Index Stories for 2013

The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech 96
X11/X.Org Security In Bad Shape 179
Jade Rabbit Spotted By American Eagle (LRO) 58
53% More Book Banning Incidents In US Schools This Year 360
A Year With Google Glass 292
Apple's New Mac Pro Gets High Repairability Score 234
Ask Slashdot: Life Organization With Free Software? 133
No Question: Snowden Was 2013's Most Influential Tech Figure 108
Public Domain Day 2014 225
4 Tips For Your New Laptop 310
Linux Distributions Storing Wi-Fi Passwords In Plain Text 341
How Machine Learning Can Transform Online Dating 183
The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 193
Former Head of NSA Calls For Obama To Reject NSA Commission Recommendations 316
If UNIX Were a Religion 392
The Biggest Tech Mishap of 2013? 162
UK Introduces Warrantless Detention 153
What Would French Fries Taste Like If You Made Them On Jupiter? 165
USA Today Names Edward Snowden Tech Person of the Year 228
Mars Express Orbiter Buzzes Martian Moon Phobos 39
New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution 1010
US Requirement For Software Dev Certification Raises Questions 228
The Japanese Mob Is Hiring Homeless People To Clean Up Fukushima 90
Are Tablets Replacing Notebook Computers? (Video) 211
Feds Announce Test Sites For Drone Aircraft 78
Mars One Selects Second Round Candidate Astronauts 216
Safeway Suspends Worker For Sci-Fi Parody of His Firing 191
The Startling Array of Hacking Tools In NSA's Armory 215
Ask Slashdot: Effective, Reasonably Priced Conferencing Speech-to-Text? 81
USB Sticks Used In Robbery of ATMs 252
Intel Releases 5,000 Pages of Open-Source Haswell Documentation 111
World's First Cycle Trip To the South Pole Achieved 49
Former CIA/NSA Head: NSA Is "Infinitely" Weaker As a Result of Snowden's Leaks 572
Hacker Took Over BBC Server, Tried To Sell Access On Christmas Day 41
Inside Piston-Powered Nuclear Fusion Company General Fusion 117
Brain Function "Boosted For Days After Reading a Novel" 110
The Rise of Hoax News 181
Is a Super-Sized iPad the Future of Education? 234
Unintended Consequences: How NSA Revelations May Lead To Even More Surveillance 207
Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School 294
Citizen Science: Who Makes the Rules? 189
PC Plus Packs Windows and Android Into Same Machine 319
Space Junk or a Meteor? Fireball Lit Up Midwestern Skies 87
Not All Bugs Are Random 165
Australian Icebreaker Tries To Get Through To Stranded Antarctic Research Ship 188
Kernel DBus Now Boots With Systemd On Fedora 341
Chromebooks Have a Lucrative Year; Should WinTel Be Worried? 321
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Implement Wave Protocol Self Hosted? 112
Cracking Atlanta Subway's Poorly-Encrypted RFID Smart Cards Is a Breeze 139
The Strange Story Of the Sculpture On the Moon 132
Have a Privacy-Invasion Wishlist? Peruse NSA's Top Secret Catalog 259
Tech Startup Buffer Publishes Every Employee's Salary, Right Up To the CEO 229
Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings 141
X.Org Server 1.15 Brings DRI3, Lacks XWayland Support 340
Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users 457
Hearing Shows How 'Military-Style' Raid On Calif. Power Station Spooks U.S. 396
Snapchat Users' Phone Numbers Exposed To Hackers 69
Convicted Spammer Jeffrey Kilbride Flees Prison 233
Ask Slashdot: Getting an Uncooperative Website To Delete One's Account? 171
Prince of Persia Level Editor 'Apoplexy' Reaches 2.0 44
How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes 60
NSA's Legal Win Introduces a Lot of Online Insecurity 239
Next Carsharing Advance: Electric Cars From a Vending Machine 62
Website Checkout Glitches: Two Very Different Corporate Responses 303
GNU Octave Gets a GUI 166
NASA's LLCD Tests Confirm Laser Communication Capabilities In Space 107
CSI Style Zoom Sees Faces Reflected In Subjects' Eyes 103
Wisconsin Begins Using Cheese To De-Ice Roads 139
Archive.org Hosts Massive Collection of MAME ROMs 193
France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook 314
Australian Dept. Store Chain's Website Crashes and Can't Get Back Up 156
Sherlock Holmes Finally In the Public Domain In the US 207
Winners and Losers In the World of Interfaces: 2013 In Review 116
Encrypted PIN Data Taken In Target Breach 213
PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES 564
Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes 293
Ask Slashdot: Will You Start Your Kids On Classic Games Or Newer Games? 285
NASA Could Explore Titan With Squishable 'Super Ball Bot' 59
US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal 511
Apple Again Seeks Ban On 20+ Samsung Devices In US 235
Battlefield 4 Banned In China 380
Neural Net Learns Breakout By Watching It On Screen, Then Beats Humans 138
Internet Commenting Growing Away From Anonymity 384
Ford Rolls the Dice With Breakthrough F-150 Aluminum Pickup Truck 521
Video Games Charity Raises Over $10 Million 50
First 3D Printed Liver Expected In 2014 67
Metamaterials Developed To Bend Sound Waves, Deflect Tsunamis 110
What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? 804
Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault 271
NSA Drowns In Useless Data, Impeding Work, Former Employee Claims 120
Millions of Dogecoin Stolen Over Christmas 132
Utilities Fight Back Against Solar Energy 579
Houston Expands Downtown Surveillance, Unsure If It Helps 60
Antarctic Climate Research Expedition Trapped In Sea Ice 209
How Ya Gonna Get 'Em Down On the UNIX Farm? 606
Tesla Updates Model S Software As a Precaution Against Unsafe Charging 148
The Archaeology of Beer 89
Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries 378
Ask Slashdot: How To Build a Morse Code Audio Library For Machine Learning? 79
US Internet Service In 2014: Net Neutrality Challenges and High-Speed Build-Outs 73
Apple Fined In Taiwan For iPhone Price Fixing 74
Panoramic Picture Taken By China's Moon Lander 125
Hawaii Desktop Stable Released, Powered By Qt 5.2 & Wayland 137
India Cautions Users On Risks Associated With Virtual Currencies 121
Earth's Orbit Reshapes Sea Floor 55
Year In Communications: NSA Revelations Overshadow Communications Breakthroughs 61
Could an Erasable Internet Kill Google? 210
Apollo 8 Astronaut Re-Creates 1968 Christmas Broadcast To Earth 152
U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year 71
Developing Games On and For Linux/SteamOS 145
60% of Americans Unaware of Looming Incandescent Bulb Phase Out 944
E-Books That Read You 120
Ruby 2.1.0 Released 65
Snowden Gives Alternative Christmas Message On Channel 4 224
Prime Minister Wiretapped — Vast Corruption Upending Turkey's Government 123
ISS Coolant Pump Restarted After Successful Spacewalks 19
Whatever Happened To Sanford "Spamford" Wallace? 45
Why Don't Open Source Databases Use GPUs? 241
The Power of the Hoodie-Wearing C.E.O. 75
Google Sues Consortium Backed By Apple and Microsoft to Protect Android 150
Netflix: Non-'A' Players Unworthy of Jobs 397
Who's Selling Credit Cards From Target? 68
A Big Step Forward In Air Display and Interface Tech 65
Italy Approves 'Google Tax' On Internet Companies 236
Ask Slashdot: How Long Will the Internet Remember Us? 126
Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind 262
Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers 64
How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation 118
Is Ruby Dying? 400
Scientists Predict Earthquake's Location and Strength 44
A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest 501
Upload a Spoof Video, Go To Jail (In Dubai) 107
2013: an Ominous Year For Warnings and Predictions 94
Snowden Says His Mission Is Accomplished 312
LinuxDevices Content Returns To the Web 15
Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back 243
The iOS 7 Jailbreak Fiasco 210
Is the World Ready For Facial Recognition On Google Glass? 469
A Short History of Computers In the Movies 165
Sun Not a Significant Driver of Climate Change 552
Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? 382
F-Secure's Mikko Hypponen Cancels RSA Talk In Protest 248
Smaller Than Earth-Sized Exomoon Discovered? 25
Google Helps Celebrate 100 Years of Cr_sswo_ds 27
Alan Turing Pardoned 415
Alek Komarnitsky's Huge Christmas Light Display Still Going Strong (Video) 29
Researchers Connect 91% of Numbers With Names In Metadata Probe 84
Book Review: Digital Archaeology: the Art and Science of Digital Forensics 14
Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob 399
Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 283
Percentage of Self-Employed IT Workers Increasing 138
Can a Computer Identify Your Urban Tribe? 117
Chinese Bitcoin Exchange Accused of Faking Trade Data 75
Interview: Bruce Sterling Answers Your Questions 34
MIT Study: Only 3.1% of USA Used Electronics "e-Waste" Were Exported 58
Member of President Obama's NSA Panel Recommends Increased Data Collection 349
Why Snapchat and Its Ilk Face a Revenue Conundrum 104
Researchers Use Electroconvulsive Therapy To Disrupt Recall of Nasty Events 96
Apple Forges Agreement With China Mobile 79
Rise of the Super-High-Res Notebook Display 333
RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money 291
Spacesuit Problems Delay ISS Repair Spacewalk 70
Huge Pool of Ice-Free Water Discovered Under Greenland Ice 135
Run Netflix On OpenSUSE 128
Asm.js Gets Faster 289
UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites 148
FBI's Secret Interrogation Manual: Now At the Library of Congress 102
Is Computer Science Education Racist and Sexist? 612
Evad3rs Announce iOS 7 Jailbreak For Latest Apple Devices 110
Ask Slashdot: Working With Others, As a Schizophrenic Developer? 218
Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Reports Break-In Of Berlin Apartment 194
Japanese SCHAFT Takes the Gold at DARPA Robot Challenge 51
Throwable 36-Camera Ball Nearly Ready To Toss 68
Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP 829
Enlightenment DR 0.18: Improved Compositing, Wayland Support 62
Canadian Spy Agencies Deliberately Misled Courts 62
Overstock.com Plans To Accept Bitcoin 202
Obamacare and Middle-Wheel-Wheelbarrows 199
Verizon and AT&T Join the 'Transparency Report' Club 37
Out-of-the-Box, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS To Support TRIM On SSDs 133
Ask Slashdot: Can Commercial Hardware Routers Be Trusted? 213
Ford Engineers Test 'Predictive Logic' To Improve Cruise Control 112
Big Buck Bunny In 4K, 60 Fps and 3D-stereo 102
Smooth, 6.5 Hour Spacewalk To Fix ISS Ammonia Pump 90
Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Has Been Found 85
French Team Implants First Long-Term Artificial Heart 106
Belgian Telecom Becomes First To Accept Bitcoin 65
Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split 489
DoD Public Domain Archive To Be Privatized, Locked Up For 10 Years 183
Putting a Panic Button In Smartphone Users' Hands 175
90 Percent of Businesses Say IP Is "Not Important" 185
Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California 653
How Asimov's Three Laws Ran Out of Steam 153
Open Source Add-on Rewrites the User Interface of IE11 86
Oppo's CyanogenMod Phone Gets Blessed To Run Google Apps 47
Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated' 157
Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA 464
Microsoft Security Essentials Misses 39% of Malware 149
Researchers Crack Major HIV Mystery 84
Neglect Causes Massive Loss of 'Irreplaceable' Research Data 108
Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims 168
Scientists Reverse Muscle Aging In Mice 34
How Astronauts Took the Most Important Photo In Space History 108
BlackBerry Posts $4.4 Billion Loss, Will Outsource To Foxconn 141
NSA Metadata Collection Program Has Stopped Zero Attacks 199
Ask Slashdot: Do You Run a Copy-Cat Installation At Home? 308
Astronomers Discover When Galaxies Got Their Spirals 56
DHS Turns To Unpaid Interns For Nation's Cyber Security 174
Enormous Tunneling Machine 'Bertha' Blocked By 'The Object' 339
China Rejects 545,000 Tons of US Genetically Modified Corn 215
Web Surfing Improves Motor Skills 33
How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources 365
IDC: 40 Percent of Developers Are 'Hobbyists' 148
It's Not Just the NSA: Police Are Tracking Your Car 201
Company That Made the First 3D Printed Metal Gun Is Selling Them For $11,900 182
BitTorrent Unveils Secure Chat To Counter 'NSA Dragnet Surveillance' 111
Billion Star Surveyor 'Gaia' Lifts Off 77
Scientific Data Disappears At Alarming Rate, 80% Lost In Two Decades 189
"Perfect" Electron Roundness Bruises Supersymmetry 150
What Sci-Fi Movies Teach Us About Project Management Skills 186
KDE Releases Applications and Development Platform 4.12 44
Cyanogen Mod Raises $23 Million Funding All Set To Become Major Android Player 133
Life-Sized, Drivable 500,000 Piece Lego Car Runs On Air 73
Bill Gates Plays Secret Santa To Reddit User 118
Clear Solar Cells Could Help Windows Generate Power 87
Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? 159
After 22 Years, Walt Mossberg Writes Final WSJ Column 100
Proposed California Law Would Mandate Smartphone Kill Switch 252
Tesla Says Garage Fire Not Charger's Fault; Firemen Less Sure 253
Virtuix Omni is a Step Toward True Virtual Reality Gaming (Video) 87
Embedded SIM Design Means No More Swapping Cards 192
Free Software Foundation Endorses a "Truly Free" Laptop 340
UN Votes To Protect Privacy In Digital Age 124
One-Armed UBR-1 Points the Way To Cheaper Robots 56
Mark Zuckerberg Gives $990 Million To Charity 230
Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code 225
CryptoLocker Gang Earns $30 Million In Just 100 Days 202
US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil 439
Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire 691
Inside Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit 72
Using Supercomputers To Find a Bacterial "Off" Switch 30
Govt. Watchdog Group Finds Apple Misled Aussies On Consumer Rights 85
UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn 227
Panel Urges Major NSA Spying Overhaul 242
Target Has Major Credit Card Breach 191
Genome of Neandertals Reveals Inbreeding 109
NASA's Greatest Challenges In 2014 97
The FBI's Giant Bitcoin Wallet 177
How a MacBook Camera Can Spy Without Lighting Up 371
Fomalhaut C Has a Huge Cometary Debris Ring And, Potentially, Exoplanets 32

Page: 1 2 →

It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.