Index Stories for 2016

Is Microsoft 'Reaping the Rewards' From Open-Sourcing Its .NET Core? 257
A Century of Surveillance: An Interactive Timeline Of FBI Investigations 55
Ask Slashdot: How Should I Furnish (And Secure) My Work-From-Home Office? 303
Ubuntu Survey Discovers 'Consumers Are Terrible' About Updating Their IoT Devices 181
The Linux Foundation Offers 50% Discounts On Training 39
The FBI Is Arresting People Who Rent DDoS Botnets 212
3D Freeciv-Web (Beta) Released 68
LinkedIn Warns 9.5 Million Lynda Users About Database Breach 35
Are Psychiatric Medications Hurting More Patients Than They Help? 432
Apple Loses In Court, Owes $2 Million For Not Giving Workers Meal Breaks 255
EFF Begins Investigating Surveillance Technology Rumors At Standing Rock 147
US Scientists Scramble To Protect Research On Climate Change 534
Human Zika Antibodies Prevent Infection in Mice 12
Does Amazon's Clickworker Platform Exploit Its Workers? 153
Oracle Begins Aggressively Pursuing Java Licensing Fees 295
Are Remote Offices Becoming The New Normal? 250
The UN Will Consider Banning Killer Robots 210
Does Code Reuse Endanger Secure Software Development? 148
Massive Mirai Botnet Hides Its Control Servers On Tor 149
McAfee Takes Six Months To Patch Remote Code Exploit In Linux VirusScan Enterprise 45
Londoners Tests A Self-Driving Beer Tap And An AI-Assisted Brewery 90
RIP Dr. Henry Heimlich, Inventor of the Heimlich Maneuver 51
U.S. Proposes Car-To-Car Data Sharing Standards 134
Scientific American Column: 'It's Not Cold Fusion...But It's Something' 188
GoboLinux 016 Released With Its Own Filesystem Virtualization Tool 47
China Says It Will Return the Underwater Drone It Seized From the US 199
President Obama Threatens Retaliatory Actions Against Russia Over Hacks 531
Netgear Releases 'Beta' Patches For Additional Routers Found With Root Vulnerability 26
Tesla Introduces Fee For Owners Who Leave Their Cars At Supercharger Stations 304
Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech 321
Apollo 11 Moon Rock Bag Belongs To Buyer, Not NASA, Judge Rules 63
Researchers Find Roads Shatter the Earth's Surface Into 600,000 Fragments 143
Rogue Lawyers Made $6 Million Shaking Down Porn Pirates, Feds Say 128
Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel 158
Google Joins the Open Source Cloud Foundry Foundation 6
YouTube Bans North Korea's State-Owned TV Channel 55
Election Assistance Commission Hacked Using SQL Injection 103
AT&T, Verizon Tell FCC To Back Off On Net Neutrality Complaints 102
T-Mobile Exempts AT&T's DirecTV Now Service From Data Caps 22
BlackBerry Stops Making Phones, Licenses the BlackBerry Name To TCL For Android Phones 48
Nintendo Sells Nearly 200,000 Units Of Its Mini Retro Console 78
Pentagon: Chinese Ship Captures US Underwater Drone Fom Sea 406
Linux Mint 18.1 'Serena' Is Here For Christmas 62
Apple Explores Dual-SIM Capability in iPhones, Patent Filing Reveals 127
Wikipedia Exceeds Fundraising Target, But Continues Asking For More Money 181
Building a Coder's Paradise Is Not Profitable: GitHub Lost $66M In Nine Months Of 2016 227
Amazon Is Secretly Building an 'Uber For Trucking' App, Setting Its Sights On a Massive $800 Billion Market 97
World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind 220
Yahoo's Billion-User Database Reportedly Sold On the Dark Web for Just $300,000 - NYT 71
Evernote Reverses Course On Opt-out Privacy Policy That Would've Exposed Users' Content To Employees 52
Twitter Blocks Government 'Spy Centers' From Accessing User Data 46
Zero-Days Hitting Fedora and Ubuntu Open Desktops To a World of Hurt 164
Vitamin D Deficiency During Pregnancy Linked To Autism 216
Aging Process May Be Reversable, Scientists Claim 253
A $300 Device Can Steal Mac FileVault2 Passwords 88
Apple Will Charge You $69 To Replace a Lost AirPod 253
GM Expands Testing, Production of Self-Driving Cars In Michigan 31
Super Mario Run Is Now Available 70
Google May Prevent Samsung From Adding Viv AI Assistant To Galaxy S8 60
White House Supports Claim Putin Directed US Election Hack 715
Businesses May No Longer Sue Customers Over Negative Reviews 98
Verizon Changes Its Mind and Will Kill Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 on January 5th 96
Microsoft Taps Here and TomTom To Expand Into Connected Data 25
Fitbit Won't Kill Off Pebble Services At Least Until 2018 33
Facebook Is Clamping Down On Fake News, Partners With Fact Checkers To Flag Stories 415
Verizon Explores Lower Price or Even Exit From Yahoo Deal 52
China Takes Action On Thousands Of Websites For 'Harmful', Obscene Content 60
Uber: We Don't Need a Permit For Self-Driving Cars 357
Instagram Has Doubled Its Monthly Active User Base in Two Years 18
Twitter Built a Messaging App But Never Released It 31
Donald Trump To Tech Leaders: 'No Formal Chain Of Command' Here 488
Another One Bites the Dust: Cisco Discontinues Its $1B Cloud Initiative as AWS, Azure and Others Expand 34
Iceland Seeking 'Supercritical Steam' For Power Source 160
Lack of Penis Bone In Humans Linked To Monogamous Relationships and Quick Sex, Study Says 279
The Pirate Bay, BitTorrent Websites To Be Blocked In Australia, Federal Court Rules 112
Twitter Cut Out of Trump Tech Meeting Over Failed Emoji Deal, Says Report 551
Newly Uncovered Site Suggests NSA Exploits For Direct Sale 33
Malvertising Campaign Infects Your Router Instead of Your Browser 137
Most Businesses Pay Ransomware Demands, IBM Finds 69
Microsoft Xbox One and Windows 10 Getting Dolby Atmos Surround Sound 37
Yahoo Says Hackers Stole Information From Over 1 Billion Accounts 71
India Just Flew Past Us In the Race To E-Cash 216
AT&T's DirecTV Now Plagued With Outages and Sports Blackouts 42
Flash Will Soon Be 'Click-To-Run' in Microsoft Edge 72
Ashley Madison To Pay $1.6M Settlement Related To Data Breach 45
Starting Next Year, Evernote Employees Could Access Your Unencrypted Notes 98
Uber Appeals Against Ruling that Its UK Drivers Are Workers 178
Amazon Delivered Its First Customer Package By Drone 90
Windows 10 Update Broke DHCP, Knocked Users Off the Internet 256
California To Adopt First US Energy-Saving Rules For Computers 171
150 Filmmakers and Photojournalists Call On Nikon, Sony, and Canon To Build in Encryption 229
Elon Musk and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Will Advise Trump On Business Issues 244
Netflix Gets New Global Rival: Amazon Prime Video Now Available In Over 200 Countries 65
Uber Self-Driving Cars Hit the Streets of San Francisco 47
UK 4G Coverage Worse Than In Romania and Peru, Watchdog Finds 83
Snowden: 'The Central Problem of the Future' Is Control of User Data 157
First Offshore Wind Farm In US Waters Delivers Power To Rhode Island 196
IBM Promises To Hire 25,000 Americans As Tech Executives Set To Meet Trump 244
Microsoft Formally Introduces Zo, Its Latest AI-Powered Chatbot 56
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe Steps Down, Will Now Lead PC-Focused VR Team Within Facebook 12
AMD Unveils First Zen Desktop Processor Details, Picks 'Ryzen' To Brand Zen CPU 113
Google Publishes Eight National Security Letters 63
A Typo Led To Podesta's Email Hack, Says Report 274
Florida Court Says Suspected Voyeur Must Reveal His iPhone Passcode To Police 184
Feds Unveil Rule Requiring Cars To 'Talk' To Each Other 292
Apple Removes the 'Time Remaining' Battery Indicator In New macOS Update 164
Uber Defends Privacy Practices After Allegations It Spies On Riders 40
Android Things Is Google's New OS For Smart Devices 30
SpaceX Delays First Crewed Flight Of Its Dragon Capsule For NASA 39
Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change 858
Android Chief Squashes Rumors of Android Merging With Chrome OS 43
Why China Can't Lure Tech Talent 219
Apple Warns Of Counterfeit Power Adapters and Batteries Following Lawsuit 101
Malware Found In the Firmware of 26 Low-Cost Android Models 60
Google Has Stopped Developing Its Own Self-Driving Car - Report 255
SWIFT Confirms New Cyber Thefts, Hacking Tactics 11
Microsoft To Bring Cortana To IoT Devices With Screens Next Year 65
PwC Sends Legal Threats To Researchers Who Found Critical Security Flaw 188
Quest Diagnostics Says Personal Health Information of 34,000 Customers Hacked 69
Rapid Rise In Methane Emissions In 10 Years Surprises Scientists 293
Google, Cuba Sign Deal Allowing Faster Access To Company's Data 42
Fossil Fuel Divestment Has Doubled In the Last 15 Months 263
Disney IT Workers, In Lawsuit, Claim Discrimination Against Americans 455
EFF: The Music Industry Shouldn't Be Able To Cut Off Your Internet Access 88
Panasonic's New Shopping System Automatically Bags, Tallies Your Bill 88
First Version of Sandboxed Tor Browser Available 28
Xbox One Games Arrive On Oculus Rift With New Streaming App 16
Comcast Raises Controversial 'Broadcast TV' and 'Sports' Fees $48 Per Year 166
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: I Screwed Up and I Want Reddit To Trust Me Again 410
Uber Employees Used the Platform To Stalk Celebrities and Their Exes, Says Former Employee 99
Google Makes Embedding Projector an Open Source Project 14
American Express Will Give All Parents 20 Weeks Of Paid Leave 179
Some Bangladesh Bank Officials Involved In Heist, Says Investigator 26
Microsoft Will Soon Start Bundling Drivers With Windows Store Games 102
Apple Introduces 'Report Junk' Option To Deal With iCloud Calendar Spam Invites 22
If You Get Rich, You Won't Quit Working For Long 406
Latest Microsoft Skype Preview Adds Real-Time Voice Translation For Phone Calls 37
AMD Introduces Radeon Instinct Machine Intelligence Accelerators 55
Microsoft Says More People Are Switching From Macs To Surface Than Ever Before 376
Grand Tour 'Most Illegally Downloaded TV Show In History' 218
Bill Gates Announces A New $1 Billion Clean Energy Fund 121
New Ransomware Offers The Decryption Keys If You Infect Your Friends 236
Why Did Japan Just Ratify The TPP? 225
IBM's Watson Used In Life-Saving Medical Diagnosis 83
Japan Sends Its New Space Junk-Fighting Technology To The ISS 64
Twitter Reinstates White Nationalist Leader's Account 470
Robots Are Already Replacing Fast-Food Workers 414
Linux Kernel 4.9 Officially Released 80
Japanese City Tags Elderly Dementia Sufferers With Barcodes 115
Google Global Cache Is Coming to Cuba 46
Vulnerability Prompts Warning: Stop Using Netgear WiFi Routers 147
Magic Leap CEO Promises Production Tests Have Begun For 'Mixed Reality' Headsets 54
NSA's Best Are 'Leaving In Big Numbers,' Insiders Say 412
Researchers Successfully Fight Colon Cancer Using Immunotherapy 40
Does The 'Snoopers Charter' Also Enshrine Lying In Court? 123
David Pogue Calls Out 18 Sites For Failing His Space-Bar Scrolling Test 309
Inside Peter Thiel's Genius Factory 165
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Geeky Gift For Children? 204
Why Apple Just Invested in Wind Turbines In China 124
Struggling Workers Found Sleeping In Tents Behind Amazon's Warehouse 433
Analysts Tout 'State of The Developer' Survey By Awarding RPG Characters 47
Inside the NYPD's Attempt To Build Community Trust Through Twitter 59
Fedora-based Linux Distro Korora (Version 25) Now Available For Download 31
FBI Relents, Confirms Previously-Denied UFO Investigation 85
A 'Turkish Hacker' Is Giving Out Prizes For DDoS Attacks 33
The DEA Has Been Secretly Paying Transport Employees To Search Travelers' Bags 165
5-Year-Old Critical Linux Vulnerability Patched 68
Uber Asks Everyone To Stop Making It The New Tinder 150
New Bug In Windows 10 Anniversary Update Brings Wi-Fi Disconnects 191
US Think Tank Wants To Regulate The Design of IoT Devices For Security Purposes 87
Autonomous Shuttle Brakes For Squirrels, Skateboarders, and Texting Students 74
'Star In a Jar' Fusion Reactor Works, Promises Infinite Energy 431
Silly Putty Makes For Super-Sensitive Sensors 43
Radiation From Fukushima Disaster Reaches Oregon Coast 139
Google Starts Using HTML5 By Default Instead of Flash For Some Chrome Users 40
Researchers Point Out 'Theoretical' Security Flaws In AMD's Upcoming Zen CPU 57
Bose Launches 'Hearphones' That Act Like Hearing Aids 65
AirPods Delay Attributed To Apple Ensuring Both Earpieces Receive Audio At Same Time 189
Google Is Testing User Ratings For Movies, TV Within Search Results 11
Uber Is Treating Its Drivers As Sweated Labor, Says Report 436
DHS Tried To Breach Our Firewall, Says Georgia's Secretary of State 146
Twitter Cuts API Access For Media Sonar, Spy Tool Used To Target Black Lives Matter 104
Bitcoin Hits Highest Levels In Almost Three Years 78
Alphabet Donated Its Employees' Holiday Gifts To Charity 399
Verizon Says It Will Not Push Samsung's Update That Disables Galaxy Note7 Because Of User Inconvenience 192
Michigan Lets Autonomous Cars On Roads Without Human Driver 166
President Obama Orders Review of Cyber Attacks On 2016 Election 557
Facebook Discloses New Measurement Errors, Continues To Hone Its Math 36
Magic Leap Used Fake Tech Demos and Is 'Years' Behind Schedule 114
Mars One Delayed Its Mars Mission -- Again 99
White House Voices Concerns About China Cyber Law 48
Nintendo Legend Miyamoto: Mario Needs To Evolve To Survive 88
Samsung May Permanently Disable Galaxy Note 7 Phones In The US As Soon As Next Week 193
Zeus Variant 'Floki Bot' Targets PoS Data 25
Google Now Lets Developers Write Apps For the Assistant On Google Home 39
US Life Expectancy Declines For the First Time Since 1993 497
US Presidential Election Was Most 'Talked About' Topic In 2016, Says Facebook 88
Transportation Department Proposes Allowing In-Flight Phone Calls 103
Yik Yak Lays Off 60 Percent of Employees As Growth Collapses 71
Watchdog Group Claims Smart Toys Are Spying On Kids 70
AT&T To Cough Up $88 Million For 'Cramming' Mobile Customer Bills 37
AI Will Disrupt How Developers Build Applications and the Nature of the Applications they Build 107
Congress Passes BOTS Act To Ban Ticket-Buying Software 221
John Glenn, First American To Orbit The Earth, Dies At 95 113
Audi Cars Now Talk To Stop Lights In Vegas 105
Every US Taxpayer Has Effectively Paid Apple At Least $6 in Recent Years 267
First Dinosaur Tail Found Preserved in Amber 70
PowerShell Security Threats Greater Than Ever, Researchers Warn 129
Slashdot Asks: Would You Like Early Access To Movies And Stop Going To Theatres? 341
Google Cloud Print Is Turning Off Epson Printers 73
Yahoo Fixes Flaw Allowing an Attacker To Read Any User's Emails 30
AMD's Major Radeon Software Graphics Driver Update Goes Live With Gameplay Capture, More 98
Samsung Plans All-Screen Design in New Galaxy S8 Phones 106
Microsoft Officially Closes Its $26.2B Acquisition of LinkedIn 53
Microsoft Wants To Enable Cellular PCs, But Will Carriers Bite? 145
Microsoft and Qualcomm Collaborate To Bring Windows 10, x86 Emulation To Snapdragon Processors 85
Cesarean Births Could Be Affecting Human Evolution, Study Says 277
Earth's Day Lengthens By Two Milliseconds a Century, Astronomers Find 140
Paris Makes All Public Transportation Free In Battle Against 'Worst Air Pollution For 10 Years' 239
Adobe Flash Responsible For Six of the Top 10 Bugs Used By Exploit Kits In 2016 72
Apple Is In Talks With Hollywood For Early Access To Movies On iTunes: Bloomberg 51
NSA, GCHQ Have Been Intercepting In-Flight Mobile Calls For Years 99
Nintendo Offers Up To $20,000 To Hack the 3DS 45
Qualcomm Debuts 10nm Server Chip To Attack Intel Server Stronghold 110
Google, HTC, Oculus, Samsung, Sony Join Forces To Create Global VR Association 59
T-Mobile's 'Digits' Solution Lets You Use One Phone Number Across All Your Devices 46
Bluetooth 5 Is Here 114
Google Is Removing 'In the News' Section From Desktop Search After Criticism 74
Information Overload No Problem For Most Americans: Survey 75
Pebble Gets Acquired By Fitbit - Ends Production and Ceases Support Of Its Existing Lineup of Smartwatches 193
YouTube's $1 Billion Royalties Are Not Enough, Says Music Industry 220
Falsely Accused Movie Pirate Deserves $17K Compensation, Court Says 60
Backdoor Accounts Found in 80 Sony IP Security Camera Models 55
Google Further Shrinks the Size of Android App Updates 50
Bitcoin Could Rise By 165% To $2,000 in 2017 Driven by Trump's 'Spending Binge' and Dollar Rally 255
Microsoft Likely To See a Boost in Windows 10 Sales This New Year 172
Sony Has Sold 50 Million PlayStation 4 Units 73
Apple's Top Assembler Foxconn Confirms Plans for US Investment, To Create 50,000 Jobs 324
Doyodo RetroEngine Sigma Is a Linux-Powered Classic Video Game Emulation Console 91
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Makes Game For Third Annual Hour of Code 135
NASA Awards $127 Million Contract For Refueling Mission Spacecraft 38
'The Circle' Trailer Looks An Awful Lot Like Google 77
Microsoft Researchers Offer Predictions For AI, Deep Learning 102
Weather Channel To Breitbart: Stop Citing Us To Spread Climate Skepticism 588
Apple Launches Single Sign-On Service To Make Logging Into TV Apps Less Time-Consuming 29
New Stegano Exploit Kit Hides Malvertising Code In Banner Pixels 207
Former Samsung Engineers Build Smart Umbrella That Tells If It's Going To Rain 89
Scientists Develop Robotic Hand For People With Quadriplegia 22
Apple Says Air Exposure Is Causing iPhone 6s Battery Problems 76
Apple To Start Publishing AI Research To Hasten Deep Learning 26

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