Technology Stories for 2020

Facebook's Libra Currency To Launch Next Year in Limited Format 34
FCC Maintains Ban on Mobile Phone Voice Calls During Flights 126
Pushed by Pandemic, Amazon Goes on a Hiring Spree Without Equal 42
Microsoft's 'Project Latte' Aims To Bring Android Apps To Windows 10 65
'Tokenized': Inside Black Workers' Struggles at the King of Crypto Start-Ups 197
Dyson Pledges New Investment Into AI, Robotics and Batteries 35
UK To Set Up 'Pro-Competition' Regulator To Put Limits on Big Tech 42
Patients of a Vermont Hospital Are Left 'in the Dark' After a Cyberattack 112
Britain Commits $333 Million To Help Carriers Replace Huawei 5G 56
Amazon Workers To Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests in 15 Countries 130
Sophos Notifies Customers of Data Exposure After Database Misconfiguration 5
hCaptcha Runs On 15% Of the Internet 66
Illegal Tampering By Diesel Pickup Owners Is Worsening Pollution, EPA Says 336
GM To Leverage Customer Data In New Insurance Business 45
European Regulators Prepare For MAX To Return To Service In 2021 40
Google Ordered To Hand Over Emails in $600 Million Divorce Battle 33
AWS Outage Has Taken Down a Big Chunk of the Internet 90
Google Plans Fiber-Optic Network To Connect Via Saudi Arabia and Israel for First Time 29
ZTE's Designation as Security Threat Affirmed by US FCC 27
Study Finds Users, Not Notifications, Initiate 89% of Smartphone Interactions 33
Is Apple Silicon Ready? 132
Linus Torvalds Would Like To Use An M1 Mac For Linux, But... 246
Twitter Will Warn You If You 'Like' Misleading Tweets 175
EU Says It Could Be Self-Sufficient In Electric Vehicle Batteries By 2025 87
LA To Launch First 'Transportation Technology Innovation Zone' 11
Facebook Said It Would Ban Holocaust Deniers. Instead, Its Algorithm Provided a Network for Them 62
Social Media Companies All Starting To Look the Same 26
Twitter Verification Returns Early Next Year 21
Tesla is Now Worth Half a Trillion Dollars 123
OneWeb Emerges From Bankruptcy, Plans Global Satellite Broadband By 2022 80
'Smart' Doorbells For Sale On Amazon, eBay Came Stocked With Security Vulnerabilities 30
Foxconn Plant Championed By Trump Lands Google Server Contract 65
Comcast To Enforce 1.2TB Data Cap In Entire 39-State Territory In Early 2021 230
Gimp Turns 25 121
Walmart-exclusive Router and Others Sold on Amazon and eBay Contain Hidden Backdoors To Control Devices 94
Biden's Top Tech Adviser Makes Regulation More Likely 96
Google Gets Web Allies by Letting Outsiders Help Build Chrome's Foundation 13
'Code is Sourdough' 70
Solomon Islands Set To Ban Facebook in the Name of 'National Unity' 73
These Algorithms Could Bring an End To the World's Deadliest Killer 21
Mass-Produced, Librem 5 Linux Smartphone Begins Shipping to Customers 155
How Firefox Boosted Its JavaScript Performance 51
Elon Musk Claims Full Recovery From Covid-19, Analyst Upgrades Tesla's Stock Forecast 99
'Ubuntu Web Remix' Distro Offers Firefox-Based Chrome OS Alternative 47
Email and Web Traffic Redirected for Multiple Cryptocurrency Sites After GoDaddy Attack 10
In Historic Test, US Navy Shoots Down an Intercontinental Ballastic Missile 175
Tesla Model 3 Crash Hurls Battery Cells Into Nearby Home 232
Tech Organizations Back 'Inclusive Naming Initiative' 264
Flash Animations Live Forever At the Internet Archive 29
Google, Facebook and Twitter Threaten To Leave Pakistan Over Censorship Law 37
Windows Turns 35 111
E-scooters Are Getting Computer Vision To Curb Pedestrian Collisions 31
YouTube, Facebook and Twitter Align To Fight Covid Vaccine Conspiracies 116
Apple Defends Delay of Privacy Feature, Slams Facebook 22
Google Stadia Is Coming To iOS Officially As a Web App 15
Messaging App Go SMS Pro Exposed Millions of Users' Private Photos and Files 17
Facebook Antitrust Probes Will Target Acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram 13
LidarPhone Attack Converts Smart Vacuums Into Microphones 33
YouTube Will Run Ads On Smaller Creators' Videos Without Paying Them 136
Facebook Estimates Hate Speech Seen In 1 Out of 1,000 Views On Its Platform 95
Famed Arecibo Telescope, On the Brink of Collapse, Will Be Dismantled 98
As Antitrust Pressure Mounts, Google To Pull Back Benefit to News Sites That Adopted Its Preferred MobileTechnology 18
Fearing Drama, Mozilla Opens Public Consultation Before Worldwide Firefox DoH Rollout 79
Google is Rolling Out End-To-End Encryption for RCS in Android Messages Beta 77
'Extremely Aggressive' Internet Censorship Spreads In the World's Democracies 239
Google's Native Version of Chrome For Apple's ARM Macs Is Out Now 47
Facebook Moderators Say Company Is Asking Them To 'Risk Our Lives' 67
Cerebras' Wafer-Size Chip Is 10,000 Times Faster Than a GPU 123
The Worst Passwords of 2020 Show We Are Just As Lazy About Security As Ever 128
Radeon RX 6800 and 6800 XT Performance Marks AMD's Return To High-End Graphics 62
Starting Next Year, Chrome Extensions Will Show What Data They Collect from Users 15
Google Pay Gets a Major Redesign With a New Emphasis on Personal Finance 17
FAA Chief '100% Confident' of 737 MAX Safety As Flights To Resume 170
After 12,523 Replacements, Feds Investigate Tesla Media Control Unit Failures 147
Texas Astronomers Revive Idea For 'Ultimately Large Telescope' On the Moon 80
Twitter Launches Disappearing 'Fleets' Worldwide 52
China Built the First Electric Car Designed Exclusively For Ride-Hailing 15
Apple's M1 Is Exceeding Expectations 274
Google Sued After Cellular Data Allowances Eaten by Hidden Transfers 19
Firefox 83 Arrives With HTTPS-Only Mode and Faster Performance 56
Cable Failures Endanger Renowned Puerto Rico Radio Telescope 58
Japan's ARM-Based Supercomputer Leads World In Top500 List; Exascale Expected In 2021 25
Microsoft Is Showing Windows 10 Users Full-Screen Ads For Its Edge Browser 148
Demand For Employee Surveillance Increased As Workers Transitioned To Home Working 47
Google Will Make It Slightly Easier To Turn Off Smart Features 15
Twitter Names Famed Hacker 'Mudge' as Head of Security 14
Ok Google: Please Publish Your DKIM Secret Keys 108
How the US Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps 40
Obama Says Social Media Companies 'Are Making Editorial Choices, Whether They've Buried Them in Algorithms or Not' 190
Didi To Deliver First BYD Electric Cars to Drivers Within Months 17
BMW Demos a Powered Wingsuit That Can Fly 186 MPH 90
Kickstarter Mistakenly Emails Responses To Complaints From Seven Years Ago 8
MSNBC: Parler Does Censor, Removes Users, and Really Hates Trolling 187
YouTube Criticized For Not Removing Post-Election Misinformation 183
Google Sued After Mobile Allowances Eaten Up By Hidden Data Transfers 54
Ubuntu Patches Bug That Tricked Gnome Desktop Into Giving Root Access 25
Will Parler Spread Misinformation - or Just Segregate It Onto a Single App? 308
Uber In Talks To Sell ATG Self-Driving Unit To Aurora 21
Google Is Reportedly Working On Linking Up Nest Audio Speakers With Chromecast Streaming Devices 16
Broadband Power Users Explode, Making Data Caps More Profitable For ISPs 57
GM Recalling Nearly 69,000 Bolt EVs For Fire Risks 73
In Rural 'Dead Zones,' School Comes On a Flash Drive 92
Ask Slashdot: Did You Upgrade To macOS Big Sur? 101
Google's SoundFilter AI Separates Any Sound or Voice From Mixed-Audio Recordings 28
VW Boosts Investment in Electric and Autonomous Car Technology To $86 Billon 34
Microsoft's 2020 Hour of Code Lesson Doubles As Unconscious Bias Training 164
Google CEO Apologises for Document, EU's Breton Warns Internet is Not Wild West 48
Zuckerberg Says Steve Bannon Has Not Violated Enough Policies For Suspension 153
Six Reasons Why Google Maps Is the Creepiest App On Your Phone 121
Facebook Extends Political Ad Ban In US For At Least a Month 51
DNS Cache Poisoning, the Internet Attack From 2008, Is Back From the Dead 22
Samsung Announces Exynos 1080 -- 5nm Premium-Range SoC with A78 Cores 15
macOS Big Sur is Now Available To Download 86
Stripe, Mozilla, Dropbox, Spotify, Others Form Tech 'Challenger Group' To Sway European Policy 11
FCC Boss Ajit Pai Will Soon Lose Top Spot 204
RIP Google Music, One of the Company's Last Examples of Generosity 97
Simple Search Is a Browser Extension That Gives You Google Circa 2010 54
A Self-Taught Garage Inventor Sees His Liquid Air Storage Idea Make the Big Time 129
Google's Play Store Identified as Main Distribution Vector For Most Android Malware 27
Come June 1, All of Your New Photos Will Count Against Your Free Google Storage 63
Chrome To Block Tab-Nabbing Attacks 27
TikTok Says the Trump Administration Has Forgotten About Trying To Ban it, Would Like To Know What's Up 138
Honda Says Will Be First To Mass Produce Level 3 Autonomous Cars 106
Hyundai Reportedly In Talks To Buy Softbank-Owned Boston Dynamics 15
Dish To Shut Down Slingbox, Devices Will Become 'Inoperable' In 2022 52
Alphabet Project Uses Light Beams To Bring Broadband To Remote Regions 50
Uber Will Now Let Users Book Rides 30 Days In Advance and Pick a Favorite Driver 24
Apple's New M1 Macs Won't Work With External GPUs 103
Microsoft Engineer Gets Nine Years For Stealing $10 Million From Microsoft 41
Steve Bannon Caught Running a Network of Misinformation Pages On Facebook 184
SSDs Are Primed To Get Bigger and Faster With Micron's New NAND Memory Tech 48
Computer Scientists Achieve 'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography 69
Students Have To Jump Through Absurd Hoops To Use Exam Monitoring Software 221
Trudeau Promises To Connect 98% of Canadians To High-Speed Internet By 2026 126
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Has Applied To Become a Citizen of Cyprus 179
Voters Overwhelmingly Back Community Broadband In Chicago and Denver 103
Right-Leaning Social Network Parler Tops Free App Charts 288
Net Applications Will No Longer Track the Browser Wars 34
India Opens Antitrust Case Against Google Over Its Payments App 10
Virgin Hyperloop Hits an Important Milestone: the First Human Passenger Test 93
Tim Berners Lee's Startup Inrupt Releases Privacy Platform for Enterprises 20
As UK Military Begins Mass Coronavirus Testing, Head of Armed Forces Ponders Robot Soldiers 47
UK Agency Demands Company Stop Using Name Which Includes an HTML Closing Tag 107
Threatening Bans, Facebook Will Now Require Moderation For Groups Spreading Misinformation 216
Antitrust Investigations and Policy Towards China: How Biden's Victory Impacts Tech 61
Starlink Beta Testers Are Impressed With Its Speed 54
Apple's Internal IP's Leaked By Its Search Bot 48
What Biden's Victory Means For Net Neutrality - and for Ajit Pai 173
Uber and Lyft Will Push For More Laws Classifying Drivers as Independent Contractors 73
Election-Related Misinformation on Social Media Still 'Readily Viewable' - If It's In Spanish 44
How Ex-Facebook Data Experts Spent $75 Million On Targeted Anti-Trump Ads 78
Boeing's 737 Max: Carrying Passengers Again In December? 85
Panasonic Makes Vacuum Gadget To Rescue Wireless Earbuds From Train Tracks 60
A One Hundred Thousand-Fold Enhancement In the Nonlinearity of Silicon 28
Electric Bike Motors Will Be Shut Down When Entering Residential Areas of Amsterdam 106
T-Mobile Will Stop Saying Its 5G Network Is Better Than It Actually Is 36
Google Photos Tests Locking Color Pop Behind a Google One Paywall 21
Facebook Can't Seem To Do Anything About 'Stop the Steal' Groups 399
Debt Collectors Will Soon Be Allowed To Reach You By Text Or On Facebook 92
Bentley Will Ditch Internal Combustion Engines By 2030 114
Facebook Claims Its Proposed Payments Network is 7 Times Faster Than Visa's 65
China Launches World's First 6G Experimental Satellite 52
Facebook Will Announce Presidential Election Result in Facebook and Instagram Notifications 189
Astronomers Trace Mysterious Fast Radio Burst To Extreme, Rare Star 17
Elon Musk's Tesla Tequila Will Run You $250 a Bottle 142
Proctoring Software Company Used DMCA To Take Down a Student's Critical Tweets 130
Volvo Trucks To Launch Full Range of Electric Trucks In Europe In 2021 48
Android Turns 13 Years Old 27
Netflix Targets Critical 'Cuties' Tweets With Copyright Takedown Requests 72
Amazon Starts Air Cargo Arm in Europe With Jet Hub Near Leipzig 3
GitHub Denies Getting Hacked 10
WhatsApp Now Lets You Post Ephemeral Messages That Disappear After 7 Days 26
MPA Lawyers Are Trying To Shut Down Pirate Anime Giant Nyaa.si 40
Brave Hits 20 Million Monthly Users a Year After 1.0 Release 37
Sportsbet Says It Will Pay Out Early On Biden As US President 245
Dell Adding Hardware Privacy Driver For Linux 46
Configuration Snafu Exposes Passwords For Two Million Marijuana Growers 29
Virgin Hyperloop Selects West Virginia To Test Its Futuristic Transport System 33
Massachusetts Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right-to-Repair Ballot Initiative 32
23,600 Hacked Databases Have Leaked From a Defunct 'Data Breach Index' Site 1
T-Mobile Will Pay $200 Million To Settle Sprint's Alleged Lifeline Abuse 5
GPS and Water Don't Mix. So Scientists Have Found a New Way To Navigate Under the Sea 15
Baby Shark Becomes YouTube's Most-Watched Video of All Time 61
Linux Mint Introduces Its Own Take On the Chromium Web Browser 33
Windows 7 Won't Die, Still Second Most Popular OS 83
The Tech Antitrust Problem No One Is Talking About: US Broadband Providers 66
Instagram is Telling Some Users That 'Tomorrow is Election Day' 51
A Nameless Hiker and the Case the Internet Can't Crack 93
AI Godfather Geoff Hinton: "Deep Learning is Going To Be Able To Do Everything" 221
Inside Facebook The Day Before The Presidential Election 76
The FSF Is Looking To Update Its High Priority Free Software Projects List 33
Internet Archive Adds Fact Checks To Explain Web Page Takedowns 115
UK Contact Tracing App Failed To Flag People Exposed To COVID-19 46
Intel Contemplates Outsourcing Advanced Production, Upending Oregon's Central Role 108
SiFive Unveils Plan For Linux PCs With RISC-V Processors 42
GitHub Warns Users Reposting YouTube-DL They Could Be Banned 111
Twilio Wraps $3.2 Billion Purchase of Segment After Warp-Speed Courtship 9
South Park Creators Have New Political Satire Series With AI-Generated Deepfakes 89
FCC Funding Aims To Guarantee 100 Mbps Internet Throughout Puerto Rico 46
Maze, a Notorious Ransomware Group, Says It's Shutting Down 22
WeWork Employees Used an Alarmingly Insecure Printer Password 29
What It's Like To Get Locked Out of Google Indefinitely 352
Massachusetts Votes on Expanding Access To Car Data, 'Could Set the National Standard' 34
Officials Raise Concerns About Software for the Most Powerful Rocket Ever Flown 71
Zuckerberg Acknowledges 'Risk of Civil Unrest' After US Elections, Promises Newsfeed Updates 314
The US Military Has Experienced 55,443 COVID-19 Cases - Including Vice Chief of Space Force 45
'I'm Not Drunk, It's My Car.' Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' Gets Mixed Reviews 175
Trump's TikTok Ban Temporarily Blocked by US Judge 85
Amazon Now Has More Than 1 Million Employees 41
A 5-Story Building In Shanghai 'Walks' To a New Location Using Technology 36
Apple Added a Secret Button To Your iPhone 50
Waymo Pulls Back the Curtain On 6.1 Million Miles of Self-Driving Car Data 57
RIAA Obtains Subpoenas Targeting 40 YouTube-Ripping Platforms and Pirate Sites 99
Google Discloses Windows Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild 32
Facebook Says Technical Glitches Improperly Blocked Campaign Ads 49
AI Has Cracked a Key Mathematical Puzzle For Understanding Our World 97
Honeywell Announces its H1 Quantum Computer with 10 Qubits 14
WhatsApp is Now Delivering Roughly 100 Billion Messages a Day 32
Big Tech Continues Its Surge Ahead of the Rest of the Economy 38
Intel Begins Their Open-Source Driver Support For Vulkan Ray-Tracing With Xe HPG 10
Facebook Is Losing Users In the US and Canada 103
Google's AI Converts Webpages Into Videos 40
Brave Browser First To Nix CNAME Deception 47
Microsoft Overhauls Excel With Live Custom Data Types 27
China's Leaders Vow Tech 'Self-Reliance,' Military Power and Economic Recovery 108
JPMorgan, Goldman Order Software 'Code Freezes' Around Election 21
Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept 374
Some Google One Plans Now Come With a Complimentary VPN 16
Wisconsin Republican Party Says Hackers Stole $2.3 Million 162
Facebook Targeted In UK Legal Action Over Cambridge Analytica Scandal 23
Consumer Reports: Tesla Autopilot a 'Distant Second' To GM Super Cruise 131
New Windows 10 Update Permanently Removes Adobe Flash 102
Wikimedia Is Moving To GitLab 12
Loon Sets Stratospheric Sustained Flight Record With 312-Day Balloon Trip 11
Security Blueprints of Many Companies Leaked in Hack of Swedish Firm Gunnebo 26
Microsoft Plans Big Windows 10 UI Refresh in 2021 Codenamed 'Sun Valley' 145
Microsoft: No Driver Updates Allowed for Windows 7 and Windows 8 91
Apple is Stepping Up Efforts To Build Google Search Alternative 53
Poll Shows Bipartisan Support For Tech Antitrust Action 51
Facebook Approves Trump Ads That Violate Its Pre-Election Rules 102
Microsoft Teams Passes 115 Million Daily Active Users 43
SpaceX Starlink Public Beta Begins: It's $99 a Month Plus $500 Up Front 236
Folding@Home Exascale Supercomputer Finds Potential Targets For COVID-19 Cure 38
Trump's Campaign Website Hacked By Cryptocurrency Scammers 108
Facebook Tells Academics To Stop Monitoring Its Political Ads 63
German Regulators Look To Block Teens From Porn Sites 103
Deleting Your Facebook Account Forfeits Oculus VR Games You Already Paid For 111
The No-Code Generation is Arriving 154
UK Mobile Networks Banned From Selling Locked Phones 33
FCC Votes To Maintain 2017 Repeal of Net Neutrality Rules 84

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