News Stories for 2020

CBP Does Not Make it Clear Americans Can Opt-out of Airport Face Scanning, Watchdog Says 81
CISA Orders Agencies To Set Up Vulnerability Disclosure Programs 4
Court Rules NSA Phone Snooping Illegal -- After Seven-Year Delay 81
Russians Again Targeting Americans With Disinformation, Facebook and Twitter Say 249
Oracle Loses Appeal in $10 Billion Pentagon Contract Fight 23
NuScale's Small Nuclear Reactor Gets US Safety Approval 168
Twitter Hack May Have Had Another Mastermind: A 16-Year-Old 34
Facebook Threatens To Cut Off Australians From Sharing News 52
Police Across Canada Are Using Predictive Policing Algorithms, Report Finds 158
Walmart+ Launches Sept 15, Offering Same-Day Delivery, Gas Discounts and Cashierless Checkout for $98/yr 83
Andrew Yang Takes Lead Role In California Data Privacy Campaign 26
Elon Musk Passes Mark Zuckerberg To Become Third-Richest Person In the World 133
Facebook and Google Serve As Vectors For Misinformation While Hobbling Local Journalism and Collecting Taxpayer Subsidies, Group Says 43
AT&T, Ready For Your $30 Billion DirecTV Haircut? 30
New Chinese Restrictions on Tech Exports Could Complicate TikTok Sale 49
Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic. 163
CenturyLink Outage Led To a 3.5% Drop in Global Web Traffic 27
Amazon Wins FAA Approval For Prime Air Drone Delivery Fleet 48
For U.S. Space Force Ranks, William Shatner Endorses 'Starfleet Amendment' 207
Cory Doctorow's New Book Explains 'How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism' 76
Using AI and Photoshop to Fake 'Photos' of Ancient Roman Emperors 25
Report: Massive US Spy Satellite May 'Hoover Up' Cellphone Calls 85
To Assuage Fears of Google Domination, Istio Restructures Its Steering Committee 10
Nevada Man Becomes First In the US To Catch COVID-19 Twice 236
FTC Probes Huge Financial Data Broker Yodlee 9
US Tech Stocks Are Now Worth More Than the Entire European Stock Market 77
DC Attorney General Sues Instacart, Claiming it Deceived Customers Into Thinking Service Fees Would Go To Workers 22
Bacteria From Earth Can Survive In Space and Could Endure the Trip To Mars, Says Study 65
Meteorite Study Suggests Earth May Have Been Wet Since It Formed 59
'We Must Take a Stand': Portland's Iconic Powell's Books Says It Won't Sell Books On Amazon Anymore 116
'The Future of American Industry Depends On Open Source Tech' 45
Clearview AI CEO Says 'Over 2,400 Police Agencies' Are Using Its Facial Recognition Software 14
5G In US Averages 51Mbps While Other Countries Hit Hundreds of Megabits 102
Most of Scottish Wikipedia Written By American in Mangled English 157
US Indictments and Raids of Piracy Group Members in 'The Scene' Throw Top-Tier Piracy World Into Chaos 70
In Alarming Move, CDC Says People Exposed To COVID-19 Do Not Need Testing 352
Facebook Warns Advertisers on Apple Privacy Changes 63
Russian Arrested For Trying To Recruit an Insider and Hack a Nevada Company 30
White House Announces Creation of AI and Quantum Research Institutes 31
Man Sues Patent Office For Deciding an AI Can't Invent Things 137
Firefox Android Build That Caused Issues Is Working As Intended 88
Salesforce To Join Dow Jones, Replacing Exxon, As Tech Rises, Energy Falls 45
Firefox Daylight For Android Arrives With Enhanced Tracking Protection, New UI 54
Children Raised In Greener Areas Have Higher IQ, Study Finds 221
Amazon Go's Cashierless Tech May Come To Whole Foods As Soon As Next Year 77
Facebook To Pay More Than $110 Million In Back Taxes In France 42
Graduation Can Wait: Startups Recruiting Pandemic-Weary CS Students For Gap Year 21
First Covid-19 Reinfection Has Been Documented 168
TikTok Sues US Government Over Trump Ban 142
Pandemic-Weary CS Students Tempted With Gap Years By Recruiting Startups 42
Ozone Increased in the Northern Hemisphere Over the Last Two Decades 34
America Begins Airport Tests of Technology To Detect Drones and 'Mitigate Potential Safety Risks Posed' 36
23-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Leaves Offer New Insight Into Global Warming 37
Should America Re-Open Its Movie Theatres? 244
Open Source Sustainability is Really a People Problem 58
Remembering the Golden Age of Computer User Groups 55
Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash 270
Bletchley Park Museum To Layoff a Third of Its Staff 48
Neil Gaiman, William Shatner Join 'Read-a-Thon' Celebrating Ray Bradbury's 100th Birthday 12
Strange Bacteria Can Build Electricity-Carrying Cables in Mud 11
Engineers Set New World Record for Internet Speed 43
Rust is Strong, Creates a Trademark-Owning Foundation 57
Palantir, Tech's Next Big IPO, Lost $580 Million In 2019 52
Microsoft Plans Cloud Contract Push With Foreign Governments After $10 Million JEDI Win 29
Burger King Brags About Exploiting Twitch To Advertise To Kids For Cheap 29
WordPress Founder Claims Apple Cut Off Updates To His Free App Because It Wants 30 Percent 91
Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74 29
How China Targets Scientists via Global Network of Recruiting Stations 98
Google Has a Plan To Disrupt the College Degree 214
Open Technology Fund Sues Administration For $20M in Missing Funds 25
Greenland Lost 586 Billion Tons of Ice In 2019 129
750 Million Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Approved For Release In Florida Keys 104
Facebook's 'Independent' Fact Checks Face Quiet Political, Financial Pressures 106
Former Uber Exec Charged With Paying 'Hush Money' To Conceal Massive Breach 13
AMC Is Reopening Theaters Today With 15-Cent Tickets 90
Trump Asks Supreme Court To Let Him Block Critics on Twitter 245
Klobuchar, Microsoft's Smith Warn of Election Interference 186
Fearing Coronavirus, a Michigan College is Tracking Its Students With a Flawed App 105
Netflix Test Puts a 'Shuffle Play' Button Right on Your Home Screen 38
Exploding Stars May Have Caused Mass Extinction On Earth, Study Shows 30
A Car-Sized Asteroid Made the Closest Earth Flyby a Space Rock Has Ever Survived 56
Germany Begins Universal Basic Income Trial With People Getting $1,400 a Month For 3 Years 380
Uber CEO On the Flight In California: 'We Can't Go Out and Hire 50,000 People Overnight' 191
UK Will Take a Crack At Regulating Future Self-Driving Car Systems 31
Microsoft, Energy Department To Develop Disaster-Response AI Tools 8
Ex-Apple Engineer Says U.S. Government May Have Built a Top-Secret Geiger Counter Out of an iPod 64
Apple Is Now Worth $2 Trillion, Punctuating Big Tech's Grip 60
California Reports First Human Plague Case In 5 Years 99
NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly In Earth's Magnetic Field 59
Uber and Lyft Consider Franchise-Like Model in California 169
Amazon Will Add 3,500 Tech and Corporate Jobs Across Six US Cities 16
Secret Service Paid To Get Americans' Location Data Without a Warrant, Documents Show 68
Rolling Blackouts in California Have Power Experts Stumped 260
Cities Sue Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Claim They Owe Cable 'Franchise Fees' 111
Pentagon Announces Task Force To Study UFOs 83
US Tightening Restrictions on Huawei Access To Technology, Chips 60
Southeast Asia Detects Mutated Virus Strain Sweeping the World 200
Startups Tap a New Talent Pool: Pandemic-Weary College Students 38
Scientist Proposes a New Programming Language For Teaching Coding (and Python) 160
Google Warns Australians it Really Doesn't Want to Pay for News 114
Temperature in Death Valley Today: 130 Degrees, Earth's Highest Since at Least 1931 231
As Colleges Move Classes Online, Families Rebel Against the Cost 222
Cory Doctorow: 'Self-Driving Cars are Bullshit' 347
Can Firefox Be Saved? 318
A Harrowing Story: Dropping an Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki 279
Red Hat, Google, Microsoft, GitHub, and Others Launch the Open Source Security Foundation 20
Greenland's Ice Sheet has Melted to a Point of No Return 200
Microsoft Launches New Web Site Describing How It's Embracing Open Source 99
Charter Can Charge Online Video Sites for Network Connections, Court Rules 113
Russell Kirsch, Inventor of the Pixel, Passed Away This Week 44
Facebook Goes After Apple 99
DNC, RNC To Test Limits of Virtual Events as Election Enters Final Stage 88
A Third of TikTok's US Users May Be 14 or Under, Raising Safety Questions 39
TikTok's US Employees Plan To Sue Trump Administration Over Executive Order 97
'All Of My TikTok Followers Are Fake' 79
YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information That Could Interfere With the Election 238
Facebook Abandons Broken Drilling Equipment Under Oregon Coast Seafloor 140
US Says It Seized Cryptocurrency From Three Terrorist Groups 39
Lyft Joins Uber in Threatening To Pull Out of California Over Driver Status 340
Pompeo Says Trump's Executive Orders Are 'Broader' Than Just TikTok and WeChat, Hinting at More Action 173
Mozilla Extends its Google Search Deal 100
Arecibo Observatory Featured in James Bond Film 'Goldeneye' Shut Down 112
Homeland Security Details New Tools For Extracting Device Data at US Borders 113
Silicon Valley Game-Plans For a Messy Election Night 286
Police Use of Facial Recognition Violates Human Rights, UK Court Rules 58
Facebook Removed Seven Million Posts In Second Quarter For False Coronavirus Info 169
What Kamala Harris, Joe Biden's VP Pick, Means For Tech 521
University of Michigan Study Advocates Ban of Facial Recognition in Schools 18
Qualcomm Wins US Antitrust Lawsuit Appeal Over Chip Licensing 17
AT&T To Lay Off 600 At HBO and Warner Bros. After Revenue Decline 61
Tim Cook Hits Billionaire Status With Apple Nearing $2 Trillion 87
EPA To Rescind Methane Regulations For Oil and Gas 118
Leaked Documents Reveal What TikTok Shares With Authorities In the US 27
Amazon and Mall Operator Look at Turning Sears, J.C. Penney Stores Into Fulfillment Centers 92
Uber CEO Calls For 'Benefits Funds' for Gig Workers 72
Should the U.K. Government Form a Coalition to Buy ARM? 124
Richard Stallman Discusses Privacy Risks of Bitcoin, Suggests 'Something Much Better' 168
New Free Software Foundation Video Mocks Proprietary Remote-Learning Software 50
Some Cities are Combining Basic Incomes with Local Currenices 88
Researcher Breakthrough Turns Carbon Dioxide Into Ethanol 190
Cringely Predicts the U.S. Can't Stop WeChat 134
1.5% of All Americans Have Been Infected With Coronavirus - 5 Million Cases 379
Penguin Poop Seen From Space Leads To Discovery of New Colonies 19
Ask Slashdot: How Should College Students Approach This Academic Year? 42
'Zombie Cicadas' Are Under the Influence of a Psychedelic, Mind-controlling Fungus 34
Is the US about to Split the Internet? 165
Study: Saving Pandas Led To the Downfall of Other Animals 33
Last Fall a Drone Swarm Surveilled America's Largest Nuclear Reactor -- Twice 114
Trump Blew Up More Than Just TikTok and WeChat 145
Firefox Gets Fix For Evil Cursor Attack 29
Government's PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says 17
US Government Contractor Embedded Software in Apps To Track Phones 32
YouTube Will Stop Emailing Subscribers About New Videos Next Week 39
Canada's Last Fully Intact Arctic Ice Shelf Collapses 175
Security Researcher Troy Hunt is Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base 25
Facebook Will Let Employees Work From Home Until July 2021 61
Scientists Spot Space Junk With Lasers In Broad Daylight 37
Germany Plans To Dim Lights At Night To Save Insects 117
TikTok Ban: Trump Will Prohibit Transactions With ByteDance Beginning September 20 217
Lawmakers Ask California DMV How It Makes $50 Million a Year Selling Drivers' Data 67
FCC Lowers Some Prison Phone Rates After Blaming States For High Prices 39
Facebook Removes Trump Post For the First Time 291
US Senate Votes To Ban TikTok App On Government Devices 19
T-Mobile Passes AT&T To Become Second Biggest US Carrier 35
How To Build a Nuclear Warning For 10,000 Years' Time 273
Capital One To Pay $80 Million Fine After Data Breach 19
US Now Offers $10 Million Reward For Election Interference Tips 163
US Steps Up Campaign To Purge Chinese Apps 78
YouTube Bans Thousands of Chinese Accounts To Combat 'Coordinated Influence Operations' 187
SpaceX's Starship SN5 Testbed Successfully Makes 150m Controlled Flight 58
US Reaches $1 Billion Deal For Doses of Potential Johnson & Johnson Vaccine 126
Instagram Displayed Negative Related Hashtags For Biden, But Hid Them For Trump 242
White House Unveils Partnership To Boost Quantum Science Education 67
Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America 542
ByteDance CEO Says Trump's Real Goal Is To Kill Off TikTok 167
Firefox 79 Clears Redirect Tracking Cookies Every 24 Hours 29
Stet!, the Hot New Language Game 24
Blizzard Workers Share Salaries In Revolt Over Wage Disparities 210
Prosecutors Are Investigating Amazon's Treatment of Third-Party Sellers 16
Trump Fires TVA Chair, Cites Hiring of Foreign Workers 267
Google To Buy Stake In ADT In Home Security Push For $450 Million 31
Japan Acted Like the Virus Had Gone. Now It's Spread Everywhere. 313
Trump Says TikTok Will Be Banned If Not Sold By Sept. 15, Demands Cut of Sale Fee 208
FCC Chair Says Agency Will Take Public Comment on Trump Social Media Petition 46
Justice Department Is Scrutinizing Takeover of Credit Karma by Intuit, Maker of TurboTax 28
Microsoft Confirms It's in Talks To Buy TikTok from ByteDance, Says Trump is On Board 69
Chrome and Edge Rise In Popularity. Firefox, Opera, and Safari Drop. 177
Do Animals Really Anticipate Earthquakes? Sensors Hint They Do 41
Larry King Duped Into 'Disinfomercial' on Social Media By China (and Possibly Russia) 100
AI Distinguishes Birds That Even Experts Can't 32
YouTube Criticized For Ending Its Community Captions Feature 36
Google Threatens to Remove All Danish Music From YouTube 83
William English, Engineer Behind 'The Mother of All Demos', Dies at 91 18
An Amazon Ad Prompted Steve Jobs and Phil Schiller To Block In-App Purchases of Kindle Books On iOS 108
Amazon To Invest $10 Billion In Space-Based Internet System 52
Germany is Banning Single-Use Plastic Straws, Cotton Buds and Food Containers 135
Apple Surpasses Saudi Aramco To Become World's Most Valuable Company 36
Amazon Says Police Demands For Customer Data Have Gone Up 11
Spotify CEO: Musicians Can No Longer Release Music Only 'Once Every 3-4 Years' 105
Facebook Says Apple's iOS 14 Changes Could Hurt Its Ad Targeting 25
A Florida Teen Just Got Arrested for Twitter's Huge Hack 102
Microsoft in Talks To Buy TikTok, as Trump Weighs Curtailing App 49
Australia To Make Facebook, Google Pay For News in World First 70
Argos To Stop Printing Catalogue After Almost 50 Years 18
'We're Running Out of Homes For Sale,' Lake Tahoe Brokers Say As Tech Workers Flee Bay Area 198
Should the US Military Be Recruiting On Twitch? 160
Is Your Chip Card Secure? Much Depends on Where You Bank 38
The Gig Economy Is Failing. Say Hello to the Hustle Economy. 109
US Adults Who Mostly Rely On Social Media For News Are Less Informed, Exposed To More Conspiracies: Study 193
Alphabet Reports First Revenue Decline In Company History 10
Apple Halved App Store Fee To Get Amazon Prime Video On Devices 11
Libraries Lend Books, and Must Continue To Lend Books: Internet Archive Responds To Publishers' Lawsuit 70
Top Antitrust Democrat: There's a Case To Break Up Facebook 175
Trump Suggests Delaying Election Amid Fraud Claims, But Has No Power To Do So 546
A Plunge In Incoming Sunlight May Have Triggered 'Snowball Earths' 53
Airbus To Build 'First Interplanetary Cargo Ship' 43
Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites To Plant Fake Stories 67
Apple Does Not Keep the 30% Commission On a Refund [Update] 60
Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund 30
Arizona Leads Multi-State Probe Into Older iPhones Slowing, Shutting Down 54
Watch Now: Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook Top Execs Testify Before Congress in Historic Antitrust Hearing 92
After India and US, Japan Looks To Ban TikTok and Other Chinese Apps 6
US Treasury To Make Recommendation on TikTok To Trump This Week 35
Misleading Virus Video, Pushed By the Trumps, Spreads Online 566
Offshore Wind In Europe Won't Need Subsidies Much Longer 83
Trump's Plan To Regulate Social Media 292
Decimal Point Error Causes Etsy To Massively Overcharge For Shipping Labels 43
Rite Aid Deployed Facial Recognition Systems In Hundreds of US Stores 36
Theoretical Physicists Say 90% Chance of Societal Collapse Within Several Decades 299
Iter: World's Largest Nuclear Fusion Project Begins Assembly 65
Scientists Pull Living Microbes, Possibly 100 Million Years Old, From Beneath the Sea 20
CES Comes To Its Senses and Will Go All-Digital For 2021 16
Twitter Temporarily Limits Donald Trump Jr.'s Account 270
From Rocks To Icebergs, the Natural World Tends To Break Into Cubes 34
Rock From Mars Heads Home After 600,000 Year Odyssey Across Space 38
Zuckerberg To Tell Congress Facebook's Success Is Patriotic 53
Slashdot Interviews an Oxford Vaccine Trial Participant 80
Will Global Warming Drive Polar Bears Toward Extinction? 104
Western Bumblebee Population Drops Up To 93% Over the Last 20 Years 76
America Wants to Build Nuclear Power Plants on the Moon and Mars 243
Do Drones Help Democratize Surveillance? 24
Bill Gates Has a Message For Conspiracy Theorists 221
Coronavirus Infection Rates: 10 US States Higher Than Any Country in the World 355
Apple To Give Employees Paid Time Off To Vote In US Election 131
Pentagon's UFO Unit Will Make Some Findings Public 186
States Probe Apple For Potential Consumer Protection Violation 10
ICE Bars New Foreign Students From US If Classes Are Fully Online 150
Huawei CFO Asks For Extradition Case To Be Stayed, Says US Misled Canada 41
Yahoo Disables All Article Comments 231
The Great Climate Migration Has Begun 235

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