Politics Stories for 2014

2015 Could Be the Year of the Hospital Hack 130
The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea 288
N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" 206
Paul Graham: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In 552
North Korean Defector Spills Details On the Country's Elite Hacking Force 166
Sony To Release the Interview Online Today; Apple Won't Play Ball 227
"Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too 230
Who's To Blame For Rules That Block Tesla Sales In Most US States? 141
Councilmen Introduce Bills Strongly Regulating UAV Use in NYC 68
Single Group Dominates Second Round of Anti Net-Neutrality Comment Submissions 218
Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography 191
The Personal Computer Revolution Behind the Iron Curtain 115
Apparent Islamic Terrorism Strikes Sydney 880
Canada Waives Own Rules, Helps Microsoft Avoid US Visa Problems 122
Peru Indignant After Greenpeace Damages Ancient Nazca Site 465
Attorney General Won't Force New York Times Reporter To Reveal Source 55
Civil Rights Groups Divided On Net Neutrality 127
Twitter Use By Romney and Obama In 2012 Highlight the Speed of Social Media 47
Romanian Officials Say Russia Finances European Fracking Protests 155
In North Korea, Hackers Are a Handpicked, Pampered Elite 102
Mathematicians Study Effects of Gerrymandering On 2012 Election 413
Syrian Electronic Army Takes Credit For News Site Hacking 24
Voting Machines Malfunction: 5,000 Votes Not Counted In Kansas County 127
Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Considering US Presidential Run 433
Cameron Accuses Internet Companies Of Giving Terrorists Safe Haven 183
How "Big Ideas" Are Actually Hurting International Development 92
Great Firewall of China Blocks Edgecast CDN, Thousands of Websites Affected 128
Ukraine's IT Brigade Supports the Troops 140
Obama's Immigration Order To Give Tech Industry Some, Leave 'Em Wanting More 186
Amnesty International Releases Tool To Combat Government Spyware 95
Does Being First Still Matter In America? 247
Congress Suggests Moat, Electronic Fence To Protect White House 213
Number of Coders In Congress To Triple (From One To Three) 163
Republicans Block Latest Attempt At Curbing NSA Power 445
How Facebook Is Influencing Who Will Win the Next Election 72
Billionaire Donors Lavish Millions On Code.org Crowdfunding Project 84
Alleged Satellite Photo Says Ukraine Shootdown of MH17 340
The Downside to Low Gas Prices 554
FCC Says Net Neutrality Decision Delay Is About Courts, Not Politics 60
Internet Voting Hack Alters PDF Ballots In Transmission 148
No, You Can't Seize Country TLDs, US Court Rules 120
Internet Sales Tax Bill Dead In Congress 257
U.S. and China Make Landmark Climate Deal 285
The Students Who Feel They Have the Right To Cheat 438
25th Anniversary: When the Berlin Wall Fell 151
Mayday PAC Goes 2 For 8 224
Marijuana Legalized In Oregon, Alaska, and Washington DC 588
Computer Scientists Say Meme Research Doesn't Threaten Free Speech 109
Another Election, Another Slew of Voting Machine Glitches 388
Silicon Valley Swings To Republicans 485
US Midterm Elections Discussion 401
UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault 695
Is Public Debate of Trade Agreements Against the Public Interest? 219
Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology 330
Facebook Wants You To Vote Tuesday 165
Khrushchev's 1959 Visit To IBM 54
Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You 468
Hungary's Plans For Internet Tax On Hold After Protests 48
Labor Department To Destroy H-1B Records 190
Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Government Agency Bugged Her Computer 235
Study: New Jersey e-Vote Experiment After Sandy a Disaster 77
Days After Shooting, Canada Proposes New Restrictions On and Offline 308
Sale of IBM's Chip-Making Business To GlobalFoundries To Get US Security Review 95
Proposed Penalty For UK Hackers Who "Damage National Security": Life 165
Michigan Latest State To Ban Direct Tesla Sales 256
India Successfully Launches Region-Specific Navigation Satellite 86
Michigan About To Ban Tesla Sales 294
Journalists Route Around White House Press Office 111
Will New European Commission Leaders Welcome Open Source and Open Standards? 21
Pro-Democracy Websites In Hong Kong Targeted With and Serving Malware 44
Core Secrets: NSA Saboteurs In China and Germany 228
NSA To Scientists: We Won't Tell You What We've Told You; That's Classified 106
Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over US Spying Will "Break the Internet" 179
Darth Vader, Yoda, Chewbacca Aim To Invade Ukraine's Govt. In Upcoming Elections 63
How President Nixon Saved/Wrecked the American Space Program 125
JP Morgan Chase Breach: Shades of a Cyber Cold War? 96
Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments 283
David Cameron Says Brits Should Be Taught Imperial Measures 942
Hong Kong Protesters Use Mesh Networks To Organize 85
California Governor Vetoes Bill Requiring Warrants For Drone Surveillance 115
Energy Utilities Trying To Stifle Growth of Solar Power 488
US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria 478
US Revamping Its Nuclear Arsenal 342
Mark Zuckerberg Throws Pal Joe Green Under the Tech Immigration Bus 261
Emails Cast Unflattering Light On Internal Politics of Healthcare.gov Rollout 392
Scotland Votes No To Independence 474
Snowden's Leaks Didn't Help Terrorists 183
Australian Police Arrest 15, Charge 2, For Alleged Islamic State Beheading Plot 165
Scotland's Independence Vote Could Shake Up Industry 494
Direct Sales OK Baked Into Nevada's $1.3 Billion Incentive Deal With Tesla 149
Cuba Calculates Cost of 54yr US Embargo At $1.1 Trillion 540
Protesters Blockade Microsoft's Seattle Headquarters Over Tax Breaks 246
"Net Neutrality" Coiner Tim Wu Is Running For Lt. Governor of New York 40
Obama Administration Seeks $58M To Put (Partly) Toward Fighting Ebola 105
White House Names Google's Megan Smith As CTO 75
Code.org Discloses Top Donors 59
Kernel Developer Dmitry Monakhov Arrested For Protesting Ukraine Invasion 205
Hacker Disrupts New Zealand Election Campaign 75
Islamic State "Laptop of Doom" Hints At Plots Including Bubonic Plague 369
How Big Telecom Smothers Municipal Broadband 111
Limiting the Teaching of the Scientific Process In Ohio 528
Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,' According To a Koch-Backed Astroturf Group 531
A New Homegrown OS For China Could Arrive By October 93
Air Force Requests Info For Replacement Atlas 5 Engine 108
Finding an ISIS Training Camp Using Google Earth 134
Microsoft Lobby Denies the State of Chile Access To Free Software 159
WikiLeaks' Assange Hopes To Exit London Embassy "Soon" 299
How California's Carbon Market Actually Works 97
The Billion-Dollar Website 194
California May Waive Environmental Rules For Tesla 327
The Benefits of Inequality 254
Clever Workaround: Visual Cryptography On Austrian Postage Stamps 74
Russia Cracks Down On Public Wi-Fi; Oracle Blocks Java Downloads In Russia 254
Snowden Granted 3 More Years of Russian Residency 266
Aaron's Law Is Doomed and the CFAA Is Still Broken 134
Japan To Launch a Military Space Force In 2019 150
The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict 402
The CIA Does Las Vegas 124
CIA Director Brennan Admits He Was Lying: CIA Really Did Spy On Congress 266
Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline 868
The Misleading Fliers Comcast Used To Kill Off a Local Internet Competitor 250
Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine 582
VP Biden Briefs US Governors On H-1B Visas, IT, and Coding 225
States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth 778
World Health Organization Calls For Decriminalization of Drug Use 474
US Senator Blasts Microsoft's H-1B Push As It Lays 18,000 Off Workers 529
New York State Proposes Sweeping Bitcoin Regulations 121
Rand Paul and Silicon Valley's Shifting Political Climate 533
Australian Electoral Commission Refuses To Release Vote Counting Source Code 112
White House Punts On Petition To Allow Tesla Direct Sales 382
FCC Approves Subsidy Plan to Upgrade School and Library Networks 70
A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System 379
Asteroid Mining Bill Introduced In Congress To Protect Private Property Rights 181
After NSA Spying Flap, Germany Asks CIA Station Chief to Depart 219
UK Gov't Plans To Push "Emergency" Surveillance Laws 147
Blueprints For Taming the Climate Crisis 389
Buzz Aldrin Pressures Obama For New Space Exploration Initiative 78
When Beliefs and Facts Collide 725
Lessig's Mayday PAC Scrambling To Cross Crowd Funding Finish Line 117
Comcast Executives Appear To Share Cozy Relationships With Regulators 63
California Property Tax Exemptions For Solar Energy Systems Extended To 2025 76
Senate Budgetmakers Move To End US Participation In ITER 225
Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions About His Mayday PAC, Part 2 (Video) 42
U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception 1330
Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions About His Mayday PAC (Video) 148
The Internet's Own Boy 194
Eric Schmidt and Entourage Pay a Call On Cuba 190
Netflix Could Be Classified As a 'Cybersecurity Threat' Under New CISPA Rules 125
If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap 341
Norway Scraps Online Voting 139
Massachusetts SWAT Teams Claim They're Private Corporations, Immune To Oversight 534
Germany Scores First: Ends Verizon Contract Over NSA Concerns 206
Former NSA Chief Warned Against Selling NSA Secrets 138
Court Releases DOJ Memo Justifying Drone Strike On US Citizen 371
China Builds Artificial Islands In South China Sea 192
Steve Wozniak Endorses Lessig's Mayday Super PAC 209
German Intel Agency Helped NSA Tap Fiber Optic Cables In Germany 103
2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase 619
IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive 682
IRS Lost Emails of 6 More Employees Under Investigation 465
U.S. Democrats Propose Legislation To Ban Internet Fast Lanes 190
Russian RD-180 Embargo Could Boost American Rocket Industry 179
EU May Allow Members Home Rule On GMO Foods 272
After Non-Profit Application Furor, IRS Says It's Lost 2 Years Of Lerner's Email 372
FWD.us: GOP Voters To Be Targeted By Data Scientists 422
US Pushing Local Police To Keep Quiet On Cell-Phone Surveillance Technology 253
Egyptian Blogger Sentenced to 15 Years For Organizing Protest 70
Cable Companies Duped Community Groups Into Fighting Net Neutrality 170
House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary 932
Getting the Most Out of the Space Station (Before It's Too Late) 155
Mayday Anti-PAC On Its Second Round of Funding 247
MIT Used Lobbying, Influence To Restore Nuclear Fusion Dream 135
Thai Police: We'll Get You For Online Social Media Criticism 86
US-EU Trade Agreement Gains Exaggerated, Say 41 Consumer Groups, Economist 97
Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower 234
Seattle Approves $15 Per Hour Minimum Wage 1040
Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong 519
In First American TV Interview, Snowden Talks Accountability and Patriotism 389
Iranian Hacker Group Created Fake News Organization For Social Engineering 57
German Authorities Lack Evidence To Prosecute Anyone For NSA Spying 107
Bug In DOS-Based Voting Machines Disrupts Belgian Election 193
Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US? 432
US May Prevent Chinese Hackers From Attending Def Con, Black Hat 193
Botched Executions Put Lethal Injections Under New Scrutiny 483
WikiLeaks: NSA Recording All Telephone Calls In Afghanistan 241
White House Pressures Legislators Into Gutting USA FREEDOM Act 284
Congressmen Who Lobbied FCC Against Net Neutrality & Received Payoff 192
Climate Journal Publishes Referees' Report In Response To "Witch-Hunt" Claims 330
New Tech Super PACs Could Tap Into Google Riches 52
FCC Votes To Consider Next Round of 'Net Neutrality' Rules 182
Watch the FCC Vote On Net Neutrality Live At 10:30am Eastern 90
Air Force Prepares to Dismantle HAARP 178
Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches 522
Oil Man Proposes Increase In Oklahoma Oil-and-Gas Tax 182
Can Google Influence Elections? 138
Al Franken Says FCC Proposed Rules Are "The Opposite of Net Neutrality" 282
Silicon Valley's Love-Hate Relationship With President Obama 131
Nintendo Apologizes For Not Allowing Same-Sex Relationships In Life Sim Game 384
Actual Results of Crimean Secession Vote Leaked 557
Rand Paul Starts New Drone War In Congress 272
Let's Call It 'Climate Disruption,' White House Science Adviser Suggests (Again) 568
Lessig Launches a Super PAC To End All Super PACs 465
SpaceX Wins Injunction Against Russian Rocket Purchases 166
US Should Use Trampolines To Get Astronauts To the ISS Suggests Russian Official 272
Oklahoma Botched an Execution With Untested Lethal Injection Drugs 1198
The Koch Brothers Attack On Solar Energy 769
New White House Petition For Net Neutrality 248
VK CEO Fired, Says Company Under Kremlin Control 149
Biofuels From Corn Can Create More Greenhouse Gases Than Gasoline 159
Google Aids Scientology-Linked Group CCHR With Pay-Per-Click Ads 186
Google and Facebook: Unelected Superpowers? 243
Obama Delays Decision On Keystone Pipeline Yet Again 206
Russia Writes Off 90 Percent of North Korea Debt 234
Declassified Papers Hint US Uranium May Have Ended Up In Israeli Arms 165
Peoria Mayor Sends Police To Track Down Twitter Parodist 169
In Mississippi, Gov't Text Messages Are Officially Public Records 33
Snowden Queries Putin On Live TV Regarding Russian Internet Surveillance 396
Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment 1633
Study Finds US Is an Oligarchy, Not a Democracy 818
Is Crimea In Russia? Internet Companies Have Different Answers 304
IRS Can Now Seize Your Tax Refund To Pay a Relative's Debt 632
Mr. Schmidt Goes To Washington: A Look Inside Google's Lobbying Behemoth 128
Commenters To Dropbox CEO: Houston, We Have a Problem 448
Comcast PAC Gave Money To Every Senator Examining Time Warner Cable Merger 133
MA Gov. Wants To Ban Non-Competes; Will It Matter? 97
Can the ObamaCare Enrollment Numbers Be Believed? 723
Stem-Cell Research Funding Institute Is Shuttered 86
EU Should Switch To ODF Standard, Says MEP 111
It's Time To Plug the Loopholes In Pipeline Regulation 163
More On the "Cuban Twitter" Scam 90
Japan Orders Military To Strike Any New North Korea Missiles 107
Brendan Eich Steps Down As Mozilla CEO 1746
ZunZuneo: USAID Funded 'Cuban Twitter' To Undermine Communist Regime 173
European Parliament Votes For Net Neutrality, Forbids Mobile Roaming Costs 148
Darth Vader Runs For President of Ukraine 114
Technocrat James Schlesinger Is Dead At 85 33
Kim Dotcom Launches Political Party In New Zealand 133
Some Mozilla Employees Demand New CEO Step Down 824
Russian Officials Dump iPads For Samsung Tablets Over Spy Fears 198
Tesla's Fight With Car Dealers Could Help Decide the Next Presidential Election 282
Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate 870
Turkish Finance Minister Defends Twitter Ban 94
Turkey Heightens Twitter Censorship with Mandated IP Blocking 102
IPCC's "Darkest Yet" Climate Report Warns of Food, Water Shortages 703
Iran Builds Mock-up of Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier 298
Startup Employees As an Organized Labor Group 107
Wireless Carriers In Huge Washington Lobby Fight Over Spectrum Auction 51
More On the Disposable Tech Worker 323
Church Committee Members Say New Group Needed To Watch NSA 143
Russian Army Spetsnaz Units Arrested Operating In Ukraine 623

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