Technology Stories for 2015

No More Security Fixes For Older OpenSSL Branches 60
DragonFlyBSD 4.4 Switches To the Gold Linker By Default 26
Mozilla Ends the Advertisements In Firefox's New Tab Tiles 197
Court: 'Repugnant' Online Discussions Aren't Thoughtcrime 155
Choose a Better Train With Web Scraping 50
Providing Addresses for 4 Billion People Using Three Words 393
Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet 31
Millions of Smart TVs, Phones and Routers At Risk From Old Vulnerability 65
Racing a Real Car While Wearing an Oculus VR Headset 74
Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable 117
How Mark Zuckerberg's Altruism Helps Himself 240
Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Approach Big Companies With Your Product? 174
Google Calls Out EFF Over Claims That It Snoops On Students With Chromebooks 100
Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta 135
Wih Messenger Revamp, Yahoo Joins the 'Unsend' Trend 49
Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB 244
15,000 Hoverboards Seized As Unsafe In United Kingdom 178
Cellphones Really Are Not As Good As They Were 10 Years Ago At Making Calls 215
Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years 385
Giant Telescope Project Stalled By Hawaiian Natives 177
Is AI Development Moving In the Wrong Direction? 189
Airbus Patent Shows Modular, Removable Aircraft Cabins 96
Scammy Tech Support Sites Now Serving Up Ransomware 43
Chrome 47 Released 61
Wikipedia Creates AI System To Filter Out Bad Edits 83
The Race To Create a Hyperloop Heats Up 172
Google Accused of Tracking School Kids After Promising Not To 131
Yahoo Discussing Sale of Internet Business 129
IRS: We Used Stingray Devices To Track 37 Phones 63
Zuckerberg To Give Away 99% of His Facebook Stock 260
Greek Banks Under Cyberattack, Face Ransom Demands 42
Air Asia Pilot Response Leads To Plane Crashing 226
Xbox Kinect Technology Helps Create Higher-Quality X-Rays 14
Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client 418
Google To Drop Chrome Support For 32-bit Linux 175
Enlightenment E20 Released With Full Wayland Support 56
After Twenty Years of Flash, Adobe Kills the Name 125
Russian Moon Landing May Take As Many As Six Launches 242
US Marshals Jump Into 'Cyber Monday' Mania 63
AT&T Will Raise Cost of Old Unlimited Data Plans By $5 In February 56
Researchers Create Sodium Battery In Industry Standard "18650" Format 209
Swallow the Doctor: The Present and Future of Robots Inside Us 31
New Campaign Features Internet Trolls On Roadside Billboards 197
Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode 262
How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have 258
BlackBerry Exits Pakistan Amid User Privacy Concerns 71
Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator 171
VW Officials Knew Since Last Year of Misleading Fuel Economy Claims 177
Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos 529
Contractors or Not, Seattle Uber Drivers Might Get Collective Bargaining 127
Amazon Reveals New Delivery Drone Design With Range of 15 Miles 277
Facebook Expands Parental Leave Policy For All Employees Globally 130
New Type of 'Flow Battery' Can Store 10 Times the Energy of the Next Best Device 75
Driverless Cars Will Compete -- But Only With Each Other -- In Formula E Races 44
Creator of Relay On BITNET, Predecessor of IRC, Dies 34
What USB Has Replaced (And What it Hasn't) 299
Air Force Hires Civilian Drone Pilots For Combat Patrols 74
Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age 366
Parts of Falcon 9 Launcher Wash Ashore In England 20
Finnish IT Retailer Reveals Most Returned Products 108
Celebrating ARM's 25th Anniversary With the Visual ARM1 37
Ask Slashdot: Is There a Bookmark Manager That Actually Manages Bookmarks? 100
LinkedIn's Own CSS Abused For Clickjacking Attacks 12
The First Online Purchase Was a Sting CD (Or Possibly Weed) 53
LSD Microdosing Gaining Popularity For Silicon Valley Professionals 446
UK Prisons To Crack Down On Inmate Internet and Mobile Phone Use 70
London's Deputy Mayor On Ditching Diesel 188
Apple Looks To Introduce OLED Displays In iPhone Models From 2018 225
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Will Ship With Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS 101
Software Freedom Conservancy Asks For Supporters 44
Tesla's NOx Problem: Model X Delay Explained? 42
Pressure From Uber Forces London Taxis To Finally Accept Cards 114
AMD's Crimson Radeon Driver For Linux Barely Changes Anything 95
Google Scours 1.2 Million URLs To Conform With EU's "Right To Be Forgotten" Law 67
How Sports Commentaries Can Speed Up AI Development 40
Why Car Salesmen Don't Want To Sell Electric Cars 482
Scientists Produce Graphene 100 Times Cheaper Than Ever Before 77
New Wearable Tech Translates Sign Language Into Text 32
The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube 109
KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 210
AMD's 'Crimson' Driver Software Released 50
Windows 10 Fall Update Uninstalls Desktop Software Without Informing Users 360
UK Mobile Operator Could Block Ads At Network Level 109
One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign 256
How Black Friday and Cyber Monday Are Losing Their Meaning 140
Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy 223
Blue Origin "New Shepherd" Makes It To Space... and Back Again 121
Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border 600
Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email 328
BBC World Service To Provide Radio For North Korea and Eritrea 64
Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers In New Legal Battlle 223
Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism 75
Patreon Users Threatened By Ashley Madison Scammers 76
Fake Bomb Detector, Blamed For Hundreds of Deaths, Is Still In Use 152
FAA To Drone Owners: Get Ready To Register To Fly 195
NASA Contracting Development of New Ion/Nuclear Engines 70
Google Previews Android Studio 2.0 40
Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? 508
New IBM Tech Lets Apps Authenticate You Without Personal Data 27
Nearly 35,000 Comment On New Federal STEM OPT Extension Rule 55
Microsoft Pulls Windows 10 November Update (1511) ISOs 195
How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism 393
Telemedicine: The State of Telepresence In Healthcare 34
20 Years of GIMP 352
Zuckerberg To Take 2 Months Paternity Leave To Give His Kid a Better Outcome 164
Mozilla Is Removing Tab Groups and Complete Themes From Firefox 316
Blackberry Offers 'Lawful Device Interception Capabilities' 137
Satellite Wars 98
How Apple Is Giving Design a Bad Name 462
Happy 30th Birthday, Windows! 249
Tesla To Voluntarily Recall Every Model S Because One Seat Belt Came Apart 207
Judge: Stingrays Are 'Simply Too Powerful' Without Adequate Oversight 111
Jolla Goes For Debt Restructuring 46
You Can Look Forward To 8 More Years of Leap Second Problems 143
TGV Accident Caused By Excessive Speed 96
Controversy Over High-Tech Brooms Sweeps Through Sport of Curling 181
French ITER Fusion Project To Take At Least 6 Years Longer Than Planned 193
ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon 330
EFF launches Site To Track Censored Content On Social Media 39
YouTube Defending Select Videos Against DMCA Abuse 56
Docker Turns To Minecraft For Server Ops 93
ISIS Help Desk Assists In Covering Tracks 145
Chicago Sends More Than 100,000 "Bogus" Camera-Based Speeding Tickets 200
Volvo Unveils Autonomous Concept Car, WIth Retracting Wheel, 25" Display 154
New Anti-Piracy Law In Australia Already Being Abused 73
AMD Launches Radeon R9 380X, Fastest GPU Under $250 110
Manhattan DA Pressures Google and Apple To Kill Zero Knowledge Encryption 291
The War On Campus Sexual Assault Goes Digital 399
UK's Gigaclear Launches 5 Gbps Fiber Broadband Service 91
Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid For Tor-Breaking Research 79
Taxi Owners Sue NYC Over Uber, While Court Overrules Class-Action Appeal 210
Structural Engineer On the Fallacies of Movie Bridge Destruction 211
How Bill Nye Insulted NASCAR Fans About the Sport Being the "Anti-NASA" 387
Facebook Can Block Content Without Explanation, Says US Court 147
Another Crowd-funded Drone Project Collapses 211
The Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2015 Is an Emoji 151
US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites 275
ULA Concedes GPS Launch Competition To SpaceX 55
Drone Makers Add Geofencing To Keep Drones Out of Restricted Airspace 91
The Next Gold Rush Will Be 5,000 Feet Under the Sea, With Robot Drones 129
Google+ Redesigned 91
Microsoft Invests $1 Billion In 'Holistic' Security Strategy 80
Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? 291
Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day 320
Google's Chromebit Micro-Computer Launches 60
Microsoft's Plan To Port Android Apps To Windows Proves Too Complex 131
Fire Takes Azerbaijan Offline 57
NYT Quietly Pulls Article Blaming Encryption In Paris Attacks 259
Snowden Says It's Your Duty To Use an Ad Blocker (for Security) 342
US Navy Is Planning To Launch a Squadron of Underwater Drones By 2020 38
UK PM Wants To Speed Up Controversial Internet Bill After Paris Attacks 167
Intel Launches 72-Core Knight's Landing Xeon Phi Supercomputer Chip 179
How Hollywood's Hedy Helped Heighten Handhelds 67
Pandora To Buy Rdio Assets For $75M In Cash 20
Grow Your Daily Protein At Home With an Edible Insect Desktop Hive 381
World's First "Porous Liquid" Could Be Used For CO2 Sequestration 91
The Next Big IT Projects From the University Labs 29
After Paris, ISIS Moves Propaganda Machine To Darknet 184
NVIDIA Jetson TX1 Performance Shines For GPU Computing 22
Dungeons & Dragons Tabletop Comes To VR Through Partnership With AltspaceVR 40
737 'Tailstrike' Caused By Typo On a Tablet 366
Leaked Documents Confirm Polygraph Operators Can't Detect Countermeasures 125
'Shrinking Bull's-eye' Algorithm Speeds Up Complex Modeling From Days To Hours 48
Social Media and the Age of Microcomplaints 119
Democrat Drops MN State House Run After Tweeting 'ISIS Isn't Necessarily Evil' 519
Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars 378
Chinese Researchers Reveal Active Stealthy Material 138
Linux 4.4 Kernel To Bring Raspberry Pi Graphics Driver, Open-Channel SSD Support 67
Averaging Inanimate Objects Together Produces a Very Human Face 103
Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks 488
FCC Clarifies: It's Legal To Hack Your Router 85
GPS Always Overestimates Distances 131
'Twas the Week Before the Week of Black Friday 146
Huawei Battery Upgrade Means Dramatically Faster Charging For Mobile Devices 75
Belgian Home Affairs Minister: Terrorists Communicate Via PlayStation 4 202
An Algorithm To Facilitate Uber-Style Dynamic Phone Tariffs 75
Experiment On Public Pre-reviewing and Discussion of Workshop Paper Submissions 41
In France, TGV Test Train Catches Fire, Derails, Killing 10 129
Dubai Buys Commercial Jetpacks For Firefighters 91
Brazilian Army Gets Hacked After Allegations of Cheating In Security Cyber-Games 34
Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 728
Mozilla Has 'No Plans' To Offer Firefox Without Pocket 199
Microsoft Rolls Out Major Fall Update To Windows 10 181
Laser Strikes On Aircraft Increasing In Frequency 161
Ask Slashdot: What Terminal Emulator Do You Use? 352
SteamOS Gaming Performance Lags Well Behind Windows 184
Self-Encrypting Drives Hardly Any Better Than Software-Based Encryption 73
Quebec Introduces Bill To Mandate ISP Website Blocking 137
Windows 3.1 Glitch Causes Problems At French Airport -- Wait, 3.1? 406
Quantum Dots Made From Fool's Gold Boost Battery Performance 18
Bank of England's Andy Haldane Warns Smart Machines Could Take 15M UK Jobs 291
Boot Camps Introducing More Women To Tech 196
Google Car Pulled Over For Driving Too Slow, Doesn't Get a Ticket 350
Same Birthday, Same Social Security Number, Same Mess For Two Florida Women 214
Hacked Amazon Echo Controls a Wheelchair 23
Mozilla Plans To Remove Support For Firefox Complete Themes 267
Ask Slashdot: Automated Verification For Uploaded Files? 74
Google's New About Me Tool Is the Anti-Google+ 54
Paper Retracted After Anti-Immigrant Scientist Bans Use of His Software 418
Getting Started With GNU Radio 42
Bluetooth 2016 Roadmap Brings Fourfold Range Increase and Mesh Networking 29
Mozilla Launches Firefox For IOS 96
Prison Hack Shows Attorney-Client Privilege Violation 190
Tor Project Claims FBI Paid University Researchers $1m To Unmask Tor Users 108
Broadband Bills Will Have To Increase To Pay For Snooper's Charter, MPs Warned 77
Uber South Africa Launches $500 a Month Car Lease Which Includes Replacing Tires 83
New Algorithm Recognizes Both Good and Bad Fake Reviews 59
Google Will Retire Chrome Support For XP, Vista, OS X 10.6-8 In April 2016 140
TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials 242
App Companies Propose New Model For Worker Benefits 113
Webmail Services Struggling Against DDoS Attacks 90
DARPA Is About To Start Testing an Autonomous, Submarine-Hunting Drone 84
Fantasy Sports Sites Ordered To Stop Taking Bets In New York State 125
With TensorFlow, Google Open Sources Its Machine Learning Resources 37
Stanford Creates Tricorder-Like Devices For Detecting Cancer and Explosives 34
Open Source Anniversaries: 6 Years of Go, 11 of Firefox 65
The Dark Net Drug Market That Survived Ukraine's Civil War 15
Sony To End Sales of Betamax Tapes Next Year 103
ProtonMail Restores Services After Epic DDoS Attacks 57
The Dawn of the Robotic Chef 50
8 of the 10 Top Security Flaws Used By Cyber-Criminals This Year Were Flash Bugs 66
The UK Will Police the Dark Web With a New Task Force 56
TAG Heuer Launches "Connected" Android Wear Smartwatch With Intel Inside 55
The Internet Falls For Rumblr, a Fake "Tinder For Fighting" App 135
China, Russia Try To Hack Australia's Upcoming Submarine Plans 83
What Happened To Passenger Hovercraft? 69
US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online 305
No Such Thing As 'Unlimited' Data 622
Google's Robotics Group Lacks Leadership 43
WordPress Now Powers 25% of the Web 143
Electric-Car Startup Faraday Future Building a $1 Billion Factory In California 162
British Spaceplane Skylon Could Revolutionize Space Travel 226
Rural Mississippi: The Land That the Internet Era Forgot 154
The FCC Says It Can't Force Google and Facebook To Stop Tracking Their Users 127
VW Engineers Have Admitted Manipulating CO2 Emissions Data 201
Another $1 Million Crowdfunded Gadget Company Collapses 109
Vulnerability In Java Commons Library Leads To Hundreds of Insecure Applications 115
Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK 188
Israel 'To Review' Top Appointment After Facebook Controversy 351
Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix 213
$1 Bid Wins Government Open Source Software Purchasing Experiment 124
Before Barbie's Brainy Makeover, Mattel Execs Met With White House, Google 125
The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink 220
Autonomous Cars Aren't As Smart as They're Cracked Up To Be 258
TalkTalk Hack: 4% of Customers' Data Accessed In Cyber Security Breach 25
Pro-Privacy Webmail ProtonMail Pays Ransom, But Hit By DDoS Attack Anyway 101
Report: Google Wants To Design Its Own Smartphone Chips 90
Finland Releases National Emoji Collection 93
Comcast Expanding Data Cap Locations, Training Reps To Avoid Subject 264
Y Combinator, the X Factor of Tech 54

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