Technology Stories for 2015

Microsoft Follows Mozilla In Considering Early Ban On SHA-1 Certificates 47
When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones 220
Ask Slashdot: Secure, Yet Accessible E-mail Archive Storage? 74
First Remote-Access Trojan That Can Target Android, Linux, Mac and Windows 63
Lytro Announces World's First Light Field VR Camera 30
BBC Lets Viewers Buy Shows and Episodes Permanently, But No 'Extras' 80
UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 289
Google-Supported CodeGirl Documentary Makes "Exclusive YouTube Premiere" 289
OpenSUSE Leap 42.1 Released 31
Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs 115
Emerging Technologies and the Future of Humanity 120
Latest EMET Bypass Targets WoW64 Windows Subsystem 125
Ask Slashdot: Smart Electronics For a Marathoner? 169
Experimental Air Force Rocket Launch Fails 60
Federal Prison System Wants Anti-Drone Technology 156
Nine Out of Ten of the Internet's Top Websites Are Leaking Your Data 133
That "Unbreakable" Glass That's "As Strong As Steel" Isn't Either 74
TSA Screeners Can't Detect Weapons (and They Never Could) 349
Reverse-Engineering GTA V 37
Volkswagen Emissions Issues Spread To Gasoline Cars 208
Google Hackers Expose 11 Major Security Flaws In Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge 61
Saying "Wasted" On Facebook Can Affect Your Credit Score 386
Analog Still Big In Japan 360
Fedora 23 Released 57
Google Tries To Guess Your Email Responses 131
Why Avast Won't Show Source Code To the Government, But Others Do 79
'Game of Drones' -- a Live War Game About Drone Combat Strategy 37
Andrew Tanenbaum Announces MINIXcon 104
Firefox 42 Arrives With Tracking Protection, Tab Audio Indicators 134
Vivaldi Hits Its First Beta 140
The Return of OS/2 Warp Set For 2016 262
FCC Fines Another Large Firm For Blocking WiFi 138
EPA Finds More VW Cheating Software, Including In a Porsche 142
App To Hold Police Instantly Accountable In Stop and Search 167
NASA Eagleworks Has Tested an Upgraded EM Drive 203
MIT Drone Autonomously Avoids Obstacles At 30 MPH 27
Why Gravity Is the Ultimate Space Telescope 42
Google Patches More Stagefright Vulnerabilities In Android 56
Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online 546
AMD To Retire Catalyst Control Center Drivers, Rolling Out New Crimson Platform 113
Could Go Community's Threat of Public Shaming, Lifetime Bans Make Go a No-Go? 358
US Law Can't Keep Up With Technology -- and Why That's a Good Thing 187
How GoDaddy's Quest For Respect Led To an Improbable Partnership With MIT 38
Linux 4.3 Released As Stable; Improves On Open-Source Graphics, SMP Performance 73
How a Group of Rural Washington Neighbors Created Their Own Internet Service 94
Vodafone Attack Hits Nearly 2000 Customer Accounts 9
EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance 53
GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released 129
Hacking Jules Coaxes Android Wear To Run Nintendo 64 and PSP Emulators 37
Amazon Follows Through: Drops Apple TV, Chromecast 233
US Tech Giants Increasingly Partner With Military-Connected Chinese Companies 100
Atom 1.1 Is Out, With Lots of Graphic Improvements 103
Cuba's Internet Routing Is Messed Up 64
US Army Tests Swarms of Drones In Major Exercise 47
Twitch Viewers Will Try To Collaboratively Install Arch Linux 103
SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit 478
Mexican Senator Drafts One of the World's Worst Internet Laws 163
Ask Slashdot: Innovative Operating Systems/Distros In 2015? 206
Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block 291
UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History 136
Report: Google To Fold Chrome OS Into Android 104
Meet the Drone Registration Task Force 92
Google Wants To Monitor Your Mental Health 105
Apple Usurps Oracle As the Biggest Threat To PC Security 320
Google Project Loon Balloons To Blanket Indonesia With Internet 40
Ask Slashdot: An 'Ex Libris' For My Books In a Digital Age? 149
Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden 210
Open-Source GPU Drivers Show Less Than Ideal Experience For SteamOS/Linux Gaming 109
Google Threatens Action Against Symantec After Botched Investigation 95
Google Fiber Goes Down During World Series, Credits KC 2 Days of Service 183
Revisiting Why Johnny Can't Code: Have We "Made the Print Too Small"? 270
How Tesla's Autopilot and Google's Car Are Entirely Different Animals 142
National Coalition Calls for Campus Censorship of "Offensive" Speech 585
Could the Volkswagen Cheating Scandal Improve Emissions Standards? 144
Universities, Gov't Testing Magnetic Resonance Charging For EVs In Transit 77
Military Blimp Breaks Free and Drifts Over the Mid-Atlantic Trailing Tether 196
Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go 185
Debt Collectors Sneaking Robocall Exemptions Into Budget Bill 216
Are Car Dealers a Business Worth Keeping? 439
The Chicago Suburb That's Trying To Kill the Car 259
Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber 237
Univ. of New Haven Cyber Lab: WhatsApp Collects Phone Numbers, Call Duration, and More 67
Open Source Code Isn't a Warranty 214
Two Radically Different Approaches to Private Access to Space 44
US Military Websites Still Relying On SHA-1 52
SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment 618
Walmart Applies To Test Drone Use For Delivery and Inventory Checking 49
ARM64 Vs ARM32 -- What's Different For Linux Programmers? 102
Ask Slashdot: Open Tools For Logbooks and Note-taking? 227
How Nukes Were Almost Launched From Okinawa During Cuban Missile Crisis 289
Is Buying Cuban Software Legal In the US? The Answer is Hazy 75
NY To Probe Broadband Providers Over Internet Speeds 56
Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US 273
Why IoT Security Is So Critical 148
Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution 86
Does Government Science Funding Drive Innovation? 248
California's $68 Billion Bullet Train Project Faces Major Hurdles 342
Functioning Hoverboard Unveiled 55
Russian Cyberspies Targeted MH17 Crash Investigation 88
Joomla SQL-Injection Flaw Affects Millions of Websites 120
Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit Over iOS Wi-Fi Assist 212
Engineers Create the Blackest Material Yet 176
The Army Bug Bounty Program: a Critical Need In Defense 90
Judge Tosses Wikimedia's Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia Isn't Big Enough 213
Do Not Call 911! The Life and Death of an Amazon Warehouse Temp 284
Mozilla Giving $1 Million To Open Source Projects It Relies On 68
A Tower of Molten Salt Will Deliver Solar Power After Sunset 139
European ISPs Exaggerate Performance; US ISPs Slower But More Honest 113
Full Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Intellectual Property Chapter Analyzed 109
Andy Kaufman and Redd Foxx To Tour As Holograms 53
TalkTalk Customer Data At Risk After Cyber-attack On Company Website 46
Google 'Rethinking Everything' Around Machine Learning 65
22-Way SteamOS Graphics Card Comparison: NVIDIA Wins Across the Board 98
Google, Facebook, Microsoft Deliver K-12 CS Demands To Congress 120
Technology's Role In a Climate Solution 173
Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon 203
Ubuntu 15.10 'Wily Werewolf' Released 191
Europe's 'Net Neutrality' Could Allow Throttling of Torrents and VPNs 161
Government Team Experiments With Paying For Small Open Source Tasks 90
The Bizarre Reactor Scientists Hope Will Save Fusion Research 223
Google Snapping Up Top Biomedical Talent 76
Dutch Researchers Show Connected Cars Can Be Cheaply Tracked 25
FCC Passes Landmark Reform of 'Egregious' Prison Phone Charges 173
Looking At the Hardware and Software of JAXA's Hayabusa-2 16
Makers Compete To Produce US Army's Next Official Handgun 469
Researchers Warn Computer Clocks Can Be Easily Scrambled Via NTP Flaws 132
Not Just Paris: Community Activists Target Data Centers 151
3D-Printed Teeth Can Kill 99% of Dental Bacteria 120
DARPA Program Targets Image Doctoring 41
Google Wants Online Ad Improvement Within Months, Not Years 227
Mythbusters Ending After Next Season 187
"YouTube Red" Offers Premium YouTube For $9.99 a Month, $12.99 For iOS Users 236
Stanford's Autonomous DeLorean Can't Time Travel, But It Can Do Donuts 28
Facebook Launches Initiative To Attract More Minorities and Women To Coding 281
Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory For Some Android 6.0 Devices 150
Noise Protests Close Paris Data Center 157
How Scientists Are Circumventing Journal Paywalls 204
Apple Tells US Judge It's 'Impossible' To Break Through Locks On New iPhones 225
Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone 242
Intel Develops Linux 'Software GPU' That's ~29-51x Faster 111
US Will Clean Area In Spain Where Hydrogen Bombs Fell 216
Consumer Reports Withdraws Its Tesla Model S Recommendation 222
Microsoft Publishes OpenSSH For Windows Code 164
The Polymath: Lowell Wood Is America's New Top Inventor 76
The Google Employee Who Opted For a Truck Over Bay Area Rents 492
Irish Data Protection Commissioner Ordered To Investigate Facebook Data 18
Guy Creates Handheld Railgun With a 3D-Printer 276
Replacing Humans With CGI Animations To Protect Anonymity In Video Footage 44
GA Tech Students Use Cell Phone Pings To Find Missing Person 127
Rod Logic Computers and Why We Don't Already Have Them 31
Feds Looking Into Reports CIA Director's Email Was Hacked 100
The Problem With Mandatory Drone Registration 223
Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P Reviews Arrive 190
Facebook Notifies Users of Potential Nation-State Attacks 58
The Hostile Email Landscape 217
Americans Show 'Surprising Willingness' To Accept Internet Surveillance 223
The Diversity Issue Silicon Valley Isn't Trying To Fix: Age Discrimination 362
Sprint Will Start Throttling Customers Who Exceed 23GB Monthly 153
Celebrating 20 Years of OpenBSD With Release 5.8 158
The Box That Built the Modern World 216
Moscow State University Releases 10th HEVC Video Codec Comparison 51
Google Drops Desktop Voice Search In Chrome 51
Getting Over Getting Over Uber: Tim O'Reilly Does the Math 385
Naval Academy Reinstates Teaching of Celestial Navigation 350
Hurricane-Resistant SURE HOUSE Wins the 2015 Solar Decathalon 51
Browser Tests Show Edge Fastest, But Weak On Standards 165
Point-And-Shoot Weapon Stops Drones Without Destroying Them 116
Yahoo Mail Moves From Passwords To Push Notification Sign-Ins 78
Data Centers Coming To a City Near You 39
House of Representatives Proposal Aims To Regulate Car Privacy 58
UK High Court: Uber Is Lawful 106
Google Books Wins Again 120
How a Frozen Neutrino Observatory Grapples With Staggering Amounts of Data 49
In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users 398
US Identifies ISIL Hacker Linked To Military Breaches 83
IBM Permits China To Review Source Code 64
Experts Have No Confidence That We Can Protect Cars and Streets From Hackers 97
The Most Disruptive Technology of the Last 100 Years Isn't What You Think 330
Documents Expose the Inner Workings of Obama's Drone Wars 169
Machine Learning Generates Clickbait Headlines That Will Shock You! 100
Ask Slashdot: Local Navigation Assistance For the Elderly? 161
How Some Creative Hacking Kept Skylab From Becoming Space Junk 69
Windows 10 Upgrades Are Being Forced On Some Users 374
Software Update Adds Autonomous Driving To Tesla's Bag of Tricks 242
Asteroid Impact Mission Sets Sights On New Laser Communications Record 10
Why Paywalls Need To Be So Fragile 98
Why Cybersecurity Experts Want Open Source Routers 177
UCF Researchers Perform World's First Automated Mass-Crowd Count 32
Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu To Display Ads 578
KDE Turns 19 115
Teaching Kids Engineering By Building Cartoon Tech 33
Ukrainian Hacker Who Targeted Brian Krebs Extradited To US 81
Valve's "Room Scale VR Survey" Finds a Lot of People Play In Their Bedrooms 137
German Police Warn Parents To Stop Posting Photos of Kids On Facebook 143
Orange County Developer To Install Tesla Batteries In Two Dozen Buildings 89
Terahertz Radiation To Enable Portable Particle Accelerators 52
Freeman Dyson Talks Interstellar Travel, Climate Change, and More 330
How Putin Tried To Control the Internet 245
Google Is Removing the Desktop Notification Center From Chrome 116
Forrest Mimms Has Done Much More Than Most Engineers Know 105
Live-Streaming Florida Woman Charged With Drunken Driving 327
Volkswagen Seeks To Repair Its Image By Focusing On Electric 230
Fedora 23 Final May Release As Planned On October 27 65
802.11ac WiFi Router Round-Up Tests Broadcom XStream Platform Performance 77
DRM In JPEGs? 301
New Flash Vulnerability Being Exploited In the Wild 101
Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees 328
Objective-C Use Falls Hard, Apple's Swift On the Rise 161
Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open 470
Ask Slashdot: Is There Space For Open Hardware In Networking? 121
Wayland Ported To DragonFlyBSD 152
Happy Ada Lovelace Day 187
Antineutrino Detection Is About To Change the Game In Nuclear Verification 139
Why Self-Driving Cars Should Never Be Fully Autonomous 397
Playboy Drops Nudity As Internet Fills Demand 200
Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle 136
DARPA's ICARUS Program To Develop Self-Destructing Air Delivery Vehicles 70
"E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails 127
Australians Set To Pay 50% More For Apps After Apple Price Spike 117
Australian ISPs Not Ready For Mandatory Data Retention 85
Ion-Based Data Allows Atom-Sized Storage Cells Similar To Brain Structure 19
Google Releases Improved Cardboard SDK and Adds Street View 20
Star Trek: New Voyages, The Fan-Based Star Trek Series 93
Fenno-German 'Sea Lion' Telecom Cable Laying Begins 39
Why Many CSS Colors Have Goofy Names 77
Electoral System That Lessig Hopes To Reform Is Keeping Him Out of the Debate 239
Ask Slashdot: What Non-lethal Technology Has the Best Chance of Replacing the Gun? 712
Facebook UK Paid £35m In Staff Bonuses, But Only £4,327 In Corporation Tax 262
The Payments World Really Wants To Know Who You Are 73
Charge Rage: Electric Cars Are Making People Meaner In California 554
Will You Ever Be Able To Upload Your Brain? 269
Hundreds of Southwest Flights Delayed By Online Booking Problems 36
Cryptome Accidentally Leaks Its Own Visitor IP Addresses 40
Kaspersky Fixes Bug That Allowed Attackers To Block Windows Update & Others 34
Another Drone Crashes Near White House 58
The Top Secret Chinese Military Project That Led To a Nobel Prize 73
Apple Reportedly Disables Its News App In China 64
Replacement of Writers Leads Gartner's Predictions 113
There Is No .bro In Brotli: Google/Mozilla Engineers Nix File Type As Offensive 781
Pushing the Limits of Network Traffic With Open Source 55
Source Code On Trial In DNA Matching Case 117
Linux Foundation: Security Problems Threaten 'Golden Age' of Open Source 77
Firefox Support For NPAPI Plugins Ends Next Year 147
BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP 72
Over 10,000 Problems Fixed In Detroit Thanks To Cellphone App 159
Microsoft's Mission To Reignite the PC Sector 267
NetBSD 7.0 Released 58
Debian Dropping Linux Standard Base 220
First Successful Collision Attack On the SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm 87
Apple Approves, Then Removes In-App Ad Blocker 85

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