Technology Stories for 2015

Emissions Scandal Expands: Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Mazda, and Mitsubishi 420
Iran-Based Hacking Crew Uses Fake LinkedIn Profiles In Espionage Attacks 41
World's First 5G Field Trial Delivers Speeds of 3.6Gbps Using Sub-6GHz 55
Google Helped Cause the Mysterious Increase In 911 Calls SF Asked It To Solve 166
Mozilla Sets Out Its Proposed Principles For Content Blocking 318
SIgn Of the Times: Calif. Privacy Protections Signed Into Law 41
Complex Living Brain Simulation Replicates Sensory Rat Behaviour 63
How Analog Tide Predictors Changed Human History 37
In Midst of a Tech Boom, Seattle Tries To Keep Its Soul 394
University of Cape Town Team Breaks World Water Rocketry Record 35
Volkswagen Boss Blames Software Engineers For Scandal 479
Former Reuters Media Editor Found Guilty of Helping Anonymous Hack Into LA Times 36
Volvo Will Accept Liability For Self-Driving Car Crashes 203
MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' 112
Enlightenment Mysteriously Drops Wayland Support 152
ESR On Why the FCC Shouldn't Lock Down Device Firmware 144
IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach 103
NSF Awards $74.5 Million To Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research 9
How To Make Messages Easy For an Alien Race To Understand 186
Google's Effort To Speed Up the Mobile Web 95
Microsoft Claims 110M Devices Now Run Windows 10 171
Rookie Dongle Warns Parents When Their Kids Are Driving Too Fast 153
Wealth of Personal Data Found On Used Electronics Purchased Online 70
Marijuana Growers Need Software, Too (Video) 94
Yale Makes Available Online 170,000 Photographs From WWII Period 49
Privately Funded Lunar Mission Set a Launch Date For 2017 50
Boarding Pass Barcodes Can Reveal Personal Data, Future Flights 64
Windows Phone Store Increasingly Targeted With Fake Mobile Apps 90
DARPA Jolts the Nervous System With Electricity, Lasers, Sound Waves, and Magnets 34
Why Is RAM Suddenly So Cheap? It Might Be Windows 209
Getting More Women Coders Into Open Source 696
Verizon Is Merging Its Cellphone Tracking Supercookie with AOL's Ad Tracking Network 100
Porsche Chooses Apple Over Google Because Google Wants Too Much Data 423
Scandal Erupts In Unregulated Online World of Fantasy Sports 174
Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers 92
Cold Fusion Rears Ugly Head With Claims of Deuterium-Powered Homes 186
Worries Mount Over Upcoming LTE-U Deployments Hurting Wi-Fi 173
Matthew Garrett Forks the Linux Kernel 688
From Microsoft, HoloLens VR Dev Kit, New Phones, Continuum 88
NY Times Passes 1M Digital Subscribers 92
Software Defined Smart Battery Arrays Extend Laptop Life 42
EFF Joins Nameless Coalition and Demands Facebook Kills Its Real Names Policy 232
London Mayor Boris Johnson Condemns Random Uber Pick-Ups 216
What Effect Will VW's Scandal Have On Robocars? 106
CodeWeavers To Release CrossOver For Android To Run Windows Programs 66
On-Chip Liquid Cooling Permits Smaller Devices With No Heatsinks Or Fans 45
Nissan Creates the Ultimate Distracted Driving Machine 140
Sex, Drugs, and Transportation: How Politicians Tried To Keep Uber Out of Vegas 136
Google Lets Advertisers Target By (Anonymized) Customer Data 58
Daimler Tests a Self-Driving Truck On the Autobahn 130
OpenIndiana Hipster 2015.10: Keeping an Open-Source Solaris Going 149
This is not F1 (or NASCAR): High-End Hybrids Race In Texas 28
Ask Slashdot: Best Country For Secure Online Hosting? 113
'Legacy' London Car Hire Companies Lawyer Up Against Uber 239
Selected Provisions: TPP, CETA, and TiSA Trade Agreements 43
Google As Alphabet Subsidiary Drops "Don't Be Evil" 247
Soon-to-Be US Ed Chief Was Almost FB CEO's Ed Chief 30
F-35 Ejection Seat Fears Ground Lightweight Pilots 179
US Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital 410
Artists Create a 1000-Year GIF Loop 105
Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Logistics Imply Sizable Conspiracy 153
Office 2016 Proving Unstable With Apple's El Capitan 138
Motorola Marketed the Moto E 2015 On Promise of Updates, Stops After 219 Days 123
Vigilante Malware Protects Routers Against Other Security Threats 79
This Machine Produces the Largest Humanmade Waves In the World 64
EPA Gave Volkswagen a Free Pass On Emissions Ten Years Ago Due To Lack of Budget 203
DARPA Is Looking For Analog Approaches To Cyber Monitoring 41
FLIF: Free Lossless Image Format 311
American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination 350
Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 Is Shipping 94
Oculus Founder Explains Why the Rift VR Headset Will Cost "More Than $350" 174
China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment 109
How Someone Acquired the Google.com Domain Name For a Single Minute 70
San Francisco Still Among Most Dangerous For Pedestrians 278
Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast 223
30 Years a Sysadmin 162
We Asked Doc Searls: Do Ad Blockers Cause Cancer? (Video) 116
Ask Slashdot: Simple, Cross-Platform Video Messaging? 115
UK Gamers Can Now Get Their Money Back For Publishers' Broken Promises 74
Yelp For People To Launch In November 447
Stagefright 2.0 Vulnerabilities Affect 1 Billion Android Devices 123
First of 2 Australian NBN Satellites Launched Successfully 58
Reports: Telstra Customers Suffering Crippling Speeds To Any Apple Service 50
Google and Microsoft Agree To Stand Down In Patent Wars 43
Former Cisco CEO: China, India, UK Will Lead US In Tech Race Without Action 109
Researchers: Thousands of Medical Devices Are Vulnerable To Hacking 29
Legal Loophole Offers Volkswagen Criminal Immunity 323
Virginia State Police Cars Hacked 40
NVIDIA Launches GeForce NOW Game Streaming Service 55
Nerves Rattled By Highly Suspicious Windows Update Delivered Worldwide 217
The Global Struggle To Prevent Cyberwar 57
Linux Foundation Puts the Cost of Replacing Its Open Source Projects At $5 Billion 146
Tesla Unveils the Model X 323
NY Times: Temporary Visas To Import Talent Help Copycats Take Jobs Abroad 231
Treefinder Revokes Software License For Users In Immigrant-Friendly Nations 578
Advance In Super/Ultra Capacitor Tech: High Voltage and High Capacity 147
Tracing the Limits of Computation 82
Uber Raided By Dutch Authorities, Seen As 'Criminal Organization' 471
Apple, Microsoft Tout Their Privacy Policies To Get Positive PR 103
Elon Musk Predicts 1,000km EV Range In Two Years, Autonomous Cars In Three 398
Amazon Launches 'Flex,' a Crowdsourced Delivery Service 145
Snowden Joins Twitter, Follows NSA 206
Google Shows Off 2 New Nexus Phones, a New Pixel, and More 208
Newly Found TrueCrypt Flaw Allows Full System Compromise 106
Raytheon Wins US Civilian Cyber Contract Worth $1 Billion 62
Study: $1.8 Billion In Reshipping Fraud With Stolen Cards Each Year 139
John Harrison: Inventor and Longitude Hero 106
Samsung Pay Launches In the United States 105
Google AdSense Click Fraud Made Possible By Uncloaking Advertisers' Sites 50
Ditch Linux For Windows 10 On Your Raspberry Pi With Microsoft's IoT Kit 308
Uber's Rivals Forming an International Alliance 26
Ask Slashdot: Building a Software QA Framework? 58
LibreOffice Turns Five 147
EFF: DMCA Hinders Exposing More Software Cheats Like Volkswagen's 166
UberX Runs Into Trouble In Australia With NSW Suspending Vehicle Registration 166
Hajj Pilgrimage Safety Challenges Crowd Simulator Technology 184
Reports: Volkswagen Was Warned of Emissions Cheating Years Ago 161
The Case Against Non-technical Managers 152
Ask Slashdot: Make Windows Update Install Only Security Updates Automatically? 288
Mark Zuckerberg Issues Call For Universal Internet Access 142
Government Finds New Emails Clinton Did Not Hand Over 348
Light-Based Memory Chip Is First To Permanently Store Data 85
Edward SnowdenTalks Alien Communications With Neil deGrasse Tyson 142
EPA To Overhaul Emissions Testing In the Wake of VW Cheating 203
Don't Worry, That Blimp Isn't Watching You Much 43
Recalc Or Die: Excel 1.0 Developers Celebrate Their Baby's 30th Birthday 119
Paralyzed Man Uses Own Brainwaves To Walk Again -- No Exoskeleton Required 35
How To Clean the Cruft Left By a Windows 10 Upgrade 205
FTC Begins Investigating Google For Antitrust Violations Over "Home Screen Advantage" 151
Intelligent System Hunts Out Malware Hidden In Shortened URLs 16
How the Car Industry Has Hidden Its Software Behind the DMCA 126
Tank Hack Ensured Farmland Didn't Thwart the Invasion of Europe 143
Saudi Arabia Almost Bought Hacking Team 26
The US and China Agree Not To Conduct Economic Espionage In Cyberspace 108
Curbing the For-Profit Cybercrime Food Chain 19
The Effort To Create an 'Iron Man' Type Exoskeleton 52
Car Industry "Buried Report Showing US Car Safety Flaws Over Fears For TTIP Deal" 181
Australian Workplace Tribunal Rules Facebook Unfriending Constitutes "Bullying" 208
Russian Scientists Create Cockroach Spy Robot 50
Police Program Aims to Pinpoint Those Most Likely to Commit Crimes 244
Oculus' Michael Abrash Explains What It'll Take For VR To Feel Real 90
America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses 435
Volkswagen Diesel Scandal Spreads To Porsche and Audi 494
Why All Boards Need a Technology Expert 67
Battery Advance Could Lead To a Cleaner Way To Store Energy 147
Samsung, Facebook's Oculus Plan November Launch For $99 Gear VR Headset 56
US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds 70
Mozilla Fixed a 14-Year-Old Bug In Firefox, Now Adblock Plus Uses Less Memory 410
ESA-JAXA Team Wins 'America's Cup of Rocket Science' 20
Fable Legends DX12 Benchmark Stressing High End GPUs 51
Facebook Finally Delivers On the VRML Dream With Immersive Star Wars Video 58
Google Launches Cloud Dataproc, a Managed Spark and Hadoop Big Data Service 18
Google DeepMind's AI Beats Humans At Even More Computer Games 96
Russia's Plan To Crack Tor Crumbles 122
Launch Manifest For NASA's "Road To Mars" Takes Shape But Questions Remain 130
VW Fiasco Puts Ethics In Engineering Under the Spotlight, CEO Steps Down 569
What's New In GNOME 3.18 170
Misusing Ethernet To Kill Computer Infrastructure Dead 303
Selfies Kill More People Than Shark Attacks 160
CIA Details Agency's New Digital and Cyber Espionage Focus 35
Nintendo Joins Khronos Group 46
Former GM and BMW Executive Warns Apple: Your Car Will Be a "Gigantic Money Pit" 535
Google Launches Brotli, a New Open Source Compression Algorithm For the Web 215
The Difficulty In Getting a Machine To Forget Anything 79
Under Public Pressure, India Withdraws Draft Encryption Policy 35
Let's Not Go To Mars 684
Facebook Dislike Hype Exploited In Phishing Campaign 54
France Tells Google To Remove "Right To Be Forgotten" Search Results Worldwide 381
Sci-Fi Author Joe Haldeman On the Future of War 241
What Hurricane Sandy Taught IT About Disaster Preparedness 68
General Atomics To Build Drone Pilot Training Academy In North Dakota 29
Volkswagen CEO Issues Apology Over Emission-Cheating Software 301
This Is What a Real Bomb Looks Like 361
The WWII-Era Inspired Plane Giving the F-35 a Run For Its Money 320
Moot Sells 4chan To 2channel Founder Hiroyuki Nishimura 88
Ask Slashdot: Herding Cats, Aging Systems? 158
Robots' Next Big Job: Trash Pickup 112
The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR 92
India's Worrying Draft Encryption Policy 114
Status Problems Break Skype For Many Users; Quick Fix Promised 64
Volkswagen Could Face $18 Billion Fine Over Emission-Cheating Software 471
Skype For Microsoft Edge Will Work From the Browser, No Plug-Ins Required 89
How Wind and Politics Pushed the Price of Texas Electricity Below Zero 211
Invisibility Cloaking Takes a Big Stride At a Small Scale 18
Proposed Lapcat II Hypersonic Airliner: Brussels to Sydney in Less Than 3 Hours 221
Symantec Subsidiary Thawte Issues Rogue Google Certificates 103
Google Releases Open Source Plans For Cardboard V2 Virtual Reality Viewer 26
Club Concorde Wants To Put a Concorde Back In the Air 124
UK Govt's Expensive Mobile Coverage Project Builds Just 8 Masts In 4 Years 75
UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL 138
The Ethical Issues Surrounding OSU's Lab-Grown Brains 190
Ahmed Mohamed, His Clock, and the Curious Turn of Events 662
AeroVelo Breaks Human-powered Land Speed Record 21
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Organize Your Virtual Desktops? 125
Creator of Top iOS Ad Blocker Pulls App After Two Days 236
JetBrains Reconsiders Subscription Licensing Changes 51
Technology Colonialism 81
Volkswagen Ordered To Recall 500K Vehicles Over Its Own Malicious Programming 411
The Economics of Drug Sales On the Dark Web 53
Microsoft Has Built a Linux Distro 282
Making Liquid Fuels From Sun and Air 163
Forget Hashtag Activism: a Millennial's Guide To Nuclear Weapons Realism 258
AMD Confirms Vulkan Driver For Linux, But To Start Off As Closed-Source 47
Researchers Fly 50 Autonomous Planes Simultaneously 39
D-Link Accidentally Publishes Private Code Signing Keys 67
Finnish Diver Finds German WWII Submarine Near Estonia 53
Microsoft Backports Start Menu To Windows RT 39
Chemical Evidence Shows the Nazis Weren't At All Close To Having the Bomb 295
The Air Traffic Control Tower of the Future Doesn't Include Humans 104
US Navy Limits Use of Whale-Harming Sonar 35
Chinese Compiling "Facebook" of US Government Employees 113
AT&T Offers $250k Reward To Find the California Fiber-Optic Ripper 145
Researcher Trying To Teach Computer What Women He's Attracted To 181
The Lessons Learned From Emergency Robot Deployments 12
Interviews: Ask John McAfee About His Presidential Run 157
When Does Software Start Becoming Malware? 165
A More Down-To-Earth Way To Bring the Internet To the Rest of the World 60
Nine of World's Biggest Banks Create Blockchain Partnership 93
Facebook Is Building an 'Empathy Button' 127
Robotics Researcher Starts Campaign To Ban Development of Sexbots 536
Xerox Creates Printed Labels With Rewritable Memory 48
Twitter Sued For Scanning Direct Messages 80
HP To Jettison Up To 30,000 Jobs As Part of Spinoff 273
The Era of Open Source Cars 31
Drone Hobbyists Find Flaws In 'Close Call' Reports 124
Porsche Unveils Its First Electric Car 213
Report: Computers 'Do Not Improve' Pupil Results 283
What Congress' New Email-privacy Bill Means For Your Inbox 90
NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out 263
Italian Military To Switch To LibreOffice and ODF 106
Attackers Install Highly Persistent Malware Implants On Cisco Routers 168
Northern California Wildfire Destroys American Telephony Museum 68
Microsoft Signs Renewed Cybersecurity Agreement With NATO 37
DARPA Working On Robotic Satellite Repair 16
Broadband Users 'Need' At Least 10Mbps To Be Satisfied 280
Man Receives a Prosthetic Hand That Allows Him To Feel 45
Intel Establishes Automotive Security Review Board 39
Google Found Guilty of "Abusing Dominant Market Position" In Russia 126
How Fine-Grained Will New Credentialism Get: Credit For Watching a TED Talk? 102
Sen. Ron Wyden Says CISA Data Collection Could Put Americans At Risk 58
Only Self-Awareness Can Keep Drones Out of Do Not Fly Zones 165
Philosophical Differences In Autonomous Car Tech 247
Big Pharma Hands Out Fitbits To Collect Better Personal Data 70
Google Partnering With Indian Railways To Provide Wi-Fi Hotspots 26
Australian Police Get McLaren and Aston Martin Supercars 122
Sony Decides Its Waterproof Xperia Phones Are Not Actually Waterproof 136
Hackers' Latest Targets: Google's Webmaster Tools 19
Why We're Looking For ET All Wrong 275
Flash From the Past: Why an Apparent Israeli Nuclear Test In 1979 Matters Today 441
Honda To Test Self-Driving Cars In California 34

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