Technology Stories for 2022

Neighbors Build Their Own Lightning-fast Fiber-optic Network 65
Will Made-in-China EV's Bring New Competition for Automakers? 146
Why the Internet Invented a Fake Martin Scorsese Film Called 'Goncharov' 34
The US Bans Huawei, ZTE Telecommunications Equipment Sales Over Chinese Spying Fears 74
South Korean Capital Launches Self-Driving Bus Experiment 29
Indian Actor Wins Court Order for His Personality Rights 38
EU Allows Smartphones During Flights 68
Google: 60% Of The Internet Is Duplicate 79
Stable Diffusion Made Copying Artists and Generating Porn Harder 63
The Endless Quest For a Better Mousetrap 87
Yandex Parent To Review Ownership of Russian Tech Giant, Seek Divestment 15
UK To Criminalize Deepfake Porn Sharing Without Consent 116
Intel Officially Introduces Pay-As-You-Go Chip Licensing 141
Google's Secret New Project Teaches AI To Write and Fix Code 50
Google Says Google and Other Android Manufacturers Haven't Patched Security Flaws 19
EU Countries Back Billion-Euro Chip Plan Ahead of Talks With Lawmakers 34
Lawsuit Takes Aim at the Way AI Is Built 83
Microsoft Says Attackers Are Hacking Energy Grids By Exploiting Decades-Old Software 60
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., Computer Design Innovator, Dies at 91 16
US Navy Forced To Pay Software Company For Piracy 87
Windows 10 Users With Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Use GUI Apps 101
Twitch Says It's Getting Better at Detecting and Blocking Young Users 9
Storms Can Cause Landslides Days Later, Scientists Find 12
GPU Market Nosedives, Sales Lowest In a Decade 73
Parents Welcome Twins From Embryos Frozen 30 Years Ago 61
Congressmembers Tried to Stop the SEC's Inquiry Into FTX 147
Mercedes Locks Faster Acceleration Behind a $1,200 Annual Paywall 249
What Has Technology Done To Soccer? 101
New York Enacts 2-Year Ban on Some Crypto-Mining Operations 20
Pale Moon Becomes First Browser To Support JPEG-XL Image Format 96
China Announces New Social Credit Law 172
EU Confirms Multiple Ongoing Investigations Into TikTok Data Practices 7
France Says No To Office 365 and Google Workspace in School 56
UK Confirms Antitrust Probe Into Android-iOS 'Mobile Duopoly' 36
Tax Filing Websites Have Been Sending Users' Financial Information To Facebook 48
Tumblr To Add Support For ActivityPub, the Social Protocol Powering Mastodon and Other Apps 36
Z-Library Responds to US Crackdown, Asks Authors for Forgiveness 24
Amazon Alexa Is a 'Colossal Failure,' On Pace To Lose $10 Billion This Year 159
Meta Is on the Prowl for 'Suspicious Adults' Messaging Teenagers 31
Windows 8.1 Support Ends January 10 80
AMD Finally Opens Up Its Radeon Raytracing Analyzer 'RRA' Source Code 4
Silence From Digital Currency Group's Genesis Spooks Crypto 36
Aviation Regulators Push for More Automation so Flights Can Be Run by a Single Pilot 157
Waymo Will Soon Offer Some (Free) Fully Driverless Rides in San Francisco 39
Authors Offer Free Downloads for New Second Edition of 'Designing with LibreOffice' Book 36
Facebook's Fact-checkers Will Stop Checking Trump After Announcement of Presidential Bid 297
Nationwide Study of US ISPs Finds Slower-than-Advertised Downloads and Inconsistent Pricing 42
Trump Posted Classified Satellite Imagery On Twitter As President 342
FBI, Air Force Agents Mysteriously Raid House of Guy Who Runs Area 51 Blog 107
Epic Says Google Paid Activision Millions Not To Launch Rival App Store 16
Nutrition Labels For Broadband Internet Are Finally Nearly Here 23
Justice Department Said To Investigate Ticketmaster's Parent Company 63
Italy Court Rejects Google's Appeal Against Watchdog Fine, Accepts Apple's One 6
Meta's Latest Large Language Model Survived Only Three Days Online 57
Facebook To Remove Several Information Fields From Profiles, Including Religious and Political Views 55
Nearly 50% of macOS Malware Comes From One App 74
Google Rolls Out New Features Across Maps, Search and Shopping 25
Ford CEO: 40% Less Labor To Build Electric Vehicles 162
Nvidia Hit With Class Action Suit Over Melting RTX 4090 GPU Adapters 45
USB-C Will Be Mandatory For All Smart Devices Sold in India 37
Windows 10 Still Having Problems With the Desktop and Taskbar 68
10,000 Google Employees Could Be Rated as Low Performers 95
Meta Employees, Security Guards Fired for Hijacking User Accounts 31
Mozilla Looks To Its Next Chapter 111
Thanks To Open Source, 5G Cracks 50% of the Telecom Market 25
DuckDuckGo's Anti-Tracking Android Tool Could Be 'Even More Powerful' Than iOS 31
US Safety Watchdog Warns Against Onewheel Boards After Reported Ejection Injuries 71
US House Committee To Hold Hearing on FTX Collapse and Crypto Fall Out 75
AWS Extends Hiring Freeze for 'Most' Teams Into 2023 and Targets Low Performers on Teams That Grew Too Fast 30
Bending Spoons To Acquire Evernote 45
US Fines Airlines More Than $7 Million for Not Providing Refunds 29
Winklevosses' Gemini Delays Withdrawals on Lending Program 28
Google's Moonshot Lab Is Now in the Strawberry-Counting Business 11
Tuvalu Turns To the Metaverse as Rising Seas Threaten Existence 78
Protocol, the Tech-News Focused Website, Will Shutter and Lay Off Its Entire Staff 30
LF Europe's Project Sylva Wants To Create an Open Source Telco Cloud Stack 7
Apple Launches Emergency SOS via Satellite in US and Canada 41
Singapore's Sea Slashed 7,000 Jobs in Six Months To Curb Losses 7
'Metaverse Will Be Our Slow Death': Meta Employees Hit Out At Zuckerberg 121
FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Attempts To Raise Fresh Cash Despite Bankruptcy 61
Studies Find Automatic Braking Can Cut Crashes Over 40% 176
Waymo Is Using Its Self-Driving Taxis To Create Real-Time Weather Maps 15
A Simple Android Lock Screen Bypass Bug Landed a Researcher $70,000 20
Google Agrees To $392 Million Privacy Settlement With 40 States 31
Amazon Is Said To Plan To Lay Off 10,000 Employees 111
Russian Software Disguised as American Finds Its Way Into US Army, CDC Apps 38
India Lifts Download Ban On VLC 11
Apple Plans a 3D World and Video Service for Its Mixed-Reality Headset 31
Report Blames Faulty System, Pilot Error for Boeing 737-500 Crash in 2021 86
US Funds $3M Research Project Into Lithium-Free Rechargeable Battery Technology 87
Why California's EV-Rebate Proposition Lost 122
After 908 Days in Orbit, US Military's X-37B Space Plane Finally Lands 25
Introducing Shufflecake: Plausible Deniability For Multiple Hidden Filesystems on Linux 90
Volkswagen Builds Star Trek Captain's Chair That Goes 12 MPH 60
Key Staff Driving Apple Search Engine Leave To Rejoin Google 23
Tesla Opens Its EV Charge Connector In the Hope of Making It the New Standard 100
Reddit Now Lets You Mute Subreddits You Don't Like 45
Meta Is Exiting Portal Smart Display Business, Winding Down Work On Smartwatch Projects 15
Italy's Biggest TV Piracy Network Dismantled 17
'The Firm That Bought My Car For More Than I Paid New Has Lost 98% of Its Value' 113
Google Says Surveillance Vendor Targeted Samsung Phones With Zero-Days 5
Engineers Explore Radical New Designs for Commercial Planes To Cut Energy Consumption and Emission 83
Kaspersky To Kill Its VPN Service In Russia Next Week 53
How Mem Plans To Reinvent Note-Taking Apps With AI 23
Amazon Introduces 'Sparrow' Robotic Arm That Can Do Repetitive Warehouse Tasks 33
Intel Takes on AMD and Nvidia With Mad 'Max' Chips For HPC 26
Google Play To Pilot Third-Party Billing in New Markets Including US 14
Windows 11's Task Manager is Getting a Search Box To Help You Find Misbehaving Apps 98
Apple Will Spend $450 Million With Globalstar and Others To Enable Emergency Satellite Texting 70
Amazon Has Launched a Cost-Cutting Review Focused on Unprofitable Business Units 47
Paris Opens Flying Taxi Hub Targeting Flights for 2024 Olympics 12
Egypt's COP27 Summit App is a Cyber Weapon, Experts Warn 28
IBM Unveils Its 433 Qubit Osprey Quantum Computer 29
Google is Bringing Its VPN To Mac and Windows PCs 35
Gmail Will No Longer Allow Users To Revert Back To Its Old Design 72
Binance Is Strongly Leaning Toward Scrapping FTX Rescue Takeover [UPDATE] 27
Google is Quietly Working on a Wearable Device for Preteens 46
FIFA Hopes World Cup Fans Want To Buy Metaverse Merch 43
Meta Cuts 11,000 Jobs 183
Zoom Is Adding Email and Calendar Features 16
California Voters Weigh New Tax On Rich To Boost EV Adoption 133
Sony To Begin Plastic Packaging Phase-out Next Year 35
Microsoft's $69 Billion Activision Deal Faces EU Probe 19
Spyware Is Running Amok in Europe, EU Lawmaker Warns 40
Apple's Brain Drain Hinders Efforts To Pick Its Next Jony Ive 67
Greece To Ban Sale of Spyware After Government Is Accused of Surveillance 12
Microsoft is Showing Ads in the Windows 11 Sign-Out Menu 151
'If You Die in the Game, You Die in Real Life.' 112
Starlink Is Getting Daytime Data Caps 198
Microsoft Is Exploring Energy-Saving Graphics Modes For Xbox and Windows Games 33
Russia Reactivates Its Trolls and Bots Ahead of Tuesday's Midterms 289
Facebook Parent Meta Is Preparing To Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week 60
Despite EVs, People Are Buying Manual Transmission Vehicles 492
Ask Slashdot: What Makes a Good Social Media Site? 169
Domains for Z-Library eBook Site Apparently Seized By US Department of Justice 63
Mastodon Continues to Grow - But Still .27% the Size of Twitter 110
Unpaid Volunteers At CyanogenMod Successor LineageOS Maintain Builds For Old Android Devices 17
British Government Is Scanning All Internet Devices Hosted In UK 34
Google Plans Giant AI Language Model Supporting World's 1,000 Most Spoken Languages 35
Swedish Engineer Creates Playable Accordion From 2 Commodore 64 Computers 26
LinkedIn Adds Verified Emails, Profile Creation Dates 9
India Gambles On Building a Leading Drone Industry 14
Tim Berners-Lee Wants Us To 'Ignore' Web3, It's 'Not the Web at All' 90
Apple Pauses Hiring for Roles Outside Research and Development in Cost-Cutting Move 25
New Mac App Wants To Record Everything You Do - So You Can 'Rewind' It Later 41
US Govt Employees Exposed To Mobile Attacks From Outdated Android, iOS 18
Soccer Fans, You're Being Watched 50
Vietnam To Require 24-hour Take-Down For 'False' Social Media Content 43
Virgin Galactic Delays Development of Ship Capable of Higher Flight Rate 26
UK Parliament Group Starts NFT Inquiry as Crypto Scrutiny Grows 13
US Authorities Seize Z-Library Domain Names 83
AMD Unveils RDNA 3-Based Radeon RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT Graphics Cards 50
Instagram Jumps Into NFTs With Minting and Selling Feature 19
'The Babylon Bee' Joins 'The Onion' In Decrying Law That Makes Parody a Felony 198
Apple Supplier Foxconn Partners With Saudi Wealth Fund To Build EVs 16
A Host of Tech Companies, Including Coinbase, Robinhood, Lyft, and Stripe, Announce Hiring Freezes and Job Cuts 61
Microsoft Mulls Cheap PCs Supported by Ads, Subs 109
Vonage Will Pay $100 Million to Settle FTC Allegations of Trapping Consumers in Subscriptions 23
Remote Indigenous Community Pioneers 3D-printed Homes Set To Change Rural Lives 74
Why Egypt Became One of the Biggest Chokepoints for Internet Cables 25
Google's Building Package Tracking Right Into Your Gmail Inbox 36
Google's Text-To-Image AI Model Imagen Is Getting Its First (Very Limited) Public Outing 22
Mastodon Gained 70,000 Users After Musk's Twitter Takeover 154
Google Ad For GIMP.org Served Info-Stealing Malware Via Lookalike 19
Hawaii is About To Launch One of the Nation's Most Ambitious Tech Waste Recycling Programs 40
Google's New Prototype AI Tool Does the Writing For You 22
T-Mobile Will Start Charging a $35 Fee on All New Activations and Upgrades 59
Windows 11 Runs on Fewer Than 1 in 6 PCs 265
New Hot Job: State High-Speed Internet Network Director 7
Chinese Tycoon Spent 8 Years, $3 Billion on EV That Went Unbuilt 25
Google Is Shutting Down Its Dedicated Street View App Next Year 13
China's Submarines May Soon Be Powered By Lithium Batteries 93
The Browser Company's Darin Fisher Thinks It's Time To Reinvent the Browser 128
Tumblr Will Now Allow Nudity But Not Explicit Sex 45
Charter Raises Base Internet To $80 a Month; Price Hikes To Hit 9.5M Users 84
US Banks Spent $1 Billion on Ransomware Payments in 2021, Treasury Says 18
FCC Commissioner Says Government Should Ban TikTok 80
RIP Google Hangouts, Google's Last, Best Chance To Compete With iMessage 92
Google's New Shopping Features Can Help You Snag Good Deals 12
Electric Scooter Ban Increased Congestion In Atlanta By 10%, Study Finds 68
Why Google Is Removing JPEG-XL Support From Chrome 55
'QR Code Menus Are the Restaurant Industry's Worst Idea' 178
Discord Bans 68,000 Servers, 55 Million Accounts 29
TuSimple Fires Its CEO Xiaodi Hou Amid Probe 9
Exhibit Aims To Present AI Images as Real Art 72
India Central Bank To Start Pilot of Digital Rupee Tomorrow 16
Europe's Telecoms Want High-Traffic Companies Like Netflix to Fund Infrastructure Upgrades 139
'How Google's Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World' 206
Vanilla OS: More Than Just Vanilla GNOME With Ubuntu 39
Amazon May Turn To Its SpaceX Rival For Satellite Launches 34
Pebble, the OG Smartwatch That May Never Die, Updated To Work With Pixel 7 16
Teleport Creators Raise $9 Million To Build Decentralized Uber Rival On Solana 23
Amazon and Google Make Peace Over Smart TV Competition 6
You're Going To Have To Pay To Use Some Fancy Colors In Photoshop Now 236
How a Redditor Ended Up With an Industrial-Grade Netflix Server 40
EU Reaches Deal To Ban Sale of New Combustion-Engine Cars By 2035 124
India Sets Up Panels With Veto Power Over Social Media Content Moderation 23
Rural Areas To Get $759 Million in Grants for High-Speed Internet 72
Telegram CEO Accuses Apple of Destroying Dreams and Crushing Entrepreneurs 54
US Embassies May Have Accidentally Improved Air Quality 26
Lego To Discontinue Mindstorms Robot Line After a 24-Year Run 43
Many Military UFO Reports Are Just Foreign Spying or Airborne Trash 52
Chicago Bets on Quantum Tech as 'Next Big Thing' for Its Future 47
Google Introduces Cloud-Based Blockchain Node Service For Ethereum 44
Twitter Is Now an Elon Musk Company 446
Twitter Will Allow Users To Buy and Sell NFTs Through Tweets 30
Did PayPal Just Reintroduce Its $2,500 'Misinformation' Fine, Hoping We Wouldn't Notice? 100
Amazon and Google Make Peace Over Smart TV Competition 13
Google Filing Says EU's Antitrust Division is Investigating Play Store Practices 6
Smartphone Storage Space Is the New Turf War for Game Makers 51
'Old/Weird Laptops' Sought To Help Test Linux Kernel Backlight Drivers 33
Google Acquires Twitter-backed AI Avatar Startup for $100 Million 6
Surface Duo Continues Its Worst-in-Class Update Record, Ships Android 12L 34
Apple Pauses App Store Gambling Ads After Developer Outcry 27
Meta's Profit Slides by More Than 50 Percent as Challenges Mount 84
Google Profits Plummet 27% In Q3 51
Ford, VW-Backed Argo AI Is Shutting Down 23
Google Can Now Remove Your Identifying Search Results, If They're the Right Kind 14
Google Agrees To Compliance Reforms in DOJ Settlement 9
Seagate To Cut 3,000 Jobs, Faces Charge of Violating Sanctions 34
Apple Confirms the iPhone is Getting USB-C, But Isn't Happy About the Reason Why 223
New Zealand Uber Drivers Win Landmark Case Declaring Them Employees 136
FAA Warns of Aviation Safety Risks Without US Mandate On 5G Limits 52
The Largest Electric School Bus Fleet In the US Launches In Maryland 70
Oculus Founder Palmer Luckey Compares Facebook's Metaverse To a 'Project Car' 52
Chrome To Drop Support For Windows 7 In 2023 53
'Deepfakes' of Celebrities Have Begun Appearing in Ads, With or Without Their Permission 57
India Fines Google $113 Million, Orders To Permit Third-Party Payment Systems in Play Store 20
Intel CEO Calls New US Restrictions on Chip Exports To China Inevitable 9
Purdue University Races To Expand Semiconductor Education To Fill Yawning Workforce Gap That Threatens Reshoring Effort 56
Shutterstock Will Start Selling AI-Generated Stock Imagery With Help from OpenAI 22
Stockholm Thinks It Can Have an Electric Bikeshare Program So Cheap It's Practically Free 53
Comcast's New Higher Upload Speeds Require $25-Per-Month xFi Complete Add-On 38
Google's Eric Schmidt Helped Write AI Laws Without Disclosing Investments In AI Startups 25
RNC Sues Google Over Spam Email Filters 213
Chip Can Transmit All of the Internet's Traffic Every Second 53
Apple Releases macOS Ventura, iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16 21
Microsoft's 'Project Volterra' Becomes an Arm-powered mini PC with 32GB of RAM 68
Australia To Toughen Privacy Laws With Huge Hike in Penalties for Breaches 24
Meta Shareholder Writes Critical Open Letter, Saying the Company Needs To Slash Headcount and Stop Spending So Much on 'Metaverse' 95
Behind TikTok's Boom: A Legion of Traumatized, $10-A-Day Content Moderators 90
Facebook Warns It Could Block News in Canada Over Proposed Legislation 93
AI-Assisted Guns Deployed By Israel To Track Targets In the West Bank 167
Report that Indian Official Tampers With Instagram Posts Retracted By 'The Wire' 9
Are High-Tech Cars Killing Auto Repair Shops? 196
Fast-Charging EV Batteries With Nickel Foil 193
Nym's Plan to Boost Internet Privacy Through 'Mixnets' 22
Pressuring Apple to Fix Texting, Google's Android Will Force iPhone Users to Read Descriptions of Reaction Emojis 213
Has Online Disinformation Splintered and Become More Intractable? 455
Forbes Alleges ByteDance Planned to Use TikTok to Monitor Locations of Specific American Citizens 28

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