Slashdot Stories for 2021

Amazing / Strange Things Scientists Calculated in 2021 36
A Program for Cheaper Internet for Low-Income Americans Launches Today 101
Ask Slashdot: New Year's Resolution For Tech Companies? 52
Slashdot Asks: What Are Some Books You Liked Reading This Year? 112
Intel Demos Lightning Fast 13.8 GBps PCIe 5.0 SSD with Alder Lake 40
How Chinese Police Track Critics on Twitter and Facebook 61
Plans To Capture CO2 From Coal Plants Wasted Federal Dollars, Watchdog Says 291
India Antitrust Watchdog Orders Investigation Into Apple's Business Practices 26
Canon's Flagship DSLR Line Will End With the EOS-1D X Mark III, Eventually 128
The Best Book of the Past 125 Years, According To NYT Book Review Readers 106
Samsung Says Its Foldable Shipments Increased Four-Fold In 2021 56
Building the World's Brightest X-Ray Laser 15
Fireworks Could Fizzle Out As Drones Rise In Popularity For New Year 68
Sugar Additive Trehalose Could Have Helped Spread Dangerous Superbug Around the US 78
Approval For AMD's $35 Billion Xilinx Acquisition Slips To 2022 3
Boston Dynamics' Stretch Can Move 800 Heavy Boxes Per Hour 91
Using the Oceans To Store CO2 Could Help Avoid Climate Catastrophe 176
Apple Shifted To Chinese Suppliers To 'Cut Costs and Curry Favor With Beijing,' Report Finds 68
Sega Left One of Its European Servers Wide Open 5
University Loses 77TB of Research Data Due To Backup Error 74
Two NFT Copycats Are Fighting Over Which is the Real Fake Bored Ape Yacht Club 54
Are Apple AirTags Being Used To Track People and Steal Cars? 72
SK Hynix Completes First Phase of $9 Billion Intel NAND Business Buy 14
Gov. Parson Says He Believes Prosecutor Will Bring Charges Against Reporter For Using 'View Source' 207
'Critical' Polygon Bug Put $24 Billion in Tokens at Risk Until Recent Hard Fork 16
NASA-funded Program Recruited Religious Experts To Predict How Humans May React To Aliens 114
Tokyo Police Lose 2 Floppy Disks Containing Personal Info on 38 Public Housing Applicants 101
Mexico's Central Bank Will Launch Digital Currency by 2024 6
China Lays Out Path To Become Robotics Powerhouse by 2025 22
'Play-to-Earn' and Bullshit Jobs 175
South Korea Pushes Google, Apple To Pull Play-to-Earn Games From App Stores 8
Amazon Slips To 4th in Global Shopping App Installs Amid Rise of International Brands 20
Data Centers Are Pushing Ireland's Electric Grid To the Brink 66
MIT Engineers Test an Idea For a New Hovering Rover 18
With Its Single 'Eye,' NASA's DART Returns First Images From Space 7
How John Madden Became the 'Larger-Than-Life' Face of a Gaming Empire 38
Microsoft Defender Log4j Scanner Triggers False Positive Alerts 18
US Hits Record Number of New Covid-19 Cases 353
China's New AI Policy Doesn't Prevent It From Building Autonomous Weapons 46
Metaverse Property Mogul Touts 10-Fold Appreciation In Virtual Real Estate Portfolio 65
Sweden's Northvolt Builds First Lithium-Ion Battery Cell In Europe 21
BlackBerry OS Devices Will Stop Working On January 4, 2022 67
Apple Ditched Intel, and It Paid Off 101
Federal Court Ruling Will Make Wifi 6E a Reality 52
James Webb Space Telescope's Smooth Launch Extended Its Life Expectancy, NASA Says 45
Scientists Find Unexpected Trove of Life Forms Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf 13
Attackers in China Using Open-source Log4j Flaw 24
SpaceX Will Take Humans To Mars Within 10 Years, Elon Musk Predicts 207
Biden Signs NDAA Relying on Voluntary Private-Sector Cybersecurity Collaboration 24
LG Unveils OLED EX, the Next Generation of Its OLED TV Tech 41
Omicron May Be Causing Negative Amazon Reviews for Some Brands 71
CES 2022 Will Introduce HDMI 2.1a, Another Confusing New Spec 35
Apple Puts Foxconn India Plant on Probation After Protests Over Food and Accommodation Conditions 55
Chile Rewrites Its Constitution, Confronting Climate Change Head On 100
Iranian Hackers Behind Cox Media Group Ransomware Attack 4
T-Mobile Suffers Another Data Breach 6
Cyberattack On One of Norway's Largest Media Companies Shuts Down Presses 11
World's Oldest Family Tree Created Using DNA 49
Detailed Footage Finally Reveals What Triggers Lightning 45
Retailers Surrender To Unprecedented Costs On Online Returns 135
California Is Suing Walmart Over Alleged Improper Disposal of E-Waste and Other Hazardous Materials 16
Hyundai Shuts Down Its Engine Development Team Amid Focus On Electric Cars 215
WTF Is .xyz? 65
13 Battery Gigafactories Are Coming To the US By 2025 47
DoorDash Is Requiring Engineers To Deliver Food 144
Google's Pichai Ordered To Answer Queries About 'Incognito' Mode 42
Apple Aims To Prevent Defections To Meta With Rare $180,000 Bonuses for Top Talent 44
Japan Aims To Put a Person on the Moon by Late 2020s 34
LastPass Says It Didn't Leak Your Password 25
Winter Storms Are Breaking Snow and Temperature Records 97
Tumblr Goes Overboard Censoring Tags on iOS To Comply With Apple's Guidelines 34
Was 2021 the Worst Year Ever for Games? 61
Egyptian Pharaoh's Mummified Body Gives Up Its Secrets After 3,500 Years 12
Messy NFT Drop Angers Infosec Pioneers With Unauthorized Portraits 65
South Africa Study Suggests Omicron Could Displace Delta 100
Scientists Build New Atlas of Ocean's Oxygen-starved Waters 10
Google is Just Letting the Pixelbook Rot 42
Amazon's Alexa Tells 10-year-old Girl To Put Penny in Plug Socket 320
Why the Air Force Wants To Put Lidar On Robot Dogs 18
Nintendo Had Plans To Bring Email, Internet Searching, and Live Streams To the Game Boy Color 17
China Says SpaceX Satellites Nearly Collided With Its Space Station 283
Scientists Draw Inspiration From Catchweed To Create Biodegradable Velcro 14
Shutterfly Services Disrupted By Conti Ransomeware Attack 21
Virginia Family Gets Keys To Habitat For Humanity's First 3D-Printed Home in the US 33
A DAO Wants To Make Blockbuster a Decentralized Film Streaming Service 34
'Widevine Dump': Leaked Code Downloads HD Video From Disney+, Amazon, and Netflix 24
China Created AI 'Prosecutor' That Can Charge People With Crimes 79
Apple Reportedly Hires Away Meta's AR Public Relations Head 19
CDC Cuts Isolation Time For COVID-19 Infections From 10 Days To 5 110
Big Tech Split Leads To Demise of Internet Association 8
Microsoft, Salesforce Battle To Revitalize Customer Service 18
A New Motorola Razr Foldable is Coming 27
Nintendo Wins High Court Injunction to Block Access to Pirated Switch ROMs 14
More Than 1,200 Phishing Toolkits Capable of Intercepting 2FA Detected in the Wild 52
California is Suing Walmart Over Alleged Improper Disposal of E-waste and Other Hazardous Materials 39
Japan To Pay Companies To Keep Sensitive Patents Secret 28
Pandemic Tech Darlings Turned To Duds in 2021 38
Top CEO Worry for 2022: Job Security 49
Baidu's Jidu Auto To Mass Produce Its 'Robot' Electric Vehicles in 2023 43
E.O. Wilson, Naturalist Dubbed a Modern-day Darwin, Dies at 92 32
Dutch Watchdog Finds Apple App Store Payment Rules Anti-Competitive 56
Could GDPR Policy Erase Your Games? It Happened To an Ubisoft Customer 104
New FSF Campaign Celebrates Smaller Steps Up 'Freedom Ladder' 23
What's Next After the International Space Station? 98
Radio Telescope Reveals How Lightning Begins 22
Linux 5.17 To Introduce A New Driver Just To Deal With Buggy x86 Tablets 50
DuckDuckGo Search Queries Grew 47% in 2021 48
Concerns About Big Tech's Next Potential Monopoly: Connected Cars 102
X-ray Analysis Confirms Forged Date On Lincoln Pardon of Civil War Soldier 46
Habitat for Humanity Just Delivered Its First 3D Printed Home in the US 93
Is the Video Game Industry Closer to Unionization Than Ever Before? 81
Employee Background Check Errors Harm Thousands of Workers 65
Google Scans Gmail and Drive For Cartoons of Child Sexual Abuse 146
'A Quadrillion Mainframes On Your Lap' 101
Nearly 5,000 Flights Canceled Globally As Omicron Infects Airline Employees 153
AmigaOS 4.1 SDK 53.34 and AmigaOS 3.2.1 Available Now 52
Should Universities De-Prioritize English Departments for Engineering? 338
Rare Recordings of 1994 Talks By a 24-Year-Old Linus Torvalds Re-Discovered 34
Is 'The Matrix Resurrections' a Critique of the Tech Industry - or Society? 187
Ask Slashdot: How Many Files Are on Your Computer? 164
New Era Begins: Construction Starts on 47-Acre Fusion Reactor Funded by Google and Bill Gates 215
How Peter Jackson's Beatles Documentary Used Custom AI To Remove Background Noise 44
'A Christmas Gift for Humanity' - Cheers Erupt After Webb Telescope Completes Flawless Launch 56
'Quite OK Image' Format (QOI) Coming To a Graphics Program Near You? 103
Denmark Sees Initial Signs That Dire Omicron Surge Can Be Avoided 149
Will It Take More Than Open Source Funding To Prevent the Next Log4j? 110
How Tim Burton, Disney, and a Giant Warehouse Produced 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' 8
The Free Software Foundation Recommends Last-Minute Gift Ideas 44
Personal and Salary Data for 637,138 Albanian Citizens Leaks Online 15
Scientists Finally Solve the Mystery of Why Comets Glow Green 13
Nasa's X-ray Boom Arm for Black Hole Studies Extends in Orbit 6
Gigantism Is a Never-Ending Temptation for Engineers and Designers 143
Large Ocean Fossil Discovered in Nevada Could Hold Key To Aquatic Evolution 31
Russia Steps Up Pressure on Google, Meta With Record Fines 57
Centralized Crypto Exchanges Saw Over $14 Trillion in Trading Volume this Year 32
DoorDash Will Require All Employees To Deliver Goods or Perform Other Gigs 226
Intel Apologizes In China Over Xinjiang Statement 156
The Universe is Expanding Faster Than it Should Be 157
Amazon Cloud Unit Draws Antitrust Scrutiny From Khan's FTC 14
SEC Rejects Valkyrie, Kryptoin Bitcoin Trusts 36
The US Car Rental Market is Crying Out for Disruption 117
New System Would Let Us Know If Aliens Are Using Lasers to Communicate 83
White House Enlists Software Industry To Improve Open-Source Security 63
What Are FFP2 Masks, Mandatory in Some European Countries? 131
New Log4J Flaw Caps Year of Relentless Cybersecurity Crises 77
Potential DOJ Suits Against Apple and Google Delayed Amid Budget Woes 27
Public Agencies Are Buying Up AI-Driven Hiring Tools and 'Bossware' 28
Toyota 'Reviewing' Key Fob Remote Start Subscription Plan After Massive Blowback 154
Virtual Guns in Videogames Could Soon Be Worth Real Money 93
Buying Influence: How China Manipulates Facebook and Twitter 57
At Long Last, the World's Most Powerful Space Telescope is Ready To Launch 104
Decentralized Exchanges Saw Over $1 Trillion in Trading Volume This Year 15
FDA Authorizes Second COVID-19 Antiviral Pill 64
Tech Execs and Engineers Are Quitting Large Companies For 'Once-in-Generation' Opportunity With Crypto 116
Amazon's Alexa Stalled With Users as Interest Faded, Documents Show 135
Seconds Before a 6.2 Earthquake Rattled California, Phones Got a Vital Warning 32
Watching A Lecture Twice At Double Speed Can Benefit Learning Better Than Watching It Once At Normal Speed 70
Micron Explains Reason For DDR5 Shortage 46
Skillsoft To Acquire Codecademy For $525 Million 6
US Army Creates Single Vaccine Against All COVID, SARS Variants 248
Fisher-Price's Chatter Phone Has a Simple But Problematic Bluetooth Bug 27
New Policing System Will Send Drones To the Source of Gunshots 170
Second Ransomware Family Exploiting Log4j Spotted In US, Europe 16
Twitch Co-Founder Gets Discord Hacked, $150,000 Stolen From Users In NFT Scam 22
5G Speeds In the US Rank Dead Last Among Early Adopters 77
China Regulators Suspend Alibaba Cloud Partnership Over Log4Shell Reporting 29
Microsoft Notifies Customers of Azure Bug That Exposed Their Source Code 9
Intel Tells Unvaccinated Employees They Face Unpaid Leave 227
Germany Is Closing Half of Its Reactors at Worst Possible Time 220
South Africa's Huge Omicron Wave Appears To Be Subsiding Just as Quickly As it Grew 99
A Growing Army of Hackers Helps Keep Kim Jong Un in Power 52
FDA Authorizes First Pill To Treat Covid-19 128
In a Boston Court, a Superstar of Science Falls To Earth 97
Intel Comes Under Fire in China Over Xinjiang Labor Stance 59
No Mountain High Enough: Study Finds Plastic in 'Clean' Air 53
In South Korea, Big Tech's Power Struggle With Regulators is Way Ahead of the US 28
'The Matrix' Changed Visual Effects. Now 'Resurrections' Pivots To Reality. 48
CES Organizers Press on despite Omicron threat 69
Amazon's AWS Logs Its Third Outage this Month, Affecting Slack, Epic Games Store, Asana and More 66
Well-Preserved Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Dinosaur Egg 16
EV Startup Nikola Agrees To $125 Million Settlement 41
California Approves Dropping Rodenticide On Farallon Islands 116
MIT Engineers Produce the World's Longest Flexible Fiber Battery 35
'World's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm' Produces First Power 205
US Returns $154 Million In Bitcoins Stolen By Sony Employee 37
What Apple's AR/VR Headset Could Look Like 23
Microsoft's $19.7 Billion Nuance Acquisition Wins EU Approval 15
A Bluetooth Bug In a Popular At-Home COVID-19 Test Could Falsify Results 39
US, Britain Help Ukraine Prepare for Potential Russian Cyberassault 39
75% of Steam's Top 1000 Games Work On Linux Now 83
Belgian Defense Ministry Confirms Cyberattack Through Log4j Exploitation 10
In 2021, the Internet Went for TikTok, Space and Beyond 32
Amazon Issues False Copyright Strike Against New World YouTuber for Reporting Bug 70
"Merry Christmas": First SMS Sells for Over 100,000 Euros in Paris Auction 55
Imaginary Numbers Could Be Needed To Describe Reality, New Studies Find 179
Google Pushes Developers To Adapt Android Apps for Chromebooks 12
Stablecoin Supply Grew By 388% this Year, Driven by DeFi and Derivatives 39
Jack Dorsey Stirs Uproar by Dismissing Web3 as a Venture Capitalists' Plaything 90
Libraries Enlist States in Fight Over ebook Rules 32
US Population Growth at Lowest Rate in Pandemic's First Year 117
WHO Sounds Warning Over Fast-spreading Omicron 215
UK National Crime Agency Finds 225 Million Previously Unexposed Passwords 11
Boeing, Airbus Executives Urge Delay in US 5G Wireless Deployment 82
Study Finds 'Serious Security Risks' In K-12 School Apps 16
Cortana Would Be Named Bingo if Steve Ballmer Had His Way 61
Cuttlefish-Like Robots Are Far More Efficient Than Propeller-Powered Machines 49
You Can't Lure Employees Back To the Office 242
Philadelphia Woman Gives Birth in Front Seat of Tesla on Autopilot 80
Google OnHub Router Support Ending In 2022 29
Inside Ubisoft's Unprecedented 'Exodus' of Developers 36
iPhone 14 Pro To Feature 48-Megapixel Camera, Periscope Lens Coming 2023 45
The US Could Reliably Run On Clean Energy By 2050 214
The NCA Shares 585 Million Passwords With 'Have I Been Pwned' 20
Despite EU Court Rulings, Facebook Says US Is Safe To Receive Europeans' Data 32
Bitcoin's 'One Percent' Controls 27% of All Circulating Coins, Study Finds 73
EPA Issues New Rule To Curb Tailpipe Pollution, Fight Climate Change 223
More Than 35,000 Java Packages Impacted by Log4j Vulnerabilities, Google Says 39
Florida Manatees Facing Starvation to Be Fed in Trial Program 59
Asteroid Sample Could Reveal Our Solar System's Origin Story 11
Security Flaws Found in a Popular Guest Wi-Fi System Used in Hundreds of Hotels 25
This 8-bit Processor Built in Minecraft Can Run Its Own Games 60
JPMorgan Hit With $200 Million in Fines for Letting Employees Use WhatsApp To Evade Regulators' Reach 63
Oracle To Pay More Than $30 Billion Including Debt for Cerner 29
Meta Shareholders Call for Oversight Audit 16
Himalayan Glaciers Are Melting at Furious Rate, New Study Shows 129
Researchers Teach Human Brain Cells In a Dish To Play 'Pong' 44
Ransomware Attack on Major Payroll System Kronos May Take 'Weeks' to Repair 76
Malaysia Passes Bill to Imprison Illegal Streaming Pirates For Up To 20 Years 62
After 50 Years, Vacuum-Sealed Container From 1972 Moon Landing Will Finally Be Opened 51
NASA Releases New Photos of Jupiter - and a Recording of Its Moon that Sounds Like R2-D2 23
2021 Had Six Different Cryptocurrency Heists Over $100 Million 55
Google's YouTube TV Reaches Deal to Restore Disney Channels 26
2021's Hugo Award Winners Include a Videogame, Plus Netflix and NBC Shows 71
Ruby on Rails Creator Touts 7.0 as One-Person Framework, 'The Way It Used To Be' 62
'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Beats 'Star Wars' Sequels to Become Third-Biggest Opening Ever 102
Melting Glaciers May Create New Pacific Salmon Habitat, Study Finds 33
Covid Vaccines Fight Serious Illness, But Only Pfizer and Moderna With a Booster Stop Omicron Infections 328
And the Biggest Scientific Breakthrough of 2021 Is... 29
Is Wolfram the Smartest Programming Language In the Room? 113
Scientists Discover Seaweed Species That Stops Cows from Emitting Methane 106
Can Invasive Fish Be Scared Off With a Menacing Robot Predator? 37
Is the Cloud Making Internet Services More Fragile? 119
RadioShack Announces Ambitious New Cryptocurrency Exchange 104
Who's Paying to Fix Open Source Software? 142
Forget Dogs: These Rats Could Be the Future of Search and Rescue 30
Beatings, Doxxings, Harassment: the War Over Chinese Wikipedia 50
Imagining an All-Renewable Grid With No Blackouts Without Long-Duration Batteries 227
Astronomers Nervously Counting Down to Christmas Eve Launch of $10B Webb Telescope 63
Hospital's Computer System Always Marks Up Costs Automatically, Leaked Records Show 224
Guitarist Eric Clapton Successfully Sues Woman For Posting $11 Bootleg 183

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