Slashdot Stories for 2015

LifeLock Agrees To Pay $100 Million Fine In Settlement With FTC 50
Catalogue of Government Gear For Cellphone Spying 69
Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Flaw Disclosure 31
Canonical Patches the Raspberry Pi 2 Kernel of Ubuntu 15.10 16
Do Tax Breaks For Data Centers Make Sense? 94
Tacoma Goes All In To Support Municipal Fiber 90
China Launches Dark Matter Space Probe 71
"Most Hated Man In America" Martin Shkreli Arrested On Suspicion of Fraud 245
Cox Is Liable For Pirating Subscribers, Ordered To Pay $25 Million 166
Economists Discuss the Financial Repercussions of the Destruction of the Death Stars 171
New WTO Trade Deal Will Exempt IT-Related Products From Import Tariffs 22
Landlords Want a Share of Renters' Airbnb Revenue 197
Unity Benchmarks Browser WebGL Performance 38
Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage 124
Ask Slashdot: Keeping My Data Mine? (2015 Edition) 132
CA DMV Releases Draft Requirements For Autonomous Vehicles On Public Streets 139
VLC Launches On Chrome OS Thanks To Android Port 44
'Hybrid' Logic Gate For Quantum Computers Demonstrated 13
Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? 181
IBM and Linux Foundation To Create Blockchain For Major Financial Institutions 99
Ubuntu 16.04 Will Not Send Local Searches Over the Web By Default 102
EE Recalls All Power Bar Chargers Over Fire Safety Risk 27
Reddit Is Banning Users That Post Star Wars 7 Spoilers 268
Brazilian Judge Shuts Down WhatsApp In Brazil 134
As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? 302
Over 650 TB of Data Up For Grabs From Publicly Exposed MongoDB Database 96
Dallas Buyers Club Case Struck Down By Federal Court 33
PRESTON: The UK's "Big Brother" Comprehensive National Database System 57
FOIA'd Documents Give Tour of Minuteman Missile National Historic Site 85
Why President Obama Was Held Back a Year Before Starting Code School 117
Geneticists Push For Databases Over Journals As Main Source of Information 31
Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions 340
Facebook Tweaks Its "Real Names" Policy 114
Rubber Tanks and Sonic Trucks: the Ghost Army of World War II 82
LizardSquad Copycats Planning DDoS Attacks On Xbox & PSN For Christmas 103
British Court Rejects Donald Trump's Attempt To Block Wind Farm 421
Philips Won't Block Third-Party Bulbs After All 110
The FAA To Facilitate American Commercial Participation In the ESA Moon Village 31
North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back 336
CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill 166
iPhone Hacker Geohot Builds Self-Driving Car AI 98
Facebook, Google and Twitter Agree To Delete Hate Speech In Germany 259
How Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Moved From Product To Platform 1
Ask Slashdot: What's the Biggest Open Source Project of 2015? 113
Budget Agreement Boosts US Science 52
Microsoft Starts Its Own Charity Organization: Microsoft Philanthropies 95
Top Tech Trends For 2016 From Our Top Editors 1
Hype In Science Papers On the Rise 84
Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea 563
0-Day GRUB2 Authentication Bypass Hits Linux 144
Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband 352
Best Android Phones, Tablet, and Smartwatch of 2015 1
The Astronaut Hopeful's Manifesto 33
Apple In 2015: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 1
EU Rules Would Ban Kids Under 16 From Social Media 161
Breakthrough In Automatic Handwritten Character Recognition Sans Deep Learning 66
Following Data Leak, HIV Dating App's Developers Threaten Infection 105
Mars Colonies and Class Warfare 414
MacKeeper Discloses 13 Million Mac Users' Details With Poor Hash Protection 72
Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure 168
WeMedia's Andrew Nachison Discusses the Future of Online Journalism 17
Firefox 43 Arrives With 64-bit Version For Windows, Android Tab Audio Indicators 188
Flint, Michigan Declares State of Emergency Over Lead In Children's Blood 303
'Do Not Track' Bill Aims To Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking 75
Is OpenAI Solving the Wrong Problem? 167
NASA Needs Astronauts 2
Collabora and OwnCloud Announce LibreOffice Online 67
Ask Slashdot: Best (or Better) Ways To Archive Email? 177
Universal Remote Desktop Coming To Windows 10 Soon 125
Seattle Passes First Uber Drivers' Union Into Law 180
"Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools 241
Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth 285
AMD Goes Open Source, Announces GPUOpen Initiative, Linux Compiler, Drivers 89
21-Year-Old British Man Arrested In Connection With VTech Hack 53
Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services 96
Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption 345
Writer: Why Watching the Original Star Wars Again Was a Bad Idea 400
Supreme Court Upholds Arbitration In DirectTV Case 119
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Now Can Perform Marriages In New Zealand 209
Oculus Founder Says Rift Can Match Valve's 'Room-Scale' VR 36
What the Mites On Your Face Say About Where You Came From 72
Texas Plumber Sues Car Dealer After His Truck Ends Up In Videos of Syria's Front Lines 347
Hedge Fund Manager Criticizes Yahoo for Wasting $3 Billion On Poor Acquisitions 159
Lightbulb DRM: Philips Locks Purchasers Out of 3rd-Party Bulbs With New Firmware 358
Tor Hires Former EFF Chief As Executive Director 33
Bangladesh Extends Social Media Ban, Blocking Twitter and Skype 44
Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' 133
Attackers Can Hijack Joomla Sites Via User-Agent Strings 66
NY Attorney General Wants Public To Report Broadband Speeds 99
Leaded Gas, CFCs, and the Dark Side of Progress 184
NASA Looks To PlayStation VR To Train Space Robot Operators 13
2015 In the Cloud: a Year of Big Moves
$7 Million Xprize For Deep Ocean Exploration 37
Clouds May Hide Water On Alien Worlds 27
FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February 533
A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal 339
European Space Agency Records Leaked For Amusement, Attackers Say 74
Google Favors Less-Regulated UK For Self-Driving Car Development 82
Twitter Users Warned About Being Targeted By State-Sponsored Attacks 43
Untangling the Tale of Ada Lovelace 124
North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun 760
Vandals Deface Facebook's Hamburg Offices 116
Google Hosts Special Demo Day For Female Entrepreneurs 220
Persistent Storm Detected On Low-Mass Star 39
Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors 247
Steel Treatment Paves the Way For Radically Lighter, Stronger, Cheaper Cars 236
Asteroid Impact Helped Create the Birds We Know Today 67
Ask Slashdot: Security Monitoring Company That Accepts VPN Video Feeds? 136
Create Your Favorite Actor From Nothing But Photos 105
Looking Back At Apollo 17, and Why We Stopped Going To the Moon 189
MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data 115
Elon Musk, Others Fund $1B Non-Profit To Advance AI Research, Ethics 56
WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms 88
In Nevada, the World's First "Droneport" 12
Why Haven't the Arms of Spiral Galaxies Wound Up After All This Time? 94
Cable Providers Still Have No Answer For Netflix As Cord-cutting Accelerates 247
FBI: Just Don't Call Them Backdoors 347
Chipotle Plans To DNA Test Produce After E-Coli Outbreaks In Nine States 147
How Much Is That Click, Clack Worth? 69
Google Bans Symantec Root Certificates 84
Looking For Jupiter-Class Planets Indicates Solar Systems Like Ours Are Rare 90
DHS Deployed Plane Above San Bernardino To Scoop Up All Phone Calls After Attack 147
Paris Climate Deal Adopted 292
MST3K Breaks Kickstarter Record 31
UK Citizens May Soon Need License To Photograph Stuff They Already Own 197
Ask Slashdot: Cost Effective Way To Soundproof My Home? 388
FTTH Coming To Lincoln, Nebraska 45
Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump 365
No More QA: Yahoo's Tech Leaders Say Engineers Are Better Off Coding With No Net 216
Microsoft Backs Down, Lets OneDrive Users Keep Their Free 15GB of Storage 80
HHVM Beats Stable Version of PHP 7.0 In Recent Benchmark 39
Why Is Gravity the Weakest Force? 207
Lenovo ThinkPad Stack, a New Take On Modular Mobile Peripherals 72
LionsGate Wants Pirate Sites To Pay For 'Expendables' 3 Leak 91
The Real Star Raiders II 33
Mozilla Hands Out Open Source Awards 44
Write the Docs Helps Create FLOSS Software Documentation (Video #2) 14
Thermal Imaging On Drones, Prius Communication, Yahoo's Reverse Spin - the Wrap
Dow Chemical and DuPont Plan Huge Merger Followed By a Split 56
Seymour Cray and the Development of Supercomputers 54
Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 543
Huge, Jupiter-Like Storm Rages On Cool 'Failed Star' 38
US Navy's $700 Million Mine-drone Won't Hunt 92
SHA-1 Cutoff Could Block Millions of Users From Encrypted Websites 146
Locked Intel Skylake CPUs Can Be Overclocked After BIOS Update 89
Gigster Wants To Be the Uber of Software Development 181
Rodent Neural Activity Has a Geometric Structure 27
Steam Escrow System Drives Impatient Users To Fake Trading Sites Serving Malware 88
Torrent Sites Earned $70M After Dropping Malware On Visitors 91
AT&T Building Massive Fiber Network That Barely Exists 91
Obama Administration To Offer Full Position On Encryption By End of Year 152
Faraday Future Selects Las Vegas As Home For $1B Electric Car Factory 110
Deputy Secretary of DHS On Agency's Role In Cybersecurity 19
Microsoft (Briefly) Reveals New Extensions For Edge, Including Reddit and Pinterest 44
Study: Happiness Won't Extend Your Life After All 108
Samsung Enters Auto Industry To Make Electronics For Autonomous Cars 31
Facebook Open Sources AI Hardware Design 56
Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method 383
Airbnb Dethrones Google As the Best Tech Company To Work For In the US 89
Germany Fires Up Bizarre New Fusion Reactor 186
"Happy Birthday To You" Set To Finally Reach the Public Domain 120
Low Redundancy Data Centers? Providers Adapt As Tenants Seek Options 57
Mingis On Tech - Episode 1
Quantum Computer Security? NASA Doesn't Want To Talk About It 86
Microsoft Offers Linux Certification. Yes, Really. 200
AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug 132
Interviews: Ask Attorney and Author Mike Godwin a Question 83
Chubb To Offer UK 'Troll Insurance' Policy 76
France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says 89
Stephen Wolfram's Free Book Teaches the Wolfram Language To Kids 105
Baidu Speeds Up Driverless Race With First Full Test On Beijing Roads 37
Bruce Perens On Problems With the Open Hardware Model 201
WordPress 4.4 Arrives 39
Musk Announces Return-to-Flight Date For Falcon 9 Rocket 114
Microsoft Open Sources and Forks Windows Live Writer Into Open Live Writer 44
Report: Apple To Suspend Effort To Develop Live TV Service 71
FBI Admits It Uses Stingrays, Zero-Day Exploits 79
1 in 3 Patients Will Have Their Healthcare Records Compromised 68
Simulation Pinpoints the Most Likely Spots For Life In the Milky Way 86
Elementary OS 0.3.2 "Freya" Released 86
Ex-US State Dept. Worker Pleads Guilty To Extensive Sextortion Case 60
Japan Releases AKATSUKI's Pictures of Venus 44
Dell, Toshiba and Lenovo Utilities Expose PCs To More Attacks 89
NHTSA Toughens Crash Test Rating Standards 165
The Ups and Downs of AMD 225
NASA On Quantum Computer Security 1
Disease-Resistant Pigs Latest Win For Gene Editing Technology 125
Write the Docs Helps Create FLOSS Software Documentation (Video) 27
How the Thirty Meter Telescope Ruling Will Impact Future Astronomy Projects 251
$5 Raspberry Pi Zero Compared To Intel's NetBurst CPUs & Newer 99
Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption 556
Microsoft Kills Many Critical Flaws, Some 0-Days, Un-Trusts One Wildcard Cert 103
Samsung Launches Business Unit To Focus On Driverless Cars 37
Shoring Up Cybersecurity With Homeland Security
Homeland Security's Role In Cybersecurity
UK's National Crime Agency Publishes Crazy Cyber-Crime Warning Signs 151
Volkswagen Says Carbon Deviations Much Smaller Than Suspected 84
Tech Giant SAP Seeks To Hire More Autistic Adults 165
Alleged Bitcoin Creator Raided By Australian Authorities 181
Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo 210
Spike TV Is Turning Red Mars Into a TV Series 39
XSS Can Take Down Your IoT Wind Turbine 68
MIT Researchers Develop Triple Helix MicroRNA Cancer Treatment 29
Google Fiber Targets Chicago and Los Angeles 37
Prolonged Sitting and Poor Sleep Can Work Together To Shorten Your Life 115
Signs You're Doing Devops Wrong 166
Best Way To Check For Malware
HTC Delays Vive VR Launch Until April 2016 18
Wired Thinks It Knows Who Satoshi Nakamoto Is 291
Mozilla Will Stop Developing and Selling Firefox OS Smartphones 174
Google Finds D-Wave Machine To Be 10^8 Times Faster Than Simulated Annealing 157
Cybercriminals Learning To Filter Out Undercover Cops 63
Qualcomm Faces Antitrust Charges In Europe 33
IT Leaders Now Expected To Be Open To Open Source 74
What If Someone Uses This DIY CRISPR Kit To Make Mutant Bacteria? 115
Eric Schmidt Proposes 'Hate Spell-Checker' For Radical and Terrorist Content 305
NetHack 3.6.0 Released After a 12-Year Wait 76
Mozilla Launches Focus By Firefox, a Content Blocker For iOS 9 30
Twitter Testing Non-Chronological Timelines 83
GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms 633
First Ever EU Rules On Cybersecurity 21
Theremin's Bug Let Soviets Spy On USA For More Than 7 Years 99
In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You 94
Radeon Graphics Cards To Support HDR Displays and FreeSync Over HDMI In 2016 37
Spotting And Culling Terrorist Groups On Social Media: Pipe Dream, or Possibility? 69
Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" 735
B-52s: The Plane That Refuses To Die 290
Google's Pixel C Is a Killer Android Tablet On a Productivity Mission 1
Deep Learning Identifies Wet Road Hazards From Sound Input 60
Japan Defends Scientific Value of New Plan To Kill 333 Minke Whales 214
Streaming Video Is 70 Percent of Broadband Use 89
A New Technique For Creating Diamonds Discovered 119
Hit-and-Run Suspect Arrested After Her Own Car Calls Cops 423
Developing In C/C++? Why You Should Consider Clang Over GCC 255
Facebook Shuts Down Creative Labs 62
Largest Destroyer Built For Navy Headed To Sea For Testing 331
The Death of Electronic Surplus 138
Japanese Space Probe Akatsuki Enters Orbit Around Venus Five Years Late 51
Cool Features In PowerPoint 2016
Senators: Has Uncle Sam Paid Off Ransomware Criminals? 53
US Cyber Criminal Underground a Shopping Free-For-All 81
Verizon Creates Minecraft Mod To Let Players Video Chat On an In-Game Smartphone 36
Apple's Legal Fight With Samsung Revealed a Gold Mine of Top-Secret Information 109
NASA 'Moving On' From Low-Earth Orbit 118
Beijing Issues 'Red Alert' Over Smog 145
Microsoft Will Resume Pushing Windows 10 To Machines With Win7, 8.1 665
Ask Slashdot: How Will You Be Programming In a Decade? 279
Movies of Cold War Bomb Tests Hold Nuclear Secrets 61
Fan Lists Himself As a Band's Family Member On Wikipedia To Sneak Backstage 91
French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi 115

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