Slashdot Stories for 2017

WhatsApp Rings in the New Year with a Global Outage 40
Apple's iPhones Were the Best-Selling Tech Product of 2017 88
EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS 214
Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail 294
Kansas Swatting Perpetrator 'SWauTistic' Interviewed on Twitter 434
America's Doctors Are Performing Expensive Procedures That Don't Work 233
Ars Technica Puts Twitter, Uber On '2018 Deathwatch' 152
Construction Workers Find 30 Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Eggs 65
Can Docker Survive Google? 98
Movie Ticket Sales Hit A 22-Year Low in 2017 162
Tech Bros Bought Sex Trafficking Victims Using Amazon and Microsoft Work Emails 321
2017: The Year in Programming Languages 117
Ask Slashdot: What Would an AI-Written Poem Look Like? 138
Iran Cuts Internet Access and Threatens Telegram Following Mass Protests 156
Slashdot's 10 Most-Visited Stories of 2017 35
How A Civilian Drone Crashed Into the US Army's Helicopter 141
Louisana Police Bust an Infamous Nigerian Email Spam Scammer 66
Could We Reduce Data Breaches With Better Open Source Funding? 60
Blockchain Brings Business Boom To IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft 94
In a Declining Comics Market, DC Beats Marvel 159
How Big Tech is Getting Involved in Your Health Care 50
Neuro, Cyber, Slaughter: Emerging Technological Threats In 2017 38
Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down 404
Call of Duty Gaming Community Points To 'Swatting' In Wichita Police Shooting 681
Kodi Media Player Arrives On the Xbox One 57
Germany Orders Amazon To Stop Taking Advantage of People Who Can't Spell 'Birkenstock' 162
Dutch Utility Plans Massive Wind Farm Island In North Sea 141
'Star Wars' Franchise Crosses $4 Billion, Eclipsing Disney's Lucasfilm Price 187
Facebook's Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts To Stay Up 171
300,000 Users Exposed In Ancestry.com Data Leak 43
How Hotmail Changed Microsoft (and Email) Forever 84
How Climate Change Deniers Rise To the Top in Google Searches 359
Trump Wants Postal Service To Charge 'Much More' For Amazon Shipments 338
Slashdot Asks: How Should Apple Have Responded To the Battery Controversy? 177
AT&T Sheds Thousands of Employees After Touting GOP Tax Plan, Giving Out Bonuses 105
Trump's Website Is Coded With a Broken Server Error Message That Blames Obama 168
The Biggest Rocket Launches and Space Missions We're Looking Forward To in 2018 112
Microsoft's Fall Creators Update Already on More Than Half of All Windows 10 PCs 140
That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You're Watching on TV 98
A Glitch Stole Christmas: S.C. Lottery Says Error Caused Winning Tickets 113
Apple's MacBook Air-like Store Roof Wasn't Designed To Handle Snow... in Chicago 190
Filmmakers Want The Right To Break DRM and Rip Blu-Rays 107
Two Romanians Charged With Hacking Washington DC Police Surveillance Cameras Days Before Trump's Inauguration 47
Chrome Extension with 100,000 Users Caught Pushing Cryptocurrency Miner 47
Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version 80
A Manager of the Exmo Bitcoin Exchange Has Been Kidnapped In Ukraine 82
Russia Lost a $45 Million Satellite Because 'They Didn't Get the Coordinates Right' 101
There's No Evidence Comcast's New 'Network Investment' Is Because of Net Neutrality Repeal or Tax Cuts 177
Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time 111
Italian Clothing Company Defeats Apple, Wins the Right To Use Steve Jobs' Name 172
Apple Apologizes For iPhone Slowdown Drama, Will Offer $29 Battery Replacements 254
Google Stops Selling the Pixel C Android Tablet 48
How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System 440
HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does 133
SoftBank Acquires Big Stake In Uber In a Major Victory For Both Companies 17
People Who Know How the News Is Made Resist Conspiratorial Thinking 368
Leaving the House Linked To Longevity in Older Adults 54
Chrome OS Will Finally Run Android Apps in the Background 42
Amazon's YouTube App on Fire TV Stops Working Ahead of Schedule 85
UK Enjoyed 'Greenest Year For Electricity Ever' in 2017 72
MoviePass Adds a Million Subscribers, Even if Theaters Aren't Sold on It 122
Postcard From Pyongyang: The Airport Now Has Wi-Fi, Sort of 141
The Year in Crowdfunded PCs: Who Succeeded? Who Failed? 52
Google Works With Hotels To Hurt Travel Competition 129
Where Did WikiLeaks' $25 Million Bitcoin Fortune Go? 85
Mark Zuckerberg's Real Campaign: Save Facebook 158
Carlsberg Turns To AI To Help Develop Beers 56
The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder 125
Web Trackers Exploit Flaw In Browser Login Managers To Steal Usernames 76
A Reporter Built a Bot To Find Nazi Sock Puppet Accounts. Twitter Banned the Bot and Kept the Nazis 648
FBI Software For Analyzing Fingerprints Contains Russian-Made Code, Whistleblowers Say 174
Empirical Research Reveals Three Big Problems With How Patents Are Vetted 94
Nintendo Delaying 64GB Game Cards For Switch Until 2019, Says Report 54
Apple To Release Lisa OS For Free As Open Source In 2018 95
Some Sonos and Bose Speakers Are Being Hijacked To Play Ghostly Sounds 41
Russia Is Accusing the US of 'Direct Interference' In Its Elections 195
Human Go Champion Backtracks On Vow To Never Face An AI Opponent Again 31
56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start 211
That '70s Show: the Conference That Predicted the Future of Work 40
If Dogs Can Smell Cancer, Why Don't They Screen People? 106
The Last Man on Earth To Speak His Language 177
Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns 242
Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' 92
Acoustic Attacks on HDDs Can Sabotage PCs, CCTV Systems, ATMs, More 72
The Link Between Polygamy and War 460
Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use 360
Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird 76
Google's Voice-Generating AI Is Now Indistinguishable From Humans 101
FCC Approves First Wireless 'Power-At-A-Distance' Charging System 138
WeChat To Become China's Official Electronic ID System 54
Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season 262
Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Pickup Truck Coming 'After Model Y' 200
Beware: 'Digmine' Cryptocurrency Bot Is Spreading Via Facebook Messenger 96
Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand 168
Bitcoin Recovers Some Losses After Its Worst Week Since 2013 150
Uber Is Selling Its Money-Losing Car Lease Business 22
Is Google Home Fit For Elderly and Disabled Users? 93
The Library of Congress Will Stop Archiving Every Public Tweet On January 1st 79
Flying in Airplanes Exposes People To More Radiation Than Standing Next To a Nuclear Reactor 275
Net Neutrality Complaints Rise Amid FCC Repeal 183
What Amazon's Alexa Economy Pays the People Building Its Skills 101
Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions 171
Cash Might Be King, but They Don't Care 679
Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage 165
China's Shanghai Sets Population at 25 Million To Avoid 'Big City Disease' 83
Researchers Fooled a Google AI Into Thinking a Rifle Was a Helicopter 160
Movie Theaters Were Already in Trouble. With Disney's Fox Deal, It's Double 193
People Still Aren't Buying Smartwatches -- and It's Only Going To Get Worse 331
China Closes More Than 13,000 Websites in Past Three Years 73
UK Companies Facing Cyber Security Staff Shortage 138
Estimates of Bitcoin's Soaring Energy Use Are Likely Overstating the Electric Power Required To Mine the Cryptocurrency 115
Established Players in Tech Industry Are Displaced By New Technologies and Companies Often When They Are Operating At Their Peak 57
Russia's Putin Calls For Web Activities of Some Firms To Be Monitored 57
The Majority of Americans Prefer To Be Greeted With 'Merry Christmas' Over 'Happy Holidays', a Poll Finds 410
How Many Books Will You Read in a Lifetime? Around 4600, If You Read Fast 99
UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt', Says Former Head of Pentagon Alien Program 300
Man Threatened Company With Cyber Attack To Fire Employee and Hire Him Instead 151
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Books, Movies, Documentaries and Shows From This Year That You Liked and Recommend To Others? 91
Opera 50 Web Browser Will Offer Anti-Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Mining Feature 76
Should Regulators Force Facebook To Ship a 'Start Over' Button For Users? 109
NASA Begins Planning For An Interstellar Mission In 2069 143
Tesla's Newest Holiday Update Includes an Easter Egg: 'Santa Mode' 90
DMCA Exemption Sought to Save 'Abandoned' Online Games 59
Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? 669
Resuming Its Annual PR Mission, NORAD Tracks Santa Claus 82
CMU Researchers Reveal How Their AI Beat The World's Top Poker Players 36
More Unix Tools Coming To Windows 10 123
Wired Publishes Fake Christmas Letter By Elon Musk 32
Some Telcos and ISPs are Frustrating IPv6 Adoption 135
36,744 People Are Watching Overwatch's Jeff Kaplan Sit Motionless With A Yule Log 78
How Harvard Teaches CS Students How To Code 138
Project Maven Brings AI To the Fight Against ISIS 35
Days Before Christmas, Theranos Secures $100 Million in New Funding 96
12 Days In Xinjiang - China's Surveillance State 132
FSF Adds PureOS To List of Endorsed GNU/Linux Distributions 46
Republican's 'Net Neutrality' Proposal Called 'Bait and Switch' 121
Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? 383
Researchers Ask: Are People Better Off Than 50 Years Ago? 357
Fleeing Google's Apps and iOS, Mandrake Linux Creator Launches 'eelo' Project 122
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid 'Information Overload' 133
Russian Submarines are 'Prowling Around' Undersea Internet Cables 175
Court Throws Out Grsecurity Libel Lawsuit Against Bruce Perens 48
Can We Get Global Broadband From Low-Earth Orbit Satellites? 134
Firefox 57's Speed Secret? Delaying Requests from Tracking Domains 119
UK Police's Porn-Spotting AI Keeps Mistaking Desert Pics for Nudes 144
65% of Washington DC's Outdoor Surveillance Cameras Infiltrated by Romanian Hackers 85
Rust Blog Touts 'What We Achieved' in 2017 153
Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? 186
Experts Cast Doubt on 'Alien Alloys' in the New York Times' UFO Story 206
The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study 311
SpaceX Rocket Stuns Californians As It Carries 10 Satellites Into Space 105
China Is Building a Solar Power Highway 131
Lithuania Calls On EU To Stop Adjusting Clocks For Daylight Savings 170
Samsung Could Make $22 Billion Off Next Year's iPhones 43
How To Check If You Interacted With Russian Propaganda On Facebook During the 2016 Election 226
Amazon Acquires Connected Camera and Doorbell Startup 'Blink' 18
Airlines With the Best In-Flight Wi-Fi 52
Elon Musk Shows Off the Tesla Roadster That SpaceX Will Send Beyond Mars 118
Ask Slashdot: Thoughts On Star Wars: The Last Jedi One Week Later? [Spoilers] 300
Nvidia To Cease Producing New Drivers For 32-Bit Systems 92
Driverless Cars Could Make Transportation Free for Everyone -- With a Catch 177
Bitcoin's Value Plummeted Overnight and No One Knows Why 461
Comcast May Have Enrolled Thousands in a Near-Worthless Protection Program Without Their Consent 52
Man in China Sentenced To Five Years' Jail For Running VPN 42
Number of Births in Japan To Hit Record Low in 2017 133
'Username or Password is Incorrect' Security Defense is a Weak Practice 249
Faced With Rising Temperatures, People May Seek Asylum 210
Wind Power Is Now The Cheapest Energy In India 54
Russian Hackers Targeted More Than 200 Journalists Globally 72
Snowden's New App Haven Uses Your Smartphone To Physically Guard Your Laptop 134
Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit After Admitting To Slowing Down Old iPhones 244
Firefox Is Now Available On Amazon's Fire TV, Bringing YouTube Access With It 49
Elon Musk Shows Off Near-Complete Falcon Heavy Rocket 150
California Poised To Hit 50 Percent Renewable Target a Full Decade Ahead of Schedule 247
AnyDVD Supports UHD Blu-Ray Ripping, While Devices Patch Security Holes 68
US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% 275
Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes 88
Goldman Sachs Is Setting Up a Cryptocurrency Trading Desk 55
Amazon Files For 'AmazonTube' and 'OpenTube' Trademarks As Fight With YouTube Gets Pettier 81
Apple's iPhone Throttling Will Reinvigorate the Push for Right To Repair Laws 158
Eric Schmidt Is Stepping Down As Executive Chairman of Alphabet 47
Kids In 'Netflix Only' Homes Are Being Saved From 230 Hours of Commercials a Year, Says Report 118
Slashdot Asks: Should Tech Companies End the One-Year Software Update Cycle? 187
How Facebook's Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda 65
FCC Hits Sinclair With $13 Million Fine Over Ads 41
Ice Tea Company Rebrands as 'Long Blockchain' and Stock Price Triples 144
Ask Slashdot: When Is the Right Time To Discuss Retirement With Your Employer? 333
Amazon Music Ending Cloud MP3 Storage, Streaming Option 107
Facial Scans at US Airports Violate Americans' Privacy, Report Says 137
Wearables Still Slow To Catch On in the United States 127
Security Firm Keeper Sues News Reporter Over Vulnerability Story 73
Where in the World is Mars' Water? 102
Windows 10 Facial Recognition Feature Can Be Bypassed with a Photo 95
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook To Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads 340
FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy For Inherited Form of Blindness 58
Walmart Is Planning a Store Without Cashiers 190
Amazon Tries To Figure Out the Packaging Box Problem It Created 169
A Federal Ban On Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted 156
NASA Advances Missions To Land a Flying Robot on Titan or Snatch a Piece of a Comet 49
Youbit Shuts Down Cryptocurrency Exchange After Second Hack, Files For Bankruptcy 68
The People Who Read Your Airline Tweets 54
Magic Leap Finally Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles 79
Cable TV's Password-Sharing Crackdown Is Coming 143
Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises 244
Ask Slashdot: Do You Print Too Little? 216
PSA: Spotify Now Available As a Snap For Linux 66
Apple Confirms iPhone With Older Batteries Will Take Hits On Performance 172
Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem 167
Bitcoin's Rise May Reflect a Monumental Transfer of Trust From Human Institutions Backed By Gov't To Systems Reliant on Well-Tested Code, Says Tim Wu 365
The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right 260
Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps To Create One User Experience 247
Intel CEO Tells Employees: 'We Are Going To Take More Risks' 129
Google Maps's Moat: How Far Ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? 174
EU's Top Court Rules That Uber Is a Transportation Company 139
Republican Lawmaker Introduces Net Neutrality Legislation 350
Coinbase Adds Support For Bitcoin Cash [Update: Disabled] 111
Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua' Appears To Be Wrapped In An Organic Insulation Layer 242
France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 259
Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks 133
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? 304
Cloud-Based Repository Leak Exposes 123 Million American Households 62
The White House Is Temporarily Shutting Down Its Petition Website 153
Your Phone May Send You 'Blue Alerts' To Warn You When Local Police Are In Danger 318
Microsoft Removes Google's Chrome Installer From the Windows Store 124
'Loapi' Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Is Causing Phone Batteries To Bulge 55
Chinese Backdoor Still Active on Many Android Devices 30
'Productivity Is Dangerous' 233
Tesla Big Battery Outsmarts Lumbering Coal Units After Loy Yang Trips 347
Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing 242
Geekbench Results Visualize Possible Link Between iPhone Slowdowns and Degraded Batteries 135
Facebook Will Use Facial Recognition To Tell You When People Upload Your Picture 80
New York City Moves To Create Accountability For Algorithms 183
Belgium Ends 19th-Century Telegram Service 52
A Small Fintech Stock Surged 2,600 Percent in a Week After Announcing It's a Crypto Company 64
Microsoft Backs Bill To Give Harassment Cases Their Day in Court, Waives Its Own Arbitration Clauses 73
US Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' For WannaCry Ransomware Attack 159
Think Twice About Buying Internet-connected Devices Off Ebay 77
Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False 363
Venezuela Will Force Bitcoin Miners To Register With the Government 152
Scientists Confirm There Was Life On Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago 176
Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied To Faulty Brain Rhythms In Sleep, Study Says 70
WhatsApp Ordered To Stop Sharing User Data With Facebook 119
Plexamp, Plex's Spin on the Classic Winamp Player, Is the First Project From New Incubator Plex Labs 209
Facebook To Demote Posts That Ask For 'Likes' Or Shares 85
CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC 177
Two Major ISPs Are Suffering Outages, Making the Internet Really Slow Right Now 131
Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations 282
'There Will Be a [Senate] Vote' To Reinstate Net Neutrality, Schumer Says 278
'The Year That Software Bugs Ate the World' 95
Kaspersky Lab Sues Trump Administration Over Software Ban 185

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