News Stories for 2012

New Documents Detail FBI, Bank Crack Down On Occupy Wall Street 584
YouTube Drops 2 Billion Fake Music Industry Views 167
The Power of a Hot Body 161
Gnome Extension Offers a Shopping Lens We Can Live With 72
Pakistan Lifts YouTube Ban For 3 Minutes, Finds More Blasphemy 275
Autonomy Chief Says Whitman Is Watering Down HP Fraud Claims 117
Investing In Lego Bricks For Fun But Mostly Profit 98
Odds Favor Discovery of Earth-Like Exoplanet in 2013 90
Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs 421
Death Valley Dethrones Impostor As Hottest Place On Earth 175
Bletchley Park Codebreaker Honored 57
Judge Grants Defendant's Motion To Explore Alleged Fraud By Prenda Law 81
Strong Foundations: FreeBSD, Wikimedia Raise Buckets of Development Money 113
Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug 1051
Drone Photos Lead to Indictment For Texas Polluters 177
Facebook Paid 0.3% Taxes On $1.34 Billion Profits 592
Instagram User Drop Claims Overblown 49
A Peek Into the Business Side of Online Publishing (Video) 43
Senate Renews Warrantless Eavesdropping Act 218
Ouya Dev Consoles Ship, SDK Released 169
John McAfee Tells World How He Fooled Cops and Escaped Belize 243
Britain Suspends Exploratory Drilling of Antarctic Lake 37
Empty Times Square Building Generates $23 Million a Year From Digital Ads 227
Adafruit To Teach Electronics Through Puppets In New Kids Show 68
'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind 217
GNU C Library 2.17 Announced, Includes Support For 64-bit ARM 68
New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups 183
Mars-Like Conditions Sufficient to Sustain Earth-Bound Microbes 78
Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents 167
Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? 346
Amazon: Authors Can't Review Books 248
UK Milk Supply Contains New MRSA Strain 179
EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 278
Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 202
Iran Claims New Cyberattacks On Industrial Sites 75
Open Source Foundations Coming of Age — What Next? 65
Insurance Industry Looking Hard At Climate Change 156
New York Paper Uses Public Records To Publish Gun-Owner Map 1232
UK Court Invalidates Motorola Message Syncing Patents 31
Ask Slashdot: How Do You "Unwrap" e-Gifts? 86
China Set To Surpass US In R&D Spending In 10 Years 233
Book Review: Burdens of Proof 70
Jury Decides Artist's Gory Images On Website Are Art 289
Internet Archive Needs Donations, Has Matching Donor 58
World's Oldest Wooden Water Wells Discovered 50
Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded In Amsterdam 221
Bee Venom Has "Botox-Like Effect," Is Worth 7 Times As Much As Gold 248
Google Chrome 25 Will Disable Silent Extension Installation 121
West Antarctica Warming Faster Than Thought 247
VLC For Windows 8 Reaches $65,000 Funding Goal On Kickstarter 210
NSA Targeting Domestic Computer Systems 105
GNU Grep and Sed Maintainer Quits: RMS and FSF Harming GNU Project 476
New Pirate Bay Proxies Spring Up 91
Researcher Says the Hawaiian Islands Are Dissolving 55
Game On War In Syria Explores Ongoing Conflict 62
Foxconn Invests $200 Million In GoPro 83
Coral Reefs In Grave Danger, Say Climate Simulations 313
Asteroid 2011 AG5 Will Miss Earth In 2040 143
Arduino and MK802 Robot, Controlled By Phone 31
Mozilla Brings Back Firefox 64-Bit For Windows Nightly Builds 209
NYPD To Identify 'Deranged' Gunmen Through Internet Chatter 292
Drawings of Weapons Led To New Jersey Student's Arrest 630
Microsoft Kills Expression Suite — And Makes It Free, For Now 89
After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out 259
USAF Taps ESPN To Compile Drone "Highlight" Video 114
GNU Hands Out Trisquel At a Microsoft Store 274
Real World Code Sucks 292
Who Should Manage the Nuclear Weapons Complex, Civilians Or Military? 183
2012 Another Record-Setter For Weather, Fits Climate Forecasts 336
Facebook Test Will Let You Message Strangers For $1 325
UK Gov't Plans To Give 'Greater Freedom To Use Copyright Works' 48
Learn Linux the Hard Way 185
UK Government To Spy On Computers of the Jobless 278
iOS 6 Adoption Rates Soar Following Google Maps Release 143
Vivos Founder Builds an Underground City Where You Can Ride Out the Apocalypse 150
GarageGames Starts IndieGoGo Campaign To Port Torque 3D To Linux 71
Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener 354
Book Review: Terrible Nerd 66
UK Cookie Consent Banners Draw Complaints 108
Training Under Way For New Nuclear Plant Operators In S. Carolina 74
Using Technology To Make Guns Safer 1013
UK Government Changes Tack and Demands Default Porn Block 163
Obama Releases National Strategy For Information Sharing 83
FTC Strengthens Children's Privacy Protections Online 45
KDE Software Compilation 4.10 RC1 Released 59
Most Kickstarter Projects Fail To Deliver On Time 179
Qt 5.0 Released 161
UK Pirate Party Forced To Give Up Legal Fight 245
Chilling Guidelines Issued For UK Communications Act Enforcement 111
Newest Gov't Tracking Threat: Cell-Site Data Without a Warrant 107
How Much Are You Worth To an Online Lead-Gen Site? 83
Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? 514
Open-Source Hardware Hacker Ladyada Awarded Entrepreneur of the Year 56
ISP Data Caps Just a 'Cash Cow' 353
The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust 338
Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years 346
Pentaho and Jaspersoft: Good Alternatives To Bigger-Name Software? 57
TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners 225
Swedish Pirate Party Presses Charges Against Banks For WikiLeaks Blockade 234
NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies 286
Adam Lanza Destroyed His Computer Before Rampage 1719
New Call For Turing Pardon 231
Blender 2.65 Released 93
Raspberry Pi Team Launches Pi Store 91
EFF Spinoff Pools Donor Dollars To Prevent WikiLeaks-Style Payment Blockades 95
Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys 180
Australia Plans To Drill 2,000-Year-Old Ice Core In Antarctica 62
Anonymous Hacks Westboro Baptist Church 1061
Ask Slashdot: How To Collect Payments From a Multinational Company? 341
Is the Flickr API a National Treasure? 101
Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine 87
Analysis of Dexter Malware Uncovers Mystery Man, and Links To Zeus 119
Solar Impulse Announces Flight Across America For 2013 57
Music Industry Suits Could Bankrupt Pirate Party Members 215
UK Students Protest Biometric Scanner Move 196
Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Summer Camp Tech Center? 49
Marijuana Prosecution Not a High Priority, Says Obama 449
UK Internet Porn Blocking Rejected 101
Google Nixes Some Calendar Features and Other Software Offerings 235
People Are Living Longer, With More Disabilities Than Ever 129
Automation Is Making Unions Irrelevant 510
Will Tablets Kill Off e-Readers? 333
27 Reported Killed In Connecticut Elementary School Shooting 2987
No Charges In UK For Gary McKinnon 148
Solar Panels For Every Home? 735
Electrical Grid Hum Used To Time Locate Any Digital Recording 168
Japanese Police Offers First-Ever Reward For Wanted Hacker 63
Slashdot Story Helps Raise $43,200 For the FreeBSD Foundation In Three Days 84
Drilling Begins At Lake Hidden Beneath Antarctic 131
Did Land-Dwellers Emerge 65 Million Years Earlier Than Was Thought? 41
Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks 306
Kickstarter Technology Projects Ship 100
Humans Have Been Eating Cheese For At Least 7,500 Years 214
Is Technology Eroding Employment? 544
NCTC Gets Vast Powers To Spy On U.S. Citizens 332
Jammie Thomas Takes Constitutional Argument To SCOTUS 146
"Jedi" Religion Most Popular Alternative Faith In England 262
Redbox Set To Compete With Netflix On Video Streaming 119
Guatemala Deports McAfee To the US 141
Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam 412
Learning Rocket Science With Video Games 64
Australian Uni's Underground, Robot-Staffed Library 46
Dell Announces Private Cloud Built On OpenStack 14
New Contiki OS Network Regression Test Framework 13
UT Professor Resigns Over Fracking Conflict of Interest 190
Hacked Review System Leads To Fake Reviews and Retraction of Scientific Papers 67
Engineers Use Electrical Hum To Fight Crime 167
Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS 724
Urbanization Has Left the Amazon Burning 93
North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket 384
Guatemala Judge Orders McAfee Released 139
Hurt Locker Studio Begins Requesting Canadian ISP's Subscriber Info 172
Laser Fusion Put On a Slow Burn By US Government 143
Live Interview: Luke Leighton of Rhombus Tech 68
Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap 368
Linux 3.7 Released 151
Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ 136
UK Government To Revise Snooping Bill 79
VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App 252
High-Frequency Traders Use 50-Year-Old Wireless Tech 395
Outrage At Microsoft Offshoring Tax In the UK, Google Caught Avoiding US Taxes 768
Own Every SNES Game Ever Made For $24,999 199
Professor Cliff Lampe Talks About Gamification in Academia (Video) 123
Book Review: Sams Teach Yourself Node.js In 24 Hours 112
BPI Threatens To Sue the UK Pirate Party Over Proxy 60
How To Use a Linux Virtual Private Server 303
Laser Prototype Improves Bomb Detection 59
US Nuclear Industry Plans "Rescue Wagon" To Avert Meltdowns 184
Mark Shuttleworth Answers Your Questions 236
Chinese Firm Wins Bid For US-Backed Battery Maker 183
Draft of IPCC 2013 Report Already Circulating 306
McAfee Is Doing a Live Broadcast Tonight 201
Ubuntu Community Manager: RMS's Post Seems a Bit Childish To Me 529
Money Python: Florida Contest Offers Rewards In 2013 Everglades Python Hunt 132
FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% 245
Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Draw the Line On GPL V2 Derived Works and Fees? 371
Ubuntu 13.04 Will Allow Instant Purchasing, Right From the Dash 273
Sir Patrick Moore Dies Aged 89 130
UN Summit Strikes Climate Deal Promising "Damage Aid" To Poor Nations 212
Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet 174
Strong Climate Change Opinions Are Self-Reinforcing 655
For League of Legends Creator Riot Games, Big Data Is Serious Business 33
Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion 327
How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation 391
Ticking Arctic Carbon Bomb May Be Bigger Than Expected 339
Bitcoins Join Global Bank Network 84
Some UK Councils Barred From Using Gov't Vehicle Database 84
Washington Post To Go Paywall, Along With Buffett-Owned Local Papers 163
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Leaves Google For Dropbox 261
UK Organization Set Up To Encourage IPv6 Adoption Closes 100
Using Multiple Forms of Media At Once Correlates With Depression, Anxiety 174
Valve Begins Listing Linux Requirements For Certain Games On Steam 332
RMS Speaks Out Against Ubuntu 597
Advertising May Soon Follow You From One Device To the Next 132
How Yucca Mountain Was Killed 340
John McAfee Collapses At Guatemala Detention Center 219
US Security Classifications Needs Re-Thinking, Says Board 76
Republican Staffer Khanna Axed Over Copyright Memo 506
Hagfish Slime Could Make Super-Strong Clothes 82
A Twisted Clean-Tech Tale: How A123 Wound Up In Bankruptcy 164
Android Options Mean "Best" Browsers Might Surprise You 251
How the Eurograbber Attack Stole 36M Euros 57
Historians Propose National Park To Preserve Manhattan Project Sites 150
Race To Mine Bitcoins Drives Enthusiasts Into the Chip Making Business 320
MPAA: the Impact of Megaupload's Shutdown Was 'Massive' 308
US House Votes 397-0 To Oppose UN Control of the Internet 297
Coderdojo Inspires Coding In Kids As Young As Seven 40
If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? 660
Providers of Free MOOCs Now Charge Employers For Access To Student Data 40
Book Reviews: Lockpicking Books From Deviant Ollam 123
James Cameron Spills the Details From His Deep Dive 43
Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups 82
Researchers: PATRIOT Act Can 'Obtain' Data In Europe 133
Murder Is Like a Disease (No, Really) 299
Disney Switching To Netflix For Exclusive Film Distribution 124
HP Sues Over LCD Price Fixing 56
NASA: New Mars Rover By 2020 79
In the World of Big Stuff, the US Still Rules 184
Nokia Selling Its Headquarters To Raise Funds 186
Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films 196
Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? 298
Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages 342
Linus Torvalds Delays Linux 3.7, Releases 3.7-rc8 Kernel Instead 86
Wiki Weapon Project Test-Fires a (Partly) 3D-Printed Rifle 289
Iran Claims To Have Downed Another US Drone 219
Senators Vow To Renew Bid For State Taxes On Remote Internet Sales 268
The Science of Roadkill 52
Yahoo "Loses" $2.7B In Mysterious Mexican Yellow Pages Lawsuit 85
Orphaned Works and the Requirement To Preserve Metadata 129
Microsoft Steeply Raising Enterprise Licensing Fees 571
News Corp's The Daily iPad App Shutting Down On December 15 106
Valve Officially Launches TV-Friendly Steam Big Picture Mode 140
Some Apple iMacs "Assembled In America" 279
Internet Freedom Won't Be Controlled, Says UN Telcom Chief 158
Even Capped Prediction Markets Can Be Manipulated 130
Researcher Discloses New Batch of MySQL Vulnerabilities 76
Just Say No To College 716
FIA Adds Rome To Formula E 2014 Inaugural Season 91
Iran Suspends Programmer's Death Sentence 193
Scientists Develop Sixty Day Bread 440
The Foldable Readius Ereader Is Dead 42
Mozilla Combines Social API and WebRTC 44
Khan Academy: the Future of Taxpayer Reeducation? 386
The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs 132
A Tale of Two Companies 70
Boring Conference Still Vows: We Will Not Rock You 42
Windows XP Drops Below 40% Market Share While Windows 8 Passes 1% 310
Nintendo Power's Final Cover 79
Why KDE Plasma Makes Sense For Linux Gaming 152
How Does a Single Line of BASIC Make an Intricate Maze? 438

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