Technology Stories for 2012

Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales 268
Yahoo "Loses" $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit 85
Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode 140
Internet Freedom Won't Be Controlled, Says UN Telcom Chief 158
Even Capped Prediction Markets Can Be Manipulated 130
The Countries Most Vulnerable To an Internet Shutdown 94
Interviews: Ask What You Will of Eugene Kaspersky 115
Researcher Discloses New Batch of MySQL Vulnerabilities 76
FIA Adds Rome To Formula E 2014 Inaugural Season 91
"Self-Healing" NAND Flash Memory That Can Survive Over 100 Million Cycles 76
Mozilla Combines Social API and WebRTC 44
Julian Assange: "Online Totalitarianism Is Near, Entire Nations Are Intercepted" 325
Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation? 386
Multi-Server Microkernel OS Genode 12.11 Can Build Itself 102
Apple Declutters, Speeds Up iTunes With Major Upgrade 295
Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1% 310
Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops 526
Why KDE Plasma Makes Sense For Linux Gaming 152
One Cool Day Job: Building Algorithms For Elevators 203
How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? 438
Half of GitHub Code Unsafe To Use (If You Want Open Source) 218
Least-Cost Routing Threatens Rural Phone Call Completion 205
How Syria's Rebels Communicate In the Face of Internet Shutdown 80
Happy (Early) Bday! :) SMS Txt Msgs Turn 20 54
Matthew Garrett Makes Available Secure Bootloader For Linux Distros 274
How Some Chinese Users Bypass The Great Firewall 58
First Direct Image of DNA Double Helix 44
Ask Slashdot: Software For Learning About Data Transmission? 79
Firefox 20 Will Finally Fix Private Browsing Mode 186
DOE Wants 5X Improvement In Batteries In 5 Years 305
3D Printing of Custom Personal Electronics Arrives 72
Syrian Malware Servers Survive, Then Die 23
Ask Slashdot: Good Linux Desktop Environment For Hi-Def/Retina Displays? 234
Spaun: a Large-Scale Functional Brain Model 101
Why Microsoft's Surface Pro Could Fail 442
Raided For Running a Tor Exit Node 325
Bradley Manning (WikiLeaks Source) Given Hearing After 2 Years In Jail 369
Ask Slashdot: DIY 4G Antenna Design For the Holidays? 135
In Calculator Arms Race, Casio Fires Back: Color Touchscreen ClassPad 170
Inside an Amazon Warehouse 206
Staples To Offer 3D Printing Services 85
New Humble Bundle Is Windows Only, DRM Games 553
Ask Slashdot: Best File System For Web Hosting? 210
German Copyright Bill Would Let Publishers Charge Search Engines For Excerpts 114
Carl Sagan Was On US Team To Nuke the Moon 206
NPD Group Analysts Say Windows 8 Sales Sluggish 269
Ask Slashdot: What Web Platform For a Small Municipality? 161
Syria Drops Off the Internet Grid 156
The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence 445
The Secret To Iranian Drone Technology? Just Add Photoshop 183
Virus Eats School District's Homework 321
Caltech and UVic Set 339Gbps Internet Speed Record 79
Scientific American's Fred Guterl Explores the Threats Posed By Technology 93
Bluetooth Used To Track Traffic Times 133
Research Discovery Could Revolutionize Semiconductor Manufacturing 64
Why Facebook Is Stressing You Out 227
Ask Slashdot: Which OSS Database Project To Help? 287
Real-World Cyber City Used To Train Cyber Warriors 59
Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year 712
British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests 172
Fedora Adds MATE and Cinnamon Desktops to Main Repository, Releases Beta 56
IPv6 Deployment Picking Up Speed 158
US Congressman Wants To Ban New Internet Laws 205
Workers Raise First Section of New Chernobyl Shelter 149
Ask Slashdot: Will You Shop Local Like President Obama, Or Online? 430
Amazon and Google Barred From UK Government Cloud 79
Silicon Valley's Dirty Little Secret: Age Bias 375
Users Abandon Ship If Online Video Quality Is Not Up To Snuff, Says Study 155
Red Light Cameras Raise Crash Risk, Cost 499
What's It Like To Pilot a Drone? a Bit Like Call of Duty 170
Google Found Guilty of Libel For Search Results In Australia 223
Dual Interface Mobile Devices To Address BYOD Issue 116
GOG: How an Indie Game Store Took On the Pirates and Won 397
How Do We Program Moral Machines? 604
Netflix Gives Data Center Tools To Fail 75
Google's Manual For Its Unseen Human Raters 67
Sandia Lab Celebrates Inventor of the Modern Clean Room 42
Firefox 18 Beta Out With IonMonkey JavaScript Engine 182
Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware 657
Ask Slashdot: Troubling Trend For Open Source Company 451
Federal Officials Take Down 132 Websites In "Cyber Monday" Crackdown 153
Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? 1009
Despite Reports Google Did Not Just Buy ICOA 55
A Gentle Rant About Software Development and Installers 338
OnStar Gives Volt Owners What They Want: Their Data, In the Cloud 92
Study Finds Similar Structures In the Universe, Internet, and Brain 171
Ask Slashdot: Management Software For Small Independent ISP? 141
Does Even Amazing Partisan Tech Deserve Applause? 209
HydroICE Project Developing a Solar-Powered Combustion Engine 144
Legislators Call On Twitter To Ban Hamas 486
Nexus 4 Includes Support For LTE 83
The Internet Has Transformed Modern Divorce 277
BlackBerry 10 Preview Looks Positive 122
100km/h Sailboat Sets Speed Record 103
Companies Getting Rid of Reply-all 248
Disney Research Robot Can Juggle, Play Catch 40
Google.com.pk and 284 Other .PK Domains Hacked 35
Cyber Corps Program Trains Spies For the Digital Age, In Oklahoma 118
Implant Translates Written Words To Braille, Right On the Retina 75
"Anonymous" File-Sharing Darknet Ruled Illegal By German Court 285
Stratfor Hacker Could Be Sentenced to Life, Says Judge 388
After Weeks of Trying, UK Cryptographers Fail To Crack WWII Code 263
Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? 686
A Wi-Fi Wardriving Motorbike — With Plans Available 36
Pakistan To Cut Phone Services To Prevent Muharram Attacks 119
Mozilla Dropping 64-Bit Windows Nightly Builds For Now 224
Microsoft Granted Patent For Augmented Reality Glasses 89
DuckDuckGo - Is Google Playing Fair? 178
U.S. Denies Using Flame Malware To Spy On French President 52
Australian Govt Pledges Action On Google Tax Evasion 331
EU Passes Resolution Against ITU Asserting Control Over Internet 133
Cloaking Technology Could Protect Offshore Rigs From Destructive Waves 56
Saudi Arabia Implements Electronic Tracking System For Women 591
This Is What Happens When You Deep Fry a Frozen Turkey 164
Facebook To Eliminate Voting On Privacy Changes 52
Sandy Island, the Undiscovered Country 182
World Governments Object To New gTLDs 135
GNOME 3 To Support a "Classic" Mode, of Sorts 197
UK To Use "Risk-Profiling Software" To Screen All Airline Passengers and Cargo 222
Researcher Claims To Have Chrome Zero-Day, Google Says "Prove It" 106
Why Iron Dome Might Only Work For Israel 377
Supercomputers' Growing Resilience Problems 112
KDE 4.10 Beta1 Released 73
Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes? 138
High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves 363
Google Warns Against UN Net Conference 79
NTSB Dumps BlackBerry In Favor of iPhone 5 100
Brazil and Peru Dispute .Amazon TLD 163
Mannequins That Watch Shoppers 97
Media Center Key Accidentally Gives Pirates Free Windows 8 Pro License 255
With Pot Legal, Scientists Study Detection of Impaired Drivers 608
Google Releases Raw Election Polling Results 51
The Linux Foundation's UEFI Secure Boot Pre-Bootloader Delayed 179
Student Refusing RFID Badge Now Fights Expulsion Order 743
Linux Mint 14 Is Out 129
Hosting Provider Automatically Fixes Vulnerabilities In Customers' Websites 73
Ask Slashdot: How Should Tech Conferences Embrace Diversity? 343
Google Glass Could Be the Virtual Dieting Pill of the Future 159
That Was Fast: Leahy Drops Warrantless E-mail Surveillance Bill 107
NTP Glitch Reverts Clocks Back To 2000 179
Firefox 17 Launches With Click-to-Play Plugin Blocks 137
$250 Chromebook With Ubuntu Linux Is Very Fast 117
Mozilla Makes Prototype of Firefox OS Available 101
Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants 403
Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Actually Works 861
Ask Slashdot: What Video Games Keep You From Using Linux? 951
'Ban Killer Bots,' Urges Human Rights Watch 297
Activists' Drone Shot Out of the Sky For Fourth Time 733
Windows 8 Sales Below Projections 663
Cisco To Buy Meraki For $1.2 Billion 59
Legalizing Online Futures Betting 80
EU Working On Most Powerful Laser Ever Built 83
A Better Thought-Controlled Computer Cursor 34
Windows Phone 8 Users Hit Some Snags 391
Dual-Booting PengPod Tablet Can Run Linux/Android 109
Hacker vs. Counter-Hacker — a Legal Debate 182
Microsoft Complains That WebKit Breaks Web Standards 373
It's Hard For Techies Over 40 To Stay Relevant, Says SAP Lab Director 441
New Malware Variant Uses Google Docs As a Proxy To Phone Home 85
Valve's Big Picture Could Be a Linux Game Console 272
Man Arrested At Oakland Airport For Ornate Watch 519
How Can Wikipedia's Visual Editor Top Other Word Processors? 196
Anonymous Attacks Israeli Websites In Response To IDF Operation In Gaza 560
FreeBSD Project Discloses Security Breach Via Stolen SSH Key 86
Old Electric-Car Batteries Put Into Service For Home Energy Storage 198
Just Days After Release, Google's Nexus 4 Has Already Been Rooted 85
German Police Stop Man With Mobile Office In Car 146
Apple Patents Page Turn Animation 192
Judge Accepts $22.5M Google Fine In Privacy Case 25
German City Says OpenOffice Shortcomings Are Forcing It Back To Microsoft 480
Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts 423
Verizon To Throttle Pirates' Bandwidth 224
A Free Internet, If You Can Keep It 102
USPS Reports $15.9 Billion Loss, Asks Congress For Help 473
Lenovo UEFI Bug Only Likes Windows and RHEL 162
Google Wants To Be a Wireless Carrier 151
Google Lunar X Prize Teams Now In a Race With China As Well As Each Other 32
One Step Toward a Babel Fish: Real-Time Voice Translation For Phones 131
Google Develops Context-Aware Voice Search For TV 48
House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle" 134
Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK 154
Free Registrar co.cc Goes the Way of the Dodo 70
Invisibility Tech Demo Tomorrow In NYC 86
Sinofsky Dismisses Trying To Take Over Windows Phone, Developers 70
Getting Small UAVs To Imitate Human Pilots Flying Through Dense Forests 56
Android Hits 73% of Global Smartphone Market 601
The First Amendment and Software Speech 194
AdTrap Aims To Block All Internet Advertising In Hardware 295
Kinected Browser Lets You Flick Through Websites 46
Google Engineers Open Source Book Scanner Design 69
Amazon.com: Earth's Biggest Wine Cellar? 118
US Air Force Scraps ERP Project After $1 Billion Spent 362
New WiFi Protocol Boosts Congested Wireless Network Throughput By 700% 130
IE 10 Almost Finished For Windows 7 With Final Preview 187
Honda's "Micro Commuter" Features Swappable Bodies 96
Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code 394
The Empire In Decline? 488
CyanogenMod Domain Hijacked 143
Visualizing 100,000 Stars In Chrome 68
Salt Lake City Police To Wear Camera Glasses 307
Artificial Wombs In the Near Future? 367
Battery-Powered Transmitter Could Crash A City's 4G Network 121
Apple Orders Memory Game Developers To Stop Using 'Memory' In Names 409
Nokia Releasing Maps for Competing Devices 57
RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive 134
Google's Server Cooling Plan Produces 4ft Alligator 79
Skype Disables Password Resets After Huge Security Hole Discovered 65
Motorola Wants 2.25% of Microsoft's Surface Revenue 278
Airlines Face Acute Pilot Shortage 421
French Company Building a Mobile Internet Just For Things 35
Mind-Controlled Robot Avatars Inch Towards Reality 34
App Auto-Tweets False Piracy Accusations 231
Government Surveillance Growing, According To Google 105
AMD Hires Bank To Explore Sale Options 226
Fabricating Nature and a Physical Turing Test 36
Mark Cuban: Facebook Is Driving Away Brands — Starting With Mine 299
Ask Slashdot: How To Catch Photoshop Plagiarism? 284
Petraeus Case Illustrates FBI Authority To Read Email 228
Foxconn Begins To Assemble Its Robot Army 303
Ask Slashdot: Best 32-Bit Windows System In 2012? 313
Acer C7 Chromebooks Expand Chrome OS Market 67
Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft 417
UW Imposes 20-Tweet Limit On Live Events 196
NVIDIA and AMD Launch New High-End Workstation, Virtualization, and HPC GPUs 95
Australia's Biggest Telco Sold Routers With Hardcoded Passwords 154
The Shumway Open SWF Runtime Project 99
Microsoft Makes Direct X 11.1 a Windows 8 Exclusive 553
$200,000 Judgement Against Google In Mokbel Shots Case 140
BeOS Clone Haiku Releases R1 Alpha 4 117
Amazon Donates 2,000 Kindles To Wounded Veterans 62
Titan Tops Top500 Supercomputing List 52
World's First 3D Printing Photo Booth 60
PSP Emulator For Android Released 89
Google Outage Shows Risk of Doing Business In China 113
Man Arrested For Photo of Burning Poppy On Facebook 534
Homeland Security Mining Social Media For Signs of Bio Attacks 96
X-Ray Laser For Creating Supercharged Particles 55
Ivan Sutherland Wins Kyoto Prize 44
The Cyber Threat To the Global Oil Supply 123
Better Brain Implants With Ultrathin Carbon Fiber Electrodes 82
Color-Screen TI-84 Plus Calculator Leaked 245
Apple and HTC Settle Patent Dispute 179
NASA DTN Protocol: How Interplanetary Internet Works 109
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Add Forums To a Website? 259
Geomapping Racism With Twitter 409
Project To Build Dual-Booting Linux, Android Tablet For $100 114
Nike+ FuelBand: Possibly a Big Security Hole For Your Life 162
'Treasure Trove' In Oceans May Bring Revolutions In Medicine and Industry 107
Critical Vulnerabilities In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, CryEngine 3 77
NRC Report Links Climate Change To National Security 242

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