Index Stories for 2015

New Maps Show Spread and Impact of Drought On California Forests 88
The Power of Crowds and "Human Computation" 155
Nadine the Robot Receptionist 46
Apple Faces $5 Million Lawsuit Over Allegedly Slowing the iPhone 4S With iOS 9 344
Oculus To Ship "Lucky's Tale" Game With Rift 39
The E6-B Flight Computer Is 75 Years Old, Still In Use 132
Is Wikipedia's Popularity Causing Its Decline? 325
Dog With 3D-Printed Legs Gets an Upgrade 36
Feds: Your Employer Can't Stop You From Recording Conversations At Work 139
Microsoft Makes a Selfie App For the iPhone 50
Last Operating Magnox Nuclear Reactor Closes 98
George Lucas Criticizes the Force Awakens 562
Should We Fill the Sahara With Solar Panels? 386
The Winner-Take-All Trend In Tech 124
Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying 152
Exploding Munitions Caught On Seismometer 20
NSA Cheerleaders Discover Value of Privacy Only When Their Own Is Violated 267
New York Begins Public Gigabit Wi-Fi Rollout 107
Lessig: Future Tech Will Help Privacy Catch Up With the Internet 35
Human Brain Still Beats Computers At Finding Messages and Meaning Within Noise 64
1st Circuit Injunction Re: TSA's New Mandatory AIT Search Rule Fully Briefed 122
Paramount and CBS File Lawsuit Against Crowdfunded, Indie Star Trek Movie 228
SpaceX To Test Recovered First Stage, Then Put It On Display 108
Debian Founder Ian Murdock Has Died 464
Twitter Bans 'Hateful Conduct' 492
List of Major Linux Desktop Problems Updated For 2016 349
Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind 77
Open Source Roles: Starters vs. Maintainers 77
Physicists Figure Out How To Make Cleaner Fuel Cells 32
Coding Styles Survive Binary Compilation, Could Lead Investigators Back To Programmers 164
Apple Settles a $348M Fine With Italian Authorities For Tax Evasion 87
Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket 142
Chrome Extension Offers Trump-Free Browsing 247
Oracle Asked To Help Low-Income Residents Evicted For Its New Cloud Campus 202
The Paradox of Grey Hat Hackers 95
Publisher Is Pretty Sure Google Could End Piracy 216
Drone Registration Is FAA's Way of Getting You To Read Their "EULA" 131
Google Confirms Next Android Version Won't Use Oracle's Proprietary Java APIs 215
Microsoft Patents a Slider, Earning EFF's "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award 127
Brazil's Biggest City Wants To Charge Fees For Uber Rides 77
CFR China Expert: US Tech Firms Should Worry About Beijing's New Anti-Terror Law 50
AVG Forces Chrome Extension On Users, Extension Is Woefully Insecure 170
Russia Cancels All Moon Missions Till 2025 135
Robot Mule Put Out To Pasture By Marine Corps 153
Rail Gun Controller Lets You Pack the Heat of Your Air Soft Gun In Any FPS Game 44
Discogs Turns Record Collectors' Obsessions Into Big Business 31
Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil a question 174
European Payment Card Protocols Wide Open To Fraud 38
Drone Ban Extends 30 Miles Around DC, Per FAA 410
Tech Segments Facing Turbulence In 2016 72
NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module 120
The Fan HD Remakes Yet To Be Banned 50
Microsoft Has Your Encryption Key If You Use Windows 10 314
Astronaut Tim Peake Calls the Wrong Number From Space 27
US Dept. of Ed: English, History, and Civics Teachers Good Enough For CS Class 242
Dutch City To Experiment With Paying Citizens a "Basic Income" 474
Verizon Offering $650 To Switch To Their Network 83
ProxyBack Malware Turns Infected Computers into Internet Proxies 71
The Reason a Surface Phone Won't Fix Microsoft's Mobile Problem 154
Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete? 225
TSA Moves Closer To Rejecting Some State Driver's Licenses For Airline Travel 428
Database of 191 Million US Voters Exposed On Internet 77
Google Glass For Work Is Sleeker, Tougher and Foldable 71
Reluctance To Go Mobile Inhibiting Innovation In Financial Services 104
Ashley Madison Says It Added 4 Million Members Since the Hack 125
Fixing JavaScript's Broken Random Number Generator 136
Ask Slashdot: How To Get Into Machine Learning? 123
On the Coming Chatbot Revolution 94
Zuckerberg Defends 'Free Basics' App With Comparison To Hospitals, Education 152
HAMR Hard Disk Drives Postponed To 2018 122
The AI Anxiety 207
FAA's Drone Laws Clash With Local Regulations 115
Allegations of Data Manipulation At Theranos 97
Giant Squid Filmed At Japanese Marina 57
Four Factors That Will Push VR Forward in 2016 64
Star Wars Pulls In $1 Billion At Record Speed 467
Core Bitcoin Devs Leave Project, Create New Currency Called Decred 122
Giant Methane Leak in California Won't Be Capped For Months 292
Microsoft CMO Confirms Development of 'Spiritual Equivalent' of Surface Phone 165
China Passes Law Requiring Tech Firms To Hand Over Encryption Keys 170
Switzerland Moves Toward a Universal Phone Charger Standard 401
Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It 440
Ask Slashdot: State-of-the-Art In Amateur Book Scanning? 122
North Korea's Operating System Analyzed 98
Bruce Schneier: IoT + DMCA = More Monopolies, Limits On Consumer Choice 118
Mesa's Highlights Reel: An Impressive Year For Open Source 3-D Drivers 27
Kindle or Not, a Resurgence In Used Bookstores 133
How a Young IRS Agent Identified the Man Behind Silk Road 163
The Problem With Self Driving Cars: Who Controls the Code? 235
How Big Was the Universe When It Was First Born? 194
Sci-Fi Screenwriter and Author George Clayton Johnson Dead At 86 21
Twitter Says It's Beating the Trolls 214
Dissecting a $231 Million High-Tech Boondoggle 139
Justice Department Shuts Down Huge Asset Forfeiture Program 232
APT Speed For Incremental Updates Gets a Massive Performance Boost 162
Ask Slashdot: Any Dishwasher Hackers Out There? 481
Steam: No "Unauthorized Actions" On Exposed Accounts 33
Star Wars Fans and Video Game Geeks 'More Likely To Be Narcissists,' Study Finds 182
NASA and China's Yutu Rover Are Still Making Discoveries On the Moon 34
Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America 150
Seattle's Behemoth Boring Machine, Idle Since 2013, Makes Some Progress 111
Arca Space Corp Unveils Functional Turbine Powered Hoverboard 48
Pwnd Aethra Routers Used To Brute-Force WordPress Sites 27
Perl 6 Released 145
Merry Christmas - Be an Erector Engineer! 200
Fujitsu Spins Off Its PC and Mobile Divisions 100
Marc Andreessen Describes Vision of 'Ambient Computing' 106
Ruby 2.3.0 Released 45
Steam Bug Shows You Other Users' Account Details 92
Ask Slashdot: We've Had Online Voting; Why Not Continuous Voting? 490
Somebody Tried To Convince a Raspberry Pi Exec To Install Malware On Its Devices 119
Why String Theory Is Not Science 288
Does the Internet Spur Social Change, Or Lazy Activism? 98
UCLA Creates Super-Strong, Super-Light Metal 70
Estimating SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Cost Savings 163
A Silicon Valley For Drones, In North Dakota 31
For a Missouri Cassette Tape Factory, Obsolesence is Just a 12-Letter Word 169
Amazon Makes It Almost Impossible To Calculate Their "Virtual CPU" Equivalent 114
HTC Wants To Bring Vive VR Headset To 100M+ Chinese Internet Cafe Users 8
Australian Government Tells Citizens To Turn Off Two-factor Authentication 146
NASA Rings Out 2015 With Close Looks At Ceres and Enceladus 15
Analyzing the US Air Force's New "Portable Hobby Drone Disruptors" Solicitation 61
Forrest Mimms On Modern Air Travel With a Bag Full of Electronics 169
Motion Filed In 1st Circuit To Enjoin TSA's New Mandatory "AIT" Screening 129
PhantomSquad Hackers Begin Their Xmas DDoS Attacks By Taking Down EA Servers 127
Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Using a Reputation Engine To Rate Information? 100
Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry 261
Mozilla Document Shows Firefox OS Tablet, TV Stick, Router, Keyboard Computer 78
Apollo 17 Soil Matches Ancient Earth's Ocean Ridges In Water Content 78
Did Google and the Hour of Code Get "Left" and "Right" Wrong? 107
Ubuntu User Count Pegged At Over One Billion 165
Hyatt Hotels Payment-Processing Systems Hit By Malware 32
Wyndham Settlement: No Fine, But More Power To the FTC 17
ASUS To Include AdBlock Plus On All Phones and Tablets In 2016 189
NORAD's Amazing 60-Year Santa Tracking History 90
Physicists Theorize Out How To Retrieve Information From a Black Hole 82
Drone Crashes, Missing Champion Skier By Inches 148
Federal Circuit Overturns Prohibition On "Disparaging" Trademarks 118
FTC Issues New Rules for Native Advertising on the Internet 120
Now NASA Wants To Grow Potatoes On Mars For Real 95
Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities 82
USPTO Power Outage Damages Equipment and Shuts Down IT Systems 62
Facebook's Free Basics App Has Been Temporarily Banned in India 75
Investigation Into Security Director Who Hacked the Lottery Expands 167
The Juniper VPN Backdoor: Buggy Code With a Dose of Shady NSA Crypto 61
Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company 143
College Board Mainstreams AP Computer Science 69
Cold War Nuclear Target Lists Declassified For First Time 166
Schneier: We Need a Better Way of Regulating New Technologies 123
The Trials and Tribulations of America's Chief Internet Defender 22
Software Error Releases Up To 3,200 Inmates Early 211
German Court Orders Man To Destroy Naked Images of Ex-Partner 263
TSA Body Scanner Opt-out No Longer Guaranteed 278
Google Planning New Messaging App With AI Chatbots 52
US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland 704
Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With a Persistent and Incessant Port Scanner? 265
Kim Dotcom Loses Extradition Case 98
ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 129
Nicolas Cage To Return Rare Stolen Dinosaur Skull To Mongolia 95
Tesla Will Have Self-driving Cars In Just Two Years, Elon Musk Boldly Declares 172
Google Tests Signing Into Accounts Using Your Phone, No Password Required 108
Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries 519
Porting Ubuntu For Raspberry Pi 2 Just Got a Lot Easier 32
Cold Fusion and the Reputation Trap 344
The Science Behind the Paris Climate Accords 118
Sketchable, Stretchable Circuits 34
DOE Launches Nuclear Waste Disposal Initiative 143
Report: Google Partners With Ford To Make Self-Driving Cars 143
NASA Has Suspended Its Next Mission To Mars 46
DHS's Ongoing Drone Boondoggle 77
US Bureau of Labor Statistics: Programmer Jobs Will Decline 8% 349
Cisco Systems Will Be Auditing Their Code For Backdoors 128
Another Internet Griswold's Controllable Christmas Lights 46
HIV Dating Company Accuses Researchers of Hacking Database 71
Oracle Settles FTC Charges Regarding Deceptive Java Security Updates 33
Google Joins Mozilla, Microsoft In Pushing For Early SHA-1 Crypto Cutoff 115
A Proposal For Dealing With Terrorist Videos On the Internet 177
ZFS Replication To the Cloud Is Finally Here and It's Fast 150
Super Mario Inspired SuperTux Issues Its First Official Release In 10 Years 116
JavaScript User Prohibitions Are Like Content DRM, But Even Less Effective 188
SpaceX Lands Falcon 9 Rocket At Cape Canaveral 373
Microsoft Buys Talko, Another Ray Ozzie Company 10
Drug Case In Ireland Has Fingerprints of Carnegie Mellon's Attack On Tor 72
NASA Is Creating a Virtual Reality Mission To Mars 24
BBC Launches Machine-Translated Synthetic Voiceovers 24
Can Electric Signals In Earth's Atmosphere Predict Earthquakes? 71
Vivendi Takes Over Radionomy, Winamp Relaunch Now Possible 117
Apple To Pay Ericsson Patent Royalties On iPhones and iPads 75
Deadline for Better Encryption on Payment Systems Pushed Back Two Years 91
US Predicts Zero Job Growth For Electrical Engineers 223
FAA Drone Rules May Already Be Outlawed By Congress 226
Software-Defined Vehicles Will Dominate At CES 112
Hackers Have Infiltrated the US Power Grid's Control Networks 129
Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong 294
HTTP Error Code 451 Approved For Censored Web Pages 141
Disney Is Making a Fortune and Safeguarding Its Future By Buying Childhood 207
Ask Slashdot: Resources For Explaining Statistics For the Very First Time? 90
Juniper's Backdoor Password Disclosed, Likely Added In Late 2013 107
Currency Exchange Website Accused of Cyber Terrorism By Venezuelan Government 104
Microsoft Fails Windows Phone Fans Again By Delaying Windows 10 Mobile 189
Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself With 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria 206
Facebook Replaces Flash With HTML5 For Videos 76
Programmers Share 188 Computer-Generated Novels On GitHub 49
Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans 92
Smallest Color Picture Ever Printed Fits Inside a Human Hair 52
Facebook, Google Top Year-End App List 30
FAA Admits Names & Addresses In Drone Registry Will Be Publicly Available 300
Improving UI and UX: Changing the "Open Source Is Ugly" Perception 402
ICANN's Ex CEO Fronts Chinese Initiative On Running the Internet 55
Mobile Gaming Giant Calls For Longer Product Life Cycles 30
Femto Fairy Lights - Touchable Holograms 57
AdBlock Plus Updates Acceptable Ads Policy 523
Israeli Firm Creates a Device That Can Hack Any Nearby Phone 143
UK Police Busts Karaoke 'Gang' For Sharing Songs You Can't Buy 118
Tim Cook Calls Apple's Tax Questions 'Political Crap' 456
The Data Center Density Debate: Generational Change Brings Higher Densities 45
Should a Mars Colony Be Independent? 295
Musk, Others Want Volkswagen To Go Electric Instead of Fixing Diesels 313
Games Involving Candy Stimulate Kids' Appetites 43
Internet Archive Hosts 24-Hour Fund-Raising Telethon 32
Degradation of Lithium Batteries Shown In Real-time 58
Andy Weir, Author of 'The Martian,' Is Writing a Novel Set On the Moon 73
ISRO Launches Six Singaporean Satellites 29
Wine 1.8 Released 119
Physicists Find New Evidence For Helium 'Rain' On Saturn 27
Miniature Flying Car Receives US Airspace Approval For Testing 95
US Budget Bill Passes With CISA Surveillance Intact 153
White House Expected To Announce Big Computer Science Push 161
Astronomers Successfully Predict Appearance of Supernova 86
New Outlook Bug Doesn't Require Users To Interact With Emails To Be Compromised 102
Street Fighter V Announced For Linux and SteamOS 126
Phantom Squad Hacking Group Claims Credit For Three-Hour Xbox Live Outage 49
Sony Creating Sulfur-Based Batteries With 40% More Capacity Than Li-Ion 151
Khronos Delays Vulkan Graphics API To 2016 Release 50
12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested In Texas After Bringing a Power Bag To School 954
Swedish Researchers Break 'Unbreakable' Quantum Cryptography 101
How Long Until the Cyborg Olympics Are Better Than the Traditional Games? 60
Contradicting Previous Study, Cancer Risk Has Strong Environmental Component 54
NSF and Federal Partners Award $37M To Advance Nation's Co-robots 13
Microsoft Extends SmartScreen To Foil Malvertising and Exploit Kits 48
Strict New Security Measures Put In Place For CES 2016 Attendees 91
Replacement For Mozilla Thunderbird? 388
Pre-Crime in the UK: Businesses Crowdsource a Watch List 162
How Brain Architecture Leads To Abstract Thought 106
Bernie Sanders Campaign Blocked From DNC Voter Info After Improper Access 313
'Unauthorized Code' In Juniper Firewalls Could Decrypt VPN Traffic 112
EFF Launches Panopticlick 2.0 63
The Humans Crashing Into Driverless Cars are Exposing a Key Flaw 748
Netflix Creates DIY Smart Socks That Pause Your Show When You Fall Asleep 76
LifeLock Agrees To Pay $100 Million Fine In Settlement With FTC 50

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