Technology Stories for 2022

Zeek Becoming Part of Microsoft Windows 21
US Judge: Passengers in Fatal Boeing 737 MAX Crashes are 'Crime Victims' 83
Europe's Most Valuable Tech Company Tries To Avoid the Chip War 77
Apple Rumored To Be Testing macOS For M2 iPad Pro 35
New Version of Windows 95 JavaScript App Runs On Basically Any Platform 32
Microsoft's PC Manager Is Like CCleaner For Your Computer 41
Company That Makes Rent-Setting Software For Apartments Accused of Collusion, Lawsuit Says 116
Google Announces GUAC Open-Source Project On Software Supply Chains 2
US Eyes Expanding China Tech Ban To Quantum Computing and AI 47
French Police Probe Multiple Cuts of Major Internet Cables 44
Damaged Cable Leaves Shetland Cut Off From Mainland 30
Apple's Industrial Design Chief Hankey To Leave Three Years After Ive 37
Windows Subsystem for Android Declared Ready for Prime Time 32
Telegram To Auction Off Usernames Via Blockchain-based Platform 20
UK Regulator Proposes Easing Net Neutrality Rules Following Brexit 54
Amazon Says Fear of Google Putting Off Vendors From TV Hardware Partnership 28
New Jersey Legislators Aim To Ban Most In-Car Subscriptions 152
Anti-Vaccine Groups Avoid Facebook Bans By Using Emojis 371
US To Launch 'Labeling' Rating Program For Internet-Connected Devices In 2023 36
OpenBSD 7.2 Released 21
Parler Accidentally Doxed Elite Members When Announcing Kanye West Takeover 71
'I Tried the $1,500 Quest Pro and Saw the Best of the Metaverse' 54
Starry Internet Cuts 500 Jobs, Half Its Workforce, and Cancels Big Expansion 12
France Fines Clearview AI Maximum Possible For GDPR Breaches 38
Amazon Faces $1 Billion Lawsuit in UK For 'Favouring Its Own Products' 28
GPS Interference Caused the FAA To Reroute Texas Air Traffic 32
SpaceX Launches 54 Starlink More Satellites, Lands Rocket in 100th Mission From Florida Pad 59
Stripe Takes Steps To Prune Workforce 56
Texas Sues Google for Allegedly Capturing Biometric Data of Millions Without Consent 38
India Fines Google For Anti-Competitive Practices on Android 25
TikTok Deal Likely To Leave US Data Leaking To China 31
BMW Will Build a $1.7 Billion EV Battery Factory In South Carolina 25
Firefox 106 Is Now Available With PDF Annotation, Firefox View 35
Waymo's Self-Driving Taxi Service Is Coming to LA 12
Starlink Unveils Airplane Service 79
USB-C Can Hit 120Gbps With Newly Published USB4 Version 2.0 Spec 69
Redditors Have Created Millions of Crypto Wallets To Buy NFT Avatars 22
Lost Something? Search Through 91.7 Million Files From the 80s, 90s, and 2000s 57
Visitors of Qatar World Cup Need To Install Spyware On Their Phone 110
Dallas Air Traffic Rerouted As FAA Probes Faulty GPS Signals 54
Google 'Doubles Down' on Pixel Hardware, Cuts Google Assistant Support 29
Tensions Rise in India Over Claim That Instagram Let Ruling Party Tamper With Posts 52
Microsoft Becomes Latest Tech Firm To Cut Staff 48
DuckDuckGo's Privacy-Focused Mac Browser is Now Available for Public Beta Testing 13
Meta To Sell Giphy After UK Regulator Blocks $315 Million Deal 26
Google Announces KataOS 69
World's Second Richest Man Sells Jet So People On Twitter Won't Track Him Anymore 80
Xi's Call To Win Tech Race Points To New Wave of Chinese State-led Spending 31
In Praise of FFmpeg 81
Mark Zuckerberg Says WhatsApp 'Far More Private and Secure' than iMessage 92
Kanye West To Acquire 'Uncancelable' Social Media Platform Parler 321
How 'Homestar Runner' Re-Emerged After the End of Flash 28
New Specialized Career Certifications Created by 'Grow with Google' Through University-Industry Partnerships 27
Also Joining a Silicon Valley Union: Waymo's Food Service Employees 89
Microsoft Office 365 Vulnerability Could Allow Sidestepping of Email Encryption 21
Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse 'Sad' and 'Empty', Leaked Internal Documents Complain 250
New 'Council for Responsible Social Media' Seeks Bipartisan Reforms 30
Google Pixel 7 Series Only Support 64-bit Apps 29
iOS 16 VPN Tunnels Leak Data, Even When Lockdown Mode Is Enabled 35
US Opts To Not Rebuild Renowned Puerto Rico Telescope 130
Lufthansa Changes Mind, Now Says Apple AirTags Are Allowed on Luggage 19
Is a 'Software Engineer' An Engineer? Alberta Regulator Says No, Riling the Province's Tech Sector 258
Biden's Internet Promises in Limbo Amid Long Battle Over FCC Nominee 27
Nvidia Says It's 'Unlaunching' the 12GB RTX 4080 After Backlash 33
New Turkey Law Mandates Jail Time for Spreading 'Disinformation' 100
Facebook's Legs Video Was A Lie 59
Apple's Mixed Reality Headset To Offer Iris Scanning for Payments, Logging In 33
Amazon's Set To Launch Its Prototype Internet Satellites Early Next Year 22
Honda and Sony To Build an EV That Entertains While It Takes the Wheel 44
Google Starts Real-World Testing Its Giant Video Chat Booths 20
California Legalizes Digital License Plates, With $1,100 Price Tag 90
VirtualBox 7.0 Adds First ARM Mac Client, Full Encryption, Windows 11 TPM 19
Firefox's New Service Gives You a Burner Phone Number To Cut Down on Spam 31
World's Top Chip Equipment Suppliers Halt Business With China 98
Netflix's Ad Tier Will Cost $7 a Month and Launch in November 127
Microsoft's Army Goggles Left US Soldiers With Nausea, Headaches in Test 68
Carmack: 'There's a Bunch That I'm Grumpy About' in Virtual Reality 78
FCC Poised To Ban All US Sales of New Huawei and ZTE Equipment 42
Brooklyn Quantum Network May Hold Key To an Untappable Internet 47
New Apple Services and Apps Are Rolling Out On Windows 11 and Xbox 15
Trump's Truth Social Now Allowed in Google's Play Store 136
Android Leaks Some Traffic Even When 'Always-On VPN' Is Enabled 30
Mark Zuckerberg Says He Enjoys 'Being Doubted' 38
Microsoft's Edge Browser Gets Shared Workspaces, New Security Features 14
Google Starts Testing Holographic Video Chats at Real Offices 21
Roblox Says Policing Virtual World is Like 'Shutting Down Speakeasies' 40
Google is Bringing Passkey Support To Android and Chrome 63
Amazon To Launch First of Its Kuiper Internet Satellites on ULA Rocket 22
Damien Hirst Just Burned 1,000 of His Paintings and Will Soon Burn Thousands More 113
Microsoft Brings DALL-E 2 To the Masses With Designer and Image Creator 20
Google Reveals 'First Laptops Built For Cloud Gaming' Just After Killing Stadia 46
Microsoft Partners With Meta To Bring Teams, Office, Windows, and Xbox To VR 87
Lufthansa Says Passengers Can't Use Apple AirTags to Track Checked Bags 72
Many US Drivers Treat Partially Automated Cars As Self-Driving 117
YouTube Is Introducing Handles, With Unique Human-Readable URLs For Every Channel 17
Meta Launches $1,4999 Quest Pro Headset 82
SEC Investigating Bored Ape Creator Yuga Labs Over Securities Violations 15
Google's 'Incognito' Mode Inspires Staff Jokes - and a Big Lawsuit 60
Meta Announces Legs 84
Epic Games and Match Look To Expand Their Antitrust Claims Against Google 11
Intel and Google Cloud Launch New Chip To Improve Data Center Performance 17
Google Selects Coinbase To Take Cloud Payments With Cryptocurrencies and Will Use Its Custody Tool 11
Brands Are Spamming WhatsApp Users in India, Facebook's Largest Market 23
Starlink Makes Maiden Asia Foray With Japan Launch 14
SpaceX Competitor Lynk Testing 5G Cellphone Service From Space 49
More Than 4 In 10 PCs Still Can't Upgrade To Windows 11 219
Amazon To Invest Over 1 Billion Euros in European Electric Van, Truck Fleet 28
Windows 95 Went the Extra Mile To Ensure Compatibility of SimCity, Other Games 77
It's Lonely in the Metaverse: Decentraland's 38 Daily Active Users in a $1.3B Ecosystem 61
Samsung Seeks Smart TV Growth With First Tizen OS Licensing Deals 37
PC Shipments Are Still on the Decline - Unless You're Apple 99
Nations Agree To Curb Emissions From Flying by 2050 58
Your Boss Can Monitor Your Activities Without Special Software 54
United Airlines Hopes to Use Electric Planes for Flights Under 200 Miles By 2030 108
'How California's Bullet Train Went Off the Rails' 289
Research Shows Recommender Systems Can Use AI To Manipulate Our Preferences 11
VPN, Tor Use Increases in Iran After Internet 'Curfews' 22
Why Hurricane Ian Killed So Many People 174
New Windows 11 Insider Build Supports Third-Party Widgets, Slick New Teams Video Feature 33
Twitter Knows You Took a Screenshot, Asks You To Share Instead 54
Tesla Starts Production of Electric Semi Truck 95
Papa John's Sued For 'Wiretap' Spying on Website Mouse Clicks, Keystrokes 60
Google To Open First Japan Data Center To Accelerate Asia Push 2
Facebook Warns 1 Million Users Whose Logins Were Stolen By Scam Mobile Apps 15
Helium, the a16Z-backed Crypto Unicorn, Spars With Binance Over Delisting 21
Biden Order Brings New Transatlantic Data Pact Ever Closer 22
Zuckerberg's Metaverse Rush Pauses For 'Quality Lockdown' 69
Google Shows Off Wireless Charging Dock That Turns the Pixel Tablet Into a Smart Display 9
China Upgrades Great Firewall To Defeat Censor-Beating TLS Tools 20
Court Blocks 13,445 'Pirate' Sites Proactively To Protect One Movie 30
The Pixel Watch Is Official: $349, Good Looks, and a Four-Year-Old SoC 78
Celsius' Top 3 Execs Cashed Out $42M in Crypto Before Bankruptcy 37
Big Tech, Banks, Government Departments Shred Millions of Storage Devices They Could Reuse 80
Popular Censorship Circumvention Tools Face Fresh Blockade By China 9
Google Unveils Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro Smartphones 45
The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time 95
Facebook Conducts 'Quiet Layoffs' By Urging Managers To Identify Certain Number of Workers as Underperforming 140
European Observatory NOEMA Reaches Full Capacity With Twelve Antennas 18
Meta To Increase Ad Load On Instagram 56
Google Picks South Africa For Its First Cloud Region In Africa 16
IceWM Reaches Version 3 After a Mere 25 Years 38
The Internet Archive Is Building a Digital Library of Amateur Radio Broadcasts 28
Google Answers Meta's Video-Generating AI With Its Own, Dubbed Imagen Video 8
Apple's Tim Cook Latest CEO To Question the 'Metaverse' 91
Computer-Driven Hedge Funds Surge Ahead Amid Chaotic Markets 30
Former Amazon Worker Gets Probation For Massive Capital One Hack 76
Intel Laptop Users Should Avoid Linux 5.19.12 To Avoid Potentially Damaging The Display 48
Google To Pay $85 Million To End Arizona Consumer-Privacy Suit 8
Basic Rust Support Merged For Upcoming Linux 6.1 83
Rightsholders Asked Google To Remove Six Billion 'Pirate' Links 48
The Pixel 4 Hits End of Life After Three Years of Service 47
The Ever-Expanding Job of Preserving the Internet's Backpages 22
Musk Proposes To Proceed With Twitter Deal at $54.20 a Share - Bloomberg 302
VLC-Developer VideoLAN Sends Legal Notice To Indian Ministries Over Ban 12
Apple Will Be Forced To Use New Charger After EU Votes for USB-C 314
Google Shuts Down Translate Service In China 16
Universities Adapt To Google's New Storage Fees, Or Migrate Away Entirely 91
How Twitter Serves As the Town Hall of Crypto 16
Fandom Buys TV Guide, Metacritic, GameSpot and Other Brands For About $50 Million In Cash 22
Linux 6.0 Arrives With Support For Newer Chips, Core Fixes, and Oddities 26
After Chess, Cheating Rows Rock Poker and Fishing 105
YouTube Asks Some Users To Purchase a Premium Subscription To Watch in 4K 82
Amazon Provides Cloud Technology For a Chinese Military Company 10
High Court Will Hear Social Media Terrorism Lawsuits 78
Tesla Now Has 160,000 Customers Running Its Full Self Driving Beta 134
Why Toyota Isn't All-In On EVs 373
Magic Leap's Smaller, Lighter Second-Gen AR Glasses Are Now Available 14
Tesla Unveils New Dojo Supercomputer So Powerful It Tripped the Power Grid 106
Meta Ordered To Pay $175 Million For Copying Green Beret Veteran's App 36
Tumblr Is Never Going Back To Porn 99
TikTok Tracks You Across the Web, Even If You Don't Use the App 44
Covert CIA Websites Could Have Been Found By an 'Amateur,' Research Finds 22
Danish Pirate Site Blocking Updated, Telecoms Group Publishes All Domains 30
Apple VP Leaves Company After Vulgar Comment Goes Viral On TikTok 260
Fake CISO Profiles On LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s 15
NYPD Considers Using Encryption To Block Public From Radio Scanner Broadcasts 126
SF To Feds: Cruise Driverless Cars Keep Blocking Our Roads 70
Two-Year Internet Outage In Ethiopia Continues 18
Coroner Lists Instagram Algorithm As Contributing Cause of UK Teen's Death 49
Meta's New Text-to-Video AI Generator is Like DALL-E for Video 10
Deepfake Tech Allows Bruce Willis To Return To the Screen Without Ever Being on Set 36
Crypto Is Quietly Thriving in Sub-Saharan Africa: Chainalysis Report 18
USB Kills Off SuperSpeed Branding as It Tries To Simplify Its Ubiquitous Connector 41
Google Delays the Death of Manifest V2 Extensions To 2024 23
Europe Braces For Mobile Network Blackouts 132
Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow And Other Authors Publish Open Letter Protesting Publishers' Lawsuit Against Internet Archive Library 29
MGM Paid Problem Gambler To Not Report Online Glitches 30
Apple M1 Linux GPU DRM Driver Now Running GNOME, Various Apps 44
UN Elects First Female Tech Agency Secretary-General 32
The CIA Just Invested in Woolly Mammoth Resurrection Technology 54
Mystery Hackers Are 'Hyperjacking' Targets for Insidious Spying 32
Meta Announces Hiring Freeze, Warns Employees of Restructuring 57
New York To Mandate Zero-Emission Vehicles in 2035 184
Google is Shutting Down Stadia 117
Microsoft is Phasing Out SwiftKey for iOS 13
Meta Cracks Down on Ad-Free Instagram Client a Day After It Launched 59
Google Is Making It Easier To Find Search Results From Reddit and Other Forums 41
An All-Electric Passenger Plane Completed Its First Test Flight 102
Google Fiber Touts 20Gbps Download Speed In Test, Promises Eventual 100Gbps 56
NFT Trading Volumes Collapse 97% From January Peak 59
Wall Street Hit With $2 Billion of Fines in WhatsApp Probe 43
UK Online Safety Bill Threatens Security, WhatsApp Chief Warns 32
Cloudflare Wants To Replace CAPTCHAs With Turnstile 35
OpenAI Will Remove Its Waitlist for DALL-E, Giving Anyone Immediate Access 30
Apple Removes Russia's Largest Social Network From the App Store 65
All 50 States Get Green Light To Build EV Charging Stations 133
Tim Cook: 'No Good Excuse' For Lack of Women In Tech 394
The Latest iPadOS 16 Beta Brings Stage Manager To Older iPad Pro Models 6
Robinhood Debuts New Non-Custodial Crypto Wallet 22
Intel's Unison App Syncs iOS and Android Phones With Your PC 34
Software Makers' Restrictive License Rules Targeted by New Group 31
Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky Steps Down 14
Amtrak Aims For Net-Zero Greenhouse Gas Emissions By 2045 77
FCC Takes Long-Delayed Step Against Spam Text Surge 30
EU Telcos Call For Shared Network Costs 41
Walmart Is Making Its First Move Into the Metaverse With Virtual Worlds on Roblox 27
Drone Startup Claims It Flew Its Ion-Propulsion Drone On 4.5-Minute Test Flight 65
Kia Plans To Build EVs In the US To Comply With New Federal Tax Credit 62
Hackathon Finds Dozens of Ukrainian Refugees Trafficked Online 50
When's the Best Time To Charge Your EV? Not at Night, Stanford Study Finds 190
Neal Stephenson's Lamina1 Drops White Paper On Building the Open Metaverse 49
TikTok To Ban All Political Fundraising On Its Platform 40
Mozilla Reaffirms That Firefox Will Continue To Support Current Content Blockers 79
Amazon Hires Unsafe Trucking Firms Twice As Often As Peers, WSJ Finds 40
Ask Slashdot: What High-End Smartphone Is Best For Privacy? 196
Senators Introduce a Bill To Protect Open-Source Software 35
Microsoft Edge Found Serving Malicious Tech Support Scam Ads 30
Fitbit Accounts Are Being Replaced By Google Accounts 17
Elon Musk Activates Starlink For Iranian Citizens 42
Google Sees Russia Coordinating With Hackers in Cyberattacks Tied To Ukraine War 5
Amazon Emails Staff With News It Miscalculated Their Compensation 42
'Moore's Law Is Dead,' Says Nvidia CEO 116
Google CEO Pichai Tells Employees Not To 'Equate Fun With Money' in Heated All-Hands Meeting 208
Meta Sued For Skirting Apple Privacy Rules To Snoop On Users 36
Google Wants To Take On Dolby With New Open Media Formats 56
As Unrest Grows, Iran Restricts Access To Instagram, WhatsApp 41
DocuSign Names Former Google Executive Allan Thygesen As New CEO 1
Mozilla Urges Action To Unpick Platform Browser Lock-ins 64
Inside Russia's Vast Surveillance State 67
Twitter Discloses It Wasn't Logging Users Out of Accounts After Password Resets 12
Facebook Could Lift Trump's Suspension in January, Nick Clegg Says 198
Facebook Report: Censorship Violated Palestinian Rights 72
Google's New Chromecast Costs $30 - and It Has a Remote 76
Revealed: US Military Bought Mass Monitoring Tool That Includes Internet Browsing, Email Data 37
Microsoft Won't Label Fake News As False In An Attempt To Avoid 'Censorship' Cries 164
Mozilla: YouTube's Dislike Button Largely Fails To Stop Unwanted Recommendations 75
Site Tells You If Photos of You Were Used To Train AI 28
Nvidia Unveils Drive Thor, One Chip To Rule All Software-Defined Vehicles 56
Flying Car Startup Kitty Hawk Is Winding Down 41
NTSB Wants Alcohol Detection Systems Installed In All New Cars In US 279

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