Slashdot Stories for 2020

Judge Orders Tim Cook and Craig Federighi To Testify in Epic Case 33
Google Sued by States for Abuse of Search-Market Dominance 15
Can't Get a PlayStation 5? Meet the Grinch Bots Snapping Up the Holidays' Hottest Gift. 148
Global Chip Shortage Threatens Production of Laptops, Smartphones and More 29
Google Wins EU Approval for Fitbit Bid Amid Tech Crackdown 11
Gun Detection AI is Being Trained With Homemade 'Active Shooter' Videos 293
Google Waives $1.5 Billion DeepMind Loan as AI Costs Mount 15
Goodreads Is Retiring Its Current API, and Book-Loving Developers Aren't Happy 69
Facebook Hits Back at Apple With Second Critical Newspaper Ad 109
Publishing Saw Upheaval in 2020, But 'Books Are Resilient' 20
Trump Considers Clemency For Silk Road 'Kingpin' Ross Ulbricht 169
The Orion Spacecraft Is Now 15 Years Old and Has Flown Into Space Just Once 185
LiquidPiston's 'Inside-Out' Rotary X-Engine Wins Army Research Contract 97
AI Just Controlled a Military Plane For the First Time Ever 47
Amazon Wants To Scan Your Body To Make Perfectly Fitting Shirts 112
Boring Company Proposes Massive Vegas Expansion Following Monorail Bankruptcy 128
Up To 3 Million Devices Infected By Malware-Laced Chrome and Edge Add-Ons 17
Why Google's Big 'Four Year' Android Update Promise Is a Little Misleading 54
UK Politicians Call For 'Making the Resale of Goods Purchased Using An Automated Bot an Illegal Activity' 126
Google Will Officially Support Running Chrome OS On Old PCs 63
The First Person In the UK To Have Air Pollution Listed As a Cause of Death 79
Texas Plans To Sue Google for Alleged Anticompetitive Behavior 38
Google Stadia Arrives on iOS 31
China To Open Giant Telescope To International Scientists 32
Facebook Said It's Developing A Tool To Read Your Brain 81
Facebook Wades Into 'Fortnite' Maker's Dispute With Apple 46
Nigeria Orders Mobile Users To Link Phones To National ID Numbers 38
Dutch Prosecutors Find a Hacker Did Successfully Log Into Donald Trump's Twitter Account 96
Australia Sues Facebook Over Its Use of Onavo To Snoop 28
Major U.S. News Publishers Join the Coalition for App Fairness Advocacy Group To Fight the 'Apple Tax' 53
Facebook Attacks Apple's iOS Changes in Full-Page Newspaper Ads 114
Bitcoin Breaks Above $20,000 for the First Time Ever 76
TikTok Has Been Quietly Sending Job Applicants' Personal Data to China 60
40 Girls Do Porn Victims Are Suing Pornhub For $1 Million Each 313
SolarWinds Hides List of High-Profile Customers After Devastating Hack 58
Gmail Is Broken Right Now, One Day After a Massive Outage 73
Intel Report Shows Tech Companies Still Struggle With Diversity 354
Twitter Is Shutting Down Its Periscope Apps 6
Plastic Pipes Are Polluting Drinking Water Systems After Wildfires 72
French and Russian Trolls Wrestle For Influence In Africa, Facebook Says 34
Walmart Will Use Fully Driverless Trucks To Make Deliveries In 2021 59
Senator Tries To Block Frontier's FCC Funding, Citing ISP's Various Failures 34
Microsoft and Industry Partners Seize Key Domain Used In SolarWinds Hack 18
Microsoft Office Is Now Updated For M1 Macs 61
Academics Turn RAM Into Wi-Fi Cards To Steal Data From Air-Gapped Systems 105
AWS Introduces New Chaos Engineering as a Service Offering 20
Hackers at Center of Sprawling Spy Campaign Turned SolarWinds' Dominance Against It 49
High-Frequency Traders Push Closer To Light Speed With Cutting-Edge Cables 186
FDA Authorizes 1st Home Coronavirus Test That Doesn't Require A Prescription 61
Facebook To Move UK Users To California Terms, Avoiding EU Privacy Rules 67
SolarWinds Says 18,000 Customers Were Impacted by Recent Hack 23
FDA Approves Genetically Engineered Pigs 76
'Google is Getting Left Behind Due To Horrible UI/UX' 269
Europe Triples Down on Tough Rules for Tech 54
Germany Orders Electric Air Taxis To Carry Emergency Doctors 50
California Fines Uber $59 Million for Stonewalling Questions About Sexual Assaults 54
Poor Countries Face Long Wait for Vaccines Despite Promises 235
CloudLinux To Invest More Than a Million Dollars a Year Into CentOS Clone 85
Reddit Is Buying TikTok Rival Dubsmash 20
Astronomers Discover Cosmic 'Superhighways' For Fast Travel Through the Solar System 74
How Europe's Night Trains Came Back From the Dead 89
Scientists Just Set a New World Record In Solar Cell Efficiency 105
Countries Roll Out 2030 Paris Accord Goals Amid US Absence 128
Israeli Spy Tech Firm Says It Can Break Into Signal App 87
GameStop Employees Surprised By New Shipment of PS5, Xbox Series X Consoles 28
Apple's Fitness Video Service That Competes With Peloton Is Cheaper and Just As Good 28
Electoral College Certifies Biden's Victory, As Trump Still Refuses To Concede 550
Apple Launches New App Store Privacy Labels So You Can See How iOS Apps Use Your Data 7
Here's the 5G Glossary Every American is Apparently Going To Need 73
EA Set To Pay $1.2 Billion For Codemasters and Its Stable of Racing Games 28
Vista Acquires IT Education Platform Pluralsight for $3.5B 9
Suspected Russian Hackers Breached Department of Homeland Security 55
Amazon's Zoox Unveils Robotaxi for Future Ride-Hailing Service 41
FTC Launches Sweeping Privacy Study of Top Tech Platforms 16
Amazon Launches Live Translation Mode for Alexa 10
'Cyberpunk 2077' Players Are Fixing Parts of the Game Before CD Projekt 79
Google Delays Return To Office and Eyes 'Flexible Work Week' 27
'New Variant' of Coronavirus Identified in UK, Health Secretary Says 74
Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform 134
Tech Firms Risk Fines of 10% of Sales in EU Power Curb Bid 13
Google Services Including Gmail, YouTube Suffer Major Outage 104
John le Carre, Author of Spy Novels, Dies at Age 89 29
Covid-19 Deaths Rose In US College Towns When Students Returned 264
Russia Breached Update Server Used by 300,000 Organizations, Including the NSA 115
U.S. Schools are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Uses to Investigate Terrorists 115
Are Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles the Future of Autos? 350
Creator of DirectX Dies at Age 55 94
Hundreds Riot, Thousands Protest at iPhone Factory in India 122
Do Games Made Under Crunch Conditions Deserve 'Best Direction' Awards? 146
US Treasury Department Breached by 'Hackers Backed By Foreign Government' 64
'Will Remote Work Kill Innovation?' Ask Silicon Valley Experts 110
Nathan Myhrvold's Dazzling High-Resolution Photographs of Snowflakes 58
AstraZeneca Tries Combining Its Covid-19 Vaccine With Russia's 'Sputnik V' Vaccine 80
A History of the American Energy System In One Chart 64
Why Apple, Cloudflare, and Fastly Proposed a New Privacy-Focused DNS Standard Called 'Oblivious DoH' 64
Here Comes the Google Chrome Change that Worries Ad-Blocker Creators 119
America's Covid-19 Hospitalizations Hit a Record High For the 7th Straight Day 236
Are Fragments of Energy the Fundamental Building Blocks of the Universe? 99
NVIDIA Apologizes, 'Walks Back' Threat to Withhold GPUs From Reviewer 111
America's Covid-19 Deaths Likely to Exceed 9/11's Death Toll Every Day, For Two Months 387
Open Source Developers Say Securing Their Code Is 'Insufferably Boring' and 'Soul-Withering' 150
Drug Reverses Age-Related Mental Decline Within Days 98
Hackers Are Selling More Than 85,000 MySQL Databases On a Dark Web Portal 24
NextMind's Brain-Computer Interface Kit Begins Shipping To Developers 24
Google Plans to Calculate 'Criticality' Scores for Open Source Projects 40
Virgin Galactic Unexpectedly Aborted a Test Flight of Its Space Plane 34
'Save Europe from Software Patents', Urges Nonprofit FFII 33
Disney Stock Skyrockets 13% Friday to New All-Time High 46
Twitter Disabled 'Likes' and 'Replies' on False Trump Tweets. Inadvertently. 191
Boston Biotech Conference Led To 245,000 COVID-19 Cases Across US 43
Facebook Says Hackers Backed By Vietnam's Government Are Linked To IT Firm 11
The Zodiac Killer's Cipher Has Been Solved After 51 Years 78
Is Warner Bros' Shift To Streaming New Movies 'A Great Danger'? 93
FDA Approves Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use in America 222
Florida Governor Defends Police Raid On COVID Data Whistleblower 145
Google Will Let You Limit the Alcohol and Gambling Ads You See 31
Norman Abramson, Pioneer Behind Wireless Networks, Dies At 88 7
Key People Are Leaving Facebook and Torching the Company In Departure Notes 104
Big Tech Firms To Face 6% Fines If Breach New EU Content Rules 42
How the Nature Conservancy, the World's Biggest Environmental Group, Became a Dealer of Meaningless Carbon Offsets 53
Oracle Is Moving Its Headquarters From Silicon Valley To Austin, Texas 111
Elon Musk On the Problem With Corporate America: 'Too Many MBAs' 195
Harrison Ford Will Return in a Fifth 'Indiana Jones' Movie 87
Amazon Plans To Help 29 Million People Grow their Tech Skills With Free Cloud Computing Training by 2025 44
CERN is Making the Large Hadron Collider's Data More Accessible 6
Lockdown Gardening in Britain Leads To Archaeological Discoveries 66
Apple Starts Work on Its Own Cellular Modem, Chip Chief Says 51
Slashdot Asks: Favorite Movies and TV Shows You Watched This Year? 128
Inside the Obsessive World of Miniature Arcade Machine Makers 25
EU Member States Agree 55% Cut in Carbon Emissions by 2030 65
'Cyberpunk 2077' Finally Shows What DLSS Is Good For 69
CISA and FBI Warn of Rise in Ransomware Attacks Targeting K-12 Schools 13
Twitter App Code Indicates That Live Video Broadcasting App Periscope May Get Shut Down 11
Hyundai Motor Buys 80% of Robotics Firm Boston Dynamics 40
Microsoft Will Start Force Upgrading Windows 10 For Some Users 232
Spotify Resets Passwords After a Security Bug Exposed Users' Private Account Information 19
Microsoft's Latest Windows 10 Test Builds Includes Promised x64 Arm Emulation 30
'We Need a Broadband Internet Pricing Equivalent of Nutrition Labels' 94
Gmail Will Now Let You Edit Office Documents Directly From Email Attachments 28
Ahsoka Tano Standalone Star Wars Series Coming To Disney Plus 50
Proposed US Law Could Slap Twitch Streamers With Felonies For Broadcasting Copyrighted Material 208
FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Pfizer's Covid Vaccine For Emergency Use 152
Facebook Hit With Antitrust Probe For Tying Oculus Use To Facebook Accounts 29
Brave Browser-Maker Launches Privacy-Friendly News Reader 12
MasterCard, VISA To Stop Processing Payments On Pornhub 114
Salesforce Claims Its AI Can Spot Signs of Breast Cancer With 92% Accuracy 24
Apple Shifts Leadership of Self-Driving Car Unit To AI Chief 11
'This Is a Bad Time to Build a High-End Gaming PC' 177
Microsoft Exposes Adrozek, Malware That Hijacks Chrome, Edge, and Firefox 17
India Cabinet Approves Setting Up a 'Massive Network' of Public Wi-Fi Hotspots 16
FCC Orders Equipment Removed in Step Aimed at Huawei, ZTE 56
Original Jailbreak App Store Cydia Sues Apple for its Monopoly 102
Weather Service Faces Internet Bandwidth Shortage, Proposes Limiting Key Data 67
Google, Dell, and Intel Form New Computing Group for Transforming Cloud and IT Tools 12
France Fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M For Dropping Tracking Cookies Without Consent 36
Cyberpunk 2077 Bugs Hit CD Projekt 148
Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity 183
Hidden Symmetry Could Be Key To More Robust Quantum Systems, Researchers Find 14
Cruise Begins Driverless Testing In San Francisco 39
French Army Gets Ethical Go-Ahead For Bionic Soldiers 121
Tesla Full Self-Driving System's Beta Developer Settings Leaked 57
MDMA-Assisted Couples Therapy Investigated In Landmark Pilot Trial 68
SpaceX's Successful Starship High-Altitude Flight Ends In a Fiery Explosion 285
Adobe Releases the Last Flash Update Ever 57
UK Warns People With Serious Allergies To Avoid Pfizer Vaccine 175
Google CEO Pledges To Investigate Exit of Top AI Ethicist 83
Hyundai To Acquire Boston Dynamics For Nearly $1 Billion 20
After Years of Fighting It, Nest Will Work With Samsung's SmartThings 20
EU Agency in Charge of COVID-19 Vaccine Approval Says it Was Hacked 40
How People Across the World Spend Their Time and What it Tells us About Living Conditions 45
FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization 122
Google Will Change How Chrome Extensions Access Data in 2021 9
Apple Turned Blind Eye To Supplier Breaches of Chinese Labor Laws 51
YouTube Waits Until a Month After the Election To Act on False Claims of Election Fraud 419
Human 'Stuff' Now Outweighs All Life on Earth 98
2020 AP CS Scores: Still Big Gaps In Performance, Participation 103
Microsoft, Unilever Join Amazon's Pledge To Fight Climate Change 28
Xbox Cloud Gaming Coming To iOS and PC in Spring 2021 20
Twitter Users Complain of Timelines Being Overrun With 'Promoted Tweets'; Twitter Says It's Intentional 91
First Electric Air Taxis Set To Fly in Singapore by 2023 28
Germany, France, 11 Other EU Countries Team Up For Semiconductor Push 45
Samsung Plans To Ditch Power Adapters Just 3 Months After Mocking Apple Over the Same 134
Mount Everest, Earth's Tallest Mountain, Just Got Taller By About a Meter 44
Scientists Say They Have Come Up With a Potential Way To Make Oxygen On Mars 122
France To Build New Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carrier 244
Toyota Announces New All-Electric SUV, Says It's Their 'First Step' For Battery-Electric Cars 104
Cyberpunk 2077 Includes Visual Effects Designed To Trigger Epileptic Seizure 171
Pornhub Ends Unverified Uploads and Bans Downloads 123
FireEye, a Top Cybersecurity Firm, Says It Was Hacked By a Nation-State 51
Google Says It is Expanding Fuchsia's Open Source Model 79
Chuck Yeager, Test Pilot Who Broke the Sound Barrier, Dies At 97 48
GE Puts Default Password In Radiology Devices, Leaving Healthcare Networks Exposed 40
CentOS 8 Ending Next Year To Focus Shift On CentOS Stream 136
Senate Votes To Advance Nomination of Trump FCC Nominee 94
Google's Look To Speak Taps Gaze-Tracking AI To Help Users With Impairments Communicate 11
Amazon, Amex To Fund Software Developers in New GitHub Program 11
Spam Calls Grew 18% This Year Despite the Global Pandemic 89
BTC-e Founder Sentenced To Five Years in Prison for Laundering Ransomware Funds 9
Tripadvisor's App, and More Than 100 Others, Have Just Been Blocked in China 71
Pfizer's Vaccine Offers Strong Protection After First Dose 190
Cloudflare and Apple Design a New Privacy-Friendly Internet Protocol 90
Apple Launches $549 AirPods Max Over-Ear Headphones 118
Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestle Named Top Plastic Polluters For Third Year In a Row 158
Did COVID Data Whistleblower Hack Florida's Emergency Alert System? Police Raid Home 210
Aliens In Hiding Until Mankind Is Ready, Says Ex-Israeli Space Head 332
Electric-Car Companies Now Comprise Half the Worth of the World's 10 Most Valuable Automakers 159
The World's First DNA 'Tricorder' In Your Pocket 54
LG Developing Sliding Doors Made of Transparent OLED Displays 53
Pornhub Might Lose Visa and Mastercard After NYT Exposé 157
IKEA Is Killing Off Its Catalog After 70 Years 60
Hacker Opens 2,732 PickPoint Package Lockers Across Moscow 31
California Partners With Apple and Google For COVID-19 Contact Tracing On Phones 61
SpaceX Gets $886 Million From FCC To Subsidize Starlink In 35 States 129
Uber Sells Its Self-Driving Unit To Aurora 18
LG Shakes Up Loss-Making Phone Business, To Outsource Lower-End Models 25
Exxon Holds Back on Technology That Could Slow Climate Change 94
In Rare Show of Solidarity, 14 Key Nations Commit To Protect Oceans 74
The Search for Dark Matter Is Dramatically Expanding 55
Amazon Fire TV Adds Local News In 12 U.S. Cities, With 90 More Coming In 2021 20
Google, Online Platforms Told by EU To Explain Search Rankings 89
Everest Gets an Altitude Adjustment: Nepal and China Agree on Height 107
US Air Pollution Monitoring Network Falling Into Disrepair 97
Court Suspends 'Copyright Troll' Lawyer From Practicing Law 39
Missing Credit Card Payments May Be an Early Sign of Dementia, Study Says 114
Apple Preps Next Mac Chips With Aim To Outclass Top-End PCs 207
Cyberpunk 2077 Has Involved Months of Crunch, Despite Past Promises 112
Voyager Probes Detect New Kind of 'Electron Burst' in Interstellar Space 24
Will Businesses Make 2021 The Year of the Linux Desktop? 214
Kazakhstan's Government Begins Intercepting HTTPS Traffic In Its Capital 126
YouTube and Peacock are Now Streaming James Bond Films For Free 65
Third Monolith Reappears, Fourth and Fifth Monoliths Discovered 103
Is Microsoft's 'Find Your Joy' Holiday Ad Sad? 52
Some Ransomware Gangs are Now Phoning Victims Who Restore from Backups 133
Google Considers 'Severe' Penalties For Allegedly Deceptive Chrome Extension Maker 29
Richard Stallman Answers Questions at EmacsConf 2020 57
Celebrating the Path-Breaking Research That Lead to Coronavirus Vaccines 134
Component Failure Found in Crew Capsule NASA Hoped to Launch in 2021 146
New Research Shows What We Can Accomplish by Manipulating Biology 24
The Best Way To Win a Horse Race? Mathematicians May Have the Answer 52
Jeff Bezos Shares Blue Origin Engine Test Footage 43
Urban Explorers Discover A Treasure Trove Of Soviet Computing Power 65
Should Qualcomm Feel Threatened By Apple's M1 Macs? 257
Dust From Japan's Asteroid-Blasting Probe Returns to Earth 29
How Bill Gates Would Fight Climate Change 217
Does Digital Advertising Actually Work? 95
'Mysterious Object Hurtling Towards Earth' is a 1966 Booster Rocket 31
New Report: Havanna Syndrome Could Be Directed Microwave Energy 86
The Geeky Advent Calendar Tradition Continues in 2020 9
Legendary Science Fiction Author Ben Bova Has Passed At the Age of 88 53
Apple Launches Repair Program For Unresponding IPhone 11 Displays 13

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