Delays At Airports 17
YouTube Shuts Down Music Companies' Use of Manual Copyright Claims To Steal Creator Revenue 41
AOL Held Talks To Buy YouTube, Facebook in 2006, Ex-CEO Reveals 52
Amazon Offered Vendors 'Amazon's Choice' Labels In Return For Ad Spending 49
President Trump Is Reportedly Considering Buying Greenland 344
LGBT Video-Makers Sue YouTube Claiming Discrimination 176
Advertisers Are Blacklisting News Stories That Contain Forbidden Words 77
A New Way To Help Students Turn in Their Best Work 40
Trump Administration Asks Congress To Reauthorize NSA's Deactivated Call Records Program 59
London University Is Banning Beef To Help Fight Climate Change 292
Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing 116
Working On Microsoft's Cortana Is Laborious and Poorly Paid 19
Google Workers Demand Company Not Work With Border Agencies 302
WeWork IPO Reveals It Lost $1.9 Billion Last Year, and Is Losing About $5,200 Per Customer 59
The Video Game Industry Claims Its Products Avoid Politics, But That's a Lie. 108
The Arrogance of the Anthropocene 123
Capital One Hacker Stole 'Terabytes' of Data From More Than 30 Companies, Court Docs Reveal 39
Major Breach Found in Biometrics System Used By Banks, UK Police and Defence Firms 21

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