News Stories for 2021

Microsoft Envisions a Blockchain-Based Bounty System to Catch Pirates 59
ByteDance, TikTok's Parent Company, Joins the Open Invention Network 12
People Now Spend More at Amazon Than at Walmart 52
The Mysterious Figure Stealing Books Before Their Release 19
US To Recommend COVID Vaccine Boosters at 8 Months 329
Western States Face First Federal Water Cuts 204
Thousands of Wikipedia Pages Vandalized With Giant Swastikas 73
Rise of Cryptocurrencies Can Be Traced To Nixon Abandoning Gold In 1971 231
T-Mobile Confirms It Was Hacked 20
How International Scam Artists Pulled off an Epic Theft of Covid Benefits 60
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin Sues NASA, Escalating Its Fight for a Moon Lander Contract 117
Amazon Encourages Teachers To Use Social Media To Obtain Classroom Supplies 95
Debian 11 'Bullseye' Released As Stable 40
The Worst 5% of Power Plants Produce 73% of Their Emissions 154
Ethereum's Cryptocurrency Will 'Jettison' Mining for Speedier Proof-of-Stake 142
Snopes.com Co-Founder Accused of Copying from Other Sites Without Attribution 126
'Blue' Hydrogen Is Worse For the Climate Than Coal, Study Says 134
Zillow, Other Tech Firms Are In an 'Arms Race' To Buy Up American Homes 154
San Francisco Becomes First Major US City To Mandate Proof of Full Vaccinations For Certain Indoor Activities 286
Mozilla Tests If 'Firefox/100.0' User Agent Breaks Websites 44
Reddit Is Quietly Rolling Out a TikTok-Like Video Feed Button On iOS 12
July Was Earth's Hottest Month on Record 99
'The Way the Senate Melted Down Over Crypto Is Very Revealing' 112
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Must Peak Within 4 Years, Says Leaked UN Report 462
Senate Approves Rubio-Scott Amendment To Provide Free Internet To Cuba 144
Reddit Is Now Valued At More Than $10 Billion 73
Facebook Could Be Forced by UK Watchdog To Sell Gif Creator Giphy 13
Soccer Superstar Messi is Being Partly Paid in Crypto by PSG 46
DoD Awards $1 Billion Contract To Peraton To Counter Misinformation 118
Europe's All-Time Heat Record Set In Sicily At Nearly 120 Degrees 324
No EV Tax Credit If You Earn More Than $100,000 Says US Senate 202
US Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Rein In Apple, Google App Stores 48
Google Employees Who Work From Home Could Lose Money 199
Now Microsoft is Protesting After Amazon Won a $10 Billion NSA Cloud Contract 38
US Prisons Mull AI To Analyze Inmate Phone Calls 69
Amazon Awarded Secret $10 Billion NSA Cloud Computing Contract 65
TikTok Overtakes Facebook As World's Most Downloaded App 15
Oregon Law Allows Students To Graduate Without Proving They Can Write Or Do Math 337
Twitter Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene's Account for One Week 334
Firefox 91 Pushes Privacy With Stronger New Cookie-clearing Option 35
UK Broadband Rollout Trial To Target Hard-To-Reach Homes Through Water Pipes 78
Make Coal History Says PM Boris Johnson After UN Climate Report 247
T-Mobile Stirs 'Grave Concerns' at DOJ on Bid To End Old Network 60
Earth is Warming Faster Than Previously Thought, and the Window is Closing To Avoid Catastrophic Outcomes 323
US Navy is Developing a Solar-powered Plane That Can Fly For 90 Days 43
Vodafone Latest UK Carrier To Reintroduce Roaming Charges in Europe After Brexit 100
Major UK Science Funder Will Require Grantees To Make Papers Free 63
Microsoft is Recruiting US Teens To Be Influencers on Social Media for Its Educational Coding Platform 33
CNN Explores 'How Space Force is Defending America' 117
Why a Waste-Coal Power Plant is 'Burning for Bitcoin' 97
Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation 2.13 Facilitates Quick Reaction To Kernel/User-space Instrumentation Hits 6
Are the Ultra-Wealthy Renouncing US Citizenship to Avoid Taxes? 168
US Developer's Workstation Exposed State Department's Network Data, Researchers Find 16
ElasticSearch Keeps Fighting Open Source Fork by Amazon AWS 161
A Critical Ocean System May Be Heading For Collapse Due to Climate Change 110
Virgin Galactic Says Trips To Space Aboard Its Rocket Plane Will Start At $450,000 Per Seat 66
California Shuts Down Edward Hyatt Hydroelectric Power Plant Due To Drought 155
US Air Force Invests In Hermeus' Hypersonic Aircraft Development 31
Paragon Is Working To Get Its nfs3 Filesystem Into the Linux Kernel 73
The Future of Cryptocurrency Is Being Decided in Biden's Infrastructure Bill 110
Young People Get Their Knowledge of Tech From TV, Not School 46
Huawei Chairman Says the 'Aim Is To Survive' As Revenue Slides 29% 28
T-Mobile Will Shut Down Sprint's 4G LTE Network on June 30, 2022 21
Scientists Spot Warning Signs of Gulf Stream Collapse 315
Wealthy People Are Renouncing American Citizenship 210
US Intel Agencies Are Reviewing Genetic Data From Wuhan Lab 145
The CDC Needs To Stop Confusing the Public 219
US Taps Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Others To Help Fight Ransomware, Cyber Threats 24
Senate Democrats To Introduce Legislation That Would Tax Energy Companies Responsible For Major Greenhouse Gas Emissions 207
The IRS Has Seized $1.2 Billion Worth of Cryptocurrency This Fiscal Year 76
NYT Crossword Puzzle No Longer Works In Third-Party Apps 39
Firefox Lost Almost 50 Million Users In 3 Years 247
Google+ Class Action Starts Paying Out $2.15 For G+ Privacy Violations 15
Colleges Across the US and Canada Are Adopting Virtual Student IDs 49
Miami Launches 'MiamiCoin' Cryptocurrency 70
Senators Propose Exclusion of Miners, Software Developers in Infrastructure Bill's Crypto 'Broker' Definition 25
Head of UN Health Agency Seeks Vaccine Booster Moratorium 193
Law School Applicants Surge 13%, Biggest Increase Since Dot-Com Bubble 84
'Totally New' Idea Suggests Longer Days On Early Earth Set Stage For Complex Life 27
Study: Which Countries Will Best Survive a Collapse? 191
UK Considers Blocking Nvidia Takeover of ARM Over Security 75
Theranos Patients: The Emerging Wild Card in the Trial of Elizabeth Holmes 28
SEC Chair Calls On Congress To Help Rein In Crypto 'Wild West' 63
With Undersea Robots, an Air Force Navigator Lost Since 1967 Is Found 15
Square To Buy 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Giant Afterpay in $29 Billion Deal 24
YouTube Bans Sky News Australia for One Week Over Misinformation 288
Amazon Now Employs Almost 1 Million People in the US - or 1 in Every 169 Workers 99
UK Pharmaceutical Firm Fined For Hiking Drug Price 6,000% 182
Free Software Foundation Will Fund Papers on Issues Around Microsoft's 'GitHub Copilot' 111
US Justice Department Says Russians Hacked Its Federal Prosecutors 45
Tech Companies Praised for 'Pandemic Leadership', Vaccine Mandates 178
Texas Instruments' New Calculator Will Run Programs Written in Python 126
After YouTube-dl Incident, GitHub's DMCA Process Now Includes Free Legal Help 30
Government Denies Blue Origin's Challenge To NASA's Lunar Lander Program 67
June Heatwave Was the 'Most Extreme' On Record For North America 125
Report: Blizzard Once Slapped With 'Misogyny Tax' 161
Three Americans Create Enough Carbon Emissions To Kill One Person, Study Finds 216
As China Boomed, It Didn't Take Climate Change Into Account. Now It Must. 82
CDC Scaled Back Hunt for Breakthrough Cases Just as the Delta Variant Grew 111
YouTuber Won $10,000 Bet With a Physicist Over Wind-Powered Vehicle 200
The European Union Pulls Ahead of the United States In Vaccinations 192
Weight Lifting, an Original Olympic Sport, May Be Dropped 153
Tencent Is World's Worst Stock Bet With $170 Billion Wipeout 55
White House Touts Broadband Part of New Infrastructure Deal 59
Cook, Pichai Join CEOs Urging Congress Pass Path to Citizenship 172
YouTube Channel 'Tech Support Scams' Taken Offline By Tech Support Scam 55
What That Google Drive 'Security Update' Message Means 9
White House Calls on America's Most Critical Companies To Improve Cyber Defenses 66
Fast Internet Everywhere Could Add $160 Billion To US Economy 83
Thousands of Scientists Warn Climate Tipping Points 'Imminent' 311
US Senators Urge Barring Huawei, ZTE From $1.9 Trillion Govt Funding Measure 27
States Say They Will Appeal the Dismissal of Their Facebook Antitrust Suit 35
UK Government Backs Scheme For Motorway Cables To Power Lorries 124
EFF Sues US Postal Office For Records About Covert Social Media Spying Program 57
YouTube Punishes Brazil's President For Spreading Lies About COVID 113
'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli's One-of-a-Kind Wu-Tang Clan Album Sold By US Government 46
Former eBay Supervisor Sentenced To 18 Months in Prison For Cyberstalking Case Targeting Natick Couple 14
Harvard Professor Begins New Search For Alien Spaceships in Our Skies 66
Power Regulations Cut Off Select Dell PCs from Certain US States 151
'Record-Shattering' Heat Becoming Much More Likely, Says Climate Study 279
Amazon Denies Report of Accepting Bitcoin As Payment 45
Tether Executives Said To Face Criminal Probe Into Bank Fraud 22
Fauci Wants To Make Vaccines for the Next Pandemic Before It Hits 267
Consumer Losses Top $500 Million Due To Covid-Related Fraud 15
Citizen is Now Paying New Yorkers To Livestream Crimes 56
Toyota Led on Clean Cars. Now Critics Say It Works To Delay Them. 304
Facebook, Twitter and Other Tech Giants To Target Attacker Manifestos, Far-right Militias in Database 197
'Disinformation for Hire' is Becoming a Booming Industry 148
Amazon's Hiring a 'Digital Currency and Blockchain' Lead, Confirms Interest in 'Modern' Payments 59
Two US Companies Propose Thousands of Miles of Pipelines - for Capturing Carbon 85
YouTube Stars Were Offered Money to Spread Vaccine Misinformation 255
For Million of Americans, Unemployment Benefits Require Facial Recognition Scanning 152
SANS Institute Founder Hopes to Find New Cybersecurity Talent With a Game 15
RNA Breakthrough Creates High-Yield, Drought-Tolerant Rice, Potatoes 120
'Nuclear Power's Reliability is Dropping as Extreme Weather Increases' 197
Does the Open Source Movement Need to Evolve? 72
Mozilla Stops FTP Support in Firefox 90 158
Repairable, Modular Framework Laptop Begins Shipping 112
Society Is Right On Track For a Global Collapse, New Study of Infamous 1970s Report Finds 323
Oregon Congressman Proposes New Space Tourism Tax 155
Hole Blasted In Guntrader: UK Firearms Sales Website's CRM Database Breached, 111K Users' Info Spilled Online 63
Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson Not Yet Astronauts, US Says 80
Parking Startups Are Cashing In On America's Traffic Surge 14
A 3-degree Celsius World Has No Safe Place 229
Most Unvaccinated Americans Don't Want Shots: AP-NORC Poll 657
China Considers Turning Tutoring Companies Into Non-Profits 34
CIA Director Says He Is Escalating Efforts To Solve 'Havana Syndrome' Mystery 67
Autonomy Founder Mike Lynch Can Be Extradited To US 46
Democratic Bill Would Suspend Section 230 Protections When Social Networks Boost Anti-vax Conspiracies 282
'Nuclear Football' Safety Procedures To Be Reassessed 319
Steve Jobs' 1973 Job Application Once Again Up For Auction, In Physical and NFT Form 20
Audacity's New Owner Is In Another Fight With the Open Source Community 48
Amazon Promises Most Echo Speakers Will Support the Matter Smart Home Platform 18
FTC Formally Adopts Right To Repair Platform 39
China Rejects Hacking Charges, Accuses US of Cyberspying 56
Australia's Giant Carbon Capture Project Fails To Meet Key Targets 89
Wildfire Smoke Spreads Haze and Health Warnings To East Coast 47
UK Man Arrested in Spain for Role in Twitter 2020 Hack 6
Mastercard Will Use the USDC Stablecoin As a Bridge Asset For Cardholders Who Want To Pay For Goods Using Cryptocurrencies 60
EU Plans To Make Bitcoin Transfers More Traceable 82
Bitcoin Crashes Below $30,000 As Cryptocurrency Free-Fall Accelerates 135
Stockfish Sues ChessBase 21
Jeff Bezos On Critics of Billionaires Going To Space: 'They're Mostly Right' 238
US Needs Japan and Korea To Counter China Tech, Says Google ex-CEO 32
Biden To Name Google Foe Jonathan Kanter as DOJ Antitrust Chief 25
Together Price Helps Strangers Share Subscription Passwords 83
30 Million Solar Homes Would Create 1.77 Million Jobs and $69 Billion In Energy Savings, Report Finds 318
Tencent Is Buying British Game Studio 'Sumo' For $1.27 Billion 12
Report Finds Big Telecom Spends $230,000 on Lobbying Every Day 32
White House Formally Blames China's Ministry of State Security for Microsoft Exchange Hack 38
New Hutter Prize Winner Achieves Milestone for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge 60
Both Dogecoin Creators are Now Criticizing Cryptocurrencies 169
Music Streaming Inquiry Finds 'Pitiful Returns' For Performers 108
Amazon's Elasticsearch Fork 'OpenSearch' Reaches General Availability 1.0 Milestone 49
More Bitcoin Miners Head to America, Partly for Cheaper Energy 70
Fired Covid-19 Data Manager is Now Running for Congress 214
7 Years Later, Google Engineers Revise Their Pessimistic Predictions on Climate Change 186
Elusive Glass Octopus Spotted In the Remote Pacific Ocean 12
America Honors Its Atomic Veterans 18
Parts of the Amazon Rainforest Now Releasing More Carbon Than They Absorbs 57
Ethereum Co-Founder Says Safety Concern Has Him Quitting Crypto 40
Virginia Will Use a $700 Million Grant To Roll Out Statewide Broadband 55
Exploding Stars May Have Assaulted Ancient Earth 24
Sea Walls Might Just Make Floods Someone Else's Problem, Study Suggests 77
US Seeing 'Pandemic of the Unvaccinated' As Cases Rise In Every State 417
Illinois Is The 1st State To Tell Police They Can't Lie To Minors In Interrogations 195
Biden Battles Russian Hacking Groups With Restrictions on IT Firms 32
Fifteen Percent of US Air Force F-35s Don't Have Working Engines 163
NASA: Moon 'Wobble' In Orbit May Lead To Record Flooding On Earth 117
Intel Is In Talks To Buy GlobalFoundries For About $30 Billion 57
TSMC Looking Into Expanding Chip Manufacturing In US, Building Fab In Japan 14
Tech Workers Who Swore Off the Bay Area Are Coming Back 62
US Offers $10 Million Reward for Info on State-Sponsored Hackers Disrupting Critical Infrastructure 30
Apple's IDFA Change Has Triggered 15% To 20% Revenue Drops For iOS Developers 120
Over 10,000 Amazon Rainforest Species Risk Extinction, Landmark Report Warns 23
Twitter Sees Jump In Government Demands To Remove Content of Reporters, News Outlets 17
India Bans Mastercard From Adding New Customers 25
UK To Ban Online Racists From Soccer Games 160
Gas Sellers Reaped $11 Billion Windfall During Texas Freeze 120
UK's Biggest Trade Union Takes Aim at Amazon Over 'Price Gouging' Allegations 44
Facebook Announces Time Bonus Payouts For Bug Hunters 9
Republicans Call For Amazon To Testify On Pentagon Relationship 40
France Hits Google With $593 Million Fine In News Copyright Battle 44
Man Wrongfully Arrested By Facial Recognition Tells Congress His Story 94
Drought is Stressing California's Power Grid 266
Firefox Says Its Revamped SmartBlock Won't Break Facebook Login Buttons Anymore 32
YouTubers Are Making a Living on Videos About Microsoft Software 32
Handwriting Is Better Than Typing When Learning a New Language, Study Finds 78
Stream-Ripping Can Be Perfectly Legal, French Ministry of Culture Says 28
An Incredibly Toxic Lake Will Become One of the US's First Lithium Mines 271
Broadcom in Talks To Buy Software Firm SAS 28
US Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Bakes Wheat, Fruit Crops 117
Extreme Heat Has Killed an Estimated 1 Billion Small Sea Creatures 53
Netflix Quietly a Huge Winner in Biden's Order Targeting Big Business 71
Why China Undermines Bitcoin - as It Tests Its Own Digital Currency 86
Which Energy Future: Power Lines or Rooftop Solar Panels (and Storage Batteries)? 271
Ask Slashdot: Because of Social Media, Are We Reading Fewer Books? 136
Ukraine Police Bust Massive Crypto Mining Operation Stealing Electricity 19
Some Industrial Bitcoin Miners are Moving to Cheap-Energy Texas 108
30 Million Americans Face 'Excessive Heat Alerts'. Death Valley, California Hits 130 Degrees 199
Giant Pandas No Longer Endangered But Still Vulnerable, Says China 32
Insider Trading Charges Filed Over Long Island Iced Tea's Blockchain 'Pivot' 17
'By 2030, You Won't Own Any Gadgets' 259
Crypto Scammers Rip Off Billions As Pump-and-Dump Schemes Go Digital 74
Microsoft Edge Beats Firefox To Become the Third-Most Popular Browser 85
Libre-SOC's Open Hardware 180nm ASIC Submitted To IMEC for Fabrication 38
Experimental Rust Support Patches Submitted to Linux Kernel Mailing List 55
North America Has Its Hottest June on Record 104
$350 Million 'Palace On Rails' Luxury Train Concept Unveiled 164
Swedish Crypto Scammer Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison 8
A Sealed Copy of The Legend of Zelda Just Sold For Nearly a Million Dollars 37
Biden Raises Ransomware Topic During Putin Phone Call 51
New York City Launches a Cyberdefense Center in Manhattan 14
US Sanctions a Chinese Facial Recognition Company With Silicon Valley Funding 11
Iran's Rail Network Hit by Possible Cyber Attack, State TV Says 31
Biden Executive Order Urges Greater Scrutiny of Big Tech M&A, Restoring Net Neutrality Rules 64
'Financially Hobbled for Life': The Elite Master's Degrees That Don't Pay Off 485
Death Rates Are Declining For Many Common Cancers In US 49
No Evidence of California Exodus Or 'Millionaire Flight', UC Research Project Finds 451
Gov. Newsom Asks Californians To Cut Water Use By 15% Amid Drought 173
It's Cold in the Ocean but It's Hotter Inside Every Sea Otter 25
Firefox Extends Privacy and Security of Canadian Internet Users With By-default DNS-over-HTTPS Rollout in Canada 108
Wildlife and Livestock a Risk Factor in Future Pandemics, Say Studies 60
The Tech Cold War's 'Most Complicated Machine' That's Out of China's Reach 141
India Discovers New Plant Species in Antarctica 10
UK Supercomputer Cambridge-1 To Hunt For Medical Breakthroughs 23
YouTube's Recommender AI Still a Horror Show, Finds Major Crowdsourced Study 81
A Banking App Has Been Suddenly Closing Accounts, Sometimes Not Returning Customers' Money 66
Bitcoin Power Plant Is Turning a 12,000-Year-Old Glacial Lake Into a Hot Tub 214
America Used Fewer Fossil Fuels In 2020 Than It Has In Three Decades 177

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