Slashdot Stories for 2015

Paris Climate Change Talks Yield First Draft 138
TAG Heuer Increasing Weekly Production To Meet Demand For Its Smartwatch 86
Remix Mini Review: a $70 Android Desktop PC 82
Google Santa Tracker Is Back 68
Hillary Clinton Urges Silicon Valley To 'Disrupt' ISIS 452
Cygnus Launches In First Mission Since Antares Rocket Explosion 39
Google 360 VR Patriots Experience Puts You In the Pocket With Brady 36
Zuckerberg Answers Critics of His Move To Give Away His Facebook Stock 174
Congress Joins Battle Against Ticket Bots 150
How To Lead a Nation That's About To Be Swallowed By the Sea 289
Report Claims Microsoft Beat Apple in Online Tablet Sales for October 239
Researchers Are Developing Cure for Human Pain 151
Hackers Get Lazy, Build Trojan On Top of Android Rooting Utility 53
India Wins Contract To Launch Private Weather Satellites 34
Google Proposes 'Needle-less' System For Drawing Blood 91
California Attack Has US Rethinking Strategy On Homegrown Terror 676
Disease Threatens 99% of the Banana Market 199
To Fight Pollution, New Delhi Restricts When Residents Can Drive 131
FTC Appoints EFF Board Member Lorrie Cranor As Chief Technologist 50
Microsoft Windows Server 2016 Moving To Per-Core Licensing 288
Porsche Is Building a Tesla Competitor 254
Astronomers Spot Baby Galaxies Cradled In Dark Matter 73
New Software Puts License Plate Scanners Into Citizens' Hands 238
Science-Fictional Shibboleths 508
How Much Will Autonomous Cars Really Help? 211
Iran's Military Nuclear Program Lasted Longer Than We Thought 134
Graphene Shows Promise For Super Strong Dental Fillings 75
Microsoft To Open Source Chakra, the JavaScript Engine In Its Edge Browser 114
Nokia Completes Sale of HERE Mapping Services 15
Linux Mint 17.3 Officially Released 109
Canadian Cable Company Shames Non-Paying Customers Publicly On Facebook 149
Copyright Troll's Property Seized To Pay Bankruptcy Debts 69
No More Security Fixes For Older OpenSSL Branches 60
New Horizons' First Ultra High Resolution Photos of Pluto Released 52
Take a Visual Tour of CyberKnife Radiosurgery 36
Perl 6 Gets Beta Compiler, Modules and an Advent Calendar 131
DragonFlyBSD 4.4 Switches To the Gold Linker By Default 26
Mozilla Ends the Advertisements In Firefox's New Tab Tiles 197
Programming Education: Selling People a Lie? 397
Court: 'Repugnant' Online Discussions Aren't Thoughtcrime 155
Choose a Better Train With Web Scraping 50
Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words 393
Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet 31
Intel Skylake CPUs Are Warping Under Mounting Pressure From Third-Party Coolers 115
Patriot Act Author Warns EU Against Dragnet Response To Terror 138
Millions of Smart TVs, Phones and Routers At Risk From Old Vulnerability 65
Racing a Real Car While Wearing an Oculus VR Headset 74
Scientists Working To Extend Lifespan of Pets 209
The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs 241
Apollo 16 Booster Impact Site Found 65
Samsung Agrees To Pay Apple $548 Million Over Smartphone Patents 64
Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable 117
Controversial Experiment Sees No Evidence That the Universe Is a Hologram 157
Keep Two Bank Accounts To Beat Cyber Attacks, Says Bank of England Adviser 172
How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself 240
Ballmer: Microsoft Mobile Should Focus On Android Apps Not Universal Apps 121
IT Worker Fired After Massive Georgia Data Breach Speaks Out 113
Greener Colo: Service Providers Get Serious About Renewable Energy 33
If Climate Change Is a Problem Then Lunar Helium-3 Fueled Fusion Is the Solution 267
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Approach Big Companies With Your Product? 174
Amazon Prime Air, Zuckerberg's Big Surprise, 360 Video - the Wrap 1
$60,000 Nokia Camera Records Spherical Video
The FSF's Donald Robertson Talks About Secretive Trade Negotiations (Video) 32
Google Calls Out EFF Over Claims That It Snoops On Students With Chromebooks 100
Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust 171
Why Legal Experts Are Up In Arms Over a Trade-Secrets Bill Microsoft Loves 48
Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta 135
Wih Messenger Revamp, Yahoo Joins the 'Unsend' Trend 49
Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB 244
Nokia's $60,000 Virtual Reality Camera Goes On a Drone Test Flight 24
More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives 88
Apple Releases Swift As an Open-Source Project 195
15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom 178
After Demanding $3 Million Ransom, Hacker Dumps Massive Customer Financial Data 124
Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls 215
Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years 385
Giant Telescope Project Stalled By Hawaiian Natives 177
Is AI Development Moving In the Wrong Direction? 189
New Scientific Journal To Publish "Discrete Observations Rather Than Complete Stories" 45
Airbus Patent Shows Modular, Removable Aircraft Cabins 96
Scammy Tech Support Sites Now Serving Up Ransomware 43
The Story of the CEO Paying Everyone $70k Gets Complicated 233
City Sued Over Smart Meter-Related Patent 60
DOJ Cracking Down On Profit-Driven Policing, Audit Looks At How Far It's Spread 210
PHP 7 Ready For Release 159
Mass Shooting In San Bernardino Kills At Least 14 1134
Congress Votes to Scrap Obama's Clean Power Plan 151
The FSF's Donald Robertson Talks About Copyrights, Patents, and the TPP (Video) 39
Microsoft Promotes New Trade Secrets Bill 28
Museum of Political Corruption Planned For New York 97
Why the Raspberry Pi Zero Isn't a Practical Tool For Teaching Students 190
Zero-Day Bugs In Numerous Modems/Routers Could Compromise Millions of Users 81
Chrome 47 Released 61
Western Digital Announces World's First 10TB Helium-Filled Hard Drive 145
Wikipedia Creates AI System To Filter Out Bad Edits 83
Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide 503
The Race To Create a Hyperloop Heats Up 172
China Blamed For Attack On Australian Bureau of Meteorology 44
Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To 131
Yahoo Discussing Sale of Internet Business 129
SSDs Approaching Price Parity With HDDs 272
Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep 411
Father of Robotics, Joseph F. Engelberger, Dies At Age 90 20
Canonical Patches Two Kernel Vulnerabilities In Ubuntu 14.04 33
IRS: We Used Stingray Devices To Track 37 Phones 63
Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock 260
Los Angeles Flirts With Pre-Crime 390
Greek Banks Under Cyberattack, Face Ransom Demands 42
Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing 226
Software Engineer Liz Bennett Talks About Being a Woman in a Nearly All Male Workplace (Video) 370
Skip the Picks; Expert Uses Hammer To Open a Master Lock 222
The Brains of Men and Women Aren't Really That Different, Study Finds 163
NSF Antes Up $200K For Spin-off of Microsoft-Funded 'Code Trip' TV Show 22
Xbox Kinect Technology Helps Create Higher-Quality X-Rays 14
Washington Hosts Summit On Gene Editing and 'Designer Babies' 137
Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client 418
DHS Offering Free Vulnerability Scans, Penetration Tests 79
Tech Leaders' Boldest Predictions For 2016
Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis 247
Phishing Blast Uses Dropbox To Target Hong Kong Journalists 12
Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux 175
Enlightenment E20 Released With Full Wayland Support 56
After Twenty Years of Flash, Adobe Kills the Name 125
Revealed: What Info the FBI Can Collect With a National Security Letter 93
Arkansas Has a Growing Population of "Climate Change Refugees" 276
Patton Oswalt Recruited For New MST3K Cast 50
Italy Invests 150 Million Euros In Surveillance, With Emphasis On PS4 Chats 62
Sued For Using HTTPS: Companies In Crypto Patent Fight 130
The Hidden Costs of Going Freelance 160
Sony Unlocks PlayStation 4's Previously Reserved Seventh CPU Core For Devs 143
HTTP/2.0 Opens Every New Connection It Makes With the Word 'PRISM' 200
Russian Moon Landing May Take As Many As Six Launches 242
US Marshals Jump Into 'Cyber Monday' Mania 63
AT&T Will Raise Cost of Old Unlimited Data Plans By $5 In February 56
VTech Hack Gets Worse: Chat Logs, Kids' Photos Taken In Breach 69
Researchers Create Sodium Battery In Industry Standard "18650" Format 209
Swallow the Doctor: The Present and Future of Robots Inside Us 31
Amazon Prime Air Gets a New Drone 1
Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction 475
Book Review: Security Operations Center 14
Interviews: Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood Answers Your Questions 78
IoT Home Alarm System Can Be Easily Hacked and Spoofed 123
Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop 207
Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access 173
New Campaign Features Internet Trolls On Roadside Billboards 197
Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode 262
It's Getting Harder To Reside Anonymously In a Modern City 100
How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have 258
BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns 71
MST3K Kickstarter Poised To Break Kickstarter Record 104
Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator 171
VW Officials Knew Since Last Year of Misleading Fuel Economy Claims 177
Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos 529
Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining 127
Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles 277
Purdue Experiments With Income-Contingent Student Loans 230
Facebook Expands Parental Leave Policy For All Employees Globally 130
Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss 85
Cortana Coming To iOS, For 2000 Beta Testers 39
Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act 218
Swedish Court Says ISPs Can't Be Forced To Block Pirate Bay 20
New Type of 'Flow Battery' Can Store 10 Times the Energy of the Next Best Device 75
Driverless Cars Will Compete -- But Only With Each Other -- In Formula E Races 44
Pursuit of Slenderness May Mean No More Headphone Jack In iPhone 7 412
2 Planets Can Share the Same Orbit, In 3 Different Ways 73
Pwned Barbies Spying On Children? Toytalk CEO Downplays Hacking Reports 90
Swarm Robotics Breakthrough Brings Pheromone Communication To AI 31
Creator of Relay On BITNET, Predecessor of IRC, Dies 34
NASA Prepares To Launch an Orion and 3 Cubesats To Deep Space: 3 Years To Go 54
Bill Gates To Headline Paris Climate Talks 93
What USB Has Replaced (And What it Hasn't) 299
How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? 210
DecryptorMax/CryptInfinite Ransomware Decrypted, No Need To Pay Ransom 49
Ask Slashdot: Buy Or Build a High End Gaming PC? 325
Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols 74
Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age 366
Parts of Falcon 9 Launcher Wash Ashore In England 20
C.H.I.P. vs Pi Zero: Which Sub-$10 Computer Is Better? 122
Hacker Cracks Lumia Bootloader, Offers Tool For Root Access and Custom ROMs 72
Finnish IT Retailer Reveals Most Returned Products 108
Celebrating ARM's 25th Anniversary With the Visual ARM1 37
France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests 248
Ask Slashdot: Is There a Bookmark Manager That Actually Manages Bookmarks? 100
Privacy Vulnerability Exposes VPN Users' Real IP Addresses 94
NSA To End Bulk Phone Surveillance By Sunday 139
LinkedIn's Own CSS Abused For Clickjacking Attacks 12
'No Such Thing As a Free Gift' Casts a Critical Eye At Gates Foundation 156
The First Online Purchase Was a Sting CD (Or Possibly Weed) 53
VTech Hack Exposes Data On 4.8 Million Adults, 200,000 Kids 65
Swedish Court: ISPs Can't Be Forced To Ban the Pirate Bay 55
Scientists Turn Gold Into Foam That's Nearly As Light As Air 70
Montana Newspaper Plans To Out Anonymous Commenters Retroactively 246
Parts of the SpaceX Falcon-9 Rocket Found Off the Isles of Scilly 29
LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals 446
Lenovo Patches Serious Vulnerabilities In PC System Update Tool 38
UK Prisons To Crack Down On Inmate Internet and Mobile Phone Use 70
London's Deputy Mayor On Ditching Diesel 188
NASA Concludes That Comets, Not Alien Megastructures Orbit KIC 8462852 105
Apple Looks To Introduce OLED Displays In iPhone Models From 2018 225
Greenwald: Why the CIA Is Smearing Edward Snowden After Paris Attacks 298
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Ship With Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS 101
Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood 159
Free Pascal Compiler 3.0.0 Is Out; Adds Support For 16-Bit MS-DOS, 64-Bit iOS 134
Russians Build Nuclear-Powered Data Center 58
Software Freedom Conservancy Asks For Supporters 44
900 Embedded Devices Share Hard-Coded Certs, SSH Host Keys 48
Czech Judge Cuts Deal With Software Pirate: Get 200K YouTube Views Or Pay Huge Fine 95
Richard Dawkins Opposes UK Cinemas Censoring Church's Advert Before Star Wars 319
Tesla's NOx Problem: Model X Delay Explained? 42
Pressure From Uber Forces London Taxis To Finally Accept Cards 114
AMD's Crimson Radeon Driver For Linux Barely Changes Anything 95
Raspberry Pi Unveils New $5 Mini-computer 243
Google Scours 1.2 Million URLs To Conform With EU's "Right To Be Forgotten" Law 67
How Sports Commentaries Can Speed Up AI Development 40
IT Execs On Their Dream Dinner Guests 83
Japanese Rocket Launches Its First Commercial Satellite 31
Critical Zen Cart Vulnerability Could Spell Black Friday Disaster For Shoppers 59
Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars 482
Scientists Produce Graphene 100 Times Cheaper Than Ever Before 77
Insurer Refuses To Cover Cox In Massive Piracy Lawsuit 101
New Wearable Tech Translates Sign Language Into Text 32
This Gizmo Knows Your Amex Card Number Before You've Received It 68
Will You Be Able To Run a Modern Desktop Environment In 2016 Without Systemd? 785
The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube 109
Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space 373
What Is the Future of the Television? 235
KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 210
Even the Dumbest Ransomware Is Almost Unremovable On Smart TVs 151
Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected To Become Terrorists 497
Another Giant xkcd Comics Experiment 48
AMD's 'Crimson' Driver Software Released 50
Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets 171
Windows 10 Fall Update Uninstalls Desktop Software Without Informing Users 360
The Tamagochi Singularity Made Real: Infinite Tamagochi Living On the Internet 84
On iFixit and the Right To Repair 250
How Computer Scientists Cracked a 50-Year-Old Math Problem 96
2015 'Dance Your PhD' Winner Announced 18
Green Light Or No, Nest Cam Never Stops Watching 199
Hospitals Can 3D Print a Patient's Vasculature For Aneurysm Pre-Op Practice 21
UK Mobile Operator Could Block Ads At Network Level 109
High-Security, Open-Source Router is a Hit on Indiegogo (Video) 112
Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans 103
One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign 256
How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Are Losing Their Meaning 140
Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy 223
High Level Coding Language Used To Create New POS Malware 94
Microsoft Blames Layoffs For Drop In Female Employees 182
Second Root Cert-Private Key Pair Found On Dell Computer 65
Blue Origin "New Shepherd" Makes It To Space... and Back Again 121
Pearson Credential Manager System Used By Cisco, IBM, F5 Has Been Breached 25

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