Index Stories for 2014

Pope Francis To Issue Encyclical On Global Warming 341
WikiLeaks Claims Employee's Google Mail, Metadata Seized By US Government 53
India Blocks Code Sharing Websites On Anti-Terror Advisory 78
South Korean Activist To Drop "The Interview" In North Korea Using Balloons 146
US Army Could Waive Combat Training For Hackers 223
Google Researcher Publishes Unpatched Windows 8.1 Security Vulnerability 129
Designing the Best Board Game 155
Ask Slashdot: What Should We Do About the DDoS Problem? 312
The Coming Decline of 'Made In China' 327
Super-Sensitive Motion Sensor Could Be Used To Hunt For Extraterrestrial Life 38
Pew Survey: Tech Increases Productivity, But Also Time Spent Working 82
FBI Monitoring Hacking Targets For Retaliation 96
Doppler Radar Used By Police To Determine Home Occupancy 139
War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons 290
Peter Diamandis: Technology Is Dissolving National Borders 129
Security Research At the Hague, Netherlands: Mobile Network and Internet Threats 16
Out With the Red-Light Cameras, In With the Speeding Cameras 335
The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace 420
Over 78% of All PHP Installs Are Insecure 112
NSA Says They Have VPNs In a 'Vulcan Death Grip' 234
Science Cannot Prove the Existence of God 755
What's the Future of Corporate IT and ITSM? (Video) 50
Slashdot Asks: The Beanies Return; Who Deserves Recognition for 2014? 299
CIA on UFO Sightings: 'It Was Us' 197
Putting a MacBook Pro In the Oven To Fix It 304
NVIDIA Breached 59
Gmail Access Starts To Come Back In China, State-Run Paper Blames Google 45
The One Mistake Google Keeps Making 386
Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes 328
Lizard Squad: Xbox Live, PSN Attacks Were a 'Marketing Scheme' For DDoS Service 139
Debris, Bodies Recovered From AirAsia Flight 8501 132
BU Students Working On a Cheaper, Gentler Suborbital Rocket 43
10 Years In, Mars Rover Opportunity Suffers From Flash Memory Degradation 105
Early Bitcoin Adopters Facing Extortion Threats 106
United and Orbitz Sue 22-Year-Old Programmer For Compiling Public Info 349
Ask Slashdot: What Tech Companies Won't Be Around In 10 Years? 332
The Making of a 1980s Dungeons & Dragons Module 59
Being Colder May Be Good For Your Health 234
The New (Computer) Chess World Champion 107
Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi 67
How Amazon's Ebook Subscriptions Are Changing the Writing Industry 250
Quake On an Oscilloscope 71
Apple Pay For the UK 75
The NSA Uses the Same Chat Protocol As Hackers 81
Aereo Gets OK From Bankruptcy Court To Auction Technology Assets 42
Microsoft Is Building a New Browser As Part of Its Windows 10 Push 248
Russia Plans To Build World First DNA Databank of All Living Things 83
Ask Slashdot: Best Wireless LED Light Setup for 2015? 68
6 Terabyte Hard Drive Round-Up: WD Red, WD Green and Seagate Enterprise 6TB 190
Kim Dotcom's Mega Again Announces Encrypted Browser-Based Chat Service 40
Samsung To Discontinue Galaxy Alpha For Cheaper Galaxy A5 47
Belize's "Blue Hole" Reveals Clues To Maya's Demise 80
FBI Allegedly Investigating Lizard Squad Member Over Xbox Live, PSN Attacks 78
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains His Christmas Tweet 681
2015 Could Be the Year of the Hospital Hack 130
Gmail Reportedly Has Been Blocked In China 145
Norse Security IDs 6, Including Ex-Employee, As Sony Hack Perpetrators 158
Trees vs. Atmospheric Carbon: A Fight That Makes Sense? 363
Life In Space, In More Than 12,000 Photos 24
Twitter Bug Locks Out Many Users 69
What Northern Hemisphere Astronomers Are Missing From the Southern Hemisphere 104
Sony Hack Reveals MPAA's Big '$80 Million' Settlement With Hotfile Was a Lie 117
School Defied Google and US Government, Let Boys Program White House Xmas Trees 355
Chaos Computer Club Claims It Can Reproduce Fingerprints From People's Photos 80
Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry 278
New Proposed Path for Manned Trips to Mars: Let Mars' Gravity Capture Spacecraft 105
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Companies With Poor SSL Practices? 141
Sony PlayStation Network Back Up Now, Supposedly 75
Finn Linked To Lizard Squad Christmas Attack 51
Sony Accused of Pirating Music In "The Interview" 180
5,200 Days Aboard ISS, and the Surprising Reason the Mission Is Still Worthwhile 219
Know Your Type: Five Mechanical Keyboards Compared 190
AirAsia Flight Goes Missing Between Indonesia and Singapore 275
Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices 420
Facebook Apologizes For 'Year In Review' Photos 218
Phoronix Lauds AMD's Open Source Radeon Driver Progress For 2014 44
White House Touts Obama's 1-Liner as 2014 Tech Highlight 65
The Interview Bombs In US, Kills In China, Threatens N. Korea 288
Google and Apple Weaseling Out of "Do Not Track" 145
Hubble Reveals a Previously Unknown Dwarf Galaxy Just 7 Million Light Years Away 70
13,000 Passwords, Usernames Leaked For Major Commerce, Porn Sites 149
An Open Source Flat Pack Robot Arm That's As Easy To Build As Ikea Furniture 39
Startup Acquisitions Herald Virtual, Augmented Reality Apps From Facebook 11
N. Korea Blames US For Internet Outage, Compares Obama to "a Monkey" 206
Newest Stealth Fighter's Ground Attack Sensors 10 Years Behind Older Jets' 279
New Paper Claims Neutrino Is Likely a Faster-Than-Light Particle 142
Boston Elementary, Middle Schools To Get a Longer Day 161
First Airbus A350 XWB Delivered, Will Start Service in January 65
India Faces Its First Major Net Neutrality Issue 61
Prosecutors Raid LG Offices Over Alleged Vandalism of Samsung Dishwashers 87
The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week 63
Romanian Cybersecurity Law Will Allow Warrantless Access To Data 62
Lizard Squad Targets Tor 83
Tesla Roadster Update Extends Range 128
Paul Graham: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In 552
Net Neutrality Comments Overtaxed FCC's System 32
High Speed DIY M&M Sorting Machine Uses iPhone Brain 85
Crowds (and Pirates) Flock To 'The Interview' 148
Donald Knuth Worried About the "Dumbing Down" of Computer Science History 149
NSA Reveals More Than a Decade of Improper Surveillance 118
MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language 194
Why Lizard Squad Took Down PSN and Xbox Live On Christmas Day 336
Bill Gates Sponsoring Palladium-Based LENR Technology 183
Kodak-Branded Smartphones On the Way 94
PlayStation Game-Streaming Service Comes To Samsung Smart TVs In 2015 43
NASA Makes 3-D Printed Wrench Model Available 99
Rackspace Restored After DDOS Takes Out DNS 49
South Korea Says Nuclear Reactors Safe After Cyberattacks 54
The World of YouTube Bubble Sort Algorithm Dancing 68
Xbox Live and PlayStation Networks Downed By Apparent Attack 160
US Navy Sells 'Top Gun' Aircraft Carrier For One Penny 118
Nokia's Back In the Tablet Business, With the Android Lollipop-Based N1 60
Linux 3.19 Kernel To Start 2015 With Many New Features 66
Federal Judge: Facebook Must Face Suit For Scanning Messages 48
How Target's Mobile App Uses Location Tech To Track You 61
Inside China's 'Christmas Factory' Town, Yiwu 32
Startups: the Crazy Ones, the Misfits, the Rebels ... the Dumb Ones 34
North Korean Defector Spills Details On the Country's Elite Hacking Force 166
DARPA Wants Help Building a Drone That Flies Like a Hawk 42
300 Million Year Old Fossil Fish Likely Had Color Vision 37
Russian Hackers Stole Millions From Banks, ATMs 53
App Gives You Free Ebooks of Your Paperbacks When You Take a "Shelfie" 131
Samsung Galaxy Note Edge Review 75
Scientists Say the Future Looks Bleak For Our Bones 115
Did North Korea Really Attack Sony? 282
Google Motion Denied In Lawsuit Against Mississippi Attorney General 23
Subsurface 4.3 Released 38
UK Man Arrested Over "Offensive" Tweet 360
US Internet Offers 10Gbps Fiber In Minneapolis 110
Should Video Games Be In the Olympics? 232
Sony To Release the Interview Online Today; Apple Won't Play Ball 227
The History of the NORAD/Microsoft and Google Santa Trackers 59
How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us To Greater Harm 116
Human Eye's Oscillation Rate Determines Smooth Frame Rate 187
Study: Police Body-Cams Reduce Unacceptable Use of Force 368
Many DDR3 Modules Vulnerable To Bit Rot By a Simple Program 138
The World Is Not Falling Apart 208
NuSTAR Takes Beautiful X-ray Image of Sol 44
TripAdvisor Fined In Italy For Fake Reviews 88
De-escalating the Android Patent War 63
Comcast-TWC Merger Review On Hold 88
Tech's Gender Gap Started At Stanford 224
Docker Image Insecurity 73
Ars: Final Hobbit Movie Is 'Soulless End' To 'Flawed' Trilogy 351
Serious Economic Crisis Looms In Russia, China May Help 265
The Slow Death of Voice Mail 237
Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector 163
Sony: 'The Interview' Will Have a Limited Theatrical Release 176
"Star Trek 3" To Be Helmed By "Fast & Furious" Franchise Director Justin Lin 332
Hotel Group Asks FCC For Permission To Block Some Outside Wi-Fi 293
Apple Pushes First Automated OS X Security Update 115
BT, Sky, and Virgin Enforce UK Porn Blocks By Hijacking Browsers 294
Samsung Announces Production of 20nm Mobile LPDDR4, Faster Than Desktop DDR4 42
JP Morgan Breach Tied To Two-Factor Authentication Slip 71
'Citizenfour' Producers Sued Over Edward Snowden Leaks 163
How a Wildfire Helped Spread the Hashtag 36
Quadcopter Drone Packs First All-Linux Autopilot 31
Comcast's Lobbyists Hand Out VIP Cards To Skip the Customer Service Wait 131
Devuan Progress Report Published 184
Study: Light-Emitting Screens Before Bedtime Disrupt Sleep 179
NetworkManager 1.0 Released After Ten Years Development 164
ESA Carries Out Asteroid Impact Drill 69
Does Journal Peer Review Miss Best and Brightest? 139
An Automated Cat Litter Box With DRM 190
Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing 190
Meet the Doctor Trying To Use the Blood of Ebola Survivors To Create a Cure 33
Goodbye, Alek's Internet-Controlled Christmas Lights for Celiac Research 21
Using Your Open-Source Contributions To Land a Full-Time Job 45
Google Unveils New Self-Driving Car Prototype 90
Minecraft Creator Notch's $70 Million Mansion Recreated In Minecraft 170
North Korean Internet Is Down 360
How Venture Capitalist Peter Thiel Plans To Live 120 Years 441
Pirate Bay Domain Back Online 41
Argentine Court Rules Orangutan Is a "Non-Human Person" 187
Problem Solver Beer Tells How Much To Drink To Boost Your Creativity 73
TSA Has Record-Breaking Haul In 2014: Guns, Cannons, and Swords 276
Hot Springs At Yellowstone Changed Their Color Due To Tourist Activity 48
South Korean Power Plants To Conduct Cyber-Attack Drills Following Hack 39
Putting Time Out In Time Out: The Science of Discipline 323
Texas Instruments Builds New Energy Technology For the Internet of Things 54
Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens 292
Tor Warns of Possible Disruption of Network Through Server Seizures 19
GCHQ Warns It Is Losing Track of Serious Criminals 229
Chromebook Gets "OK Google" and Intel's Easy Migration App 35
Major Security Vulnerabilities Uncovered At Frankfurt Airport 91
How a Massachusetts Man Invented the Global Ice Market 83
Librarians: The Google Before Google 94
"Infrared Curtain" Brings Touchscreen Technology To Cheap Cars 123
Viacom's Messy Relationship With YouTube and The Rise of Stephen Colbert 78
The Magic of Pallets 250
26 Foot Long Boat 3D Printed In 100,000 Different Pieces 58
Cuba Says the Internet Now a Priority 115
Finland Announces an Anti-Laser Campaign For Air Traffic 114
Anonymous Claims They Will Release "The Interview" Themselves 239
Judge: It's OK For Cops To Create Fake Instagram Accounts 209
Bitcoin Exec To Spend Two Years Behind Bars For Silk Road Transactions 69
US Seeks China's Help Against North Korean Cyberattacks 153
Dish Pulls Fox News, Fox Business Network As Talks Break Down 275
Can Rep. John Culberson Save NASA's Space Exploration Program? 156
Google+ Will Make Your Videos Look Better 37
Cyberattack On German Steel Factory Causes 'Massive Damage' 212
NASA 'Emails' a Socket Wrench To the ISS 152
Seattle Police Held Hackathon To Redact Footage From Body Cameras 93
Ask Slashdot: Is an Open Source .NET Up To the Job? 421
Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Improve Safety 285
Behind the Scenes With the Star Trek Fan Reboot 106
Google Sues Mississippi Attorney General For Conspiring With Movie Industry 114
New Record Set For Deepest Dwelling Fish 33
North Korea Denies Responsibility for Sony Attack, Warns Against Retaliation 236
What Happens To Society When Robots Replace Workers? 628
Boeing and BlackBerry Making a Self-Destructing Phone 75
Birds Fled Area Before Tornadoes Appeared 99
Massive Volcanic Eruptions Accompanied Dinosaur Extinction 78
The Beatles, Bob Dylan and the 50-Year Copyright Itch 153
65,000 Complaints Later, Microsoft Files Suit Against Tech Support Scammers 246
Tor Network May Be Attacked, Says Project Leader 86
How a 3D Printer Let a Dog Run For the First Time 26
Hackers Used Nasty "SMB Worm" Attack Toolkit Against Sony 177
Staples: Breach May Have Affected 1.16 Million Customers' Cards 97
Calculus Textbook Author James Stewart Has Died 170
T-Mobile To Pay $90M For Unauthorized Charges On Customers' Bills 51
NASA Video Shows What It's Like To Reenter the Earth's Atmosphere 75
Ask Slashdot: Resources For Kids Who Want To Make Games? 121
Tesla About To Start Battery-Swap Pilot Program 133
Geoengineered Climate Cooling With Microbubbles 114
LinuxFest Northwest 2015 Will be Held April 25 and 26 (Video) 21
Schneier Explains How To Protect Yourself From Sony-Style Attacks (You Can't) 343
Machine Learning Reveals Genetic Controls 14
The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots 391
All the Evidence the Government Will Present In the Silk Road Trial Is Online 52
Anyone Can Now Launch Their Own Version of the Pirate Bay 81
Quantum Physics Just Got Less Complicated 197
Hackers' Shutdown of 'The Interview' Confirms Coding Is a Superpower 221
Researchers Discover SS7 Flaw, Allowing Total Access To Any Cell Phone, Anywhere 89
Skeptics Would Like Media To Stop Calling Science Deniers 'Skeptics' 719
Scientists Discover That Exercise Changes Your DNA 56
Colorado Sued By Neighboring States Over Legal Pot 484
Kepler Makes First Exoplanet Discovery After Mission Reboot 28
Review: The BlackBerry Classic Is One of the Best Phones of 2009 132
FBI Confirms Open Investigation Into Gamergate 556
Satellite Captures Glowing Plants From Space 40
Investigation: Apple Failing To Protect Chinese Factory Workers 201
Critical Git Security Vulnerability Announced 148
Marissa Mayer's Reinvention of Yahoo! Stumbles 222
Ars Reviews Skype Translator 71
Extracting Data From the Microsoft Band 51
"Team America" Gets Post-Hack Yanking At Alamo Drafthouse, Too 230
Grinch Vulnerability Could Put a Hole In Your Linux Stocking 118
Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? 232
Australia Moves Toward New Restrictions On Technology Export and Publication 91

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