Slashdot Stories for 2018

Taylor Swift Used Facial Recognition Tech At Concerts To Spy On Stalkers 147
The Decline of American Peyote 81
Bing Recommends Piracy Tutorial When Searching For Office 2019 45
A Bright Green 'Christmas Comet' Will Fly the Closest To Earth In Centuries 111
Cydia's App Store For Jailbroken iPhones Shuts Down Purchases 40
Samsung Kills Headphone Jack After Mocking Apple 353
50 Years On, We're Living the Reality First Shown At the 'Mother of All Demos' 82
How YouTube's Year-In-Review 'Rewind' Video Set Off a Civil War 337
Instagram Tightens Eating Disorder Filters 94
Facebook Disbands Secretive Research Lab Amid Reorganization 25
Vine, HQ Trivia Co-Founder Colin Kroll Found Dead of Suspected Overdose 98
Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies 39
Nearly 200 Countries Agree On Global Climate Pact Rules After Impasse 194
Apple Lied About iPhone X Screen Size and Pixel Count, Lawsuit Alleges 168
The Last Independent Mobile OS 60
Sean Parker Builds Beach-Access App To Atone For His Rule-Violating Wedding 73
Study Reveals The Most Googled 'Should I' Questions In Each State 102
Is The World Shifting To 'Ambient Computing'? 147
How Microsoft Embraced Python 163
People Are Harassing Waymo's Self-Driving Vehicles 262
CNN Contributor Urges: Stop Calling Facebook a Tech Company 157
Do Alternative Software Licenses Represent Open Source's 'Midlife Crisis'? 87
Study Suggests Too Much Collaboration Actually Hurts Productivity 49
Ask Slashdot: Is There An Open Source Tool Measuring The Sharpness of Streaming Video? 101
One Year After Net Neutrality Repeal, America's Democrats Warn 'The Fight Continues' 152
Was Commodore's Amiga 'A Computer Ahead of Its Time'? 418
Doctor Who Won't Return Until 2020 159
Screen Time Changes Structure of Kids' Brains, NIH Study Shows 94
OpenJDK Bug Report Complains Source Code 'Has Too Many Swear Words' 281
Could You Live Without a Smartphone For a Year? 179
Tesla Model 3 Modded To Run Ubuntu 87
NASA's Hubble Telescope Discovers An 'Evaporating' Planet 47
Experts Urge US To Continue Support For Nuclear Fusion Research 234
Number of Streaming Shows Overtakes Basic Cable, Broadcast For First Time 42
Cloudflare Under Fire For Allegedly Providing DDoS Protection For Terrorist Websites 98
Porn Sites Collect More User Data Than Netflix Or Hulu 70
T-Mobile, Sprint Merger Will Reportedly Be Cleared By US National Security Panel 32
Apple Will Update iPhones In China To Avoid a Ban On Sales 33
Nintendo Warns It Won't Make More Retro NES and SNES Consoles 90
Discord Store To Offer Developers 90 Percent of Game Revenues 47
What Are Silicon Valley's Highest-Paying Tech Jobs? 60
Regular Windows 10 Users Who Manually Look For Updates May End Up Downloading Beta Code, Microsoft Says 115
Boeing 737 Passenger Jet Damaged in Possible Midair Drone Hit 122
In Booming Job Market, Workers Are 'Ghosting' Their Employers 479
A New Engine Could Bring Back Supersonic Air-Travel 127
Facebook Says A Bug May Have Exposed The Unposted Photos Of Millions Of Users 51
Hiding in Plain Sight: The YouTubers' Crowdfunding Piracy 79
Chinese Hackers Breach US Navy Contractors 61
We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels and Wind Turbines We Need, an Analysis Finds 367
Imax is Shutting Down Its VR Business, Closing Remaining Three VR Centers in Q1 75
WordPress Plugs Bug that Led to Google Indexing Some User Passwords 32
A Corporate-issued Laptop Stolen From a Lenovo Employee in September Contained Unencrypted Payroll Data on APAC Staff 65
Facebook Doesn't Care About Fixing Fake News Problem On Its Platform 113
NASA's Jupiter Mission Juno Reveals Giant Polar Storms 21
Supernovae May Explain Mass Extinctions of Marine Animals During Pliocene Era 76
Neurosurgery Could Spread Protein Linked To Alzheimer's, Study Finds 63
Japan Plans For 100ft Tsunami 131
Microsoft Is Readying a Consumer Microsoft 365 Subscription Bundle 92
Qualcomm Asks China To Ban the iPhone XS and XR 53
Iranian Phishers Bypass 2fa Protections Offered By Yahoo Mail, Gmail 59
Louisiana Adopts Digital Driver's Licenses 151
Google Pledges To Hold Off On Selling Facial Recognition Technology 46
Dozens of Bomb Threats Reported Across America In Apparent Bitcoin Ransom Scam 63
Sting on Amazon Booksellers Aims To Weed Out Counterfeit Textbooks, But Small Sellers Getting Hurt 87
Windows Server 2019 Officially Supports OpenSSH For the First Time 129
ASUS CEO Resigns as Company Shifts Mobile Focus To Power Users 100
The Oil Industry's Covert Campaign To Rewrite American Car Emissions Rules 304
Data-Wiping Malware Shamoon Destroys Files At Italian Oil and Gas Company; Other Energy Companies Operating in the Middle East Warned of Cyber Attacks 22
Quantum Network Joins Four People Together For Encrypted Messaging 60
Virgin Galactic Successfully Reaches Space 87
Ranks of Crypto Users Swelled in 2018 Even as Bitcoin Tumbled 49
'Blockchain Developer' is the Fastest-Growing US Job 96
Ethereum Thinks it Can Change the World. It's Running Out of Time To Prove It. 150
In a Test, 3D Model of a Head Was Able To Fool Facial Recognition System of Several Popular Android Smartphones 123
Apple To Build $1B Austin Campus, Add Thousands of Jobs in US Expansion 189
Tesla Is Seeking $167 Million From Former Employee Accused of Sabotage 90
Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says 207
Russian State TV Shows Off 'Robot' That's Actually a Man In a Robot Suit 120
'Cryptocurrencies Are Like Lottery Tickets That Might Pay Off in Future' 122
Ships Infected With Ransomware, USB Malware, Worms 132
FCC Panel Wants To Tax Internet-Using Businesses, Give the Money To ISPs 243
Google Training Document Reveals How Temps, Vendors, and Contractors Are Treated 136
President Trump To Use Huawei CFO As a Bargaining Chip 351
Apple Is Making Its Own Modem To Compete With Qualcomm, Report Says 80
California Considers Text Messaging Tax To Fund Cell Service For Low-Income Residents 244
Facebook Settles Oculus VR Lawsuit With ZeniMax 26
FCC Gives Carriers the Option To Block Text Messages 107
New LG Gram is the Lightest 17-inch Laptop Ever at Just 3 Pounds 139
Europe -- not the US or China -- Publishes the Most AI Research Papers 141
Intel Unveils Roadmaps For Core Architecture and Atom Architecture 60
Intel Reveals 10nm Sunny Cove CPU Cores That Go Deeper, Wider, and Faster 90
FreeBSD 12 Released 132
The Record For High-Temperature Superconductivity Has Been Smashed Again 145
Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support 202
Chinese Spies Reportedly Behind Massive Marriott Hack 65
The Painful, Costly Journey of Returned Goods -- and How You End Up Purchasing Some of Them Again 280
Mapping Service Blurs Out Military Bases, But Accidentally Locates Secret Ones 129
South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency 71
Net Neutrality Bill 38 Votes Short In Congress, and Time Has Almost Run Out 229
Amazon Fires Employees Over Data Leak As It Fights Seller Scams, Report Says 48
Google's CEO Thinks Android Users Know How Much Their Phones Are Tracking Them 131
Ask Slashdot: Why Don't HDR TVs Have sRGB Or AdobeRGB Ratings? 143
Canada Grants Bail For Arrested Huawei CFO Who Faces US Extradition 234
Border Agents Fail To Delete Personal Data of Travelers After Electronic Searches, Watchdog Says 89
Verizon Admits Defeat With $4.6 Billion AOL-Yahoo Writedown 100
Comcast Rejected by Small Town -- Residents Vote For Municipal Fiber Instead 311
Facebook is Starting To Test Search Ads in its Search Results and Marketplace 20
Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube 328
What Student Developers Want in a Job 195
New Firefox Suggests Ways To Get More Out of the Web 199
Android Trojan Steals Money From PayPal Accounts Even With 2FA On 56
Evelyn Berezin, Who Built the First True Word Processor, Has Died at 93 93
Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us 358
Doom Turns 25: The FPS That Wowed Players, Gummed Up Servers, and Enraged Admins 214
What it's Like To Work in the Biggest Building in the World 70
Super Micro Says Review Found No Malicious Chips in Motherboards 95
China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG 183
Californians Have Now Purchased Half a Million EVs 335
Facebook Filed a Patent To Calculate Your Future Location 104
Samsung Embarrassingly Partners With Fake Supreme 117
Huawei Executive Arrest Inspires Advance Fee Scams 105
More People Get Their News From Social Media Than Newspapers, Study Finds 82
Walmart Is Reportedly Testing a Burger-Flipping Robot 78
At Least One Major Carrier Lied About Its 4G Coverage, FCC Review Finds 46
GoPro To Move US-Bound Camera Production Out of China 91
Verizon Announces 10,400 Employees Will Voluntarily Leave the Company 80
House Panel Issues Scathing Report On 'Entirely Preventable' Equifax Data Breach 75
ESET Discovers 21 New Linux Malware Families 67
Scientists Identify Vast Underground Ecosystem Containing Billions of Micro-organisms 87
Malicious Sites Abuse 11-Year-Old Firefox Bug That Mozilla Failed To Fix 91
What is the Future of Office Spaces? 151
Start-Ups Aren't Cool Anymore 164
Google Will Shut Down Google+ Four Months Early After Second Data Leak 53
Video Games Won't Be Part of the Paris Olympics 220
Nasa's Voyager 2 Probe 'Leaves the Solar System' 151
Qualcomm Says It Won Case Banning Sale of Older iPhones in China 67
UK Just Banned the National Health Service From Buying Any More Fax Machines 111
Driveway Encounter With Microsoft's President Led To $25 Million For Code.org 55
Netflix's Biggest Competition Isn't Sleep -- It's YouTube 115
Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They're Not Keeping It Secret 98
Global Carbon Emissions Jump To All-Time High in 2018 399
Alexa is Implementing Self-Learning Techniques To Better Understand Users 27
The Electric Airplane Revolution May Come Sooner Than You Think 336
Japan is Giving Away Free Houses 224
China Forms New Body To Review Ethics Risks of Video Games 68
Scientists Say Most Diverse Coral Site Ever Seen on Great Barrier Reef Discovered 38
'What Straight-A Students Get Wrong' 372
Alibaba Already Has a Voice Assistant Way Better Than Google's 109
Can the US Stop China From Controlling the Next Internet Age? 255
Google Just Can't Get the Message 135
As We Forge the Web of Tomorrow, We Need a Set of Guiding Principles That Can Define the Kind of Web We Want, Says Tim Berners-Lee 145
The Friendship That Made Google Huge 57
Freshwater is Getting Saltier, Threatening People and Wildlife 164
The Future of Television? Binge-Watching is Only the Beginning 46
Electron and the Decline of Native Apps 328
Linux.org's DNS Got Hijacked 62
Half of All Tech Workers Surveyed Think Their Workplace Is 'Unhealthy' 117
Apple Store Employees Aren't Allowed To Say 'Crash', 'Bug', or 'Problem' 308
Can Democrats In Congress Restore America's Net Neutrality Rules? 256
Elon Musk: Tesla 'Would Be Interested' in Taking Over GM's Closed Factories 145
US Senator Attacks Failure To Crack Down On Google's Ad Fraud Problems 72
Massive Collaborative Text Adventure 'Cragne Manor' Released 33
Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' Trailer Sets New Record: 289M Views In 24 Hours 64
YouTube's Top-Earner For 2018 Is a 7-Year-Old 78
22-Year-Old Google Engineer Dies At His Work Terminal 209
Were Those Strange Waves Rippling Across Earth Caused By Magma Shfits? 55
Bitcoin Options Purchased for $1 Million Will Soon Be Worthless 59
Cryptocurrencies Tumble Even More, While One Asset Manager Proclaims 'Bitcoin is Dead' 165
PHP 7.3 Brings C Inlining and Speed Improvements 36
Is Visual Basic .NET More Popular Than JavaScript? 100
12,000 Uber Drivers Claim Uber Is Now Failing To Pay Arbitration Fees 83
Rust 1.31 Released As 'Rust 2018' In Major Push For Backwards Compatibility 81
'Great Dying': Rapid Warming Caused Largest Extinction Event Ever, Report Says 210
Mice Given an Experimental Gene Therapy Don't Get Fat 167
NASA's InSight Lander Captures First 'Sounds' of Wind On Mars 40
Amazon Targets Airports For Checkout-Free Store Expansion 66
FCC To Probe Whether Carriers Gave Inaccurate Broadband Coverage Data 57
Google Play Services Drops Support For Android Ice Cream Sandwich 85
Huawei's CFO Is Being Accused of Fraud, and Her Main Defense Is a PowerPoint 121
'Send Noncompete Agreements Back To the Middle Ages' 83
After 23 Years, IBM Sells Off Lotus Notes 105
Trump's Pick To Be the Next Attorney General Has Opposed Net Neutrality Rules For Years 120
China's Chang'e-4 Launches On Mission To the Moon's Far Side 41
If Your Gmail Inbox Is Being Flooded With Promo Emails, You're Not Alone 49
DHS Looking Into Tracking Monero and Zcash Transactions 38
UPS Tries Delivery Tricycles As Seattle's Traffic Doom Looms 95
California Gives Final OK To Require Solar Panels On New Houses 563
Chinese Mobile App Companies Are a National Security Risk, Says a Top Democrat 76
AI as Talent Scout: Unorthodox Hires, and Maybe Lower Pay 58
EU Governments Agree To Tougher Stance On E-evidence 19
The FTC's Top Consumer Protection Official Can't Go After Facebook -- or 100 Other Companies 75
Millions of Smartphones in 11 Countries Were Taken Offline Yesterday by an Expired Certificate 34
Your Apple Products Are Getting More Expensive. Here's How They Get Away With It. 410
Europe Should Be Afraid of Huawei, EU Tech Official Says 130
Luxembourg To Become First Country To Make All Public Transport Free 215
Aston Martin Will Make Old Cars Electric So They Don't Get Banned From Cities 143
Google, Mozilla, and Opera React To Microsoft's Embrace of Chromium 186
Scientists Develop 10-Minute Universal Cancer Test 83
DeepMind Produces a General-Purpose Game-Playing System, Capable of Mastering Games Like Chess and Go Without Human Help 124
Facial Recognition Has To Be Regulated To Protect the Public, Says AI Report 55
Google Translate Learns To Reduce Gender Bias 150
Apple Watch Series 4 ECG, Irregular Heart Rate Features Are Now Available 39
Tesla's Giant Battery In Australia Saved $40 Million During Its First Year, Report Says 213
Eastern European Banks Were Attacked Via Backdoors Directly Connected To Local Networks, Report Finds 43
China Calls For Release of Arrested Huawei CFO Detained In Canada 200
Snapdragon 8cx Gives Windows Its Most Extreme Arm Chip Yet 38
Intel Optimistic About Its Next-Gen 7nm Process Technology 114
Facebook Will Bring Political Ad Transparency Tools To India Ahead of 2019 Elections 52
Microsoft Is Embracing Chromium, Bringing Edge To Windows 7, Windows 8, and Mac 139
Motion Impossible: Tom Cruise Declares War on TV Frame Interpolation 347
Microsoft's Designers Are Now Working Together on the Future of Windows, Office and Surface 115
Opinion: 5G Has an Exciting Future When It Comes To Dedicated Mobile Apps But Will Do Little To Improve Our General Browsing Experiences. 95
Facebook Employees Are So Paranoid They're Using Burner Phones To Talk To Each Other 224
Hackers Behind Breach at Hotel Group Marriott Left Clues Suggesting They Were Working For Chinese Government Intelligence Gathering Operation, Report Says 41
Microsoft's New Study Finds 162.8 Million People in the US Do Not Use the Internet at Broadband Speeds, Up From FCC's 24.7 Million Estimate 132
Cuba Offers 3G Mobile Internet Access To Citizens 42
Sea Levels May Rise More Rapidly Due To Greenland Ice Melt 282
24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray 221
Australia Passes Anti-Encryption Laws [Update] 289
Quantum Computers Pose a Security Threat That We're Still Totally Unprepared For 193
FCC Chairman Admits Russia Meddled In Net Neutrality Debate 171
A Quarter of Tumblr's Users Are There To Consume Porn, Data Scientists Estimate 119
Canada Arrests Top Huawei Executive For Allegedly Violating Iran Sanctions 163
First Baby Born After Deceased Womb Transplant 43
Google Is Shutting Down Its Allo Messaging App, Says Report 62
SpaceX Sends Dragon To ISS But Falcon 9 Rocket Misses Landing Pad 133
Thieves Are Boosting the Signal From Key Fobs Inside Homes To Steal Vehicles 269
Cyber-Espionage Group Uses Chrome Extension To Infect Victims 25
Facebook Used Its VPN App To Track Competitors, Documents Reveal 48
Americans Are Moving Less Than Ever, and It's Bad For the Economy 346
Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe 166
Internal Emails Show Facebook Weighing the Privacy Risks of Quietly Collecting Call and Text Records From Its Android Users -- Then Going Ahead Anyway 117
An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging a Dystopian Future 113
We're No Longer in Smartphone Plateau. We're in the Smartphone Decline. 205
Samsung Caught (Again) Using DSLR Photo To Advertise Smartphone Camera 60
Google's 'Shadow Workforce' of Contractors Demands Higher Wages, Equal Benefits in a Letter To CEO Sundar Pichai 104
Qualcomm: 5G Android Flagship Phones Will Storm the 2019 Holidays 47
Russian Internet Giant Yandex Launches Its First Smartphone 37
Australia Set To Spy on WhatsApp Messages With Encryption Law 151
VW Says the Next Generation of Combustion Cars Will Be Its Last 502
Facebook Ends Platform Policy Banning Apps That Copy Its Features 28
Amazon Promised Drone Delivery In Five Years Five Years Ago 131
Google Bridges Android, iOS Development With Flutter 1.0 116
Researchers Discover SplitSpectre, a New Spectre-like CPU Attack 48
Japan's Final Pager Provider To End Its Service In 2019 45
Apple Hit With Class Action Suit Over Lack of Dust Filters In Macbook, iMac 208
The Secret Service Wants To Test Facial Recognition Around the White House 55
NYC Votes To Set Minimum Pay For Uber, Lyft Drivers 134
China Announces Punishments For Intellectual-Property Theft 67
Hulu, AT&T To Test 'Pause Ads' In 2019, Automatically Playing Commercials When You Hit Pause 188

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