Technology Stories for 2012

MOOC Mania 102
Tesla Motors Sued By Car Dealers 510
GNOME 3.8 To Scrap Fallback Mode 378
Windows 8 Defeats 85% of Malware Detected In the Past 6 Months 299
CIA Director David Petraeus Resigns, Citing Affair 401
Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? 361
Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort 578
Moore's Law Is Becoming Irrelevant, Says ARM's Boss 236
Sony Entertainment Head Steps Down 65
China Blocks Google.com, Gmail, Maps and More During 18th Party Congress 129
Bungled Mobile Bet Will Be Ballmer's Swan Song 300
Judge To Review Whether Foreman In Apple v. Samsung Hid Info 98
Google Patents Guilt-By-Association 199
The Information Age: North Korean Style 156
Staff Emails Are Not Owned By Firms, UK Judge Rules 111
Navy Seals Disciplined For Revealing Secrets As Consultants On Video Game 204
New Credit Card Includes Display and Keypad 118
Bank Puts a Billion Transaction Records Behind Analytics Site 86
NY Attorney General Subpoenas Craigslist For Post-Sandy Price Gougers 458
Cray Unveils XC30 Supercomputer 67
NASA Fires Up Experimental Space Internet For Robot Control 42
Cloud Version of OpenOffice In the Works 71
Microsoft's Hidden Windows 8 Feature: Ads 635
Australia Scales Back Internet Blacklist, Nixes Full-Scale Censorship 51
$50,000 Zero-Day Exploit Evades Adobe's Sandbox, Say Russian Analysts 56
Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court 380
Motorcycle App Helps You Ride Faster, Turn Sharper, Brake Harder 148
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Convince Someone To Give Up an Old System? 379
Google Chrome Introduces Do Not Track 110
Elon Musk Will Usher In the Era of Electric Cars 336
The Data Crunchers Who Helped Win The Election 208
The Web Won't Be Safe Or Secure Until We Break It 180
How CoreSite Survived Sandy 60
Researchers Create Working Nano Laser 39
FreeBSD Throws the Clang/LLVM Switch: Future Releases Use LLVM 360
AT&T To Pay $700,000 For Overcharging Consumers 74
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Become a Rural ISP? 239
Voting Machine Problem Reports Already Rolling In 386
A Trail of Clicks, Culminating In Conflict 65
Microsoft Retiring Messenger, Replacing It With Skype 213
Cloud Computing Needs To Embrace the Linux Model, Says Rackspace CTO 42
Why Google Went Offline Today 110
Nvidia Doubles Linux Driver Performance, Slips Steam Release Date 363
Ask Slashdot: Extreme Cable Management? 242
Gate One 1.1 Released: Run Vim In Your Browser 150
Pull Lever, Don't Snap Shutter: It May Be Illegal To Post Your Ballot 383
Welsh Scientists Radically Increase Fiber Broadband Speeds With COTS Parts 72
iPad Mini Costs $24 More To Make Than Kindle Fire HD 260
Verizon To Shut Down App Store By January 59
GM Brings IT Dev Back In House; Self-Driving Caddy In the Works 171
New Technology May Cut Risk of Giving Syrian Rebels Stinger Missiles 279
Attack Steals Crypto Key From Co-Located Virtual Machines 73
Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application 347
Nokia "Suspends" Its Free Developer Program 136
Apple Suit Against Motorola Over FRAND Licensing Rates Dismissed 249
Singapore Builds First Vertical Vegetable Farm 141
Massachusetts "Right To Repair" Initiative On Ballot, May Override Compromise 238
The Survival Machine Farm 214
Is It Time To Commit To Ongoing Payphone Availability? 267
Kim Dotcom's Next Venture: Free Broadband To New Zealand 279
MIT Research Tweaks Smartphone Amplifier Voltage To Gain Battery Life 47
Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory? 388
Google Wallet May End Up Inside Your Actual Wallet 190
Boeing 787 Makes US Debut 317
Hyundai Overstated MPG On Over 1 Million Cars 238
How To Build a Supercomputer In 24 Hours 161
Electric Velomobiles: Urban Transportation For the Future, Available Now 201
Dragonfly BSD 3.2 Released 85
Facebook's Prism, Soon To Be Open Sourced, Gives Hadoop Delay Tolerance 17
Constant Technology Use May Hamper Kids' Ability To Learn 163
Solar Panel Breaks "Third of a Sun" Efficiency Barrier 237
Microsoft Escapes Kaspersky's Top 10 Vulnerabilities List 112
Navigating the Vast Ocean of Open Source 23
Linus Torvalds Tries KDE, Likes It So Far 289
China's Stealth Fighter Flight Test Successful 161
iPhone Interface For Ham Radio Mates Old With New 51
Most US Drones Still Beam Video Unencrypted 138
Ask Slashdot: Finding Legacy UnixWare Installation Media? 193
Why Does a Voting Machine Need Calibration? 398
Microsoft Reportedly Working On Its Own Smartphone 215
VR Tech Lets People Interact With Rats 33
Tesla Model S Named 'Car of the Year' 303
ARM, Microsoft Collaborating On 64-bit Windows Version 93
Crushed Silicon Triples Life of Li-Ion Batteries In the Lab 123
WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney 287
US Government: You Don't Own Your Cloud Data So We Can Access It At Any Time 531
Richard Stallman: Limit the Effect of Software Patents 257
More Than 25% of Android Apps Know Too Much About You 277
Vanderbilt University Steps Into the Exoskeleton Market 26
IEEE Standards For Voting Machines 221
Department of Homeland Security Wants Nerds For a New "Cyber Reserve'" 204
OpenBSD 5.2 Released 141
Security Firm VUPEN Claims To Have Hacked Windows 8 and IE10 118
US Offers New Plans 1 Month Before UN Meeting To Regulate Web 128
NYC Data Center Needs Focus On Fuel 162
Fisker Hybrids Get Bad Karma From Superstorm Sandy 414
To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee 582
FTC Whacks "Rachel From Card Holder Services" 289
Apple Delays Simpler and Cleaner iTunes 'to Get It Right' 252
Internal Bug: Code Flaw May Lead to Wrong Dose From Infusion Pump 86
Kim Dotcom Outs Mega Teaser Site, Finalizes Domain Name 195
KDE Plasma Active: the Mobile Interface That Works 70
Mozilla: Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Us 9m Firefox Downloads 90
NASA Teams To Build Gyroscopes 1,000X More Sensitive Than Current Systems 91
Ask Slashdot: The Search For the Ultimate Engineer's Pen 712
Self-Driving Car Faces Off Against Pro On Thunderhill Racetrack 151
Court Rules Website Terms of Service Agreement Completely Invalid 148
Linus Torvalds Advocates For 2560x1600 Standard Laptop Displays 661
Dutch DigiNotar Servers Were Fully Hacked 83
Federal Judge Approves Warrantless, Covert Video Surveillance 420
Windows Browser Ballot Glitch Cost Firefox 6-9 Million Downloads 245
NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy 231
Surfcast Sues Microsoft Over Tile Patent 255
Rasterman On The Impending Release of Enlightenment 17 117
Google Launches Open Source Voter Information Tool 104
China Building a 100-petaflop Supercomputer Using Domestic Processors 154
More Drones Set To Use US Air Space 223
Nexus 7 and Android Convertibles Drive Massive Asus Profit 232
ARM Announces 64-Bit Cortex-A50 Architecture 160
Irked By Cyberspying, Georgia Outs Russia-based Hacker 95
Glow-In-The-Dark Smart Highways Coming To the Netherlands In 2013 167
Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner? 590
Windows Phone 8 Having Trouble Attracting Developers 268
Google's Nexus 4, 7, 10 Strategy: Openness At All Costs 359
Using Magnets To Interact With Your Tablet 64
France Applies Tax Pressure To Google For Republishing News Snippets 350
CodeWeavers Announces Flock the Vote Software Giveaway 97
AMD Licenses 64-bit Processor Design From ARM 213
Is Silicon Valley Morally Bankrupt and Toxic? 469
Want a Security Pro? Get Politically Incorrect and Learn Geek Culture 314
Camera Technique Captures New View of Space & Time 75
Google Announces New Nexus Smartphone and Tablets 297
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Forget the iPad, Surface Is the Tablet People Want 403
Titan Supercomputer Debuts for Open Scientific Research 87
Showdown Set On Bid To Give UN Control of Internet 316
Are Teachers Headed For Obsolescence? 570
Designing DNA Specific Bio-Weapons 227
IBM Reports Carbon Nanotube Chip Breakthrough 73
Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed 438
US and Canada Launch Joint Cybersecurity Plan 42
Pakastani Politician Detained By US Customs Over Opposition To Drone Strikes 560
Researchers Develop Surveillance System That Can Watch & Predict 106
Canadian Researchers Create Wireless Charger For Electric Cars 179
Ask Slashdot: Ideas For a Geek Remodel? 372
To Google Friends Or Not To Google, That Is the Question 117
Canadian Police Want New Internet Surveillance Tools 64
Google Nexus 4 Prototype Lost In a Bar 200
The Internet Archive Has Saved Over 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes of the Web 135
Cisco Pricing Undercut By $100M In Big Cal State University Network Project 220
Ask Slashdot: What To Do When Finding a Security Breach On Shared Hosting? 168
Rare Photos: Gnu Crashing a Windows 8 Launch Event 313
Wired Proclaims the Death of the Game Console 368
Craig Mundie Blames Microsoft's Product Delays On Cybercrime 182
Yahoo Will Ignore IE 10's "Do Not Track" 360
How To Hug a Chicken Via the Internet 96
China Telco Replaces Cisco Devices Over Security Concerns 180
Ubuntu Now Available On the Nexus 7 87
Canadian Regulator Orders Telecoms To Tell Us What It Costs To Run Their Service 120
Microsoft Reverses 'Mature' Game Ban On Windows 8 87
The Periodic Table of Tech 39
Cringley: H-1B Visa Abuse Limits Wages and Steals US Jobs 795
Living Computer Museum Opens To Public In Seattle 68
Iran's High Tech Copycat War Against the West: Drones and Cyberwar 159
Inside Social Media's Fake Fan Industry 63
TechCrunch Launches CrunchGov, a Tech Policy Platform 24
Algal Biofuels Not Ready For Scale-Up 179
Trouble For Microsoft Developers With the Windows Store 232
Crashed X-51A Test Results Released 48
A Proposal To Fix the Full-Screen X11 Window Mess 358
Virginia Tech's RoMeLa Answers DARPA Robotics Challenge With THOR 62
What an Anti-Google Antitrust Case By the FTC May Look Like 167
New Trusted HW Standard For Windows 8 To Support Chinese Crypto 87
SSL Holes Found In Critical Non-Browser Software 84
Developer Gets OpenSUSE Running On $249 Google Chromebook 81
Android Will Surpass Windows By 2016, Say Gartner Stats 149
Microsoft Releases Windows 8 403
Magellan Telescope First Mega-Mirror Polished and Ready 39
72% of Xbox 360 Gamers Approve of "More Military Drone Strikes" 446
UK Gov't Official Advises Using Fake Details On Social Networks 175
Experts Warn About Security Flaws In Airline Boarding Passes 199
Using Winemaking Waste For Making Fuel 152
Now That It's Here, Is There a Place For Windows RT? 287
Google Street View Heads Into the Grand Canyon 21
Would You Put a Tracking Device On Your Child? 610
A Look At Competitors to the Surface and iPad 193
How a Google Headhunter's E-Mail Revealed Massive Misuse of DKIM 115
Windows 7 Not Getting A Second Service Pack 441
Boeing's CHAMP Missile Uses Radio Waves To Remotely Disable PCs 341
OpenGL Becoming a Requirement For the Linux Desktop 229
Microsoft Surface Review: a Tale of Two Tablets 183
CyanogenMod Android ROMs Accidentally Logged Screen Unlock Patterns 69
BBC Turns Off CEEFAX Service After 38 Years 160
Building Babbage's Analytical Engine 56
The Struggles of Getting Into the App Store 329
Website Pitches Scientific Solutions In Search of Problems 39
New Quantum Computing Record Set By Recycled Photons 47
The Virtues of the Virtual Autopsy 48
Microsoft Prepares To Push Kinect Everywhere Windows Is 90
Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers? 302
Apple To Stream a Product Launch Live For the First Time 288
US Patent Office Invalidates Apple's "Rubber Banding" Patent 213
The UK's 5-Minute 4G Data Cap 261
Bill Gates Talks Windows Future, Touch Interfaces 198
Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old? 537
17th Century Microscope Book Is Now Freely Readable 116
Wayland 1.0 Released, Not Yet Ready To Replace X11 455
DIY Laser Cutter Raises Capital, Concerns 184
Amazon EBS Failure Brings Down Reddit, Imgur, Others 176
NASA Achieves Data Goals For Mars Rover With Open Source Software 35
3-D Model Support Comes To MediaGoblin 37
Microsoft Urges Businesses To Get Off XP 727
Motorola HC1: Head-Worn Computing For Workplaces With Deep Pockets 42
Japan Getting Real-Time Phone Call Translator App 113
DARPA Funds a $300 Software-Defined Radio For Hackers 94
Aussie Researchers Crack Transport Crypto, Get Free Rides 88
Ask Slashdot: How To Both Mirror and Protect Crowdsourced Data? 76
At $250, New Chromebook Means Competition For Tablets, Netbooks, Ultrabooks 283
How Patent Trolls Harm the Economy 123
Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time? 615
3-D Printing Enables UVA Student-Built Unmanned Plane 87
NetFlix Caught Stealing DivX Subtitles From Finnish Pirates 284
Salesforce.com's Benioff Disses Windows 8, Oracle 182
Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets 848
How Google Cools Its 1 Million Servers 87
Ask Slashdot: Securing a Windows Laptop, For the Windows Newbie? 503
ACM Queue Interviews Robert Watson On Open Source Hardware and Research 37
Poor SSL Implementations Leave Many Android Apps Vulnerable 141
Canadian Space Agency Shows Off Prototype Rovers 70
Stanford Ovshinsky, Hybrid Car Battery Inventor, Has Died 38
China's Yearly Budget For High-Speed Rail: $100 Billion 230
Kaspersky's Exploit-Proof OS Leaves Security Experts Skeptical 196
Ubuntu Isn't Becoming Less Open, Says Shuttleworth 98
Windows RT vs. Windows 8 Could Burn Consumers 297
Electronic Tweezers Grab Nanoparticles 13
The Group That Makes Tech Work For the Disabled 44
Mozilla Opens the Firefox App Store To Early Testers 74
TSA Moving X-ray Body Scanners To Smaller Airports 168
Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google News En Masse 223
Standard For Electric Car Charging Announced 212
Free Online Education Unwelcome In Minnesota 240
Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol 580
Google Threatens French Media Ban 419
FSF Opens Nominations For Free Software Awards 2012 56
ARM-Based Chromebooks Ready To Battle Windows 8, Tablets 230
AOL's New Alto Client Is Visual Email, and You Don't Need a New Address 108
Newsweek To Go Digital-Only In 2013 110
Below-Expected Earnings For Google Posted Early, Trading Halted 275
Eben Moglen Explains Freedom and Free Software in Two Video Interviews 78
Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal Out Now; Raring Ringtail In the Works 318
Surface RT vs. iPad: a Comparison 357

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"The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to mug someone with it." -- M. Devine, Computer Science 340