Technology Stories for 2021

Discord is Quietly Building an App Empire of Bots 29
A Utah Company Says It's Revolutionized Truth-telling Technology. Experts Are Highly Skeptical. 51
Fifty Percent of Facebook Messenger's Total Voice Traffic Comes from Cambodia. Here's Why 29
Miramax Sues Quentin Tarantino Over 'Pulp Fiction' NFT Auction 46
Microsoft Will Not Bring x64 Emulation to Windows 10 on ARM 46
Microsoft Will Continue Supporting Windows 10 With Yearly Feature Updates 31
Google Chrome 96 Breaks Twitter, Discord, Video Rendering and More 19
Lucid Air Named MotorTrend Car of the Year 143
FAA, FCC Are Making 'Progress' on 5G Signal Woes 22
Windows 11 is Getting a New Media Player App You Can Test Today 77
Scores of Internet Services Including Google, Instagram, AWS, Twitter, Spotify, Discord, Shopify, TikTok Are Facing Outage, Users Say 65
Cloudflare Blocked a Massive 2 Tbps DDoS Attack 18
Qualcomm's Next-gen CPU for PCs Will Take on Apple's M-series Chips in 2023 100
Firefox Relay Offers Unlimited Email Aliases as Part of its New Premium Plan 55
Google Formed 'Fortnite Task Force' in Response To Epic's Moves 17
Emotet Botnet Returns After Law Enforcement Mass-Uninstall Operation 6
'If Apple Keeps Letting Its Software Slip, the Next Big Thing Won't Matter' 116
Air Cargo Is Suddenly Affordable Relative To Ocean Shipping 119
Russia May Have Just Shot Down Its Own Satellite, Creating a Huge Debris Cloud 176
Ohio's Largest Public Pension Sues Facebook, Saying the Media Giant Misled Investors 74
Apple is Sticking Taxpayers With Part of the Bill for Rollout of Tech Giant's Digital ID Card 122
Hydrogen and Hybrids: Toyota CEO Defends Combustion Engines, Saying 'The Enemy Is Carbon' 265
Have Scientists Disproven Google's Quantum Supremacy Claim? 35
Can We Use Big Batteries to Power Our Trains? 238
The US Department of Homeland Security Urges 'Digital Literacy' 56
How Should Facebook Be Fixed? 171
Penpot, the Vector Design Web-app Taking On Figma and Canva With FOSS, Hits Beta 55
US Rollout of 5G Frequencies Delayed Over Aviation Safety Concerns. Are They Warranted? 31
Will Microsoft Beat Facebook to the Metaverse? 45
Internet of Things Projected To Generate Up To $12.6 Trillion By 2030 31
Slashdot Asks: Should YouTube Remove the Dislike Count? 141
Coinbase Goes Social by Letting Users Tout Crypto Allocations 16
Contract Lawyers Face a Growing Invasion of Surveillance Programs that Monitor their Work 59
Microsoft To Block Windows 11 Browser Workarounds 134
Biden Signs Bill To Secure Telecoms Against National Security Threats 27
Windows 11 SE Won't Be Sold Separately, Can't Be Reinstalled Once Removed 87
Google Caught Hackers Using a Mac Zero-Day Against Hong Kong Users 13
Lawsuit Over Subway Tuna Now Says Chicken, Pork, Cattle DNA Were Detected 136
South Korea Tests System for Controlling Air Taxis 27
Whole Genome Sequencing Could Save NHS Millions of Pounds, Study Suggests 26
Google Wants To Save the Planet With Satellite Images 9
Discord Pushes Pause on Exploring Crypto and NFTs Amidst User Backlash 22
Three Out of Four Adults Think Facebook Is Making Society Worse, Poll Finds 159
Rivian Goes Public In One of the Biggest IPOs Ever 37
Infrastructure Bill's Drunk Driving Tech Mandate Leaves Some Privacy Advocates Nervous 138
Justice Department Sues Uber Over Charging Wait-Time Fees for Disabled People 84
YouTube is Removing the Dislike Count on All Videos Across its Platform 148
Google Loses Challenge Against EU Antitrust Ruling, $2.8 Billion Fine 15
Google is Taking Sign-ups for Relate, a Voice Assistant that Recognizes Impaired Speech 16
Metallurgist Admits Faking Steel-Test Results For US Navy Subs 196
Slashdot Asks: Which Bookmark Manager Is Your Favorite? 47
Microsoft Launches Windows 11 SE Built for Low-cost Education PCs 62
New Bipartisan Bill Takes Aim at Algorithms 173
Nvidia's Riva Custom Voice Lets Companies Create Custom Voices Powered by AI 26
Huawei Offloads x86 Business As It Chases Self-Sufficiency 28
Truckload of GPUs Stolen On Their Way Out of San Francisco 76
Google's Parent Company Briefly Hits $2 Trillion Valuation 11
Denuvo-Protected Games Rendered Unplayable After Domain Expires 65
Reddit To Tokenize Karma Points and Onboard 500M New Users, Report Says 67
Google Parent Alphabet Hits $2 Trillion Market Value After Rally This Year 8
How Pinterest Utterly Ruined Photo Search on the Internet 141
China Says a Foreign Spy Agency Hacked Its Airlines, Stole Passenger Records 20
System76 Engineer Confirms Work on New Rust-Written Desktop, Not Based on GNOME 125
Facebook Denies Report It Gave Kazakhstan's Government Special Direct Access to Its Content Reporting System 41
America's FAA Issues Warning Over Concerns 5G Might Interfere with Aviation Altimeters 79
Will Self-Driving Cars Be Able to Handle... Bears? 88
Exploding Drone Used in Assassination Attempt on Prime Minister of Iraq 60
Missing 16-Year-Old Rescued After Driver Recognizes Her Viral 'Distress' Hand Gesture From TikTok 76
The Untold Story of the World's Biggest Nuclear Bomb 122
The iPhone 13 Screen Is a Repair Nightmare That Could Destroy Repair Shops Forever 215
Meta Quest 2 Is Already Replacing Oculus Quest 2 Branding 10
OneAPI/L0, OpenVINO and OpenCL Coming To WSL2 For Intel GPUs 6
IAB Europe Says It's Expecting To Be Found In Breach of GDPR 29
Amazon Seeks US Regulators' Permission To Launch Another 4,538 Satellites 27
US Senate Bill Would Limit Big Tech Mergers 30
Is Facebook Bad for You? It Is for About 360 Million Users, Company Surveys Suggest 41
Facebook Faces New Antitrust Lawsuit 11
Future Apple Silicon Macs Will Use 3nm Chips With Up To 40 Cores, Report Says 97
To Build the Metaverse, Meta First Wants To Build Stores 52
A Startup Says It Applied To Trademark Meta Before Facebook 81
Google Cloud Goes Deep Into Financial Services With $1 Billion CME Deal 12
Oxford Scientists Find Gene That Doubles Risk of Dying From Covid-19 100
Google To Allow Third Party App Payments for First Time in South Korea 9
Fox Bets Big on Blockchain 30
Alphabet Launches AI Company To Discover New Drugs 17
Microsoft Warns Windows 11 Features Are Failing Due To Its Expired Certificate 109
Apple Software Exec Warns European App Store Regulation Would Open 'Pandora's Box' 106
All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan 75
Facebook Is Backing Away From Facial Recognition. Meta Isn't. 33
Low-Tech Video Game Streams Are Taking Off On TikTok 14
Waymo Will Start Operating In NYC 18
McDonald's McRib is Now an NFT 44
Google Wants To Work with the Pentagon Again, Despite Employee Concerns 51
The Booming Underground Market for Bots That Steal Your 2FA Codes 91
Clearview AI Told It Broke Australia's Privacy Law, Ordered To Delete Data 14
Ford's New Custom Electric Pickup Truck Is a Blast From the Past 182
US Charging Infrastructure Is Outpacing Forecasts, Study Finds 75
Zuckerberg's Meta Endgame Is Monetizing All Human Behavior 88
'Destructive' Cyberattack Hits National Bank of Pakistan 6
Why Hyundai Is the One To Watch In the Race For EVs 200
Nigeria's eNaira Digital Currency Had an Embarrassing First Week 20
Code.org and Scratch Access Yanked By Chicago Schools Due To Student Privacy Law 76
Facebook, Citing Societal Concerns, Plans To Shut Down Facial Recognition System 36
Yahoo Pulls Out of China, Citing 'Challenging Business and Legal Environment' 65
Amazon's Satellite Launch Schedule Puts It Nearly 4 Years Behind Starlink 69
Oregon City Sues To Keep Google's Water Use Secret 89
Tesla Is Letting Non-Tesla EVs Use Its Supercharger Network For the First Time 66
SpaceX's Starlink Registers in India, Aims To Deploy 200,000 Active Terminals by 2022 25
New Report Says Apple's AR Headset Will Have Wi-Fi 6E, Arrive in 2022 40
US Telecoms Are Going To Start Physically Removing Huawei Gear 59
The 37-Year-Olds Are Afraid of the 23-Year-Olds Who Work for Them 498
Leaked Documents Reveal Facebook is Targeting Children as Young as 6 84
Richard Dawkins, Jimmy Wales - Unlike Facebook, No One Gets Special Treatment on Wikipedia 212
Did Trump's Truth Social Network Skirt US Securities Law? 158
Cable Broadband Growth Is Sputtering in the US, and No One's Sure Why 160
Google Pays Fines to Russia for Failing to Delete Banned Content 23
You Can Now Remotely Access Your Tesla's Camera - and Talk to People 41
The US Is Installing New Power- and Accuracy-Increasing Sensors on Its Nuclear Weapons 147
Linux Distros Beat Windows 11 in Phoronix Performance Testing 58
What Else Do the Leaked 'Facebook Papers' Show? 62
Mastodon Puts Trump's Social Network On Notice For Improperly Using Its Code 134
John Carmack Issues Some Words of Warning For Meta and Its Metaverse Plans 48
Toyota Unveils Its First All-Electric Car 103
A $20 Billion Company's Future Hinges on The New PUBG 13
Global Regulators Back Tougher Rules To Prevent Criminals From Using Crypto 79
Google Expands Skills Certificate Training 16
Google's India Smartphone With Custom Android OS Launches November 4 For $87 13
Leaked Photo Shows Meta's Planned Competitor To Apple Watch 28
Google Rolls Out Tool To Help Minors Delete Photos From Search 11
Facebook Unceremoniously Kills Off 'Oculus' Brand 50
Location Data Firm Got GPS Data From Apps Even When People Opted Out 19
Microsoft Starts Rolling Out Windows 11 To More PCs 59
Facebook is Changing Its Name To Meta 149
Microsoft To Work With Community Colleges To Fill 250,000 Cyber Jobs 38
How Facebook Plans To Build Its Metaverse 38
Gizmodo's Photos from the Massive iPhone 4 Leak Have Disappeared 19
Google Warns Customers About Antitrust Bills 42
China's New Quantum Computer Has 1 Million Times the Power of Google's 143
Giant, Free Index To World's Research Papers Released Online 10
Anonymity No More? Age Checks Come To the Web 113
Payments Company Stripe Is Kick Starting Market For Carbon Removal 23
COBOLing Together Unemployment Insurance Benefits: How Delays in Fiscal Stabilizers Impact Aggregate Consumption 116
Blind People Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM. In 3 Years, They'll Have to Do It Again 34
Android's 12L Feature Drop Aims To Be a Big Improvement for Folding Phones 40
Intel Core i9 11900K: Five Linux Distros Show Sizable Lead Over Windows 11 82
The Startup That Wants To Disrupt Big Internet Providers 55
Microsoft Closes on Apple in Race for World's Most Valuable Listed Firm 29
Protonmail Celebrates Swiss Court Victory Exempting it From Telco Data Retention Laws 4
Adobe Brings New Creative Cloud Apps To M1 Macs and The Web 11
Apple's Privacy Rules to Blame For Facebook's Lower Than Expected Quarterly Growth, Says Zuckerberg 46
The 'Dune' Screenplay Was Written In MS-DOS 140
TikTok Tells US Lawmakers It Does Not Give Info To China 33
Microsoft Is Force Installing PC Health Check In Windows 10 84
Photoshop Will Get a 'Prepare as NFT' Option Soon 30
150 People Arrested in International Darknet Opioid Probe 30
AT&T's Confusing 5G Plus Expansion Confirms T-Mobile Was Right All Along 26
Tech's Message To the Hill: We're Not Facebook 43
Facebook Says It's Refocusing Company on 'Serving Young Adults' 173
Biden Appoints Jessica Rosenworcel To Officially Lead the FCC 73
Amazon Joins Race for Quantum Computer With New Caltech Center 16
Amazon Brings Alexa To Hospitals and Senior Living Centers 51
Facebook Is Spending At Least $10 Billion This Year On Its Metaverse Division 58
CPU Benchmarks: Pre-Release Intel Alder Lake Chip Beats Apple's M1 Max 137
'Banning Anonymous Social Media Accounts Would Only Stifle Free Speech and Democracy' 152
It's Windows XP's 20th Birthday and Way Too Many Still Use It 130
Apple Very Likely to Face DOJ Antitrust Suit 36
Tesla Surpasses $1 Trillion Market Cap 118
macOS Monterey is Now Available To Download 38
An Ultra-Precise Clock Shows How To Link the Quantum World With Gravity 73
T-Mobile Delays Shutdown of Sprint's CDMA Network 33
Apple Once Threatened Facebook Ban Over Mideast Maid Abuse 90
How Misinformation - and One Facebook Group - Threatened a Federal Investment in Montana 248
Xpeng Unveils a Flying Car That Also Drives on Roads - Plus a Bionic Horse 65
US Air Force Announces Plans for a Micro Nuclear Reactor in Alaska 103
Trump's Truth App Bans Criticism of Itself - and Also 'Excessive Use of Capital Letters' 225
The Man Who Stole and Then Sold Data on 178 Million Facebook Users Gets Sued by Facebook 70
Should the US Fund a 'National Cloud' for AI Research to Compete With China? 48
Can Windows 11 Run on a 2006-Era Pentium 4 Chip? 58
Facebook Accused of Tolerating Dangerous and Criminal Behavior to Preserve Profitability 196
Facebook Fined Record £50m By UK Competition Watchdog 15
NATO Launches AI Strategy and $1 Billion Fund As Defense Race Heats Up 15
John Carmack Pushes Out Unlocked OS For Defunct Oculus Go Headset 20
Intel Open-sources AI-powered Tool To Spot Bugs in Code 26
ISPs Want More Money Because So Many People Are Streaming Squid Game 127
Epic Games Ends Alternate-Friday Vacation Policy, Angering Staff 87
Internet Service Providers Collect, Sell Horrifying Amount of Sensitive Data, Government Study Concludes 35
Police Can't Demand You Reveal Your Phone Passcode and Then Tell a Jury You Refused 75
With Coercion and Black Boxes, Russia Installs a Digital Iron Curtain 52
Apple's Safari Browser Runs the Risk of Becoming the New Internet Explorer -- Holding the Web Back for everyone 156
Trump's TRUTH Social May Violate Terms of Open-Source Code It's Built On 254
GPSD Bug Will Switch Your Time-Keeping Systems To March 2002 This Weekend, Unless You Update 60
Wireless Carriers Just Can't Quit the Free-Phone Offers 18
AMD and Microsoft Issue Fixes For Ryzen CPU Slowdowns On Windows 11 34
Google Unmasks Two-year-old Phishing and Malware Campaign Targeting YouTube Users 19
Twitter Algorithms Amplify Right-leaning Political Content More Than Left-leaning, Company Says Citing Own Research 137
Google Stadia's Salvaged Future as a Back-end Cloud Service is Here 11
Google Lowers Play Store Fees To 15% on Subscription Apps, as Low as 10% for Media Apps 7
Sam Altman's Worldcoin Wants To Scan Eyeballs in Exchange for Crypto 36
Nvidia GeForce Now's RTX 3080 Plan Upgrades You To 1440p and 120fps at $100 for 6 Months 33
Donald Trump To Launch Social Media Platform Called Truth Social 387
Indianapolis Motor Speedway To Host Autonomous Car Race On Saturday 51
Elon Musk's Boring Company Gets Green Light For Las Vegas Tunnel System 95
A Drone Will Rescue Three Dogs Trapped By La Palma Volcanic Eruption 43
Investors Use AI To Analyze CEOs' Language Patterns and Tone 19
Google Removes Support for FTP and Old-gen U2F Security Keys in Chrome 95 62
Facebook is Planning To Rebrand the Company With a New Name 132
Giant Retailers Pledge To Leave Fossil-fueled Ships Behind 96
Mark Zuckerberg Has Been Added To a DC Lawsuit Over the Cambridge Analytica Scandal 24
Micron To Build $7 Billion Plant in Japan To Expand DRAM Production 29
The Royal Mint To Extract Gold From Old Phones 39
Boris Johnson Strikes Deal With Bill Gates To Boost Green Technology 64
Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP 44
About 26% of All Malicious JavaScript Threats Are Obfuscated 18
Brave Removes Google as its Default Search Engine 25
Android 12 Is Now Available For Pixel Phones 11
Doctors Blame TikTok For Surge In Teen Girls Experiencing Tics 60
Google Makes Calling Businesses Less Painful With Features for Seeing Wait Times, Phone Tree Options 17
Google Revamps Its Smartphone Line With the Pixel 6 50
Facebook's Novi Set To Launch Pilot With Paxos's Stablecoin as Uncertainty Hangs Over Diem 12
Fisher-Price Launches a Working Chatter Telephone For Adults 87
Radiant Aims To Replace Diesel Generators With Small Nuclear Reactors 266
Facebook Plans To Hire 10,000 In Europe To Build 'Metaverse' 67
macOS Monterey Is Finally Rolling Out On October 25th 87
Sinclair TV Stations Disrupted Across the US After Ransomware Attack 59
New Internal Documents Contradict Facebook's Claims that AI Can Enforce Its Rules 71
New Study Finds Ridesharing Actually Increases Pollution, Congestion 187
The Moon Will Soon Have Its Own Internet 59
5G Lobbyist Argues It May Be a Long Time Before Autonomous Vehicles Reach Cities 20
Surprising US Intelligence, China Tested a Hypersonic Missile 146
Drones Have Now Been Used To Deliver Lungs For Medical Transplant 22
Researchers Show Facebook's Ad Tools Can Target a Single User 23
Google Modernizes US Mobile Search Results With Continuous Scrolling 25
Moscow Says It is First To Launch Large-scale Metro Facial ID Payment System 19
New Zealand Council Ends Contract With Wizard After Two Decades of Service 48
PowerPC Fork of Firefox Reaches End of the Road 50
OpenBSD 7.0 Released 56
Site Allowing You To 'Skip the Interview' Launches, Then Promptly Shuts Down 54
Elon Musk Says Starlink Will Provide Faster Internet Speeds On Airlines 53
A Newspaper Informed Missouri About a Website Flaw. The Governor Accused it of 'Hacking' 120
One of Facebook's Earliest Investors Says People Have Lost Trust in Company 57
Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around 'Every 5 Minutes' 117
Boeing Finds New Defect in Ongoing Struggle To Produce Dreamliner 787 35
Neighbor Wins Privacy Row Over Smart Doorbell and Cameras 135
Amazon Puts Its Own 'Brands' First 79
Apple Argues Against Allowing App Sideloading By Pointing Out Android's Malware Figures 66
Activision Unveils Ricochet Anti-cheat System for Call of Duty 32
Google Says Fortnite's In-app Purchase Swap Was a Breach of Contract, Sues Epic 49
Groups Launch 'How To Stop Facebook' Effort 53
Windows 11's First Update Makes AMD CPU Performance Even Worse 50
Google Cloud Will Now Show Its Users Their Carbon Footprint In the Cloud 41

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