Technology Stories for 2017

Zimbabwe's Internet Went Down for About Five Hours. The Culprit Was Reportedly a Tractor. 63
'Face Reality! We Need Net Neutrality!' Crowd Chants Across the Country 296
About 40 Percent of Bitcoin Is Held By 1,000 Users. If a Few of Them Want To Sell, That Could Tank Values 241
Almost All Bronze Age Artifacts Were Made From Meteorite Iron 132
The US Is Testing a Microwave Weapon To Stop North Korea's Missiles 217
ISP Disclosures About Data Caps and Fees Eliminated By Net Neutrality Repeal 281
Android 8.0 Oreo For Android Wear Released 10
Apple Has Ruined Its Podcasts App 134
Tesla Could Be Hogging Batteries and Causing a Global Shortage, Says Report 159
Inside Oracle's Cloak-and-dagger Political War With Google 86
Google's Mobile Search Results Now Include Videos Of Celebrities Answering Your Questions 63
Amazon Opens Registration For .BOT Domain Name 44
Airlines Restrict 'Smart Luggage' Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries 108
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit That Claims Google Paid Female Employees Less Than Male Colleagues 257
ReactOS 0.4.7 Released 94
FCC Chair Ajit Pai Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Help Sick and Disabled People 207
AMD Quietly Made Some Radeon RX 560 Graphics Cards Worse 40
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain Copyright To My Kids? 327
EU Urges Internet Companies To Do More To Remove Extremist Content 79
NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen 79
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Boosts CPU and GPU Performance, Delivers 4K HDR Capture, 3x Faster AI Processing 48
Google's DeepMind AI Becomes a Superhuman Chess Player In a Few Hours 93
Inside Baidu's Bid To Lead the AI Revolution 12
Facebook and YouTube Are Full of Pirated Video Streams of Live NFL Games 231
Yahoo Sues Mozilla For Breach of Contract -- So Mozilla Counter Sues Yahoo 112
'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' 588
Google Wants Progressive Web Apps To Replace Chrome Apps 154
US Says It Doesn't Need a Court Order To Ask Tech Companies To Build Encryption Backdoors 249
Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering 47
40 Percent of America Will Cut the Cord By 2030, New Report Predicts 114
ISPs and Movie Industry Prepare Canadian Pirate Site Blocking Deal 86
Qualcomm Announces Latest Snapdragon 845 Processor 38
Tencent Says There Are Only 300,000 AI Engineers Worldwide, But Millions Are Needed 116
Health Secretary Hits Out at Facebook's New App, Says 'Stay Away From My Kids' 113
Google Is Pulling YouTube Off the Fire TV and Echo Show as Feud With Amazon Grows 238
Microsoft Debuts Windows 10 on ARM; Asus and HP Unveil Laptops With 20-Hour Battery Life, Gigabit LTE 139
Contributors To Prominent Publications Have Taken Payments in Exchange For Positive Coverage 130
Android Go Will Make the Most Basic Phones Run Smoothly 102
State Board Concedes It Violated Free Speech Rights of Oregon Man Fined For Writing 'I Am An Engineer' 178
Cloudflare's CEO Has a Plan To Never Censor Hate Speech Again 395
Amazon Finally Launches In Australia 57
Gamer Streams Pay-Per-View UFC Fight By Pretending To Play It 75
Not Even Free TV Can Get People To Stop Pirating Movies and TV Shows 221
PayPal Says 1.6 Million Customer Details Stolen In Breach At Canadian Subsidiary 24
FCC Won't Delay Vote, Says Net Neutrality Supporters Are 'Desperate' 347
Lead Developer of Popular Windows Application Classic Shell Is Quitting 97
Apple, Google CEOs Bring Star Power as China Promotes Censorship 38
Texting Is 25 Years Old 68
People Have Spent Over $1M Buying Virtual Cats on the Ethereum Blockchain 128
Facebook Launches New Messenger App for Young Kids -- What Could Possibly Go Wrong? 62
From the Arctic's Melting Ice, an Unexpected Digital Hub 67
Elon Musk Trolls the Media With a Clip From 'Spaceballs' 134
How 'Grinch Bots' Are Ruining Online Christmas Shopping 283
Google's AI Built an AI that Outperforms Any Made By Humans 235
StartCom Will Stop Issuing Certificates, Revoking Them All in 2020 42
Is Open Source Innovation Now All About Vendor On-Ramps? 58
'App Truthers' Question the Accuracy of the Domino's Pizza Tracker 205
How Converting A C++ Game to JavaScript Gave Us WebAssembly 139
Understanding the New Red Hat-IBM-Google-Facebook GPL Enforcement Announcement 96
Mozilla Releases Open Source Speech Recognition Model, Massive Voice Dataset 58
Drone Pilot Arrested After Flying Over Two Stadiums, Dropping Leaflets 108
Electric Cars Are Already Cheaper To Own and Run Than Petrol Or Diesel, Says Study 474
GM Says It Will Put Fleets of Self-Driving Cars In Cities In 2019 82
China's Dark Matter Probe Detects Tantalizing Signal 37
Controversial Study Claims 'Smartphone Addiction' Alters the Brain 64
Volunteers Around the World Build Surveillance-Free Cellular Network Called 'Sopranica' 77
Tesla Proves To Be Too Pricey For Germany, Loses Tax Subsidies 121
Every iPhone X Is Not Created Equal 74
Two Technologists Create Black Metal Album Using An AI 57
Blockchains Are Poised To End the Password Era 129
Homeland Security Claims DJI Drones Are Spying For China 82
Was Your Name Stolen To Support Killing Net Neutrality? 128
Mozilla Revenue Jump Fuels Its Firefox Overhaul Plan 127
Stephen Hawking: 'I Fear AI May Replace Humans Altogether' 282
Russia Wants To Launch Backup DNS System By August 1, 2018 160
SpaceX's First Falcon Heavy Launch Will Now Take Place In 2018 131
Vine Co-Founder Dom Hofmann Says He's Working On 'a Follow-Up To Vine' 54
CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video 163
Verizon Will Launch 5G Home Internet Access In 2018 115
System76 Will Disable Intel Management Engine On Its Linux Laptops 149
Australian Man Uses Snack Bags As Faraday Cage To Block Tracking By Employer 193
Russia Says It Will Ignore Any UN Ban of Killer Robots 132
Google Bans Apps From Displaying Lock Screen Ads 58
Elon Musk's Boring Company Bids On Chicago Airport Transit Link 155
Facebook Judge Frowns on Bid To Toss Biometric Face Print Suit 39
Cryptocurrencies Aren't 'Crypto' 169
Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? 311
Google Launches App That Can Help You Track and Conserve Mobile Data 46
New Study Finds That Most Redditors Don't Actually Read the Articles They Vote On 164
American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take Off The Holidays 200
Google Faces Lawsuit For Gathering Personal Data From Millions of iPhone Users 35
375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests 236
Physicists Made An Unprecedented 53 Qubit Quantum Simulator 70
Coinbase Ordered To Report 14,355 Users To the IRS 141
Snapchat Is Becoming the Anti-Facebook 47
EPA Confirms Tesla's Model 3 Has a Range of 310 Miles 283
Microsoft: We're Razing Our Redmond Campus To Build a Mini City 98
Windows 10 Now on 600 Million Active Devices 142
Facebook's New Captcha Test: 'Upload A Clear Photo of Your Face' 302
FCC Chairman Keeps Up Assault on Social Media 193
Sensitive Personal Information of 246,000 DHS Employees Found on Home Computer 59
Recent Blu Update Locks Users out of Their Phones 81
Andy Rubin Takes Leave From Essential as Probe Into 'Inappropriate' Google Relationship Goes Public, Report Claims 240
HDMI 2.1 Is Here With 10K and Dynamic HDR Support 176
Samsung Develops 'Graphene Ball' Battery With 5x Faster Charging Speed 137
Amazon Will Let Alexa Developers Use Voice Recognition To Personalize Apps 30
AI Goes Bilingual -- Without a Dictionary 99
'Break Up Google and Facebook If You Ever Want Innovation Again' 268
Three Quarters of Android Apps Track Users With Third Party Tools, Says Study 46
A Supreme Court Case This Week Could Change US Digital Privacy Standards 74
PSA: Comcast Doesn't Really Support Net Neutrality 144
Tesla Owners Are Mining Bitcoins With Free Power From Charging Stations 141
After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile 245
MacOS High Sierra Bug Allows Login As Root With No Password 237
Uber Trained Employees on How To 'Impede, Obstruct or Influence' Ongoing Legal Investigations, Ex-employee Says 62
'You Had to Be There': As Technologies Change Ever Faster, the Knowledge of Obsolete Things Becomes Ever Sweeter 546
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai Criticizes Companies That Oppose His Efforts To Repeal Net Neutrality Rules 349
Microsoft Sees the Future of Windows 10 as Sets, Ditching Windows For a Tabbed App Interface 302
Google Can Tell if Someone Is Looking at Your Phone Over Your Shoulder 75
Researchers Identify 44 Trackers in More Than 300 Android Apps 87
Firms Team Up On Hybrid Electric Plane Technology 111
India's Telecom Regulator Backs Net Neutrality 42
Destiny 2 Misrepresented XP Gains To Its Players Until the Developers Got Caught 112
Microsoft Office Now Available On All Chromebooks 113
Scientists Have Built Robot Muscles That Can Lift 1,000 Times Their Own Weight 119
The Pixel 2's Dormant 'Visual Core' Chip Gets Activated In Latest Android Developer Preview 32
Facebook Rolls Out AI To Detect Suicidal Posts Before They're Reported 171
Pokemon Go Led To Increase In Traffic Deaths and Accidents, Says Study 80
iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting To 'I.T' On iOS 11 and Later 116
White House Weighs Personal Mobile Phone Ban For Staff 113
Plex's DVR Can Now Automatically Remove Commercials For You 75
Comcast Hints At Plan For Paid Fast Lanes After Net Neutrality Repeal 308
Tumblr Is Tumbling 157
Two Major Cydia Hosts Shut Down as Jailbreaking Fades in Popularity 90
Justices Ponder Need For Warrant For Cellphone Tower Data 200
Google Seeks To Defuse Row With Russia Over Website Rankings 71
Yahoo Groups Plagued by Downtime, Technical Issues for Almost a Week 40
Nearly 4 Million Bitcoins Lost Forever, New Study Says 218
Tim Wu: Why the Courts Will Have to Save Net Neutrality 251
YouTube's Search Autofill Surfaced Disturbing Child Sex Results 155
Petition Calls for Ouster of FCC Chairman Pai 174
FBI Failed To Notify 70+ US Officials Targeted By Russian Hackers 94
There's A Cluster of 750 Raspberry Pi's at Los Alamos National Lab 128
Taking The Profit Out Of Killing 'Net Neutrality' 257
Firefox Quantum Is 'Better, Faster, Smarter than Chrome', Says Wired 383
Is Elon Musk Greatly Exaggerating Tesla's Battery Technology? 266
Google Flagged Its Own Chromebook Ad As Spam On YouTube 35
Bloomberg Op-Ed: The Internet 'Already Lost Its Neutrality' 171
Is Sharp's Robot Vacuum Cleaner Vulnerable To Remote Take-over? 42
DC Fans Angry Over Rotten Tomatoes 'Justice League' Ratings 266
First AMD Ryzen Mobile Laptop Tested Shows Strong Zen-Vega Performance 85
More Than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments Were Likely Faked 177
Tesla's Electric Semi Trucks Are Priced To Compete At $150,000 189
AT&T, Comcast Lawsuit Has Nullified a City's Broadband Competition Law 74
Tesla Completes World's Largest Battery Project In Half the Time Promised 150
Legislators Take Aim At Star Wars Battlefront II, EA Over 'Gambling In Games' 72
Pornhub Owner May Become the UK's Gatekeeper of Online Porn 95
Linux Pioneer Munich Confirms Switch To Windows 10 336
Regulators Question Google Over Location Data 19
Google and Apple Order Telegram To Nuke Channel Over Taylor Swift Piracy 37
Thank You, Phish Fans, For Caring About Net Neutrality 79
Brands Pull YouTube Ads Over Images of Children 125
Broadband Firms in UK Must Ditch 'Misleading' Speed Ads 69
Ajit Pai and the FCC Want It To Be Legal for Comcast To Block BitTorrent 553
Justin Trudeau Is 'Very Concerned' With FCC's Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality 244
Google's Eric Schmidt Says People Want Dish-Washing Robots To Clean Up the Kitchen More Than Any Other Kind 277
Singapore To Use Driverless Buses 'From 2022' 42
Firefox Will Warn Users When Visiting Sites That Suffered a Data Breach 64
Cloudflare Might Be Exploring a Way To Slow Down FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's Home Internet Speeds 308
'We Are Disappointed': Tech Companies Speak Up Against the FCC's Plan To Kill Net Neutrality 183
YouTube To Implement New Guidelines To Protect Minors From Disturbing Content 95
Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods 156
Google Wipes 786 Pirate Sites From Search Results 83
Samsung's Galaxy S9 Will Appear At CES In January, Says Report 41
FCC Ignored Your Net Neutrality Comment, Unless You Made a 'Serious' Legal Argument 279
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? 252
Apple Scientists Disclose Self-Driving Car Research 34
Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed 279
Net Neutrality Advocates Plan Protests For December 7 at Verizon Stores 151
China's Tencent Breaks Through $500bn Stock Market Capitalisation 77
Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs 273
Facebook Still Lets Housing Advertisers Exclude Users By Race 197
EU Agrees To End Country-Specific Limits For Online Retailers 72
How a Wi-Fi Pineapple Can Steal Your Data (And How To Protect Yourself From It) 46
Microsoft Confirms Surface Book 2 Can't Stay Charged During Gaming Sessions 138
Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? 354
Sacramento Regional Transit Systems Hit By Hacker 35
FCC Will Also Order States To Scrap Plans For Their Own Net Neutrality Laws 280
Uber Fined $8.9 Million In Colorado For Allowing Drivers With Felonies, Motor Violations To Work 108
HP Enterprise CEO Meg Whitman To Step Down 101
Uber Concealed Cyberattack That Exposed 57 Million People's Data 32
Russia To Act Against Google if Sputnik, RT Get Lower Search Rankings 192
New Windows Search Interface Borrows Heavily From MacOS 86
Microsoft Offering Free Windows 10 Development Environment VM for a Limited Time 81
To Save Net Neutrality, We Must Build Our Own Internet 196
Skype Vanishes From App Stores in China 37
Intel: We've Found Severe Bugs in Secretive Management Engine, Affecting Millions 207
Google Collects Android Users' Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled 196
Google Cloud Platform Cuts the Price of GPUs By Up To 36 Percent 28
Over 400 of the World's Most Popular Websites Record Your Every Keystroke 263
UCLA Researchers Use Solar To Create and Store Hydrogen 61
Uber Expands Driverless-Car Push With Deal For 24,000 Volvos 176
iMac Pro Will Have An A10 Fusion Coprocessor For 'Hey, Siri' Support and More Secure Booting, Says Report 164
Google Is Working On Fuchsia OS Support For Apple's Swift Programming Language 54
Why Hackers Reuse Malware 27
An Ethereum Startup Just Vanished After People Invested $374K 190
Eric Schmidt Says Google News Will 'Engineer' Russian Propaganda Out of the Feed 356
Dark Side of Gig Economy: Some Instacart Workers Go On Strike Over Pay That Can Be as Low as $1 Per Hour 436
Another Tor Browser Feature Makes It Into Firefox: First-Party Isolation 93
Deep Learning Is Eating Software 147
Stock Music Artists Aren't Always Happy About How Their Music Is Used 147
We Can't Trust Facebook To Regulate Itself, Says Former Operations Manager 105
Intel Planning To End Legacy BIOS Support By 2020, Report Says 122
Critics Debate Autism's Role in James Damore's Google Memo 353
Net Neutrality is Essentially Unassailable, Argues Billionaire Barry Diller 82
What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change 624
Firefox vs Chrome: Speed and Memory 160
'Lazy' Hackers Exploit Microsoft RDP To Install Ransomware 72
'I See Things Differently': James Damore on his Autism and the Google Memo 682
CNBC: Google's New 'Pixel Buds' Suck 100
Musk-Backed 'Slaughterbots' Video Will Warn the UN About Killer Microdrones 252
DJI Threatens Researcher Who Reported Exposed Cert Key, Credentials, and Customer Data 81
Facebook Open Sources Its Network Routing Platform Open/R 28
Is Firefox 57 Faster Than Chrome? 234
Walmart Says It's Preordered 15 of Tesla' New Semi Trucks 179
A Stable Plasma Ring Has Been Created In Open Air For the First Time Ever 113
'Robots Are Not Taking Over,' Says Head of UN Body of Autonomous Weapons 77
Verizon: No 4G-Level Data Caps For 5G Home Service 56
NVIDIA Launches Modded Collector's Edition Star Wars Titan Xp Graphics Card 45
Massive US Military Social Media Spying Archive Left Wide Open In AWS S3 Buckets 85
FCC Approves Next-Gen ATSC 3.0 TV Standard 158
Apple's HomePod Gets Delayed Until 2018 49
Microsoft and GitHub Team Up To Take Git Virtual File System To MacOS, Linux 150
Even New Phones Are No Longer Guaranteed To Have the Latest Version of Android 158
Windows 8 and Later Fail To Properly Apply ASLR 62
Tim Berners-Lee on the Future of the Web: 'The System is Failing' 165
Proprietary Software is the Driver of Unprecedented Surveillance: Richard Stallman 197
Volkswagen To Spend Over $40 Billion on Electric and Self-Driving Cars 99
iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' 258
Tesla Is Rethinking the Rest Stop For California Road Trips 111
Stanford Trains AI To Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than a Radiologist In Just Two Months 75
Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 373
Google Will Stop Letting Sites Use AMP Format To Bait and Switch Readers 57
Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet 125
Report Claims That 18 Nation's Elections Were Impacted By Social Engineering Last Year 235
Bluetooth Hack Affects 20 Million Amazon Echo, Google Home Devices 40
Virgin Hyperloop One Eyes India For Possible High-Speed Routes 38
FCC Repeals Decades-Old Rules Blocking Broadcast Media Mergers 146
China Builds World's Fastest Hypersonic Wind Tunnel To Simulate Flight At 27,000 MPH 63
Jack Dorsey Responds To Serial Killer Who Found His Victims Through Suicidal Twitter Posts 73

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