Slashdot Stories for 2019

Australia Endures Hottest Day on Record 166
Former NASA Engineer Thwarts Porch Pirates Again With 'Glitter Bomb 2.0' 94
Over 100 PBS Local Stations Start Streaming Today On YouTube TV 35
How a Whale Crashed Bitcoin To Sub-$7,000 Overnight 228
FCC Funds 25Mbps, Data-Capped Satellite In Rural Areas 53
DNA From 'Chewing Gum' Provides Clues To Life 5,700 Years Ago 34
Facebook Has a Neural Network That Can Do Advanced Math 36
Microsoft Starts Showing Non-Removable Ads In Windows 10 Mail, Calendar Apps 176
Engineer Says Google Fired Her For Browser Pop-Up About Worker Rights 129
Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Upgradable Storage and Memory When Buying a New Computer? 183
Night Mode Could Actually Be Worse For Your Sleep Pattern, Study Finds 41
LogMeIn Acquired By Private-Equity Firms 29
Google Execs Debated Getting Out of Cloud Computing Last Year, But Instead Set a Goal of Being a Top-Two Player By 2023 74
Mozilla To Add Second DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Provider in Firefox 67
You Might Be Buying Trash on Amazon -- Literally 66
UK Proposes Plan To Ban Sales of Locked Mobile Phones 36
How AI Will Eat UI 110
Marissa Mayer's New Project is a Suite of Timesaving Apps 74
Microsoft Begins Accepting Extensions For Its Edge Chromium Browser 38
Microsoft Details Its Migration Plans for the New Microsoft Edge 57
Microsoft: We Never Encourage a Ransomware Victim To Pay 62
Facebook Owns The 4 Most Downloaded Apps Of The Decade 69
Apple and Google Named In US Lawsuit Over Congolese Child Cobalt Mining Deaths 108
Apple Pulls App That Let You Turn Your Phone Into a Virtual iPod With Click Wheel 39
Europe's Cheops Telescope Will Profile Distant Planets 37
California Coastal Waters Rising In Acidity At Alarming Rate, Study Finds 112
The Struggle To Name Lab-Grown Meat 258
Visa Warns That Hackers Are Scraping Card Details From Gas Pumps 88
New Jersey's Largest Hospital System Pays Up In Ransomware Attack 34
Nuclear Fusion Startup Raises $100 Million To Design and Build a Demo Power Plant 141
Ask Slashdot: Who Is Most Likely To Challenge Microsoft In the Office? 147
Amazon Blocks Sellers From Using FedEx Ground For Prime Shipments 48
Controversial Sale of .Org Domain Manager Faces Review At ICANN 13
Boeing To Suspend Production of Their 737 Max Aircraft [Update] 188
Wildfires Have Changed. It's Time the Science Did Too. 19
Economists Got the Decade All Wrong. They're Trying To Figure Out Why. 322
Mark Cuban Sells Sports-Technology Company To Dodgers Owners 6
Twitch Sued For $2.8B Over Alleged Pirated Streaming of Premier League Games 28
Google Warns Turkish Partners Over New Android Phones Amid Dispute 16
Amazon Learns a New Skill: Making Money From Alexa 21
Why Won't Foxconn Tell Wisconsin What It's Building? 98
Fake Princesses, Pulled Teeth, and a Whole Lot of IP Infringement 104
Returned Online Purchases Often Sent To Landfill 95
Intel Acquires AI Chip Startup Habana Labs For $2 Billion 3
Npm Team Warns of New 'Binary Planting' Bug 17
Two Standard Alcoholic Drinks a Day No Longer Safe, Health Officials Say 170
Will China Export Its Surveillance Technology? 54
LucasFilm President Answers The Burning 'Star Wars' Question: What's Next? 211
FBI Busts Massive Pirate Streaming Service With More Content Than Netflix 124
Are California's Utilities Undermining Rooftop Solar Installations? 255
ICANN Delays .Org Sale Approval, Calls For More Transparency 21
America's Air Force Seeks Commercial Technologies For 'Space Domain Awareness' 27
Arizona Man Sues State Agency Over Right To Call Himself an Engineer 210
Is Microsoft's Chromium Edge Browser Better Than Firefox and Chrome? 113
WebAssembly Becomes W3C Standard, Reaches 1.0 78
Google Halts Chrome 79 Rollout After It Breaks Some Android Apps 19
'Maximum PC' Magazine Accurately Predicted Apple TV-Like Devices In 2001 44
America's FCC Votes Unanimously To Divide 'Safety Spectrum' Into Wifi and Auto Applications 64
Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay To Subscribe To YouTube? 177
Vim Releases 'Killersheep' Game To Demo Two New Features In Vim 8.2 24
Do You Remember the Y2K Bug? 241
'The Next Nuclear Plants Will Be Small, Svelte, and Safer' 244
More Small Tests Are Happening For Universal Basic Incomes 285
Bank Employee Steals Cash, Then Posts Pics of It On Facebook and Instagram 78
Will Tesla's Rooftop Solar Panels Revolutionize the Power Industry? 192
Raspberry Pi Foundation Sells Its 30,000,000th Raspberry Pi 45
Building Your Own Open Source, Privacy-Protecting Voice Assistant With A Raspberry Pi 42
America Considers Declassifying Military Information on US, Chinese, and Russian Space Programs 55
Physicists Use Bubbling Quantum Vacuum To Hopscotch Heat Across Empty Space 23
Remembering Rene Auberjonois, 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' Actor 27
Facebook Pledges $130 Million For Its Independent 'Content Oversight Board' 27
10 Days Early, Star Wars Fans Started Camping Outside 'Rise of Skywalker' Premiere 60
Exclusive Clip From 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Debuts In Fortnite 24
37-Year-Old Mom Finds Instagram's Sex Predators By Pretending To Be 11 123
Google Has $100 For Teachers Who Steer 20+ Children To 'Google CS First' 25
YouTube's Algorithm Made Fake CNN Reports Go Viral 63
Researchers Fooled Chinese Facial Recognition Terminals With Just a Mask 24
Xbox Series X To Allow 'Suspend and Resume' For Multiple Games At Once 53
Astronomers Find 19 More Galaxies Missing Their Dark Matter 90
Emotion Recognition Tech Should Be Banned, Says an AI Research Institute 65
Reputation Management Firms Bury Google Results By Placing Flattering Content 53
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94 26
Billboard Is Changing Its Albums Chart To Count Video Plays From YouTube 16
India Shuts Down Internet Once Again, This Time In Assam and Meghalaya 66
Someone Stole Facebook Payroll Data For Thousands of Employees 29
New Orleans City Government Shuts Off Computers After Cyberattack 30
AT&T Drops Out of FCC Speed-Test Program So It Can Hide Bad Results 53
Roku Built the Dominant Streaming Box. Now It's Under Siege 93
Google AI Chief Jeff Dean on Machine Learning Trends To Watch in 2020 15
Turkey is Getting Military Drones Armed With Machine Guns 93
Slashdot Asks: Your Favorite Movies, TV Shows, and Documentaries of 2019? 107
Google Maps Has Now Photographed 10 Million Miles in Street View 18
A Space Probe Has Mapped the Winds Above Mars for the First Time 5
City Planners Zero in on Cyclists Through Exercise App 80
When China and Other Big Countries Launch Cryptocurrencies, It Will Kick Off a Global Revolution 166
Windows 10 Mobile Reaches End of Support 55
Mathematician Proves Huge Result on 'Dangerous' Problem 167
Mozilla To Force All Add-on Devs To Use 2FA To Prevent Supply-Chain Attacks 21
Australia's Bushfires Have Emitted 250m Tonnes of CO2, Almost Half of Country's Annual Emissions 91
Cigna Uses AI To Check If Patients Are Taking Their Medications 32
New Zealand Orders 1,300 Square Feet of Skin From US To Help Burned Volcano Victims 65
Crows Could Be the Smartest Animal Other Than Primates 130
Microsoft's Next Xbox Is Xbox Series X, Coming Holiday 2020 78
Lawsuit Forces CenturyLink To Stop Charging 'Internet Cost Recovery Fee' 43
Less Than 10 Percent of Americans Are Buying $1,000 Smartphones, Report Says 126
Spin's San Francisco Staff Becomes First E-Scooter Workforce To Unionize 24
Cisco Outlines Silicon, Software Roadmap For Next Generation Internet 21
Microsoft Reveals New Windows Logo, Office Icons 52
Google Hands Feds 1,500 Phone Locations In Unprecedented 'Geofence' Search 53
Samsung Has Sold 1 Million Galaxy Fold Smartphones 34
988 Will Be the New 911 For Suicide Prevention 66
FTC May Try To Delay Facebook's Plan To Integrate its Apps 9
Inside the Podcast that Hacks Ring Camera Owners Live on Air 112
Google Adds Spam Detection and Verified Business SMS To Messages 14
Rude Paper Reviews Are Pervasive and Sometimes Harmful, Study Finds 135
'Link in Bio' is a Slow Knife 63
Russian Police Raid NGINX Moscow Office 138
AI R&D is Booming, But General Intelligence is Still Out of Reach 96
Getting Drivers for Old Hardware Is Harder Than Ever 165
Google Assistant Can Now Interpret 44 Languages on Smartphones 20
Iran Banks Burned, Then Customer Accounts Were Exposed Online 47
Two of China's Largest Tech Firms Are Uniting To Create a New 'Domestic OS' 93
Larry Page Is Quietly Funding Efforts To Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine 57
Verizon Lays Off More Yahoo/AOL Employees 44
'Monster' Black Hole Announced Last Week Is Nothing Special 39
Low-Risk Ultrasound Procedure Destroys 80 Percent of Prostate Cancers In One-Year Study 78
The World's First Village of Affordable 3D-Printed Homes Is Now Complete 102
Genetic Database That Identified Golden State Killer Acquired By Crime Scene DNA Company 39
Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top 10 'Best Places To Work' List 54
Ask Slashdot: Will We Ever Be Able To Make Our Own Computer Hardware At Home? 117
Netflix Ordered To Stop Poaching Fox Employees 96
If Logged Into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now Be Used For Ads 36
Maze Ransomware Was Behind Pensacola 'Cyber Event,' Florida Officials Say 5
Microsoft is About To Start Aggressively Advertising Windows 10 To Windows 7 Stragglers 266
Glassdoor Rankings Find Tech Workplaces Are Less Popular this Year 34
Apple Used the DMCA to Take Down a Tweet Containing an iPhone Encryption Key 66
World's First Fully Electric Commercial Aircraft Takes Flight in Canada 208
YouTube Unveils a Stricter Harassment Policy 152
Internal FAA Review Saw High Risk of 737 MAX Crashes 38
Chronic Pain is an Impossible Problem 180
ACLU is Suing ICE For Details on How It Uses Phone Spying Devices 14
India Proposes New Rules To Access Its Citizens' Data 14
Twitter Is Funding Independent Effort To Develop an Open and Decentralized Standard For Social Media 58
'Learning at Work is Work, and We Must Make Space For It' 123
Oracle Is Moving Its Massive Conference Out of San Francisco 116
Apple's New Mac Pro Can Cost $52,000. That's Without the $400 Wheels 273
George Laurer, Co-Inventor of the Barcode, Dies At 94 21
The Pirate Bay Is Trialing High-Quality Video Streaming Links 35
Gamma-Ray Laser Moves a Step Closer To Reality 85
Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Seven Times Faster Than In 1990s 282
Researchers Report Breakthrough In 'Distributed Deep Learning' 16
Sony Announces Plan To Publish PlayStation Games On Non-PS Consoles 24
Nikon Is Killing Its Authorized Repair Program 109
Vietnam's Richest Man Bets $2 Billion To Sell Cars To Americans 77
Chrome Now Warns You When Your Password Has Been Stolen 49
Facebook Fired a Contractor Who Was Paid Thousands In Bribes To Reactivate Banned Ad Accounts 21
New Plundervolt Attack Impacts Intel Desktop, Server, and Mobile CPUs 74
Microsoft Teams is the First Office App For Linux 68
Architects Are Playing With the Future of Design in Video Games 36
Iran's Internet Freedom is On Life Support 60
Google Releases Chrome 79 With New Features Including an Option To Freeze Tabs and Back-Forward Caching 29
Are You One Of Avast's 400 Million Users? This Is Why It Collects And Sells Your Web Habits. 24
Greeks Set To Face Heavy Fines If They Don't Spend 30% of Their Income Electronically 187
The Death of the Paper Ticket For Sporting Events 94
Google Built Its Own Tiny HDMI 2.1 Box To Jump-Start 'the Next Generation of Android TV' 23
Facebook Tells US Attorney General It's Not Prepared To Get Rid Of Encryption On WhatsApp And Messenger 109
Investigation Reveals It's Possible For Anyone To Find Geographic Coordinates of Ring Devices Using Post from Amazon's Neighbors App 66
A Social Media Influencer Will Serve 14 Years in Prison After His Plot To Take Over a Website at Gunpoint Backfired 70
Apple Sues iPhone CPU Design Ace After He Quits To Run Data center Chip Upstart Nuvia 100
Away Fires CEO Steph Korey After Months-Long Search for Her Replacement 84
Five Cities Account For Vast Majority of Growth In Tech Jobs, Study Finds 110
Apple To Speak At CES Conference For First Time In Decades 16
Disney Becomes First Studio To Surpass $10 Billion At Worldwide Box Office 62
Scientists Find a Weak Spot In Some Superbugs' Defenses 27
Apple's Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market 105
Cyberattack Hits City of Pensacola After Shooting At Naval Air Station 13
WireGuard VPN Is On Its Way To Linux 48
College-Educated Workers Are Taking Over the American Factory Floor 159
E-Scooter Company 'Unicorn' Goes Bust After Spending Big On Facebook Ads 65
Oculus Quest Becomes First VR Set With Native Hand Tracking 16
Google Under Investigation For 'Thanksgiving Four' Firings, Allegedly Discouraging Unions 29
NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data Under Alexa Advice Deal 25
Scientists Dodge FDA To Offer a $1 Million Anti-Aging Treatment in Colombia 145
The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand's Lungs 51
When a DNA Test Says You're a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away 76
Microsoft Will Shut Down To-do App Wunderlist on May 6 14
African Countries Are Struggling To Build Robust Identity Systems 72
Eat For 10 Hours. Fast For 14. This Daily Habit Prompts Weight Loss, Study Finds 226
World Chess Champion On the Verge of Topping Fantasy Football Table 45
Intel CEO Blames Company's Obsessive Focus on Capturing 90% CPU Market Share For Missing Out on Other Opportunities 101
Verizon Kills Email Accounts of Archivists Trying To Save Yahoo Groups History 100
China Tells Government Offices To Remove All Foreign Computer Equipment 127
Oceans Losing Oxygen at Unprecedented Rate, Experts Warn 201
How Pranksters Tricked Twitter-Scraping Sites Into Copyright Infringement 63
Free Software Foundation Offers Benefits and Merchandise In Its Annual Fundraiser 27
Former Oracle Product Manager Claims He Was Forced Out For Refusing to Sell Vaporware 81
Disney Warns 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' Effects Could Cause Seizures 150
Ohio Neighborhood Temporarily Evacuated Over Misplaced Fears of a Homemade Nuclear Reactor 188
Astronomers Find the Biggest Black Hole Ever Measured 110
Chinese Newspaper Touts Videogame Where Players 'Hunt Down Traitors' in Hong Kong 96
Debian Begins Vote On Supporting Non-Systemd Init Options 225
Linux Users Can Now Use Disney+ After DRM Fix 26
20 Low-End VPS Providers Suddenly Shutting Down In a 'Deadpooling' Scam 41
Open-Source Security Nonprofit Tries Raising Money With 'Hacker-Themed' T-Shirts 11
Will Robots Wipe Out Wall Street's Highest-Paying Jobs? 71
81-Year-Old Donald Knuth Releases New TAOCP Book, Ready to Write Hexadecimal Reward Checks 39
Tesla Wants To Clean Windshields With Laser Beams 98
Uber Loses $1.4 Billion in Value After Acknowledging Thousands of Sexual Assaults 76
Can We Kill Fake News With Blockchain? 164
Reddit Bans 61 Accounts, Citing 'Coordinated' Russian Campaign To Interfere In UK Vote 135
Are You Ready for the End of Python 2? 130
Researchers Call Chronic Inflammation 'A Substantial Public Health Crisis' 91
Will Plunging Battery Prices Start a Boom In Electric Power? 222
'Why Are Cops Around the World Using This Outlandish Mind-Reading Tool?' 93
Volkswagen Headquarters Raided Again After They Disclosed New Diesel Filtering 'Issue' 24
The U.S. Considers Ban on Exporting Surveillance Technology To China 73
Remembering Star Trek Writer DC Fontana, 1939-2019 25
Jury Sides With Elon Musk, Rejects $190M Defamation Claim Over Tweet 101
Why Is Russia's Suspected Internet Cable Spy Ship In the Mid-Atlantic? 107
Apple Fails To Stop Class Action Lawsuit Over MacBook Butterfly Keyboards 36
Hospitals' New Issue: A 'Glut' of Machines Making Alarm Sounds 77
How Fake News Is Still Fooling Facebook's Fact-Checking Systems 80
Scientists Propose Using Mountains To Build a New Type of Battery For Long-Term Energy Storage 200
Hour of Code Will Teach Kids How To Use AI To Judge Who Is 'Awesome' Or Not 42
Recordings Reveal That Plants Make Ultrasonic Squeals When Stressed 59
Early Humans Domesticated Themselves, New Genetic Evidence Suggests 133
Anti-Vaxxer Arrested As Samoa Executes Mass-Vaccination Campaign To Stop Measles Outbreak 226
Qualcomm To Offer GPU Driver Updates On Google Play Store For Some Snapdragon Chips 8
Deepfake Porn Is Evolving To Give People Total Control Over Women's Bodies 301
Social Media Platforms Leave 95 Percent of Reported Fake Accounts Up, Study Finds 32
Trump Administration Drops Plans For Mandatory Face Scans of Citizens 31
FTC Finds Cambridge Analytica Deceived Facebook Users 11
Apple May Use Carbon-Free Aluminum In New iPhones 43
European Plan To Tackle Space Debris? Hug it Out 22
EU Study Shows Online Piracy is Complex and Not Easy To Grasp 44
Magic Leap, a Startup That Has Raised Over $2.3 Billion, Has Sold Just 6,000 Units of Its $2,300 VR Headset -- Far Below 1 Million Units Its CEO Initially Hoped 115
Keep Your IoT Devices on a Separate Network, FBI Says 111
NFL Turns To Amazon For Help Addressing Player Injuries 39
GM And LG Chem Plan $2.3 Billion Electric Battery Venture In Ohio 54
W3C Recommends WebAssembly To Push the Limits For Speed, Efficiency and Responsiveness 128
Bernie Sanders Unveils $150 Billion Plan To Expand High-Speed Internet Access 275
Keybase Moves To Stop Onslaught of Spammers on Encrypted Message Platform 13
Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find 38
Scientists Fed an Ancient Earth Organism Space Metals. It Started 'Dancing' 43
Netflix Is Spending $420 Million on Indian Content, CEO Says 52
142,000 People, Mostly Children, Died From Measles In 2018 168
A Two-Hour Fan-Made Audio Drama About BioShock 17
Fukushima Melted Fuel Removal Begins 2021, End State Unknown 113
Nestle Cannot Claim Bottled Water Is 'Essential Public Service,' Court Rules 75
The Case For Portland-To-Vancouver High-Speed Rail 153

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