The Internet Stories for 2013

The Rise of Hoax News 181
How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes 60
Internet Commenting Growing Away From Anonymity 384
US Internet Service In 2014: Net Neutrality Challenges and High-Speed Build-Outs 73
Could an Erasable Internet Kill Google? 210
U.S. Mobile Internet Traffic Nearly Doubled This Year 71
Ask Slashdot: How Long Will the Internet Remember Us? 126
Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? 382
Justine Sacco, Internet Justice, and the Dangers of a Righteous Mob 399
UK Govt's Censorware Blocks Tech, Civil Liberties Websites 148
Data Broker Medbase200 Sold Lists of Rape & Domestic Violence Victims 168
Web Surfing Improves Motor Skills 33
UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn 227
Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use 547
Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov 214
Surviving the Internet On Low Speed DSL 277
Streaming and Cord-Cutting Take a Toll On the Pay-TV Industry 261
Some Londoners Cut Off As Failed Copper Thieves Take Fiber 184
North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet 276
NASA's Next Mars Mission Will Join the Interplanetary Internet 53
Australia's National Broadband Network Downgraded 122
Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic 124
Cybercrime Marketplace Mastermind Faces 18 Years In Prison 59
ITU Standardizes 1Gbps Over Copper, But Services Won't Come Until 2015 153
Thousands of Germans Threatened With €250 Fines For Streaming Porn 192
New Baltic Data Cable Plan Unfolding 65
AllSeen Alliance Wants To Open-Source the 'Internet of Things' 86
British Police Censor the Global Internet 228
StackOverflow and Github Visualized As Cities 45
FCC Chair: It's Ok For ISPs To Discriminate Traffic 365
Telefonica To Shut Down VoIP Provider Jajah On January 31, 2014 39
Woman Fined For Bad Review Striking Back In Court 249
Group Thinks Anonymity Should Be Baked Into the Internet Itself Using Tor 123
UK Gov't Plans To Censor "Extremist" Websites Via Orders To ISPs 208
Online Shopping: Hazardous To Junk Food's Health 151
Ask Slashdot: What Review Sites Do You Consult For IT Equipment? 129
Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font 312
Have 100GB Free? Host Your Own Copy of Wikipedia, With Images 151
The New York Times Has Lessons For Others Making the Slow Transition To Digital 67
Route-Injection Attacks Detouring Internet Traffic 85
Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK 195
Study Finds Digital Activism Is Effective, Mostly Non-Violent 69
Tor Now Comes In a Box 150
BP Hired Company To Troll Users Who Left Critical Comments 263
Vint Cerf Thinks Privacy May Be an Anomaly 145
Contiki 2.7 Released 21
Chinese Gov't To Tighten Internet Controls Even Further 162
Time For a Warrant Canary Metatag? 332
Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch' 228
Nearly 1 In 4 Adults Surf the Web While Driving 365
HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only 320
Legislation Would Prohibit ISPs From Throttling Online Video Services 222
The Operations of a Cyber Arms Dealer 18
Porn-Surfing Execs Infecting Corporate Networks With Malware 151
Netflix, Youtube Surpass 50% Mark of Internet Traffic 249
Head of Silk Road 2.0 Says It Will Be Back In Minutes If Shut Down 222
British Operator EE Offers £8 Million Petabyte 4G Data Bundle 53
OSHA Wants To Post All Workplace Injury Reports Online 100
Taking Google's QUIC For a Test Drive 141
Internet Archive's San Francisco Home Badly Damaged By Fire 104
Blockbuster To Close Remaining US Locations 419
The Silk Road Is Back 261
As IPO Nears, Do Twitter's Active User Claims Add Up? 73
Researchers Use Computer-Generated 10-Year-Old Girl To Catch Online Predators 545
Ask Slashdot: Good Satellite Internet For Remote Locations? 175
Swiss Government Backs Privacy Oriented ISP 109
Comcast Donates Heavily To Defeat Mayor Who Is Bringing Gigabit Fiber To Seattle 356
Twitter Marks Clean Sites As Harmful, Breaks Links 103
NSA Broke Into Links Between Google, Yahoo Datacenters 394
RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown 140
Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? 569
File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot 225
FBI Seized 144,000 Bitcoins ($28.5 Million) From Silk Road Bust 162
The Internet Archive Switches To HTTPS Connections By Default 40
Jeffrey Zients Appointed To Fix Healthcare.gov 250
Network Scientists Discover the 'Dark Corners' of the Internet 99
F-Secure's Hypponen: The Internet Is a 'US Colony' 263
First New Top-Level Domains Added To the Root Zone 106
Top US Lobbyist Wants Broadband Data Caps 568
PubMed Commons Opens Up Scientific Articles To User Comments 27
Google Wants To Help You Tiptoe Around the NSA & the Great Firewall of China 140
CryptoSeal Shuts Down Consumer VPN Service To Avoid Fighting NSA 361
Open Rights Group International Says Virgin, Sky Blocking Innocent Sites 83
Your Next Network Operating System Is Linux 192
How PR Subverts Wikipedia 219
Are Cable Subscribers Subsidizing Internet-Only TV Viewers? 223
Most Parents Allow Unsupervised Internet Access To Children At Age 8 198
Facebook Comment Prompts Arrests In Cyberbullying Suicide Case 734
Facebook May Dislike the Social Fixer Extension, but Many Users Love It (Video) 176
Brazil Announces Secure Email To Counter US Spying 165
A Teletherapy Startup Removes Barriers To Mental Health Care 102
Mountain View To Partially Replace Google Wi-Fi 69
8 Users of Silk Road Arrested, 'Many More To Come' 318
Car Dealers vs the Web: GM Shifts Toward Online Purchasing 160
No FiOS In Boston? We'll Make an Ad Anyway 202
Government To Build 4G Into UK Rural Broadband Plans 40
What Developers Can Learn From Healthcare.gov 267
Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Approve Work On DRM For HTML 5.1 307
GTA Online Runs Into an Online Roadblock 102
Do Comments On Web Pages Ruin Science? 281
CERN Launches Line Mode Browser Emulator 92
Interview: Ask President Anant Agarwal About edX and the Future of Education 73
MuseScore Aims Make 50,000 New Braille Scores Available To Blind Musicians 49
Hackers, Gamers and Tech Workers: The UK Needs You For a New Cyber Army 104
Everything You Needed To Know About the Internet In May, 1994 168
New Zealand Converting Old Phone Booths Into National WiFi Network 72
UK MPs: Google Blocks Child Abuse Images, It Should Block Piracy Too 348
Can There Be a Non-US Internet? 406
'Eraser' Law Will Let California Kids Scrub Online Past 266
Popular Science Is Getting Rid of Comments 473
Car Dealers Complain To DMV About Tesla's Website 364
The Internet Society is Unhappy with U.S. Govt's Internet Spying Tactics 107
Horse_ebooks Is Human After All 72
France Proposes Consideration of Tax On Data Taken Out of EU 103
Link Rot and the US Supreme Court 161
Trans-Pacific Cable Plans Mired In US-China Geopolitical Rivalry 162
Google May Replace Cookies With Unique AdIDs 147
Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving On Bitcoins 403
A Little-Heralded New iOS 7 Feature: Multipath TCP 172
Massive Open Online School "FutureLearn" Opens 37
Brazil Announces Plans To Move Away From US-Centric Internet 285
Arrested Chinese Blogger "Confesses" On State TV, Praises Censorship 349
Firefox 24 Arrives: WebRTC Support and NFC Sharing On Android 152
Can Internet Pseudonymity Be Saved? 491
How a Grandmother Pioneered a Home Shopping Revolution 94
Getting Afghanistan Online 182
Raspberry Pi As an Ad Blocking Access Point 82
Google Releases Raspberry Pi Web Dev Teaching Tool 68
Verizon's Plan To Turn the Web Into Pay-Per-View 332
IETF Floats Draft PRISM-Proof Security Considerations 75
China Allows Most Online Criticism But Cracks Down On Mobilization and Gossip 94
UK Mobile ISP Blocks VPN, Citing Access To Porn 195
Time For X-No-Wiretap HTTP Header? 202
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Fight Usage Caps? 353
Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser 223
Schneier: The US Government Has Betrayed the Internet, We Need To Take It Back 397
On Eve Of Election, Australia's Conservatives Announce Mandated Filtering Policy 87
Jonathon Fletcher: The Forgotten Father of the Search Engine 95
MyOpenID To Shut Down In February 78
First US Inpatient Treatment Program For Internet Addiction Opening In September 89
Dotless Domain Names Prohibited, ICANN Tells Google 132
BT Prepares To Pull Plug On Dial-Up 120
Only One US City Makes "Top Ten Internet Cities Worldwide" List 240
The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever 506
Cookieless Web Tracking Using HTTP's ETag 212
Ask Slashdot: How To Diagnose Traffic Throttling and Work Around It? 251
Internet.org's Slave and Helicopter-Powered Internet 64
Internet.org: Altruistic, Or the Ultimate In Cynicism? 174
Researchers Release Tool That Can Scan the Entire Internet In Under an Hour 97
Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40% 352
Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide 403
Web Apps: the Future of the Internet, Or Forever a Second-Class Citizen? 205
Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV 304
"451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites 255
Apache Web Server Share Falls Below 50 Percent For First Time Since 2009 303
Schneier: The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet 413
DEF CON Hackers Unveil a New Way of Visualizing Web Vulnerabilities 57
The Pirate Bay Launches Browser To Evade ISP Blockades 118
The Pirate Bay Is 10 Years Old: 'We Really Didn't Think We'd Make It This Far' 177
Why You Shouldn't Trust Internet Comments 180
Is 'Fair Use' Unfair To Humans? 259
Comcast Working On 'Helpful' Copyright Violation Pop-ups 284
Navy Version of Expedia Could Save DoD Millions 55
YouTube Co-founder Calls For Global Access To TV Online 140
FBI Pressures Internet Providers To Install Surveillance Software 225
1,700 Websites In Russia Go Dark In SOPA-Style Protest 34
Battle of the Media Ecosystems: Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft 79
Google Replaces AT&T At Starbucks 100
Liberal Saudi Web Forum Founder Sentenced To 600 Lashes and 7 Years In Prison 506
SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers 510
Why the Internet Needs Cognitive Protocols 156
Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet 239
The Shortest Internet Censorship Debate Ever 169
UK ISP Filter Will Censor More Than Porn 329
MIT's "Hot Or Not" Site For Neighborhoods Could Help Shape Cities 103
CNET: Feds Put Heat On Web Firms For Master Encryption Keys 148
We're Number 9! US Broadband Speeds Rise, But Slower Than Many Other Countries' 355
Google Now Serves 25% of North American Internet Traffic 84
British Prime Minister Promises Default On Porn Blocking 311
Ask Slashdot: How To Deliver a Print Magazine Online, While Avoiding Piracy? 298
MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast 250
San Jose State Suspends Collaboration With Udacity 116
Small Town Builds Its Own Gigabyte Network; Cost To Citizens $57/month 269
Yahoo Censors Tumblr Porn 216
When Metadata Analytics Goes Awry 88
ICANN Approves First Set of New gTLDs 106
Strict New Anti-Spam Regulations In Canada 101
BitTorrent Sync Beta Released 69
Network Solutions Hit With DDoS 91
Office 365, Amazon, Others Vulnerable To Exploit Microsoft Knew About In 2012 125
W3C Rejects Ad Industry's Do-Not-Track Proposal 162
HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player 364
Citing Snowden Leaks, Russia Again Demands UN Takeover of Internet 275
Generic TLDs Threaten Name Collisions and Information Leakage 115
Open Source Tortilla For Tor To Be Released At Black Hat 68
Reconciling Human Rights With Ubiquitous Online Surveillance 133
Aussie Telco Telstra Agreed To Spy For America 125
Global Study Stresses Importance of Public Internet Access 24
How DRM Won 221
MAKE's MOOC (Massively Online Open Camp) Is Underway 14
France Revokes Ability To Disconnect Convicted File-Sharers From the Internet 97
Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones 238
HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol 566
Mount Everest Gets 4G Connectivity 125
Student Project Could Kill Digital Ad Targeting 177
Japan and EU Commit 18m Euro To Develop 100Gbps Internet Access 69
MasterCard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers 353
Doug Engelbart Passes Away 124
Wikimedia Rolls Out Its WYSIWYG Visual Editor For Logged-in Wikipedia Users 71
What Does Six Months of Meta-Data Look Like? 60
Alcatel-Lucent Gives DSL Networks a Gigabit Boost 120
Beware the Internet 314
ICANN Set To Broaden World of Domain Names 41
AT&T Gets Patent To Monitor and Track File-Sharing Traffic 75
Yahoo Puts AltaVista To Death 176
QUIC: Google's New Secure UDP-Based Protocol 97
Google's Blogger To Delete All 'Adult' Blogs That Have Ads 192
'Corkscrew' Light Could Turbocharge Internet 82
U.S. Army Block Access To The Guardian's Website Over NSA Leaks 331
New Zealand ISP Offers "Global Mode" So Users Can Circumvent Geo-Restrictions 126
Google Adds Data About Malware To Transparency Report 20
RMS, Aaron Swartz Among 2013 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees 118
Internet Villain of the Year Stephen Conroy Resigns 67
IE 11 Getting WebGL, SPDY/3, New Dev Tools 119
ICANN Working Group Seeks To Kill WHOIS 155
Satellites Providing Internet To the 'Under-Connected' 50
Google Fiber Adds 14th City: Lee's Summit 81
Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? 391
How I Got Fired From the Job I Invented 252
Firefox Advances Do-Not-Track Technology 148
Ask Slashdot: What Should a Non-Profit Look For In a Web Host? 100
Use Tor, Get Targeted By the NSA 451
Cornell Researchers Unveil a Virtual Notary 72
US and Russia Set Up Cyber Cold War Hotline 72
Verizon Accused of Intentionally Slowing Netflix Video Streaming 202
ITIF Senior Fellow Claims "America's Broadband Networks Lead the World" 298
Comcast To Expand Public WiFi Using Home Internet Connections 203
Saudi Arabia Set To Ban WhatsApp, Skype 122
Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities 122
Mozilla Launches Initiative To Adapt Scientific Practice To the Open Web 28
NSA Surveillance May Have Dealt Major Blow To Global Internet Freedom Efforts 327
To Hack Back Or Not To Hack Back? 183
Irish SOPA Used To Block Pirate Bay Access 94
UK ISPs Secretly Start Blocking Torrent Site Proxies 82
One Year After World IPv6 Launch — Are We There Yet? 246
Amazon Delivering Groceries? It's Coming, Thanks To Sales-Tax Politics 214
China Criticizes US For Making Weapon Plans Steal-able, Alleges Attacks From US 209
American Targeted By Digital Spy Tool Sold To Foreign Governments 85
EU Wants To Enshrine Network Neutrality In Law 76
UK Police Launch Campaign To Shut Down Torrent Sites 244

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