News Stories for 2009

What Would Have Entered the Public Domain Tomorrow? 331
TSA Subpoenas Bloggers Over New Security Directive 379
DRM and the Destruction of the Book 419
Geoengineering a Snow-Free Winter Fails In Moscow 202
The Rise of Machine-Written Journalism 134
Why Do So Many Terrorists Have Engineering Degrees 736
Following In Bing's Footsteps, Yahoo! and Flickr Censor Porn In India 167
North Magnetic Pole Moving East Due To Core Flux 346
Ruby In Practice 104
One Expert Pegs Yearly Cost of IT Failure At $6.2 Trillion 242
NY Times, LA Times Want Amazon To Collect More State Taxes 507
GNU Emacs Switches From CVS To Bazaar 198
German Wikipedia Passes One Million Article Mark 106
How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? 799
Amazon Sells More Ebooks On Christmas Than Real Books 111
What DARPA's Been Up To, At Length 54
World's First Production Hybrid Motorcycle To Hit Market In India 128
TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight 888
Patrolling the US Border Via Webcam 249
Man Tries To Use Explosive Device On US Flight 809
Simplifying Search For a Younger Audience 72
Why Bite the Google Hand That Feeds You? 192
Fraudulent Anti-Terrorist Software Led US To Ground Planes 147
Texas County Will Use Twitter To Publish Drunk Drivers' Names 301
IsoHunt Guilty of Inducing Infringement 243
Helping Perl Packagers Package Perl 130
BBC's Plan To Kick Open Source Out of UK TV 302
VLC Team Announces Video Editor In the Works 120
OLPC Unveils Plans For Tablets By 2012 102
Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity 597
Comcast Pays Out $16M In P2P Throttling Suit 176
Wikileaks Targets the Local News Frontier 57
Citibank Denies Reported Breach Linked To Russian Gang 53
How Can I Contribute To Open Source? 332
The US Economy Needs More "Cool" Nerds 453
Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed 549
New USPTO Test Could Limit Software-Based Patents 123
Climate, Habitat Threaten Wild Coffee Species 274
Alternative 2009 Copyright Expirations 427
Website Owner's Manual 40
Black Soot May Be Aiding Melting In the Himalayas 336
Holy See Declares a "Unique Copyright" On the Pope 447
Firefox 3.5 Now the Most Popular Browser Worldwide 422
Grigory Perelman and the Poincare Conjecture 241
The First Robot To Cross the Atlantic Ocean Underwater 156
The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook 752
Call To "Open Source" AIG Investigation 259
A Requiem For Saab 438
Library Groups Ask DOJ To Oversee Google Books 108
Verizon Defends Doubling of Early Termination Fee 319
Charities Upset Over Chase Facebook Contest 464
Alien Screenwriter Dan O'Bannon, Dead At 63 139
US McDonald's Wi-Fi Going Free In January 376
Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget 391
The Social Difficulty of Saving Earth From an Asteroid 391
3D Blu-ray Spec Finalized, PS3 Supported 157
DRM Flub Prevented 3D Showings of Avatar In Germany 386
BBC Lowers HDTV Bitrate; Users Notice 412
$26 of Software Defeats American Military 534
Computer Scientist Looks At ICBM Security 124
New Zealand Reintroduces 3 Strikes Law 165
UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 796
Russians Claim More Climate Data Was Manipulated 715
FCC's New Broadband Plan Prioritizes Competition 71
Former Congressman Learns About Streisand Effect 527
Lack of Manpower May Kill VLC For Mac 398
Student Banned From Minnesota Campus Over Facebook Comments 806
US FTC Sues Intel For Anti-Competitive Practices 230
Swiss Geologist On Trial For Causing Earthquakes 258
Busybox Developer Responds To Andersen-SFLC Lawsuits 316
Adobe Warns of Reader, Acrobat Attack 195
Yellowstone Supervolcano Larger Than First Thought 451
Extended Warranty Purchases Up 10% This Year 253
SFLC Sues 14 Companies For BusyBox GPL Violations 309
Cybersecurity Czar Job Is Useless, Says Spafford 104
Microsoft Fined In India For Using "Money Power" Against Pirates 204
Broadband Rights & the Killer App of 1900 565
ID Thief Tries To Get Witnesses Whacked 168
Hollywood Sets $10 Billion Box Office Record 276
The DIY Book Scanner 177
MySpace-Imeem Deal Leaves Indie Artists Unpaid 124
Mediterranean Might Have Filled In Months 224
The Limits To Skepticism 1093
Microsoft Invents Price-Gouging the Least Influential 259
Copyright Industries Oppose Treaty For the Blind 135
House Outlaws Obama's NASA Intervention 209
GNOME Developer Suggests Split From GNU Project 587
White House Plans Open Access For Research 74
Sci-Fi Author Peter Watts Beaten, Charged During Border Crossing 1079
Is Earth's Atmosphere an Import? 114
Virtual Money For Real Lobbying 85
Global Deforestation Demoed In Google Earth 207
Anticipated Closure of BitTorrent Sites Spurs Panic Downloads In China 114
USPTO Asking For Ideas To Enhance Patent Quality 42
FTC Says Virtual Worlds Bad For Minors 355
Microsoft Finally Open Sources Windows 7 Tool 284
America's Army Games Cost $33 Million Over 10 Years 192
US Patent Office Fast Tracks Green Patents 136
Five Top Publishers Plan Rival to Kindle Format 123
Gigantic Spiral of Light Observed Over Norway; Rocket To Blame? 418
Nvidia Announces 3D Blu-ray Format For 2010 178
Court Says Fair Use May Hold In Some RIAA Cases 145
Adobe Takes On Microsoft Role In E-book Market 161
Each American Consumed 34 Gigabytes Per Day In '08 245
D-Link's New Boxee Box Runs Linux, Eyes Netflix 138
Interactive Computer Exhibits For Ages 3-8? 122
US No Longer Leading the World In Spam 96
Microsoft To Get Malware Bailout In Germany 226
DVD-by-Mail Services Cleared In Patent Troll Case 73
TSA's Sloppy Redacting Reveals All 605
CRIA Faces $60 Billion Lawsuit 280
Yale Researchers Find New RNA Structures 90
Barnes & Noble's Nook, Reviewed 260
Palm Sued Over Palm Pre GPL Violation 374
How Men and Women Badly Estimate Their Own Intelligence 928
Devices To Take Textbooks Beyond Text 115
ISS Can Now Watch Sea Traffic From Space 89
Scientific Journal Nature Finds Nothing Notable In CRU Leak 736
SETI@home Project Responds To School Firing 295
Salon.com Editor Looks Back At Paywalls 246
Hearst Launching Kindle Competitor and Platform "By Publishers, For Publishers" 155
Why Movies Are Not Exactly Like Music 378
The Noisy and Prolonged Death of Journalism 388
One Way To Save Digital Archives From File Corruption 257
Children Using Technology Have Better Literacy Skills 146
Introducing L2Ork, World's First Linux Laptop Orchestra 86
Offset Bad Code, With Bad Code Offsets 279
Novelists On the E-Book Experience 215
Is Linux Documentation Lacking? 769
Linux Kernel 2.6.32 Released 195
EFF Wants To Know If the Feds Are Cyberstalking 135
Best PC DVR Software, For Any Platform? 536
SETI@Home Install Leads To School Tech Supervisor's Resignation 621
Danish DRM Breaker Turns Himself In To Test Backup Law 466
Service Oriented Architecture With Java 110
The Voynich Manuscript May Have Been Decoded 320
EA Flip-Flops On Battlefield: Heroes Pricing, Fans Angry 221
Google May Limit Free News Access 236
Somali Pirates Open Up a "Stock Exchange" 666
Craigslist Blocks Yahoo Pipes 164
Recycling Excess Heat From the Data Center 121
Harvard Says Computers Don't Save Hospitals Money 398
Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated 400
Scientists Create Artificial Meat 820
Should You Be Paid For Being On Call? 735
Where the Global Warming Data Is 1011
Record-Breaking Black Friday For eBay's PayPal 115
Modeling the Economy As a Physics Problem 452
What the iPod Tells Us About the World Economy 380
Colleges Struggling With the Digital Bathroom Wall 262
Wikipedia Disputes Editor Exodus Claims 207
Algae Could Be the Key To Ultra-Thin Batteries 54
Engaging With Climate Skeptics 822
EU About To Grant US Unlimited Access To Banking Data 277
NRC Relicensing Old "Zombie" Nuclear Plants 260
Newspapers Face the Prisoner's Dilemma With Google 290
30,000 UK ISP Users Face Threat Letters For Suspected Illegal File Sharing 218
The World's First Osmotic Power Plant 262
Hacker McKinnon To Be Extradited To US 571
Mininova Removes All Copyright-Infringing Torrents 352
Italian Prosecutors Seek Prison Sentences For Google Execs 197
CIA Manual Thought Lost In 1973 Available On Amazon 190
Google Apologizes For "Michelle Obama" Results 783
Obama Wants Computer Privacy Ruling Overturned 670
Magento Beginner's Guide 124
Contributors Leaving Wikipedia In Record Numbers 632
Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money 420
Inkscape 0.47 Released 225
Computer Games and Traditional CS Courses 173
Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet 550
Wal-Mart, Amazon Battle For Online Retail's Future 272
Geek Travel To London From the US — Tips? 1095
Bing Cashback Can Cost You Money 333
Program To Detect Smuggled Nuclear Bombs Stalls 224
Obama Kicks Off Massive Science Education Effort 801
Writing For Video Game Genres 85
Murdoch-Microsoft Deal In the Works 468
Is That Sushi Hazardous To Your Health? 554
No More Fair-Price Refund For Declining XP EULA 339
New Research Forecasts Global 6C Increase By End of Century 746
How Augmented Reality Browsers Stack Up For Navigating London 32
Berkeley Engineers Have Some Bad News About Air Cars 278
Has Sci-Fi Run Out of Steam? 479
WHO Says Swine Flu May Have Peaked In the US 138
Pittsburgh To Tax Students 344
Climatic Research Unit Hacked, Files Leaked 882
Response To California's Large-Screen TV Regulation 619
Second Life To Remove Free Content From Web Search 187
Federal Judge Says Corps of Engineers Liable For Katrina Damage 486
Google Accused of Violating Copyright In China 247
Synchronize Data Between Linux, OS X, and Windows? 305
Vulgar Comment On Newspaper Site Costs Man His Job 643
Chicago's Camera Network Is Everywhere 327
US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption 570
Drupal 6 Social Networking 122
Accountability of the Scientific Stimulus Funding 242
Can We Really Tell Lossless From MP3? 849
Hackers Broke Into Brazil Power Grid Operator's Website Last Thursday 85
NASA Willing To Team With China; Rumors of a Budget Cut 200
Calling B.S. On Amazon's Taxation Arguments 762
Engineered Bacteria Glows To Reveal Land Mines 248
NASA Attempts To Assuage 2012 Fears 881
CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage 581
Pirate Bay Shuts Down Tracker, Switches To Distributed Hash Table 327
New Zealand To Launch First Private Space Rocket 96
Optical Mice Used To Detect Counterfeit Coins 123
Mark Cuban's Plan To Kill Google 773
Becoming Agile 193
Copyright Time Bomb Set To Go Off 402
Public School Teachers Selling Lesson Plans Online 590
Free Software For All Russian Schools In Jeopardy 265
Genentech Puts Words In the Mouths of Congress Members 229
Caffeinated Alcoholic Drinks May Be Illegal 398
Russian Whistleblower Cop On YouTube 176
Google Files a Revised Books Settlement Proposal 51
TSA Changes Its Rules, ACLU Lawsuit Dropped 285
German Killers Sue Wikipedia To Remove Their Names 859
US Cybersecurity Plan Includes Offense 101
Robbery Suspect Cleared By Facebook Alibi 160
Vatican Debates Possibility of Alien Life 721
GNOME 3 Delayed Until September 2010 419
BlueHippo Scam Collected $15M, Only Shipped One PC 216
Microsoft Takes Responsibility For GPL Violation 364
Bernie Madoff's Programmers Arrested 280
Software Piracy At the Workplace? 1006
The Languages of "The Office" 147
Micro-Black Holes Make Poor Planet Killers 314
eBay For Millionaires 118
Synthetic Stone DVD Claimed To Last 1,000 Years 416
Flash Vulnerability Found, Adobe Says No Fix Forthcoming 355
Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More 520
How To DDoS a Federal Wiretap 112
Intel and AMD Settle Antitrust, Patent Lawsuits 165
Your Opinion Counts At CNN — But Should It? 383
Great White Sharks Visiting San Francisco 105
LegalTorrents Launches Copyright-Compliant Tracker 113
China Lauds iPhone App That Spreads Gov't Views 158
Scientists Unveil Lightweight Rootkit Protection 168
How Vulnerable Is Our Power Grid? 359
MS Pulls Windows 7 Tool After GPL Violation Claim 186
$9 Million ATM Hacking Ring Indicted 86
Intel's New E-Reader For the Visually Impaired 111
Whistleblower Claims IEA Is Downplaying Peak Oil 720
Justice Dept. Asked For Broad Swath of IndyMedia's Visitor Records 244
10% of US Energy Derived From Old Soviet Nukes 213
SFLC Finds One New GPL Violation Per Day 187
Glenn Beck Loses Dispute Over Parody Domain 1172
Regulator Blocks BBC DRM Plans 177
Attack of the PowerPoint-Wielding Professors 467
Esquire Launches First Augmented Reality Magazine 82

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