Technology Stories for 2017

WhatsApp Rings in the New Year with a Global Outage 40
EFF Applauds 'Massive Change' to HTTPS 214
Hardly Anyone Wants to Ride the Las Vegas Monorail 294
Can Docker Survive Google? 98
How A Civilian Drone Crashed Into the US Army's Helicopter 141
Neuro, Cyber, Slaughter: Emerging Technological Threats In 2017 38
Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down 404
Kodi Media Player Arrives On the Xbox One 57
Germany Orders Amazon To Stop Taking Advantage of People Who Can't Spell 'Birkenstock' 162
Facebook's Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts To Stay Up 171
300,000 Users Exposed In Ancestry.com Data Leak 43
How Hotmail Changed Microsoft (and Email) Forever 84
How Climate Change Deniers Rise To the Top in Google Searches 359
Slashdot Asks: How Should Apple Have Responded To the Battery Controversy? 177
AT&T Sheds Thousands of Employees After Touting GOP Tax Plan, Giving Out Bonuses 105
Trump's Website Is Coded With a Broken Server Error Message That Blames Obama 168
Microsoft's Fall Creators Update Already on More Than Half of All Windows 10 PCs 140
That Game on Your Phone May Be Tracking What You're Watching on TV 98
Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version 80
A Manager of the Exmo Bitcoin Exchange Has Been Kidnapped In Ukraine 82
Russia Lost a $45 Million Satellite Because 'They Didn't Get the Coordinates Right' 101
There's No Evidence Comcast's New 'Network Investment' Is Because of Net Neutrality Repeal or Tax Cuts 177
Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time 111
Italian Clothing Company Defeats Apple, Wins the Right To Use Steve Jobs' Name 172
Apple Apologizes For iPhone Slowdown Drama, Will Offer $29 Battery Replacements 254
Google Stops Selling the Pixel C Android Tablet 48
HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does 133
SoftBank Acquires Big Stake In Uber In a Major Victory For Both Companies 17
Chrome OS Will Finally Run Android Apps in the Background 42
Amazon's YouTube App on Fire TV Stops Working Ahead of Schedule 85
Postcard From Pyongyang: The Airport Now Has Wi-Fi, Sort of 141
Google Works With Hotels To Hurt Travel Competition 129
Mark Zuckerberg's Real Campaign: Save Facebook 158
Web Trackers Exploit Flaw In Browser Login Managers To Steal Usernames 76
A Reporter Built a Bot To Find Nazi Sock Puppet Accounts. Twitter Banned the Bot and Kept the Nazis 648
FBI Software For Analyzing Fingerprints Contains Russian-Made Code, Whistleblowers Say 174
Empirical Research Reveals Three Big Problems With How Patents Are Vetted 94
Apple To Release Lisa OS For Free As Open Source In 2018 95
Some Sonos and Bose Speakers Are Being Hijacked To Play Ghostly Sounds 41
Russia Is Accusing the US of 'Direct Interference' In Its Elections 195
Human Go Champion Backtracks On Vow To Never Face An AI Opponent Again 31
56,000 Layoffs and Counting: India's IT Bloodbath This Year May Just Be the Start 211
That '70s Show: the Conference That Predicted the Future of Work 40
Piracy Notices Can Mess With Your Thermostat, ISP Warns 242
Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' 92
Obama Warns Against Irresponsible Social Media Use 360
Mozilla Patches Critical Bug in Thunderbird 76
Google's Voice-Generating AI Is Now Indistinguishable From Humans 101
FCC Approves First Wireless 'Power-At-A-Distance' Charging System 138
WeChat To Become China's Official Electronic ID System 54
Consumers In Germany Were Paid To Use Electricity This Holiday Season 262
Elon Musk Confirms Tesla Pickup Truck Coming 'After Model Y' 200
Beware: 'Digmine' Cryptocurrency Bot Is Spreading Via Facebook Messenger 96
Analysts Cut iPhone X Shipment Forecasts, Citing Lukewarm Demand 168
Uber Is Selling Its Money-Losing Car Lease Business 22
Is Google Home Fit For Elderly and Disabled Users? 93
The Library of Congress Will Stop Archiving Every Public Tweet On January 1st 79
Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions 171
Cities With Uber Have Lower Rates Of Ambulance Usage 165
China Closes More Than 13,000 Websites in Past Three Years 73
Established Players in Tech Industry Are Displaced By New Technologies and Companies Often When They Are Operating At Their Peak 57
Russia's Putin Calls For Web Activities of Some Firms To Be Monitored 57
Opera 50 Web Browser Will Offer Anti-Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Mining Feature 76
Should Regulators Force Facebook To Ship a 'Start Over' Button For Users? 109
Tesla's Newest Holiday Update Includes an Easter Egg: 'Santa Mode' 90
Resuming Its Annual PR Mission, NORAD Tracks Santa Claus 82
More Unix Tools Coming To Windows 10 123
Wired Publishes Fake Christmas Letter By Elon Musk 32
Some Telcos and ISPs are Frustrating IPv6 Adoption 135
Project Maven Brings AI To the Fight Against ISIS 35
FSF Adds PureOS To List of Endorsed GNU/Linux Distributions 46
Republican's 'Net Neutrality' Proposal Called 'Bait and Switch' 121
Could 2018 Be The Year of the Linux Desktop? 383
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Avoid 'Information Overload' 133
Russian Submarines are 'Prowling Around' Undersea Internet Cables 175
Can We Get Global Broadband From Low-Earth Orbit Satellites? 134
Firefox 57's Speed Secret? Delaying Requests from Tracking Domains 119
Rust Blog Touts 'What We Achieved' in 2017 153
Can the FCC's 'Net Neutrality' Decision Be Overturned in Congress? 186
The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study 311
SpaceX Rocket Stuns Californians As It Carries 10 Satellites Into Space 105
China Is Building a Solar Power Highway 131
Lithuania Calls On EU To Stop Adjusting Clocks For Daylight Savings 170
Samsung Could Make $22 Billion Off Next Year's iPhones 43
How To Check If You Interacted With Russian Propaganda On Facebook During the 2016 Election 226
Amazon Acquires Connected Camera and Doorbell Startup 'Blink' 18
Airlines With the Best In-Flight Wi-Fi 52
Nvidia To Cease Producing New Drivers For 32-Bit Systems 92
Comcast May Have Enrolled Thousands in a Near-Worthless Protection Program Without Their Consent 52
Man in China Sentenced To Five Years' Jail For Running VPN 42
Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit After Admitting To Slowing Down Old iPhones 244
Firefox Is Now Available On Amazon's Fire TV, Bringing YouTube Access With It 49
Elon Musk Shows Off Near-Complete Falcon Heavy Rocket 150
California Poised To Hit 50 Percent Renewable Target a Full Decade Ahead of Schedule 247
Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes 88
Amazon Files For 'AmazonTube' and 'OpenTube' Trademarks As Fight With YouTube Gets Pettier 81
Eric Schmidt Is Stepping Down As Executive Chairman of Alphabet 47
Kids In 'Netflix Only' Homes Are Being Saved From 230 Hours of Commercials a Year, Says Report 118
Slashdot Asks: Should Tech Companies End the One-Year Software Update Cycle? 187
How Facebook's Political Unit Enables the Dark Art of Digital Propaganda 65
Wearables Still Slow To Catch On in the United States 127
Security Firm Keeper Sues News Reporter Over Vulnerability Story 73
Windows 10 Facial Recognition Feature Can Be Bypassed with a Photo 95
Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook To Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads 340
Walmart Is Planning a Store Without Cashiers 190
Youbit Shuts Down Cryptocurrency Exchange After Second Hack, Files For Bankruptcy 68
The People Who Read Your Airline Tweets 54
Magic Leap Finally Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles 79
Firefox Prepares To Mark All HTTP Sites 'Not Secure' After HTTPS Adoption Rises 244
Ask Slashdot: Do You Print Too Little? 216
PSA: Spotify Now Available As a Snap For Linux 66
Apple Confirms iPhone With Older Batteries Will Take Hits On Performance 172
Ubuntu 17.10 Temporarily Pulled Due To A BIOS Corrupting Problem 167
The UK Decides 10 Mbps Broadband Should Be a Legal Right 260
Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps To Create One User Experience 247
Google Maps's Moat: How Far Ahead of Apple Maps is Google Maps? 174
EU's Top Court Rules That Uber Is a Transportation Company 139
Republican Lawmaker Introduces Net Neutrality Legislation 350
Russia-Linked Twitter Accounts 'Tried To Divide UK' After Terrorist Attacks 133
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? 304
Cloud-Based Repository Leak Exposes 123 Million American Households 62
The White House Is Temporarily Shutting Down Its Petition Website 153
Your Phone May Send You 'Blue Alerts' To Warn You When Local Police Are In Danger 318
Microsoft Removes Google's Chrome Installer From the Windows Store 124
'Loapi' Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Is Causing Phone Batteries To Bulge 55
Chinese Backdoor Still Active on Many Android Devices 30
Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing 242
Geekbench Results Visualize Possible Link Between iPhone Slowdowns and Degraded Batteries 135
Facebook Will Use Facial Recognition To Tell You When People Upload Your Picture 80
Belgium Ends 19th-Century Telegram Service 52
Internal FCC Report Shows Republican Net Neutrality Narrative Is False 363
Venezuela Will Force Bitcoin Miners To Register With the Government 152
WhatsApp Ordered To Stop Sharing User Data With Facebook 119
Plexamp, Plex's Spin on the Classic Winamp Player, Is the First Project From New Incubator Plex Labs 209
Facebook To Demote Posts That Ask For 'Likes' Or Shares 85
CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC 177
Two Major ISPs Are Suffering Outages, Making the Internet Really Slow Right Now 131
Tesla Is Prohibiting Commercial Drivers From Using Its Supercharger Stations 282
'There Will Be a [Senate] Vote' To Reinstate Net Neutrality, Schumer Says 278
'The Year That Software Bugs Ate the World' 95
Kaspersky Lab Sues Trump Administration Over Software Ban 185
Google's Record Fine of $2.8 Billion Was a 'Deterrent,' EU Says 71
Opera Software Changes Name To Otello Corporation 55
Ajit Pai Taunts Net Neutrality Critics. Mark Hamill Taunts Ajit Pai 346
Power Outage Strands Thousands at US Airport. 600 Flights Cancelled 189
Google Reveals the Most-Trending Searches of 2017 49
Stolen Car Recovered With 11,000 More Miles -- and Lyft Stickers 119
Former Exec Who Said Facebook Was 'Destroying Society' Still Loves Facebook 46
Microsoft Releases a Preview of OpenSSH Client and Server For Windows 10 144
Windows 10 Bundled a Password Manager with a Security Flaw 48
Do More People Use Firefox Than Edge and IE Combined? 152
'State of JavaScript' Survey Results: Good News for React and TypeScript 89
The US Military Admits It Spent $22 Million Investigating UFOs 166
Google News Will Purge Sites Masking Their Country of Origin 151
Why Linux HDCP Isn't the End of the World 136
China Will Spend $3.3 Billion to Research Molten Salt Nuclear-Powered Drones 194
'The Gawker Foundation' is Crowdfunding a Bid To Re-Launch Gawker.com 91
Don't Keep Cellphones Next To Your Body, California Health Department Warns 344
Chrome 64 Beta Adds Sitewide Audio Muting, Pop-Up Blocker, Windows 10 HDR Video 43
Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed 307
Google Is Shutting Down Project Tango 37
Facebook Admits that Some Social Media Use Can Be Harmful 63
ISPs Won't Promise To Treat All Traffic Equally After Net Neutrality 232
NVIDIA Titan V Benchmarks Show Volta GPU Compute, Mining and Gaming Strength 51
Norway Becomes First Country To Switch Off FM Radio 183
Canadian Cellphone Bills Are Some of the Highest In the World, Says Report 184
Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor 325
Google Is Using Light Beam Tech To Connect Rural India To the Internet 67
Motherboard and VICE Are Building a Community Internet Network 142
What Disney's Acquisition of Fox Means For the Future of Film and TV 139
A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built To Outperform Bitcoin 186
DOJ Confirms Uber Is Being Investigated For Criminal Behavior 34
Facebook Will Introduce Ads As Videos Start Playing 72
Lawmakers Are Fighting For Net Neutrality 215
PSA: AIM Will Be Discontinued Tomorrow 105
EFF: Accessing Publicly Available Information On the Internet Is Not a Crime 175
NASA, Google Spot Eighth Planet in Solar System Rivaling Ours 69
Amazon Will Resume Selling Apple TV, Google's Chromecast 55
The Trump Administration Just Voted To Repeal the US Government's Net Neutrality Rules 591
Internet Traffic To Major Tech Firms Mysteriously Rerouted To Russia 106
Google and Facebook 'Must Pay For News' From Which They Make Billions 168
FCC's Own Chief Technology Officer Warned About Net Neutrality Repeal 152
Star Wars: The Last Jedi Has Critics In Raptures 269
Solar Power and Batteries Are Encroaching On Natural Gas In Energy Production 182
Author of BrickerBot Malware Retires, Says He Bricked 10 Million IoT Devices 149
Trump Administration Calls For Government IT To Adopt Cloud Services 208
Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code 113
T-Mobile Is Becoming a Cable Company 92
Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco 422
AT&T Begins Testing High-Speed Internet Over Power Lines 119
Patreon Scraps New Service Fee, Apologizes To Users 66
Google To Open AI Center In China Despite Search Ban 38
Maker of Sneaky Mac Adware Sends Security Researcher Cease-and-Desist Letters 87
Someone Used Wet String To Get a Broadband Connection 78
Russia-Linked Accounts Were Active on Facebook Ahead of Brexit 254
Andy Rubin's Essential Phone Considered Anything But 150
Net Neutrality Protests Move Online, Yet Big Tech Is Quiet 71
No Matter What Happens With Net Neutrality, an Open Internet Isn't Going Anywhere, Says Former FCC Chairman 177
What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? 130
AMD Is Open-Sourcing Their Official Vulkan Linux Driver 75
The Silicon Valley Paradox: One In Four People Are At Risk of Hunger 372
Trump Signs Law Forcing Drone Users To Register With Government 468
Instagram Will Now Let You Follow Hashtags In Your Main Feed 23
Twitter Officially Launches 'Threads,' a New Feature For Easily Posting Tweetstorms 47
Former Uber Employees Have Gone Into Debt To Hang Onto Shares They Can't Sell 72
Searchable Database of 1.4 Billion Stolen Credentials Found On Dark Web 72
Ajit Pai Offers No Data For Latest Claim That Net Neutrality Hurt Small ISPs 211
Tech Support Scammers Invade Spotify Forums To Rank in Search Engines 33
We've Toned Down the 'Destroying Society' Shtick, Facebook Insists 102
Inside Faraday Future's Financial House of Cards 44
Why Google and Amazon Are Hypocrites 245
Apple's Alleged Throttling of Older iPhones With Degraded Batteries Causes Controversy 183
129 Million Americans Can Only Get Internet Service From Companies That Have Violated Net Neutrality 143
France To Ban Mobile Phones In Schools 191
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? 384
Bitcoin Fees Are Skyrocketing 272
Ask Slashdot: Biggest IT Management Mistakes? 341
Microsoft Releases Free Preview of Its Quantum Development Kit 31
FCC Explains How Net Neutrality Will Be Protected Without Net Neutrality Rules 246
AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed 291
Apple Buys Shazam To Boost Apple Music 36
The First Women in Tech Didn't Leave -- Men Pushed Them Out 427
LinkedIn Bro Poetry Pretty Much Sums Up 2017 51
Net Neutrality: 'Father Of Internet' Joins Tech Leaders in Condemning Repeal Plan 170
Google Releases Tool To Help iPhone Hackers 52
Former Facebook Exec Says Social Media is Ripping Apart Society 405
Fired Tech Workers Turn To Chatbots for Counseling 96
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way to Retrain Old IT Workers? 343
Google's Machine Learning Is Analyzing Data From NASA's Kepler Space Telescope 27
Top iOS Apps of 2017: Bitmoji Beats Snapchat, YouTube, and Facebook Messenger 27
FCC Refuses Records For Investigation Into Fake Net Neutrality Comments 164
Microsoft's 'Malware Protection Engine' Had A Remote Code Execution Flaw 54
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Good Smartwatches Or Fitness Trackers? 254
China Has Launched the World's First All-Electric Cargo Ship 150
Google Glitch Took Thousands of Chromebooks Offline 77
Updated Debian Linux 9.3 and 8.10 Released 49
"The FCC Still Doesn't Know How the Internet Works" 289
Patreon Hits Donors With New Fees, Angering Creators 143
Sexual Harassment In Tech Is As Old As the Computer Age 439
Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory 54
Toyota's New Power Plant Will Create Clean Energy From Manure 75
People Who Can't Remember Their Bitcoin Passwords Are Really Freaking Out Now 202
Insurers Are Rewarding Tesla Owners For Using Autopilot 140
Zero-Day iOS HomeKit Vulnerability Allowed Remote Access To Smart Accessories Including Locks 39
'Process Doppelganging' Attack Bypasses Most Security Products, Works On All Windows Versions 126
Google Puts Android Accessibility Crackdown On Hold 28
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Building Dedicated Chips For Autopilot 32
Apple Is Reportedly Buying Shazam For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars 60
Chrome 63 Offers Even More Protection From Malicious Sites, Using Even More Memory 63
Twitter Says It Accidentally Banned A Bunch Of Accounts 25

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