Slashdot Stories for 2015

How Rocket League Brought Psyonix Back From the Brink 33
Google's New About Me Tool Is the Anti-Google+ 54
Paper Retracted After Anti-Immigrant Scientist Bans Use of His Software 418
Getting Started With GNU Radio 42
New Ransomware Business Cashing In On CryptoLocker's Name 62
Bluetooth 2016 Roadmap Brings Fourfold Range Increase and Mesh Networking 29
Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS 96
Prison Hack Shows Attorney-Client Privilege Violation 190
Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users 108
Backwards Compatibility For Xbox One Launches 63
Broadband Bills Will Have To Increase To Pay For Snooper's Charter, MPs Warned 77
Comet Catalina To Pass By Earth For the Final Time 54
Head of Indonesia's Anti-Drug Agency Proposes Using Crocodiles To Guard Prisons 83
Uber South Africa Launches $500 a Month Car Lease Which Includes Replacing Tires 83
Apple CEO Tim Cook: "Microsoft Surface Book Tries Too Hard To Do Too Much" 478
Justice Officials Fear Nation's Biggest Wiretap Operation May Not Be Legal 118
Linux Ransomware Has Predictable Key, Automated Decryption Tool Released 78
Tech Pros' Struggle For Work-Life Balance Continues 195
MST3K Is Kickstarting Back To Life 83
Ivan Ristic and SSL Labs: How One Man Changed the Way We Understand SSL 25
Classified Report On the CIA's Secret Prisons Is Caught In Limbo 54
Even the CEO's Job Is Susceptible To Automation, McKinsey Report Says 176
New Algorithm Recognizes Both Good and Bad Fake Reviews 59
New Book Sold Out Offers a Look At the H-1B Debate 331
Interviews: Ask Stack Overflow Co-Founder Jeff Atwood a Question 129
Google Will Retire Chrome Support For XP, Vista, OS X 10.6-8 In April 2016 140
TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials 242
App Companies Propose New Model For Worker Benefits 113
Webmail Services Struggling Against DDoS Attacks 90
Bill Confirming Property Rights For Asteroid Miners Passes the Senate 171
Microsoft Putting Servers In Germany To Keep User Data Away From US Intelligence 173
Massive Hacking Ring Stole Data From 100 Million Bank Customers 38
Viewing Data Harvested From Smart TVs Used To Push Ads To Other Screens? 148
Astronomers Spot Most Distant Object In the Solar System 85
With Respect To Gaming, Android Still Lags Behind iOS 166
NVIDIA Releases JTX1 ARM Board That Competes With Intel's Skylake i7-6700K 84
DARPA Is About To Start Testing an Autonomous, Submarine-Hunting Drone 84
Fantasy Sports Sites Ordered To Stop Taking Bets In New York State 125
2016 Presidential Candidate Security Investigation 97
DNA Data From California Newborn Blood Samples Stored, Sold To 3rd Parties 187
The Two Modern Space Races 99
Unhashable: Why Fingerprints Are Weaker Security Than Passwords 242
Qualcomm Unveils Snapdragon 820 With Adreno 530 Graphics For Mobile Devices 34
NSFW: T-Mobile Hurls Insults At Competitors AT&T, Verizon and Sprint
Harnessing Conflict in the Workplace (video) 93
T-Mobile Will Let Video Stream For Free
With TensorFlow, Google Open Sources Its Machine Learning Resources 37
IT Resume Makeover: Adding Color and Graphics
Stanford Creates Tricorder-Like Devices For Detecting Cancer and Explosives 34
Proof-of-Concept Ransomware Affects Macs 163
How Outsourcing Companies Are Gaming the H-1B Visa System 284
Open Source Anniversaries: 6 Years of Go, 11 of Firefox 65
"Fallout 4" Release Raises Questions About Reviews of Buggy Games 367
The Dark Net Drug Market That Survived Ukraine's Civil War 15
Symbolic vs. Mnemonic Relational Operators: Is "GT" Greater Than ">"? 304
Sony To End Sales of Betamax Tapes Next Year 103
Dorms For Grownups: a Solution For Lonely Millennials? 412
In Ireland, All RC and Drones Over 1kg To Be Registered 108
ProtonMail Restores Services After Epic DDoS Attacks 57
Ask Slashdot: Open Source Back-Up Tool For Business? 118
Gambling Could Reveal Which Scientific Studies Are Worth Their Salt 63
Icy Volcanoes May Erupt On Pluto 32
UK Gov't Can Demand Backdoors, Give Prison Sentences For Disclosing Them 187
The Dawn of the Robotic Chef 50
8 of the 10 Top Security Flaws Used By Cyber-Criminals This Year Were Flash Bugs 66
The UK Will Police the Dark Web With a New Task Force 56
Fury and Fear In Ohio As IT Jobs Go To India 607
The Sophisticated Business of Today's Most Nasty Phishing Attacks 38
TAG Heuer Launches "Connected" Android Wear Smartwatch With Intel Inside 55
The Internet Falls For Rumblr, a Fake "Tinder For Fighting" App 135
SETI Fails To Detect Signals Coming From KIC 8462852 99
China, Russia Try To Hack Australia's Upcoming Submarine Plans 83
What Happened To Passenger Hovercraft? 69
Baidu Data Research Reveals China's Ghost Cities 109
US Judge Rules Against NSA In Phone Spying Case 93
Comcast Resets Nearly 200,000 Passwords After Customer List Goes On Sale 43
US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online 305
Interviews: Ask Mathematician Neil Sloane a Question 189
Global Temperature Set To Reach 1 Degree C Over Pre-Industrial Levels 735
No Such Thing As 'Unlimited' Data 622
How One Company Is Bringing Old Video Games Back From the Dead 106
Ask Slashdot: Tiny PCs To Drive Dozens of NOC Monitors? 197
Google's Robotics Group Lacks Leadership 43
Coming Set-top Box Mandate May Help Break Pay TV Firms' Hold Over Viewers 153
The Neuroscientist Who Tested a Brain Implant On Himself 58
Science's "Breakthrough" Winners Earn Over $21 Million In Prizes 18
Persian Gulf Temperatures May Be At the Edge of Human Tolerance In 30 Years 488
ABC's 'BattleBots' Reboot Will Come Back For a Second Season 37
WordPress Now Powers 25% of the Web 143
Electric-Car Startup Faraday Future Building a $1 Billion Factory In California 162
Intel Skylake-U For Laptops Posts Solid Gains In Testing, Especially Graphics 104
British Spaceplane Skylon Could Revolutionize Space Travel 226
Rural Mississippi: The Land That the Internet Era Forgot 154
Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Nominated For Nobel Prize 153
Going Dark Crypto Debate Going Nowhere 111
Badly-Coded Ransomware Locks User Files and Throws Away Encryption Key 128
Interactive Fiction Competition Enters Its Third Decade 30
The FCC Says It Can't Force Google and Facebook To Stop Tracking Their Users 127
AMD Sued Over Allegedly Misleading Bulldozer Core Count 311
VW Engineers Have Admitted Manipulating CO2 Emissions Data 201
Another $1 Million Crowdfunded Gadget Company Collapses 109
Vulnerability In Java Commons Library Leads To Hundreds of Insecure Applications 115
Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK 188
Israel 'To Review' Top Appointment After Facebook Controversy 351
Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix 213
Hackers Who Hit CIA Director Break Into Law Enforcement Tools 35
$1 Bid Wins Government Open Source Software Purchasing Experiment 124
Ransomware Found Targeting Linux Servers, MySQL, Git, Other Development Files 93
Before Barbie's Brainy Makeover, Mattel Execs Met With White House, Google 125
Hands-On With the Nintendo PlayStation 51
The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink 220
NSA Uses Vulnerabilities Before It Discloses Them, Keeps Some To Itself 121
Steam Has Brought 1,600 Games To Linux In the Past Three Years 110
Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline 369
Muzzled Canadian Scientists Can Now Speak Freely With Public 197
Autonomous Cars Aren't As Smart as They're Cracked Up To Be 258
Controversial Company Offers a New Way To Make a Baby 80
Scan a Book In Five Minutes With a $199 Scanner? 221
How a Mobile App Firm Found the XcodeGhost In the Machine 69
Jack McCauley's Next Challenge: the Perfect Head-Tracker For VR 25
New vs. Old: a Comparison of 23andMe's Health Reports and the Raw Data 96
TalkTalk Hack: 4% of Customers' Data Accessed In Cyber Security Breach 25
Pro-Privacy Webmail ProtonMail Pays Ransom, But Hit By DDoS Attack Anyway 101
Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips 90
Veteran Spaceflight Engineer Talks About Governance for Space Exploration (Video) 12
Surry Nuclear Reactors To Extend Lifespan To 80 Years 148
Why New Antibiotics Never Come To Market 345
The 'Trick' To Algorithmic Coding Interview Questions 208
Finland Releases National Emoji Collection 93
Breakthrough Algorithm Reported For Graph Isomorphsim 86
LA's Smart LED Street Lights Boost Wireless Connectivity 75
Comcast Expanding Data Cap Locations, Training Reps To Avoid Subject 264
3D Printed Objects Found Toxic To Fish Embryos 108
Should Programmers Be Called Engineers? 568
Linus's Thoughts on Linux Security 291
MI5 'Secretly Collected Phone Data' For Decade 38
Senators Attempting To Remove Robocall Loophole 108
Canada Reinstates Mandatory Census, To Delight of Social Scientists 284
Y Combinator, the X Factor of Tech 54
Paris Data Center Not Too Noisy, After All 77
Microsoft Follows Mozilla In Considering Early Ban On SHA-1 Certificates 47
Apple Wages Battle To Keep App Store Malware-Free 85
When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones 220
Android App Mutates Source Code, Spreads Virally and Enables Mesh Networks 74
NASA's Maven Mission Solves the Mystery of Mars' Lost Atmosphere 120
Sony PlayStation 4 Hits 500 Games Milestone 86
"Unsecured Memory Card" Prompts Election Fraud Investigation In Georgia 172
Ocean-Mapping Robots Could Help Uncover Mysteries of the Deep Blue 21
Amazon Warns Employees About 'Million Mask March' On Seattle HQ Today 143
Crypto-Ransomware Encrypts Files "Offline" 54
Google Engineer Warns Against Perils of Buying Cheap, Third-Party USB-C Cables 206
Sprint Faces Backlash For Adding MDM Software To Devices 123
Ask Slashdot: Secure, Yet Accessible E-mail Archive Storage? 74
First Remote-Access Trojan That Can Target Android, Linux, Mac and Windows 63
Lytro Announces World's First Light Field VR Camera 30
The $6,000 Computer Desk That Lets You Lie Down While You Work 116
Celebrating 30th Anniversary of the First C++ Compiler: Let's Find Bugs In It 153
BBC Lets Viewers Buy Shows and Episodes Permanently, But No 'Extras' 80
Full Text of Trans-Pacific Partnership Released (Officially, This Time) 247
UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 289
Google-Supported CodeGirl Documentary Makes "Exclusive YouTube Premiere" 289
Deep Magma Chambers Seen Beneath Mount St. Helens 66
NASA's Cassini Discovers Hydrocarbon Dunes On Titan 77
OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 Released 31
Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs 115
Cloud Growth Spurs Data Center Land Grab In Northern Virginia 20
Emerging Technologies and the Future of Humanity 120
Latest EMET Bypass Targets WoW64 Windows Subsystem 125
FireEye: Many Companies Still Running XcodeGhost-Infected Apple Apps 23
Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner? 169
Experimental Air Force Rocket Launch Fails 60
Federal Prison System Wants Anti-Drone Technology 156
Nine Out of Ten of the Internet's Top Websites Are Leaking Your Data 133
That "Unbreakable" Glass That's "As Strong As Steel" Isn't Either 74
How California Police Are Tracking Your Biometric Data In the Field 46
Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence 321
Can the Cloud Be More Secure Than Your Own Servers? (Video) 220
Intel Offers More Insight On Its 3D Memory 115
Huge Mechanical Computers Used To Calculate Horse Racing Odds 63
TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) 349
Reverse-Engineering GTA V 37
How Apple Is Preventing the Apple TV From Becoming a Console Rival 129
Red Hat and Microsoft Partner On Azure 130
Why the Snowden Situation Shows 'Protected Disclosure' Is Critical 239
TV Networks Open Neuroscience Labs To Improve Their Shows and Ads 109
Volkswagen Emissions Issues Spread To Gasoline Cars 208
Leading Theory of Solar System's Formation Just Disproven 143
Huge Survey Shows Correlation Between Autistic Traits and STEM Jobs 345
Google Hackers Expose 11 Major Security Flaws In Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge 61
Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score 386
Self-Driving Delivery Robots To Hit Sidewalks of London In 2016 98
Activision Buys Candy Crush Developer For $5.9B 132
How DMCA Rulemaking Has a Chilling Effect On Security Research 31
Analog Still Big In Japan 360
Fedora 23 Released 57
How the FBI Can Detain, Render and Threaten Without Risk 318
Google Tries To Guess Your Email Responses 131
Why Avast Won't Show Source Code To the Government, But Others Do 79
'Game of Drones' -- a Live War Game About Drone Combat Strategy 37
Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse 330
Andrew Tanenbaum Announces MINIXcon 104
Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators 134
What Your Photos Know About You 109
Stanford Identifies Potential Security Hole In Genomic Data-Sharing Network 23
Anonymous Says US Senators Were 'Incorrectly Outed' As KKK Members 262
Vivaldi Hits Its First Beta 140
The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 262
FCC Fines Another Large Firm For Blocking WiFi 138
EPA Finds More VW Cheating Software, Including In a Porsche 142
App To Hold Police Instantly Accountable In Stop and Search 167
Internet Firms To Be Banned From Offering Unbreakable Encryption Under New UK Laws 418
NASA Eagleworks Has Tested an Upgraded EM Drive 203
MIT Drone Autonomously Avoids Obstacles At 30 MPH 27
Larry Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign, Citing Unfair Debate Rules 309
Why Gravity Is the Ultimate Space Telescope 42
GE CTO On Moving 9,000 Apps To the Public Cloud 123
The International Space Station Turns 15 69
Gateway Computer Co-Founder Mike Hammond Dead At 53 77
Somebody Just Claimed a $1 Million Bounty For Hacking the iPhone 100
Sprint Signs First Direct Roaming Agreement With Cuba 17
Google Patches More Stagefright Vulnerabilities In Android 56
Tor Releases Messenger Beta For Secure Chat 16
Virginia Radio Station Broadcasting Chinese Propaganda 294
Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online 546
Book Review: the Network Security Test Lab: a Step-by-Step Guide 19
Ask Slashdot: How Can My Code Help? 47
US Government IT Outsourcing Is Poorly Managed 85
New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 438
Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate 249
AMD To Retire Catalyst Control Center Drivers, Rolling Out New Crimson Platform 113
The Rise of Political Doxing 176
All Editors Quit Top Linguistics Journal To Protest Elsevier's Pricing 135
Linus Rants About C Programming Semantics 576
Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? 358
US Law Can't Keep Up With Technology -- and Why That's a Good Thing 187
How GoDaddy's Quest For Respect Led To an Improbable Partnership With MIT 38
Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo 101
Linux 4.3 Released As Stable; Improves On Open-Source Graphics, SMP Performance 73
Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares 188
How a Group of Rural Washington Neighbors Created Their Own Internet Service 94
HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? 198
Greenland Ice Sheet Not Covered In Soot 119
Bumblebees Used For Targeted Pesticide Deliveries 23
Slashdot Asks: Notes For Next Hallowe'en? 151
Real-World Roadblocks To Implementing CISA 31
Vodafone Attack Hits Nearly 2000 Customer Accounts 9
Celebrate the 200th Birthday of George Boole With Logic 63
EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance 53
GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released 129
EFF Asks Appeals Court To "Shut Down the Eastern District of Texas" 67

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