Slashdot Stories for 2017

Google's Record Fine of $2.8 Billion Was a 'Deterrent,' EU Says 71
Ban Sale of Mini Mobiles, Says Justice Minister 192
Japan Opens First Drive-through Funeral Service 96
China Blocks Foreign Companies From Mapping Its Roads for Self-Driving Cars 110
Twitter Rolls Out Stricter Rules On Abusive Content 261
Opera Software Changes Name To Otello Corporation 55
Microsoft Disables Word DDE Feature To Prevent Further Malware Attacks 103
America's 'Rent Crisis' May Be Ending 584
Ask Slashdot: What's The Worst IT-Related Joke You've Ever Heard? 656
Ajit Pai Taunts Net Neutrality Critics. Mark Hamill Taunts Ajit Pai 346
Can Intel's 'Management Engine' Be Repurposed? 139
A Book Recommendation for Bill Gates: The Story of PLATO 59
Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled 189
Google Reveals the Most-Trending Searches of 2017 49
Stolen Car Recovered With 11,000 More Miles -- and Lyft Stickers 119
What's The Best TV Show About Working in Tech? 197
Former Exec Who Said Facebook Was 'Destroying Society' Still Loves Facebook 46
Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon 314
Microsoft Releases a Preview of OpenSSH Client and Server For Windows 10 144
Trump Administration Prohibits CDC Policy Analysts From Using the Words 'Science-Based' 458
Windows 10 Bundled a Password Manager with a Security Flaw 48
Do More People Use Firefox Than Edge and IE Combined? 152
Artificial Intelligence Is Killing the Uncanny Valley and Our Grasp On Reality 238
Ask Slashdot: How Can Programmers Explain Their Work To Non-Programmers? 340
Bitcoin Jumps Another 10% in 24 Hours, Sets New Record at $19,000 224
'State of JavaScript' Survey Results: Good News for React and TypeScript 89
The US Military Admits It Spent $22 Million Investigating UFOs 166
Predictive Keyboard Tries To Write a New Harry Potter Chapter 65
Google News Will Purge Sites Masking Their Country of Origin 151
Facial Recognition Algorithms -- Plus 1.8 Billion Photos -- Leads to 567 Arrests in China 168
Why Linux HDCP Isn't the End of the World 136
China Will Spend $3.3 Billion to Research Molten Salt Nuclear-Powered Drones 194
NASA Uses Its First Recycled SpaceX Rocket For a Re-Supply Mission 93
'The Gawker Foundation' is Crowdfunding a Bid To Re-Launch Gawker.com 91
Here's the Letter Alleging Uber Spied on Individuals For Competitive Intelligence 37
An Anonymous Bitcoin Millionaire Is Donating Their Fortune To Charities 98
Don't Keep Cellphones Next To Your Body, California Health Department Warns 344
Chrome 64 Beta Adds Sitewide Audio Muting, Pop-Up Blocker, Windows 10 HDR Video 43
The Science That's Never Been Cited 91
Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed 307
Google Is Shutting Down Project Tango 37
Facebook Admits that Some Social Media Use Can Be Harmful 63
Coinbase Wants Wall Street To Resolve Its Bitcoin Trust Issues 49
ISPs Won't Promise To Treat All Traffic Equally After Net Neutrality 232
NVIDIA Titan V Benchmarks Show Volta GPU Compute, Mining and Gaming Strength 51
Norway Becomes First Country To Switch Off FM Radio 183
Canadian Cellphone Bills Are Some of the Highest In the World, Says Report 184
Lock Out: the Austrian Hotel That Was Hacked Four Times 53
Feds Moving Quickly To Cash in on Seized Bitcoin, Now Worth $8.4 Million 151
China's Top Phone Makers Huawei and Xiaomi In Talks With Carriers To Expand To US Market 44
One of Australia's Richest Men Lost $1 Million To Email Scam 84
Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor 325
Microsoft Considers Adding Python As an Official Scripting Language in Excel 181
Google Is Using Light Beam Tech To Connect Rural India To the Internet 67
Samsung Targets First Half of 2018 for Smart Speaker 64
Motherboard and VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network 142
CIA Captured Putin's 'Specific Instructions' To Hack the 2016 Election, Says Report 535
What Disney's Acquisition of Fox Means For the Future of Film and TV 139
Astronomers Have Come Up With a Better Way To Weigh Millions of Solitary Stars 43
A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built To Outperform Bitcoin 186
Noninvasive Radiation Therapy Halts Deadly Heart Rhythm 28
DOJ Confirms Uber Is Being Investigated For Criminal Behavior 34
Facebook Will Introduce Ads As Videos Start Playing 72
Lawmakers Are Fighting For Net Neutrality 215
Attackers Deploy 'Triton' Malware Against Industrial Safety Equipment 30
PSA: AIM Will Be Discontinued Tomorrow 105
EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information On the Internet Is Not a Crime 175
NASA, Google Spot Eighth Planet in Solar System Rivaling Ours 69
Amazon Will Resume Selling Apple TV, Google's Chromecast 55
Fortinet VPN Client Exposes VPN Creds; Palo Alto Firewalls Allow Remote Attacks 32
The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules 591
Space Is Not a Void 285
Internet Traffic To Major Tech Firms Mysteriously Rerouted To Russia 106
Wine Glasses Are Seven Times Larger Than They Used To Be 220
Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions 168
Almost 100 Million People a Year 'Forced To Choose Between Food and Healthcare' 415
Microsoft Unveils Improved AI-powered Search Features for Bing 38
FCC's Own Chief Technology Officer Warned About Net Neutrality Repeal 152
Disney Makes Deal for 21st Century Fox, Reshaping Entertainment Landscape 171
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures 269
Solar Power and Batteries Are Encroaching On Natural Gas In Energy Production 182
Author of BrickerBot Malware Retires, Says He Bricked 10 Million IoT Devices 149
Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services 208
Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code 113
T-Mobile Is Becoming a Cable Company 92
Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco 422
AT&T Begins Testing High-Speed Internet Over Power Lines 119
Patreon Scraps New Service Fee, Apologizes To Users 66
Google To Open AI Center In China Despite Search Ban 38
The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn 302
Maker of Sneaky Mac Adware Sends Security Researcher Cease-and-Desist Letters 87
Universities Spend Millions on Accessing Results of Publicly Funded Research 76
Someone Used Wet String To Get a Broadband Connection 78
Mirai IoT Botnet Co-Authors Plead Guilty 33
Uber's Massive Scraping Program Collected Data About Competitors Around The World 29
Old Crypto Vulnerability Hits Major Tech Firms 32
Almost 45 Million Tons of E-waste Discarded Last Year 177
Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit 254
Andy Rubin's Essential Phone Considered Anything But 150
Net Neutrality Protests Move Online, Yet Big Tech Is Quiet 71
No Matter What Happens With Net Neutrality, an Open Internet Isn't Going Anywhere, Says Former FCC Chairman 177
What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? 130
AMD Is Open-Sourcing Their Official Vulkan Linux Driver 75
Why Meteoroids Explode Before Hitting the Earth 58
The Silicon Valley Paradox: One In Four People Are At Risk of Hunger 372
Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government 468
Instagram Will Now Let You Follow Hashtags In Your Main Feed 23
Trump Signs Into Law US Government Ban on Kaspersky Lab Software 140
Twitter Officially Launches 'Threads,' a New Feature For Easily Posting Tweetstorms 47
Former Uber Employees Have Gone Into Debt To Hang Onto Shares They Can't Sell 72
Searchable Database of 1.4 Billion Stolen Credentials Found On Dark Web 72
SEC Shuts Down Munchee ICO 43
Ajit Pai Offers No Data For Latest Claim That Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs 211
Tech Support Scammers Invade Spotify Forums To Rank in Search Engines 33
Nintendo Switch Sales Hit 10 Million Units, Could Outdo the Wii 80
Paris Summit Finds New Money, Tech To Fight Climate Change 203
Why Is Anime Obsessed With Power Lines? 233
We've Toned Down the 'Destroying Society' Shtick, Facebook Insists 102
SEC Warns 'Extreme Caution' Over Cryptocurrency Investments As Many People Take Out Mortgages To Buy Bitcoin 233
Inside Faraday Future's Financial House of Cards 44
Why Google and Amazon Are Hypocrites 245
Apple iMac Pro Goes on Sale December 14th 278
Apple's Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones With Degraded Batteries Causes Controversy 183
129 Million Americans Can Only Get Internet Service From Companies That Have Violated Net Neutrality 143
France To Ban Mobile Phones In Schools 191
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? 384
Synthetic DNA-Based Drug Is First To Slow Progress of Huntington's Disease 35
Bitcoin Fees Are Skyrocketing 272
Ask Slashdot: Biggest IT Management Mistakes? 341
Microsoft Releases Free Preview of Its Quantum Development Kit 31
FCC Explains How Net Neutrality Will Be Protected Without Net Neutrality Rules 246
In-Store WiFi Provider Used Starbucks Website To Generate Monero Coins 30
AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed 291
Apple Buys Shazam To Boost Apple Music 36
President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon 307
The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out 427
LinkedIn Bro Poetry Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 51
How Email Open Tracking Quietly Took Over the Web 116
Net Neutrality: 'Father Of Internet' Joins Tech Leaders in Condemning Repeal Plan 170
Google Releases Tool To Help iPhone Hackers 52
The Case that Bitcoin Is a Bubble 264
Bitcoin Futures Surge In First Day Of Trading 64
Former Facebook Exec Says Social Media is Ripping Apart Society 405
German Intelligence Warns of Increased Chinese Cyberspying 75
Fired Tech Workers Turn To Chatbots for Counseling 96
HP Laptops Found To Have Hidden Keylogger 116
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? 343
Google's Machine Learning Is Analyzing Data From NASA's Kepler Space Telescope 27
Does Systemd Make Linux Complex, Error-Prone, and Unstable? 751
After Automating Order-Taking, Fast Food Chains Had to Hire More Workers 234
Researchers Say Human Lifespans Have Already Hit Their Peak 247
Launch of Bitcoin Futures Trading Crashes CBOE Site 97
Top iOS Apps of 2017: Bitmoji Beats Snapchat, YouTube, and Facebook Messenger 27
Coinbase Warns During Times of High Volatility, Access Could Become 'Unavailable' 90
Exhausted Amazon Drivers Are Working 11-Hour Shifts For Less Than Minimum Wage 324
Did Programming Language Flaws Create Insecure Apps? 100
FCC Refuses Records For Investigation Into Fake Net Neutrality Comments 164
Microsoft's 'Malware Protection Engine' Had A Remote Code Execution Flaw 54
New Satellite Experiment Helps Confirm Einstein's Equivalence Principle 71
Touting Government/Industry 'Partnership' on Security Practices, NIST Drafts Cybersecurity Framework Update 15
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? 254
'Cards Against Humanity' Gives Out $1000 Checks 418
Intel's ME May Be Massively Infringing on Minix3's Free Software License 251
San Diego Comic-Con Wins Trademark Suit Against 'Salt Lake Comic Con' 117
Autocratic Governments Can Now 'Buy Their Own NSA' 109
China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship 150
Emotion Recognition Systems Could Be Used In Job Interviews 145
Google Glitch Took Thousands of Chromebooks Offline 77
Updated Debian Linux 9.3 and 8.10 Released 49
"The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" 289
What Mistakes Can Stall An IT Career? 207
Reporter Regrets Letting Amazon's Delivery People Into His House 114
Patreon Hits Donors With New Fees, Angering Creators 143
People Keep Finding Hidden Cameras in Their Airbnbs 167
Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age 439
Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory 54
Toyota's New Power Plant Will Create Clean Energy From Manure 75
People Who Can't Remember Their Bitcoin Passwords Are Really Freaking Out Now 202
Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot 140
Zero-Day iOS HomeKit Vulnerability Allowed Remote Access To Smart Accessories Including Locks 39
'Process Doppelganging' Attack Bypasses Most Security Products, Works On All Windows Versions 126
Google Puts Android Accessibility Crackdown On Hold 28
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Building Dedicated Chips For Autopilot 32
Apple Is Reportedly Buying Shazam For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars 60
Chrome 63 Offers Even More Protection From Malicious Sites, Using Even More Memory 63
The Neon Glow of Tokyo Modified Car Culture 77
Jony Ive Returns To Apple Design Management Role After Two Years 69
Twitter Says It Accidentally Banned A Bunch Of Accounts 25
YouTube to Launch New Music Subscription Service in March 59
'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking 69
Zimbabwe's Internet Went Down for About Five Hours. The Culprit Was Reportedly a Tractor. 63
Bangladesh Bank, NY Fed Discuss Suing Manila Bank For Heist Damages 29
Amazon Bringing Echo and Alexa To 80 Additional Countries in Major Global Expansion 38
'Face Reality! We Need Net Neutrality!' Crowd Chants Across the Country 296
Nvidia Announces 'Nvidia Titan V' Video Card: GV100 for $3000 51
About 40 Percent of Bitcoin Is Held By 1,000 Users. If a Few of Them Want To Sell, That Could Tank Values 241
November Jobs Report: Economy Adds 228,000 Jobs; Unemployment Steady 119
Almost All Bronze Age Artifacts Were Made From Meteorite Iron 132
GE Cuts 12,000 Jobs In Response To Falling Demand For Fossil Fuel Energy 146
Boeing CEO Says Boeing Will Beat SpaceX To Mars 128
The US Is Testing a Microwave Weapon To Stop North Korea's Missiles 217
ISP Disclosures About Data Caps and Fees Eliminated By Net Neutrality Repeal 281
Android 8.0 Oreo For Android Wear Released 10
What It Looks Like When You Fry Your Eye In An Eclipse 135
Bank of America Wins Patent For Crypto Exchange System 52
Apple Has Ruined Its Podcasts App 134
Tesla Could Be Hogging Batteries and Causing a Global Shortage, Says Report 159
Volkswagen Executive Sentenced To Maximum Prison Term For His Role In Dieselgate 101
Cryptocurrency Miners Are Using Old Tires to Power Their Rigs 79
No One Makes a Living on Crowdfunding Website Patreon 183
Inside Oracle's Cloak-and-dagger Political War With Google 86
Google's Mobile Search Results Now Include Videos Of Celebrities Answering Your Questions 63
Amazon Opens Registration For .BOT Domain Name 44
Kaspersky To Close Washington Office But Expand Non-State Sales 65
San Francisco To Restrict Goods Delivery Robots 114
Bitcoin Nears $17,000 After Climbing About $4,000 in Less Than a Day 464
Uber Paid 20-year-old Florida Man To Keep Data Breach Secret 27
Keylogger Found On Nearly 5,500 WordPress Sites 83
The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning 231
Airlines Restrict 'Smart Luggage' Over Fire Hazards Posed By Batteries 108
Jordan Peele To Executive Produce CBS 'The Twilight Zone' Reboot 64
Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn 379
Victims of Mystery Attacks In Cuba Left With Anomalies In Brain Tissue 233
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit That Claims Google Paid Female Employees Less Than Male Colleagues 257
Warrantless Surveillance Can Continue Even If Law Expires, Officials Say 68
ReactOS 0.4.7 Released 94
FCC Chair Ajit Pai Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Help Sick and Disabled People 207
AMD Quietly Made Some Radeon RX 560 Graphics Cards Worse 40
Ask Slashdot: How Do I Explain Copyright To My Kids? 327
EU Urges Internet Companies To Do More To Remove Extremist Content 79
Apple Issues Security Updates for MacOS, iOS, TvOS, WatchOS, and Safari 30
NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen 79
Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Boosts CPU and GPU Performance, Delivers 4K HDR Capture, 3x Faster AI Processing 48
AI Can Beat Humans Only One Game At a Time 60
Google's DeepMind AI Becomes a Superhuman Chess Player In a Few Hours 93
Inside Baidu's Bid To Lead the AI Revolution 12
Steam Ends Support For Bitcoin 151
Facebook and YouTube Are Full of Pirated Video Streams of Live NFL Games 231
Air Pollution Harm To Unborn Babies May Be Global Health Catastrophe, Warn Doctors 132
'Bitcoin Could Cost Us Our Clean-Energy Future' 468
The International Space Station is Super Germy 88
Facebook Tops List of Best Places To Work -- Again 102
Yahoo Sues Mozilla For Breach of Contract -- So Mozilla Counter Sues Yahoo 112
Amazon Prime Video App Launches on Apple TV 92
'We Could Fund a Universal Basic Income With the Data We Give Away To Facebook and Google' 588
New Evidence Points To Icy Plate Tectonics On Europa 67
Google Wants Progressive Web Apps To Replace Chrome Apps 154
US Says It Doesn't Need a Court Order To Ask Tech Companies To Build Encryption Backdoors 249
'Watershed' Medical Trial Proves Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed 224
Feds Shut Down Allegedly Fraudulent Cryptocurrency Offering 47

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