Slashdot Stories for 2021

Trial Ends For Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes 86
FSF Adopts New Governance Measures: a Board Member Agreement and Code of Ethics 72
Boston Police Bought Spy Tech With a Pot of Money Hidden From the Public 63
H&R Block Sues Over Square's New Name 'Block' 68
A Domestic Newspaper Warns of the Russian Space Program's 'Rapid Collapse' 76
US Regulators Flag Climate Change, Stablecoins As Potential Systemic Risks 70
Security Firm Blumira Discovers Major New Log4j Attack Vector 91
Amazon Driver Was Warned She'd Be Fired For Returning With Packages During a Tornado 179
Anti-5G Necklaces Found To Be Radioactive 80
Facebook Bans 7 'Surveillance-For-Hire' Companies That Spied On 50,000 Users 9
Google Drive Could Soon Start Locking Your Files 76
Adobe Stock Plummets 10%, Its Second-Worst Day In Past Decade 32
Schools Across US Cancel Classes Over Unconfirmed TikTok Threats 44
European Soccer Matches Have Become Predictable, Study Finds 60
Verizon Tries To Defend Collecting Browsing Data on its Network 32
Amazon Partnered With China Propaganda Arm 44
Regulators Open Probe Into Red Hot 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Industry 65
This USB 'Kill Cord' Can Instantly Wipe Your Laptop if Snatched or Stolen 67
'No Evidence' That Omicron is Less Severe Than Delta, Say Imperial Researchers 348
The First True Millipede: New Species With More Than 1,000 Legs Discovered in Western Australia 34
Amazon UK Launches 'Buy Now, Pay Later' Product With Barclays 29
Boeing Wants To Build Its Next Airplane in the 'Metaverse' 81
Microsoft's Bing Halts Autofill Feature in China, Citing Local Laws 17
Microsoft Moves More Settings Away from the Control Panel on Windows 11 115
Apple Releases Swift Playgrounds 4 8
CDC Panel Recommends Moderna, Pfizer Vaccines Over J&J's 139
Apple Is Rebuilding Apple Music As a Full Native App 38
IBM and Samsung Say Their New Chip Design Could Lead To Week-Long Battery Life On Phones 85
Fossil Fuel Combustion Kills More Than 1 Million People Every Year, Study Says 151
Giant Kites That Drag Cargo Ships Across Oceans Go On Trial 155
Metaverse Vision Requires 1000x More Computational Power, Says Intel 79
TikTok Is Testing a Desktop Streaming Software Called TikTok Live Studio 13
Telecom Data Storage Locations Will Soon Be Public In Japan 4
Google Says NSO Pegasus Zero-Click 'Most Technically Sophisticated Exploit Ever Seen' 106
Reddit Files To Go Public 33
Comcast Will Keep Data Caps Out of the Northeast In 2022 26
Firefox Fixes Password Leak via Windows Cloud Clipboard Feature 13
The Millions of Tons of Carbon Emissions That Don't Officially Exist 62
Wind Power Becomes Spain's Leading Energy Source for 2021 89
Google Faces Huge Fines in Russia as Putin Ally Wins Lawsuit 48
At EA, It Can Take a Whole Day To Change 3 Lines of Code 145
Sidewalk Labs Products Will Be Folded Into Google Proper 4
India Defuses Its Population Bomb 156
France Latest To Slap Clearview AI With Order To Delete Data 28
Melania Trump Launches NFT Platform in First Public Endeavor Since White House 113
Crypto Scam Revenue Up 81% in 2021, Hits $7.7 Billion: Chainalysis 17
Mathematician Hurls Structure and Disorder Into Century-Old Problem 15
US Builds New Software Tool To Predict Actions that Could Draw China's Ire 60
Federal Court Blocks Texas' Unconstitutional Social Media Law 292
Biometrics Company Clear Is Bringing Its Airport Scanners To Retail Stores 30
US Airlines Warn 5G Wireless Could Cause Havoc With Flights 89
New York City Is Banning Natural Gas Hookups To Fight Climate Change 456
Vodeo Becomes the First Unionized Games Studio In North America 57
US To Blacklist Eight More Chinese Companies, Including Drone Maker DJI 115
Pelosi Rejects Stock-Trading Ban For Members of Congress 177
Apple Delays Corporate Return To Offices Indefinitely 20
US Surpasses 800,000 COVID-19 Deaths 180
How China Uses Western Influencers As Pawns In Its Propaganda War 104
Scientists Just Found a 'Significant' Volume of Water Inside Mars' Grand Canyon 37
Fed's Powell Says He Doesn't See Cryptocurrencies as 'Financial Stability Concern' 66
Solana Generates $1 Billion in Returns for Multiple Early Backers 16
US Lawmakers Call For Sanctions Against Israel's NSO, Spyware Firms 25
Coinbase Mistakenly Told Some Customers They Were Billionaires 31
Mitto Tells Clients That Co-Founder Departed After Allegations of Phone Spying 2
UK Reports Highest Number of Daily Covid Cases Since the Pandemic Began 180
Silicon Valley's Voice in Washington Dissolves 14
Hackers Backed by China Seen Exploiting Security Flaw in Internet Software 41
Microsoft To Make Windows Terminal the Default Windows 11 Command Line Experience 113
Apple Removes All References To Controversial CSAM Scanning Feature From Its Child Safety Webpage 36
Why Google Has Sat on the Web3 Sidelines 56
India Approves $10 Billion Plan To Lure Semiconductor and Display Makers 20
Presentations Point To Greater Huawei Role In China Surveillance Than Acknowledged 45
Rocket Scientists and Brain Surgeons Aren't Necessarily More Clever, Study Finds 195
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Becomes First Spacecraft To 'Touch' the Sun 63
Scientists Urge Creating Strategic Forest Reserves To Mitigate Climate Change, Protect Biodiversity 118
Google Is Building a New AR Device and OS 20
Bitcoin Could Become 'Worthless,' Bank of England Warns 271
Dell's Luna Laptop Concept Is All About Repairability 77
USPS Built and Secretly Tested a Blockchain-Based Mobile Voting System Before 2020 60
Masayuki Uemura, Designer of the Nintendo Entertainment System, Dies At 78 18
YouTube TV Warns It May Lose All Disney-Owned Channels Amid Contract Dispute 72
What Is Web3 and Why Should You Care? 113
Intel's Mystery Linux Muckabout is a Dangerous Ploy at a Dangerous Time 80
Bugs Across Globe Are Evolving To Eat Plastic, Study Finds 88
New NASA Tool Helps Visualize Asteroids' Paths Through Solar System 4
Her Instagram Handle Was 'Metaverse.' Last Month, It Vanished. 249
Android 12 Go Edition Brings New Speed, Battery, Privacy Features To Lower-end Phones 10
CISA Tells Federal Agencies To Patch Log4Shell Before Christmas 57
Apple and Google's Mobile Duopoly Likely To Face UK Antitrust Action 53
US Opens Probe Into Amazon Warehouse Fatal Collapse in Illinois 129
Struggling To Win Subscribers, Netflix Cuts Prices in India 27
The Antarctic is Signaling Big Climate Trouble 115
Don't Buy a Monitor or TV Just for HDMI 2.1 -- Read the Fine Print or You Might Get Fooled 91
Private Equity Firms To Spin Out Password Manager LastPass 53
Birds Aren't Real, or Are They? Inside a Gen Z Conspiracy Theory 110
NASA's New Sleeping Bags Could Prevent Eyeball 'Squashing' On the ISS 41
First UK Death Recorded With Omicron Variant 179
Researchers Are Hoping To 'Hear' Dark Matter Using a Super-Cooled Experiment 16
Apple Launches AirTags and Find My Detector App For Android, In Effort To Boost Privacy 57
Cable News Talent Wars Are Shifting To Streaming Platforms 77
South Korea To Test AI-Powered Facial Recognition To Track COVID-19 Cases 12
Apple Is About To Become the World's First $3 Trillion Company 49
Universal Control Feature For Mac and iPad Delayed Until Spring 2022 15
Ukraine Arrests 51 For Selling Data of 300 Million People In US, EU 11
One Space Trip Emits a Lifetime's Worth of Carbon Footprint 201
Intel To Spend $7 Billion on Big Malaysia Chipmaking Expansion 14
Hackers Steal $140 Million From Users of Crypto Gaming Company 27
Spyware Firm NSO Mulls Shutdown of Pegasus Unit, Sale of Company 14
Software Flaw Sparks Global Race To Patch Bug 60
Biden Will Sign an Executive Order To Move Government Services Online 172
Time Person of the Year: Elon Musk 248
Adobe Takes on Canva With Freemium Offering 36
Someone Accidentally Sold a $300,000 NFT for $3,000 75
The World Is So Desperate for Manure Even Human Waste Is a Hot Commodity 93
Facebook Exec Blames Society for COVID Misinformation 149
Mozilla Expects To Generate More Than $500M in Revenue This Year 21
Toyota is Going To Make You Pay To Start Your Car With Your Key Fob 272
'The New Normal': US Blames This Winter's Severe Tornado's on Climate Change 150
'Matrix' Stars Discuss Free 'Matrix Awakens' Demo Showing Off Epic's Unreal Engine 5 34
Will Political Polarization Stop US Lawmakers from Regulating Big Tech? 82
An Experimental Target-Recognition AI Mistakenly Thought It Was Succeeding 90% of the Time 65
Some Fans React Negatively to Disney's Promos for Star Wars-Themed Hotel 99
Google Finally Killed Its Internet Explorer Plugin, 'Google Toolbar' 13
Has the Corporate Climate Migration Begun? 92
Companies Finally Admit They Don't Know When They're Returning to Offices 127
FAA: No More Astronaut Wings For Future Commercial Space Tourists 44
Ask Slashdot: What Do You Remember About Windows ME? 269
Scientists Discover How the SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evades Our Immune System 146
NASA's Next-Generation Asteroid Impact Monitoring System Goes Online 11
'When a Newspaper Publishes an Unsolvable Puzzle' 23
Hard Drive With 7,500 Bitcoin Buried in Landfill. Can It Be Dug Up? 198
Is the Internet Changing the Way We Remember? 54
Deadly Collapse at Amazon Warehouse Raises Questions About Its Cellphone Ban 180
Judges Read Capitol Rioters' Social Media Posts, Gave Them Stricter Sentences 424
Data on Tens of Thousands of South Australian Government Employees Breached in Ransomware Attack 20
Magnus Carlsen Wins 8th World Chess Championship. What Makes Him So Great? 42
Foreign Policy magazine: 'Bitcoin Failed in El Salvador.' Is the Answer More Bitcoin? 100
New Medicine Could Replace Reading Glasses with Eye Drops 87
Two US Senators Urge Federal Investigations Into Facebook About Safety - and Ad Reach 6
COVID Booster Cuts Death Rate by 90%, Israeli Study Finds 154
What's Behind the 'Birds Aren't Real' Protests? 169
The Linux Kernel's Second Language? Rust Gets Another Step Closer 116
Blue Origin Helps Humanity Set a New Record for Spaceflight 53
Stanford Professor Garry Nolan Is Analyzing Anomalous Materials From UFO Crashes 122
Chicago Public Schools Partners With Google Instead of Code.org For CSEdWeek 7
FAA Says Lack of Federal Whistleblower Protections Is 'Enormous Factor' Hindering Blue Origin Safety Review 24
Acclaimed Sci-Fi Writer On How Humanity Will Endure the Climate Crisis 206
Android Games Are Coming To Windows PCs In 2022 19
Samsung Submits Patent Application On a Rollable Smartwatch With a Camera 7
Brazil Health Ministry Website Hit By Hackers, Vaccination Data Targeted 17
Volvo Discloses Security Breach Leading To Data Theft 14
New Social Media Transparency Bill Would Force Facebook To Open Up To Researchers 22
New Zero-Day In the Log4j Java Library Is Already Being Exploited 122
Better.com CEO Vishal Garg Steps Back As Employees Detail How He 'Led By Fear' 86
Microsoft Quietly Told Apple It Was Willing To Turn Big Xbox-exclusive Games Into iPhone Apps 7
'China Will Soon Lead the US in Tech' 289
Microsoft Launches Center for Reporting Malicious Drivers 27
What Will Happen To Arm Now? 46
Trump Got Free Speech Wrong in Suit Over Ban, Twitter Says 272
Citing Fires, London's Transport Agency Bans E-scooters on Public Transit Network 47
Football Fans Spending Millions on Club Crypto-tokens 14
The European Commission is Making its Software Open Source To Benefit Society 24
Japanese Scientists Develop Glowing Masks To Detect Coronavirus 89
New NASA Telescope Will Provide X-Ray Views of the Universe 15
Year After Cyberpunk Debut, CD Projekt No Nearer Redemption 95
US Wins Appeal Over Extradition of WikiLeaks Founder 220
Getting Married In the Metaverse 64
Cox Discloses Data Breach After Hacker Impersonates Support Agent 16
Mercedes Beats Tesla To Hands-Free Driving On the Autobahn 161
Revisiting the 'Tsar Bomba' Nuclear Test 143
Visa Launches Crypto Consulting Services 18
Microsoft Tempts Software Pirates With 50 Percent Discount On Office 76
Tyson Foods To Spend $1.3 Billion To Automate Meat Plants 135
NYC, Facing Housing Crisis, Targets Illegal Airbnb Owners 83
FDA Clears AstraZeneca's COVID-19 Antibody Treatment For Immunocompromised 13
EFF Warns Chrome Users: 'Manifest V3 Is Deceitful and Threatening' 46
Fall On Walk From Bed To Desk Is Workplace Accident, German Court Rules 148
Masayuki Uemura, Creator Of The NES And SNES, Dies At 78 26
Microplastics Cause Damage To Human Cells, Study Shows 39
Google Says Bug With Teams and Android Can Cause 911 Calls To Fail 44
'Free PACER' Bill Advances Through Senate Judiciary Unanimously 31
Meta's WhatsApp Will Allow Crypto Payments Through Novi Wallet in US 10
Meta Opens Up Access To Its VR Social Platform Horizon Worlds 22
Gig Economy Workers To Get Employee Rights Under EU Proposals 89
Retail CEOs Press Congress To Toughen Rules for Online Sellers 42
New German Government Coalition Promises Not To Buy Exploits 18
Evergrande Has Defaulted On Its Debt 154
US To Blacklist Chinese AI Company SenseTime Over Xinjiang Ahead of IPO 37
Italy Fines Amazon $1.3 Billion for Abusing Its Market Position 34
Dyson Loses Fight For $198 Million Compensation Over EU Energy Labeling Rules 50
Over 40 Million People Had Health Information Leaked This Year 25
This Massive Planet Shouldn't Exist 66
Boss Says Sorry For 'Blundered' Zoom Firing of 900 Staff 138
Can an Athlete's Blood Enhance Brainpower? 56
Suicide Pods Now Legal In Switzerland, Providing Users With a Painless Death 363
SF Millennium Tower Tilts Quarter Inch In Four Days 62
DeepMind Tests the Limits of Large AI Language Systems With 280-Billion-Parameter Model 22
Virgin Media Fined $50K For Spamming Opted-Out Customers 13
Waking Up Right After Drifting Off To Sleep Can Boost Creativity 28
Wikipedia Editors Very Mad About Jimmy Wales' NFT of a Wikipedia Edit 15
Biden Wants To Make Federal Government Carbon Neutral by 2050 106
Apple Won't Have To Make the App Store Changes Ordered in Epic Ruling While Case is Appealed 9
Alexa.com Is 'Retiring' 37
Microsoft To Change Hiring Process After DOJ Finds Immigration-related Discrimination 52
Microsoft Rolls Out Revamped Notepad App To Windows 11 Insiders 123
Instagram's Boss Faces Congress' Questions on Harm To Teens 22
Your Face Is, or Will Be, Your Boarding Pass 144
Roku, Google Settle Messy Battle Over YouTube Distribution 34
'Decentralization Illusion': Central Bank Group Urges Regulation of DeFi Crypto Platforms 60
Older People Who Get Cataracts Removed Have Lower Dementia Risk 70
Apple Reaches Quiet Truce Over iPhone Privacy Changes 43
Pfizer, BioNTech Say Third Dose Neutralizes Omicron Variant 292
Clearview AI On Track To Win US Patent For Facial Recognition Technology 17
Study Can't Confirm Lab Results For Many Cancer Experiments 126
LINE Pay Leaks Around 133,000 Users' Data To GitHub 8
The NIH Director On Why Americans Aren't Getting Healthier, Despite Medical Advances 208
Huge 20-Year Study Shows Trickle-Down Is a Myth, Inequality Rampant 646
UAE To Shift To Saturday-Sunday Weekend in Line With Global Markets 11
Twitter Acquires, Shuts Down Would-Be Slack Rival Quill 14
Giant Study Finds Viagra Is Linked To Almost 70% Lower Risk of Alzheimer's 115
Ubisoft Becomes First Major Gaming Company To Launch In-Game NFTs 48
Missouri Planned To Thank 'Hacker' Journalist Before Governor Accused Him of Crimes 57
Intel Is Taking Its Self-Driving Company Mobileye Public In 2022 9
The CIA Is Deep Into Cryptocurrency, Director Reveals 39
Darpa Funded Researchers Accidentally Create the World's First Warp Bubble 189
The World's Relentless Demand for Chips Turns Deadly in Malaysia 30
Verizon Once Again Expands Its Snoopvertising Ambitions 14
Airplane Landings at Risk of Delays on FAA Move To Ease 5G Risk 42
Senate Confirms FCC Chair Rosenworcel To Another Term, Narrowly Avoiding a Republican Majority 41
An Amazon Server Outage is Causing Problems for Alexa, Ring, Disney Plus, and Others 99
Over 200 Papers Quietly Sue Big Tech 44
Biden's Cyber Leaders Go To Silicon Valley for More Help Fighting Hackers 25
Google Sues Two Russians for Alleged Organized Crime Scheme 9
Facing Hostile Chinese Authorities, Apple CEO Signed $275 Billion Deal With Them 83
Even in the Metaverse, Not All Identities Are Created Equal 64
Microsoft Seizes Domains Used By Chinese Cyber-Espionage Group 'Nickel' 26
France To Mimic Musk With Own SpaceX-Style Launcher, Minister Says 184
Mysterious Galaxy Without Dark Matter Puzzles Astronomers 106
SolarWinds Hackers Have a Whole Bag of New Tricks For Mass Compromise Attacks 43
China 'Modified' the Weather To Create Clear Skies For Political Celebration, Study Finds 32
DeepMind Cracks 'Knot' Conjecture That Bedeviled Mathematicians For Decades 21
Meta Has a 'Moral Obligation' To Make Its Mental Health Research Transparent, Scientists Say 46
Eurostar Tests Facial Recognition System On London Train Station 24
Verizon Might Be Collecting Your Browsing History 36
Toyota Plans $1.29 Billion Electric Vehicle Battery Factory In North Carolina 77
Self-Described Bitcoin Creator Must Pay $100 Million In Suit 84
The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users 32
How a Cream Cheese Shortage Is Affecting NYC Bagel Shops 78
A Mysterious Threat Actor is Running Hundreds of Malicious Tor Relays 20
Small Group of Insiders Reaping Most of the Gains on NFTs, Study Shows 43

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