Slashdot Stories for 2013

Scientists Extract RSA Key From GnuPG Using Sound of CPU 264
Scientists Print Retinal Cells 41
Tesla Gets $34 Million Tax Break, Adds Capacity For 35,000 More Cars 238
'Approximate Computing' Saves Energy 154
Police Pull Over More Drivers For DNA Tests 562
The Software Inferno 109
Google Joins the Open Invention Network Board 22
Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7 336
Interview: Ask Bruce Sterling What You Will 60
NASA Schedules Space Walks to Fix ISS Pumps; Orbital Sciences Launch Delayed 42
Academics Should Not Remain Silent On Government Hacking 135
Bitcoin Exchange Value Halves After Chinese Ban 475
Roku Finally Adds YouTube To Its Iconic Media Player 80
Ted Nelson's Passionate Eulogy for Douglas Engelbart 110
Unreleased 1963 Beatles Tracks On Sale To Preserve Copyright 230
Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use 547
Massive Android Mobile Botnet Hijacking SMS Data 117
Want To Fight Allergies? Get a Dirty Dog 147
Ask Slashdot: Can Digital Music Replace Most Instrumental Musicians? 328
Multidrug Resistance Gene Released By Chinese Wastewater Treatment Plants 111
Tech Leaders Push Back Against Obama's Efforts To Divert Discussion From NSA 312
Swedish Man Fined $650,000 For Sharing 1 Movie, Charged Extra For Low Quality 366
Will You Even Notice the Impending Robot Uprising? 246
Healthcare IT's Achilles' Heel: Sensors 84
Multivitamin Researchers Say 'Case Is Closed' As Studies Find No Health Benefits 554
Chat with Microsoft Beat Journalist Preston Gralla (Video) 29
Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov 214
Lawmakers Out To Kill the Corn-Based Ethanol Mandate 314
Datawind Not Blowing Smoke: $38 Tablet Coming To the US 210
Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL 277
Google Nabs Bing Maps Architect 94
Interview: Ask Forrest Mims About Rockets, Electronics, and Engineering 120
Fedora 20 Released 147
Google Testing Smart Appliance, Would Compete With Nest Thermostat 139
Red Light Camera Use Declined In 2013 For the First Time 348
Standardized Laptop Charger Approved By IEC 289
NSA Says It Foiled Plot To Destroy US Economy Through Malware 698
The Case For a Global, Compulsory Bug Bounty 81
Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak 606
GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses 356
First Hard Evidence for the Process of Cat Domestication 144
The Geekiest Game Ever Made? 87
Fully Autonomous Flapping-wing MAV Is As Light As 4 Sheets of A4 Paper 79
DRM Has Always Been a Horrible Idea 281
Owncloud 6 Brings Collaborative Open Document Format Editing to the Web 73
Google Seeks To Throw Out UK Safari Tracking Suit 70
Inside the Massive 2014 Winter Olympics WiFi Network 107
Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math 170
Exponential Algorithm In Windows Update Slowing XP Machines 413
Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional 345
Army Laser Passes Drone-Killing Test 173
EdX Drops Plans To Connect MOOC Students With Employers 59
FDA Seeks Tougher Rules For Antibacterial Soaps 160
Disney Pulls a Reverse Santa, Takes Back Christmas Shows From Amazon Customers 418
Next-Gen Windshield Wipers To Be Based On Jet Fighter "Forcefield" Tech 237
Is Bruce Schneier Leaving His Job At BT? 96
Interview: Ask Alan Adler About Flying Toys and the Perfect Cup of Coffee 76
NASA Testing Lighter Space Suits For Asteroid Work 54
Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Could Actually Be Group From Europe 186
Facebook Tracks the Status Updates and Messages You Don't Write Too 163
Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry 261
CBS 60 Minutes: NSA Speaks Out On Snowden, Spying 504
The Business of Attention Deficit Disorder 246
Norway Rejects Bitcoin As Currency; Taxes As Asset, Instead 245
NZ Developers Win 'Koha' Trademark Case 26
Want a FPGA Board For Your Raspberry Pi Or Beagle Bone? 66
Theo De Raadt Says FreeBSD Is Just Catching Up On Security 280
Playstation 4 Vs Xbox One: Which Shares Better? 174
Photos Stream Back From China's Lunar Lander 268
Graphene-based Nanoantennas Could Allow WLANs of Nanodevices 45
US Light Bulb Phase-Out's Next Step Begins Next Month 1146
Google Makes It Harder For Marketers To Collect User Data 195
France Broadens Surveillance Powers; Wider Scope Than NSA 169
Former Google Lawyer Michelle Lee To Run US Patent Office 91
Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC? 408
No Longer "Noble"; Argon Compound Found In Space 110
Code.org Stats: 507MM LOC, 6.8MM Kids, 2K YouTube Views 123
How the Lessons of Columbine Saved Lives At Arapahoe High School 894
Census Bureau: Majority of Affluent Counties In Northeast US 285
IETF To Change TLS Implementation In Applications 80
NSA Has No Clue As To Scope of Snowden's Data Trove 383
SpaceX Wins Use of NASA's Launch Pad 39A 99
Under the Hood of SteamOS 201
Indiana State Police Acknowledge Use of Cell Phone Tracking Device 155
Boston Police Stop Scanning Registration Plates, For Now 110
Google's Dart Becomes ECMA's Dart 190
Programming Molecules To Let Chemicals Make Decisions 28
Investor Lawsuit Blames NSA For $12B Loss In IBM Value 204
Chinese Lunar Probe Lands Successfully 250
Leaked Passwords On Display At a German Museum 42
GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language 575
Why the NSA Piggybacks On Consumer Tracking 62
Google Acquires Boston Dynamics 104
NSA Able To Crack A5/1 Cellphone Crypto 122
Chang'e-3 Lunar Rover Landing Slated For 13:40 UTC Saturday 90
Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage 213
UK Men Arrested For Anti-Semitic Tweets After Football Game 598
Valve Releases Debian-Based SteamOS Beta 211
Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber 184
North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet 276
Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft 174
NASA's Next Mars Mission Will Join the Interplanetary Internet 53
Oculus Raises $75 Million To Make VR Headset 114
Safari Stores Previous Browsing Session Data Unencrypted 135
'Darkness Ray' Beams Invisibility From a Distance 86
NuScale Power Awarded $226 Million To Deploy Small Nuclear Reactor Design 210
Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd 191
Pulsar Gets the Munchies, Snacks On an Asteroid 54
Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes 513
NSA Head Asks How To Spy Without Collecting Metadata 509
Australia's National Broadband Network Downgraded 122
More Students Learn CS In 3 Days Than Past 100 Years 287
Google Cuts Android Privacy Feature, Says Release Was Unintentional 324
Wikipedia's Lamest Edit Wars 219
Ford Self-Driving R&D Car Tells Small Animal From Paper Bag At 200 Ft. 207
Was Julian Assange Involved With Wiretapping Iceland's Parliament? 167
The New Kings of Kong 65
YouTube Expands Live Streaming To All Channels 71
Oregon Signs Up Just 44 People For Obamacare Despite Spending $300 Million 586
Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic 124
JetBlue Launches Satellite-Based Inflight Wi-Fi 79
Hubble Discovers Water Plumes Over Europa 74
Cybercrime Marketplace Mastermind Faces 18 Years In Prison 59
Bitcoin Token Maker Suspends Operation After Hearing From Federal Gov't 258
Engineering the Perfect Coffee Mug 145
Google Fixes Credit Card Security Hole, But Snubs Discoverer 127
ITU Standardizes 1Gbps Over Copper, But Services Won't Come Until 2015 153
Indian Government Lifts Nokia's Asset Freeze, Factory Can Transfer To Microsoft 53
Game Preview: Hearthstone 131
You Are What Your Dad Ate 130
Munich Open Source Switch 'Completed Successfully' 275
Google Brings AmigaOS to Chrome Via Native Client Emulation 157
Six Electric Cars Can Power an Office Building 296
Estonia Sharing Its Finnish-Made E-Government Solution With Finland 83
EU Advocate General Says EU Data Retention Directive Unlawful 22
Newly Discovered Greenhouse Gas Is 7,000 Times More Powerful Than CO2 216
Chimpanzee "Personhood" Lawsuits Fail In New York Courts 370
NZ Traveler's Electronics Taken At Airport; Interest in Snowden to Blame? 453
Soviet Union Spent $1 Billion On "Psychotronic" Arms Race With the US 230
StarCraft II Gamer Receives US Pro-Athlete Visa 114
Coolant Glitch Forces Partial Space Station Shutdown 49
Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn 192
New Baltic Data Cable Plan Unfolding 65
Switzerland Wants To Become the World's Data Vault 131
Decades-Old Rambus Litigation Against Micron For RDRAM Tech Reaches Settlement 82
Open Source Beehives Designed To Help Save Honeybee Colonies 172
UK Retailer Mistakenly Sends PS Vitas, Threatens Legal Action To Get Them Back 617
SteamOS Will Be Available For Download On December 13 211
A Year After Ban On Loud TV Commercials: Has It Worked? 288
Canada Post Announces the End of Urban Home Delivery 226
Sci-fi Author Charles Stross Cancels Trilogy: the NSA Is Already Doing It 208
FreeBSD Developers Will Not Trust Chip-Based Encryption 178
Simulations Back Up Theory That Universe Is a Hologram 433
Wearable Tech is Advancing, but Isn't for Everyone Quite Yet (Video) 32
Canonical Moving Away From GNOME Control Center 208
Program to Use Russian Nukes for US Electricity Comes to an End 148
OpenSSH Has a New Cipher — Chacha20-poly1305 — from D.J. Bernstein 140
Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T 291
California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website 252
Nokia Still Experimenting With Android Smartphone 63
Pirate Bay Founder Warg Being Held in Solitary Confinement 192
Sailfish OS Comes to the Nokia N9 15
Doom Is Twenty Years Old 225
Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters 151
Google Opens Asian Data Centers But Shuns China and India 75
Smart Cars: Too Distracting? 180
NSA Uses Google Cookies To Pinpoint Targets For Hacking 174
Africa, Clooney, and an Unlikely Space Race 137
AirPlay Alternative Mirrors and Streams To TVs and PCs 62
Linux Voice Passes Its Crowdfunding Target 57
Ask Slashdot: To Publish Change Logs Or Not? 162
Nokia Takeover In Jeopardy Due To Alleged $3.4B Tax Bill In India 226
New Documentary Chronicles Road Tripping Scientists Promoting Reason 674
Watch Out, Amazon: DHL Tests Drug-Delivery Drone 134
High-Frequency Trading For Your Private Data 75
Private Mars One Mission Contracts Lockheed For Exploratory Mission 35
JPMorgan Files Patent Application On 'Bitcoin Killer' 292
Open Source 'Wasn't Available' Two Years Ago, Says UK Gov't IT Project Chief 113
Google's Plan To Kill the Corporate Network 308
Coldest Spot On Planet Earth Identified 182
Firefox 26 Arrives With Click-To-Play For Java Plugins 208
Gift Idea: Custom Photomosaics With AndreaMosaic and PhotoGrabber 61
Ask Slashdot: Practical Bitrot Detection For Backups? 321
AllSeen Alliance Wants To Open-Source the 'Internet of Things' 86
British Police Censor the Global Internet 228
Nobel Winner Schekman Boycotts Journals For 'Branding Tyranny' 106
3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate 414
KDE Releases KDevelop 4.6 93
Twitter Will Track Your Browsing To Sell Ads 120
US Treasury Completes Bailout of General Motors 425
Snowden Document Shows Canada Set Up Spy Posts For NSA 177
Affordable 3D Metal Printer Developed Based on RepRap 199
Amazon Uses Robots To Speed Up Human 'Pickers' In Fulfillment Centers 184
Firefox Gains Support for VP9 Video Codec 129
Chicago Public Schools Promoting Computer Science to Core Subject 236
CyanogenMod Integrates Text Message Encryption 118
Life Could Have Evolved 15 Million Years After the Big Bang, Says Cosmologist 312
New Ford Mustang May Have Electronic "Burnout" Button 290
Neural Prosthetic Acts Like "Bridge" Over Damaged Brain Areas 54
Satanists Propose Monument At Oklahoma State Capitol Next To Ten Commandments 1251
EU Warns Nokia Not To Become a Patent Troll 78
The Real Story of Hacking Together the Commodore C128 179
Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Ancient Lakebed 74
Google Doodle Remembers Computing Pioneer Grace Hopper 157
Factory-In-a-Day Project Aims To Deploy Work-Ready Robots Within 24 Hours 157
Interview: Ben Heck Answers Your Questions 44
NSA Collect Gamers' Chats and Deploy Real-Life Agents Into WoW and Second Life 293
The Quest To Build Xbox One and PS4 Emulators 227
Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Yahoo Form Alliance Against NSA 293
Massive Exoplanet Discovered, Challenges Established Planet Formation Theories 129
eBay CEO: Amazon Drones Are Fantasy 189
Study: People Are Biased Against Creative Thinking 377
Scientists Discover Huge Freshwater Reserves Beneath the Ocean 273
How China Will Get To the Moon Before a Google Lunar XPrize Winner 173
The Yin and Yang of Hour of Code & Immigration Reform 220
Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating 299
Employee Morale Is Suffering At the NSA 841
Scientists Uncover 3,700-Year-Old Wine Cellar 122
New Superconductor Theory May Revolutionize Electrical Engineering 92
Climatologist James Hansen Defends Nuclear Energy 345
Secret New UAS Shows Stealth, Efficiency Advances 87
Storing Your Encrypted Passwords Offline On a Dedicated Device 107
Do Earthquakes Spread Like Wildfire? 26
Air Traffic Control "Telephone Glitch" Delays Hundreds of UK Flights 40
In Three Years, Nearly 45% of All the Servers Will Ship To Cloud Providers 152
Meet Paunch: the Accused Author of the BlackHole Exploit Kit 52
Killing Cancer By Retraining the Patient's Immune System 175
Ask Slashdot: Easy Wi-Fi-Enabled Tablet For My Dad? 370
US Issues 30-Year Eagle-Killing Permits To Wind Industry 466
StackOverflow and Github Visualized As Cities 45
Excite Kids To Code By Focusing Less On Coding 207
Nobody Builds Reactors For Fun Anymore 326
Insight On FBI Hacking Ops 137
How a Bitcoin Transaction Actually Works 174
Killer Qualities of Japanese Fault Revealed 58
DARPA Makes Finding Software Flaws Fun 46
The Climate of Middle-Earth 163
Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users 129
Physicist Peter Higgs: No University Would Employ Me Today 308
Intel SSD Roadmap Points To 2TB Drives Arriving In 2014 183
German Court Invalidates Microsoft FAT Patent 192
Diet Drugs Work: Why Won't Doctors Prescribe Them? 670
About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors 157
Need Directions? Might Not Want To Ask a Transit Rider 97
Create Your Own Bullet Time Camera Rig With Raspberry Pi 88
Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013? 317
After FDA Objections, 23andMe Won't Offer Health Information 146
Trans-Pacific Partnership Includes Unwanted Elements of SOPA 129
King James Programming 184
Why Reactive Programming For Databases Is Awesome 165

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