Technology Stories for 2012

EFnet Paralyzed By Vulnerability 156
A Wish List For Tablets In 2013 453
Researcher Warns That Military Must Prepare For "Mutant" Future 179
Intel's Rumored TV Plans Would Compete With Apple, Google 82
Team Aims To Build Robot Toddler In Nine Months 114
YouTube Drops 2 Billion Fake Music Industry Views 167
The Power of a Hot Body 161
The Future of 802.11ac 125
Gnome Extension Offers a Shopping Lens We Can Live With 72
Why Linux On Microsoft Surface Is a Tough Challenge 561
New Releases From FreeBSD and NetBSD 149
Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default 101
FSF Does Want Secure Boot; They Just Want It Under User Control 210
Moscow Plane Crash Caught On Passerby's Dash Cam 253
Cree Introduces 200 Lumen/Watt Production Power LEDs 421
The L.A. Times Names Its Favorite Flops of the Year 145
New IE Vulnerability Used In Targeted Attacks; IE9, IE10 Users Safe 169
Bletchley Park Codebreaker Honored 57
FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet 93
Michigan Makes It Illegal To Ask For Employees' Facebook Logins 132
How ISPs Collude To Offer Poor Service 207
Instagram User Drop Claims Overblown 49
What Turned VR Pioneer Jaron Lanier Against the Web 212
Senate Renews Warrantless Eavesdropping Act 218
Pirate Radio Station In Florida Jams Automotive Electronics 315
China Tightens Internet Restrictions 83
Russia Says Next-Gen Spacecraft Design Ready 59
New Android Malware Uses Google Play Icon To Trick Users 223
'Connected' TVs Mostly Used Just Like the Unconnected Kind 217
Nvidia Display Driver Service Attack Escalates Privileges On Windows Machines 129
Want a Job At Google? Better Know Microsoft Office! 243
Israel To Get Massive Countrywide Optical Upgrade 157
New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups 183
SpaceX's Grasshopper VTVL Finally Jumps Its Own Height 111
Jury Hits Marvell With $1 Billion+ Fine Over CMU Patents 167
What Debris From North Korea's Rocket Launch Shows 223
Give Us Your Personal Data Or Pay Full Fare 342
Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? 346
Krugman: Is the Computer Revolution Coming To a Close? 540
Running a Linux Live KDE Desktop In 210MB 106
World's Longest High-Speed Rail Line Opens In China 322
Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 202
Lockheed, SpaceX Trade Barbs 215
Google Challenging Microsoft For Business Software 235
Has 3D Film-Making Had Its Day? 436
Iran Claims New Cyberattacks On Industrial Sites 75
Open Source Foundations Coming of Age — What Next? 65
Rivalry Building Between Amazon and Google 97
You're Being DDOSed — What Do You Do? Name and Shame? 336
Ask Slashdot: Android Apps For Kids Under 12 Months? 311
Class-Action Lawsuit Goes After Instagram Terms of Service Changes 59
The New Ethanol Blend May Damage Your Vehicle 375
Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Anti-Spam Service Extortion? 279
UK Court Invalidates Motorola Message Syncing Patents 31
How Do You Give a Ticket To a Driverless Car? 337
Ask Slashdot: How Do You "Unwrap" e-Gifts? 86
Microsoft Patents Virtual Handshakes, Hugs 87
Peel-and-Stick Solar Cells Created At Stanford University 46
Internet Archive Needs Donations, Has Matching Donor 58
Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded In Amsterdam 221
Google Chrome 25 Will Disable Silent Extension Installation 121
VLC For Windows 8 Reaches $65,000 Funding Goal On Kickstarter 210
Samsung Reaches Milestone For 14nm Technology 123
New Pirate Bay Proxies Spring Up 91
Typingpool: Human Audio Transcription Parallelism 41
Google Skunkworks Working on 'X Phone,' Reports WSJ 97
Minecraft Documentary Premiers On Pirate Bay As Well As Xbox Live 75
Game On War In Syria Explores Ongoing Conflict 62
Foxconn Invests $200 Million In GoPro 83
The Trials and Tribulations of a Would-Be Facebook Employee 241
Reexamination Request Filed Against Another Apple Patent 85
Mozilla Brings Back Firefox 64-Bit For Windows Nightly Builds 209
DARPA Wants Wireless Devices That Can Blast Through the Noise 79
Israeli Bill Would Allow Secret Blacklists For Websites 132
KDE's Plasma Active Ported To Nexus 7 55
Microsoft Kills Expression Suite — And Makes It Free, For Now 89
After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out 259
First Radeon HD 8000M GPU Benchmarked 68
USAF Taps ESPN To Compile Drone "Highlight" Video 114
How the Internet Became a Closed Shop 206
GNU Hands Out Trisquel At a Microsoft Store 274
Real World Code Sucks 292
All Systems Go For Highest Altitude Supercomputer 36
RIM Pays Off Nokia; Patent Dispute Settled 23
Who Should Manage the Nuclear Weapons Complex, Civilians Or Military? 183
Net Neutrality Bill Aimed At ISP Data Caps Introduced In US Senate 151
Facebook Test Will Let You Message Strangers For $1 325
Apple Kills a Kickstarter Project - Updated 471
DARPA's Headless Robotic Mule Takes Load Off Warfighters 210
iOS 6 Adoption Rates Soar Following Google Maps Release 143
Vivos Founder Builds an Underground City Where You Can Ride Out the Apocalypse 150
Why Google Hired Ray Kurzweil 117
30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 1110
Apple's Pinch+Zoom Patent Invalidated By Preliminary USPTO Ruling 149
GarageGames Starts IndieGoGo Campaign To Port Torque 3D To Linux 71
Taking Sense Away: Confessions of a Former TSA Screener 354
ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time 268
Ask Slashdot: Gifts For a 90-Year-Old, Tech-Savvy Dad? 211
VPN Providers Say China Blocks Encryption Using Machine Learning Algorithms 111
Using Technology To Make Guns Safer 1013
Drone Made of Lego Takes Flight 83
TI-84+C-Silver Edition: That C Stands For Color 198
3D Printer Round-Up: Cube 3D, Up! Mini, and Solidoodle 91
Boeing Uses 20,000 Lbs. of Potatoes To Check Aircraft Wireless Network Signals 104
KDE Software Compilation 4.10 RC1 Released 59
Most Kickstarter Projects Fail To Deliver On Time 179
Qt 5.0 Released 161
Chilling Guidelines Issued For UK Communications Act Enforcement 111
Huge Site Ranking Dataset Donated to the Common Crawl Foundation 23
Carmack: Next-Gen Console Games Will Still Aim For 30fps 230
ICANN Raffle Sets gTLD Processing Order 37
Google Brings the Dead Sea Scrolls To the Digital Age 202
Instagram: We Won't Sell Your Photos 234
ISP Data Caps Just a 'Cash Cow' 353
The World's Fastest-Growing Cause of Death Is Pollution From Car Exhaust 338
Hacker Behind Leaked Nude Celebrity Photos Gets 10 Years 346
Pentaho and Jaspersoft: Good Alternatives To Bigger-Name Software? 57
TSA (Finally) Studying Health Effects of Body Scanners 225
Zoe Lofgren Wants To Slow Down Domain Seizures By ICE & DOJ 46
Instagram Wants To Sell Users' Photos Without Notice 313
Australian ISP iiNet Walks Out of Piracy Warning System Talks 120
AMD Unveils Preliminary Radeon HD 8000M Series Mobile GPU Details 51
Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs 299
NASA On Full Court Press To Deflate Doomsday Prophecies 286
5 More Google Fiberhoods Coming To Kansas City 80
Call for Questions: Rasterman, Founder of the Enlightenment Project 124
IBM Predicts the Next 5 Years of Computing 93
DARPA Begins Work On 100Gbps Wireless Tech With 120-mile Range 83
Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 675
Cisco Rumored To Be Selling Linksys 180
Researchers Convert Phones Into Secret Listening Devices 59
Dell Gives Android the Boot, Boots Up More Windows 8 408
When Writing, How Anonymous Can You Be, Really? 184
AMD Radeon Performance Preview On Linux 3.8 112
WW2 Pigeon Code Decrypted By Canadian? 158
Google Map App's Version of Anonymity Might Violate EU Privacy Laws 89
Google+ Chief Grounded From Twitter By Larry Page 135
Is the Flickr API a National Treasure? 101
Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine 87
Solar Impulse Announces Flight Across America For 2013 57
Music Industry Suits Could Bankrupt Pirate Party Members 215
Cox Comm. Injects Code Into Web Traffic To Announce Email Outage 271
UK Internet Porn Blocking Rejected 101
Ray Kurzweil Joins Google As Director of Engineering 148
California Sues Delta Air Lines Over Mobile Privacy 100
Nvidia Wins $20M In DARPA Money To Work On Hyper-Efficient Chips 72
Google Nixes Some Calendar Features and Other Software Offerings 235
Ask Slashdot: Replacing a TI-84 With Software On a Linux Box? 254
Baltimore Issued Speed Camera Ticket To Motionless Car 286
The State of In-Flight Wi-Fi 80
An Interactive Graph of the Certificate Authority Ecosystem 39
The Web We Lost 255
US Refuses To Sign ITU Treaty Over Internet Provisions 154
Electrical Grid Hum Used To Time Locate Any Digital Recording 168
Seattle To Get Gigabit Fiber To the Home and Business 108
Islamic Hacker Group Resumes Attacks On Banks 306
Is Technology Eroding Employment? 544
Google Loses Santa To Bing 153
Interviews: Eugene Kaspersky Answers Your Questions 82
Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist 345
ITU To Choose Emergency Line For Mobiles: 911, or 112? 354
Revamped Google Maps Finally Available On iOS 279
Schmidt On Why Tax Avoidance is Good, Robot Workers, and Google Fiber 780
Google's Second Brain: How the Knowledge Graph Changes Search 76
Redbox Set To Compete With Netflix On Video Streaming 119
Atheist Blogger Sentenced To 3 Years in Prison For Insulting Islam 412
Frame Latency Spikes Plague Radeon Graphics Cards 158
Google's Image Search Now Requires Explicit Queries For Explicit Results 369
Vector Vengeance: British Claim They Can Kill the Pixel Within Five Years 221
IE Flaw Lets Sites Track Your Mouse Cursor, Even When You Aren't Browsing 149
New Contiki OS Network Regression Test Framework 13
Zero Day Hole In Samsung Smart TVs Could Have TV Watching You 249
How Websites Know Your Email Address the First Time You Visit 184
Microsoft To Apple: Don't Take Your Normal 30% Cut of Office For iOS 724
Text Message Spammer Wants FCC To Declare Spam Filters Illegal 338
North Korea Launches Long-Range Rocket 384
Inside the World's Biggest Consumer 3D Printing Factory 105
Netflix Ranks ISP Speeds 186
Nokia Engineer Shows How To Pirate Windows 8 Metro Apps, Bypass In-app Purchases 268
Gov't Report Predicts Cyborgs, Rise of China for 2030 219
Hurt Locker Studio Begins Requesting Canadian ISP's Subscriber Info 172
Air Force Sends Mystery Mini-Shuttle Back To Space 123
Samba 4.0 Released: the First Free Software Active Directory Compatible Server 343
Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers 102
Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ 136
UK Government To Revise Snooping Bill 79
VLC Running Kickstarter Campaign To Fund Native Windows 8 App 252
High-Frequency Traders Use 50-Year-Old Wireless Tech 395
Laser Prototype Improves Bomb Detection 59
Chinese Firm Wins Bid For US-Backed Battery Maker 183
Google App Verification Service Detects Only 15% of Infected Apps 99
Russia and China Withdraw Bid For Internet Control 115
F-16 Engines Stolen From Israeli Air Base 346
FreeBSD Project Falls Short of Year End Funding Target By Nearly 50% 245
Brain Pacemaker Helps Treat Alzheimer's Disease 62
NZBMatrix Closes Their Website 144
Russia, China, and Others Seek Greater Control Over Internet 174
Former Anonymous Spokesperson Indicted 114
Ask Slashdot: Current State of Linux Email Clients? 464
Nationwide Google Fiber Deployment Would Cost $140 Billion 327
How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation 391
Apple and Google Joining Forces On Kodak Patents Bid 97
Black Boxes In Cars Raise Privacy Concerns 297
Some UK Councils Barred From Using Gov't Vehicle Database 84
Ask Slashdot: Best Laptop With Decent Linux Graphics Support? 260
Steve Jobs Patent On iPhone Declared Invalid 247
Python Creator Guido van Rossum Leaves Google For Dropbox 261
UK Organization Set Up To Encourage IPv6 Adoption Closes 100
Parrot Drives Robotic Buggy 182
SpaceX Awarded First Military Contract 140
Hit Game Makes £52 In First Week On Windows RT 308
Google Axes Free Google Apps For Businesses 141
Google Launches Private Android App Stores 86
Advertising May Soon Follow You From One Device To the Next 132
US Security Classifications Needs Re-Thinking, Says Board 76
Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? 338
Facebook Says EU 'Right To Be Forgotten' Would Harm Privacy 277
Tour the Turn of the Century Electrotherapy Museum (Video) 29
Windows 8: a 'Christmas Gift For Someone You Hate' 740
Thorium Fuel Has Proliferation Risk 239
Android Options Mean "Best" Browsers Might Surprise You 251
Dotcom Drags NZ Spook Agency Into Court 165
Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion 231
Army Tests Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter 125
Belgian Researchers Build LCD Contact Lenses 98
Historians Propose National Park To Preserve Manhattan Project Sites 150
MPAA: the Impact of Megaupload's Shutdown Was 'Massive' 308
US House Votes 397-0 To Oppose UN Control of the Internet 297
If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? 660
Providers of Free MOOCs Now Charge Employers For Access To Student Data 40
Richard Stallman: 'Apple Has Tightest Digital Handcuffs In History' 515
Scientists Race To Establish the First Links of a 'Quantum Internet' 82
Google's Schmidt: Patent Wars Harm Startups 82
Original Batmobile To Be Auctioned For the First Time Ever 51
Verizon Patents Eavesdropping Using Your TV For Ad Targeting 181
Disney Switching To Netflix For Exclusive Film Distribution 124
NASA: New Mars Rover By 2020 79
In the World of Big Stuff, the US Still Rules 184
Fiber Optic Spanner (Wrench) Developed 65
ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection 152
Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films 196
Android Rules Smartphones, But Which Version? 298
The Rise of Feudal Computer Security 147
Cops To Congress: We Need Logs of Americans' Text Messages 342
Linus Torvalds Delays Linux 3.7, Releases 3.7-rc8 Kernel Instead 86
Toward An FSF-Endorsable Embedded Processor 258
Facebook Users Voting On Privacy, Instagram, Other Issues 80
But Can It Run Crysis 3? 182
Adobe EULA Demands 7000 Years a Day From Humankind 224
Iran Claims To Have Downed Another US Drone 219

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