The Internet Stories for 2015

Tech Companies Face Criminal Charges If They Notify Users of UK Government Spying 152
New York Begins Public Gigabit Wi-Fi Rollout 107
Discogs Turns Record Collectors' Obsessions Into Big Business 31
Can Web Standards Make Mobile Apps Obsolete? 225
Ashley Madison Says It Added 4 Million Members Since the Hack 125
Zuckerberg Defends 'Free Basics' App With Comparison To Hospitals, Education 152
North Korea's Operating System Analyzed 98
Twitter Says It's Beating the Trolls 214
Vice: Internet Freedom Is Actively Dissolving In America 150
Man Arrested For Hacking 130 Celebrities 82
Facebook's Free Basics App Has Been Temporarily Banned in India 75
The Trials and Tribulations of America's Chief Internet Defender 22
A Proposal For Dealing With Terrorist Videos On the Internet 177
HTTP Error Code 451 Approved For Censored Web Pages 141
Currency Exchange Website Accused of Cyber Terrorism By Venezuelan Government 104
Database Leak Exposes 3.3 Million Hello Kitty Fans 92
ICANN's Ex CEO Fronts Chinese Initiative On Running the Internet 55
Internet Archive Hosts 24-Hour Fund-Raising Telethon 32
Tacoma Goes All In To Support Municipal Fiber 90
Cox Is Liable For Pirating Subscribers, Ordered To Pay $25 Million 166
Comcast Typo Penalizes Wrong Customer For Data Usage 124
Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? 181
North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back 336
Facebook, Google and Twitter Agree To Delete Hate Speech In Germany 259
Microsoft Starts Its Own Charity Organization: Microsoft Philanthropies 95
Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea 563
Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband 352
Following Data Leak, HIV Dating App's Developers Threaten Infection 105
'Do Not Track' Bill Aims To Let Consumers Reject Online Tracking 75
NY Attorney General Wants Public To Report Broadband Speeds 99
Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors 247
Google Bans Symantec Root Certificates 84
SHA-1 Cutoff Could Block Millions of Users From Encrypted Websites 146
AT&T Building Massive Fiber Network That Barely Exists 91
Microsoft (Briefly) Reveals New Extensions For Edge, Including Reddit and Pinterest 44
Chubb To Offer UK 'Troll Insurance' Policy 76
France Will Not Ban Wi-Fi Or Tor, Prime Minister Says 89
Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo 210
Google Fiber Targets Chicago and Los Angeles 37
Eric Schmidt Proposes 'Hate Spell-Checker' For Radical and Terrorist Content 305
In Kazakhstan, the Internet Backdoors You 94
Spotting And Culling Terrorist Groups On Social Media: Pipe Dream, or Possibility? 69
Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" 735
Streaming Video Is 70 Percent of Broadband Use 89
US Cyber Criminal Underground a Shopping Free-For-All 81
Fan Lists Himself As a Band's Family Member On Wikipedia To Sneak Backstage 91
French Legislation Would Block Tor and Restrict Free Wi-Fi 115
No More Security Fixes For Older OpenSSL Branches 60
Court: 'Repugnant' Online Discussions Aren't Thoughtcrime 155
Microsoft, Law Enforcement Disrupt Dorkbot Botnet 31
Let's Encrypt Is Now In Public Beta 135
Scammy Tech Support Sites Now Serving Up Ransomware 43
Yahoo Discussing Sale of Internet Business 129
Greek Banks Under Cyberattack, Face Ransom Demands 42
US Marshals Jump Into 'Cyber Monday' Mania 63
AT&T Will Raise Cost of Old Unlimited Data Plans By $5 In February 56
New Campaign Features Internet Trolls On Roadside Billboards 197
Companies Want To Insert Ads Into Unicode 262
Creator of Relay On BITNET, Predecessor of IRC, Dies 34
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
UK Prisons To Crack Down On Inmate Internet and Mobile Phone Use 70
Google Scours 1.2 Million URLs To Conform With EU's "Right To Be Forgotten" Law 67
UK Mobile Operator Could Block Ads At Network Level 109
One Family Suffering Through Years-Long Trolling Campaign 256
Judge Wipes Out Safe Harbor Provision In DMCA, Makes Cox Accomplice of Piracy 223
Yahoo Denies Ad-blocking Users Access To Email 328
Axel Springer Goes After iOS 9 Ad Blockers In New Legal Battlle 223
Patreon Users Threatened By Ashley Madison Scammers 76
How Anonymous' War With Isis Is Actually Harming Counter-Terrorism 393
New Anti-Piracy Law In Australia Already Being Abused 73
UK's Gigaclear Launches 5 Gbps Fiber Broadband Service 91
US Rep. Joe Barton Has a Plan To Stop Terrorists: Shut Down Websites 275
Anonymous Takes Down Thousands of ISIS-Related Twitter Accounts In a Day 320
Fire Takes Azerbaijan Offline 57
Snowden Says It's Your Duty To Use an Ad Blocker (for Security) 342
UK PM Wants To Speed Up Controversial Internet Bill After Paris Attacks 167
Pandora To Buy Rdio Assets For $75M In Cash 20
After Paris, ISIS Moves Propaganda Machine To Darknet 184
Quebec Introduces Bill To Mandate ISP Website Blocking 137
Same Birthday, Same Social Security Number, Same Mess For Two Florida Women 214
Broadband Bills Will Have To Increase To Pay For Snooper's Charter, MPs Warned 77
New Algorithm Recognizes Both Good and Bad Fake Reviews 59
TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials 242
Webmail Services Struggling Against DDoS Attacks 90
Fantasy Sports Sites Ordered To Stop Taking Bets In New York State 125
The Dark Net Drug Market That Survived Ukraine's Civil War 15
The UK Will Police the Dark Web With a New Task Force 56
The Internet Falls For Rumblr, a Fake "Tinder For Fighting" App 135
US Spends $1bn Over a Decade Trying To Digitize Immigration Forms, Just 1 Is Online 305
No Such Thing As 'Unlimited' Data 622
WordPress Now Powers 25% of the Web 143
Rural Mississippi: The Land That the Internet Era Forgot 154
Fast Broadband To Be Classed a Fundamental Right in the UK 188
The European Commission Is Preparing a Frontal Attack On the Hyperlink 220
Pro-Privacy Webmail ProtonMail Pays Ransom, But Hit By DDoS Attack Anyway 101
Comcast Expanding Data Cap Locations, Training Reps To Avoid Subject 264
Controversial New UK Internet Powers Bill Makes No Mention of VPNs 115
Nine Out of Ten of the Internet's Top Websites Are Leaking Your Data 133
Anonymous Begins Publishing Ku Klux Klan Member Details Online 546
How a Group of Rural Washington Neighbors Created Their Own Internet Service 94
Cuba's Internet Routing Is Messed Up 64
SXSW Reinstates Panels On Harassment, Adds All-Day Harassment Summit 478
Mexican Senator Drafts One of the World's Worst Internet Laws 163
UK Plans To Allow Warrantless Searches of Internet History 136
Google Project Loon Balloons To Blanket Indonesia With Internet 40
Google Threatens Action Against Symantec After Botched Investigation 95
Google Fiber Goes Down During World Series, Credits KC 2 Days of Service 183
SXSW Cancels Panels On Harassment Due To Harassment 618
NY To Probe Broadband Providers Over Internet Speeds 56
Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US 273
Why IoT Security Is So Critical 148
Joomla SQL-Injection Flaw Affects Millions of Websites 120
Judge Tosses Wikimedia's Anti-NSA Lawsuit Because Wikipedia Isn't Big Enough 213
European ISPs Exaggerate Performance; US ISPs Slower But More Honest 113
Walmart Plays Catch-Up With Amazon 203
Researchers Warn Computer Clocks Can Be Easily Scrambled Via NTP Flaws 132
Feds Looking Into Reports CIA Director's Email Was Hacked 100
The Hostile Email Landscape 217
Americans Show 'Surprising Willingness' To Accept Internet Surveillance 223
In Battle With Ad Blockers, Ad Industry Fesses Up To Alienating Users 398
Ukrainian Hacker Who Targeted Brian Krebs Extradited To US 81
How Putin Tried To Control the Internet 245
New Flash Vulnerability Being Exploited In the Wild 101
Playboy Drops Nudity As Internet Fills Demand 200
Australian ISPs Not Ready For Mandatory Data Retention 85
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
Cryptome Accidentally Leaks Its Own Visitor IP Addresses 40
BBC Optimizing UHD Video Streaming Over IP 72
First Successful Collision Attack On the SHA-1 Hashing Algorithm 87
MIT Master's Program To Use MOOCs As 'Admissions Test' 112
IP Address May Associate Lyft CTO With Uber Data Breach 103
NSF Awards $74.5 Million To Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research 9
Google's Effort To Speed Up the Mobile Web 95
Wealth of Personal Data Found On Used Electronics Purchased Online 70
Yale Makes Available Online 170,000 Photographs From WWII Period 49
Verizon Is Merging Its Cellphone Tracking Supercookie with AOL's Ad Tracking Network 100
Scandal Erupts In Unregulated Online World of Fantasy Sports 174
NY Times Passes 1M Digital Subscribers 92
Ask Slashdot: Best Country For Secure Online Hosting? 113
Selected Provisions: TPP, CETA, and TiSA Trade Agreements 43
China Beats US In Early Cuban Internet Infrastructure Investment 109
How Someone Acquired the Google.com Domain Name For a Single Minute 70
We Asked Doc Searls: Do Ad Blockers Cause Cancer? (Video) 116
NVIDIA Launches GeForce NOW Game Streaming Service 55
Raytheon Wins US Civilian Cyber Contract Worth $1 Billion 62
Study: $1.8 Billion In Reshipping Fraud With Stolen Cards Each Year 139
Mark Zuckerberg Issues Call For Universal Internet Access 142
Government Finds New Emails Clinton Did Not Hand Over 348
Saudi Arabia Almost Bought Hacking Team 26
The US and China Agree Not To Conduct Economic Espionage In Cyberspace 108
America Runs Out of IPv4 Internet Addresses 435
US Rank Drops To 55th In 4G LTE Speeds 70
Russia's Plan To Crack Tor Crumbles 122
CIA Details Agency's New Digital and Cyber Espionage Focus 35
France Tells Google To Remove "Right To Be Forgotten" Search Results Worldwide 381
Moot Sells 4chan To 2channel Founder Hiroyuki Nishimura 88
Symantec Subsidiary Thawte Issues Rogue Google Certificates 103
UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL 138
The Economics of Drug Sales On the Dark Web 53
AT&T Offers $250k Reward To Find the California Fiber-Optic Ripper 145
A More Down-To-Earth Way To Bring the Internet To the Rest of the World 60
Broadband Users 'Need' At Least 10Mbps To Be Satisfied 280
How Fine-Grained Will New Credentialism Get: Credit For Watching a TED Talk? 102
Sen. Ron Wyden Says CISA Data Collection Could Put Americans At Risk 58
Google Partnering With Indian Railways To Provide Wi-Fi Hotspots 26
Hackers' Latest Targets: Google's Webmaster Tools 19
Vint Cerf Wants Help Figuring Out the Future of the Internet and Communications 73
First Library To Support Anonymous Internet Browsing Halts Project After DHS Email 130
.Onion Gets a Boost From IETF, IANA: Now It's a Special-Use Domain 37
Wikipedia's Viewing Statistics Could Provide Better Web-Trends Data Than Google 19
Hackers Abuse Satellite Internet Links To Remain Anonymous 26
Microsoft Announces VP9 Support For Edge 55
Google To Deliver Groceries 92
Four Year Sentence For Running Piracy Streaming Site 235
Neocities Becomes the First Major Site To Implement the Distributed Web 51
Node.js v4.0.0 Released 128
Law Professor: Tech Companies Are Our Best Hope At Resisting Surveillance 115
Why AltaVista Lost Ground To Google Sooner Than Expected 172
DDoS-Style YouTube Dislikes For Sale 66
Connecting the Unwired World With Balloons, Satellites, Lasers & Drones 15
Municipal ISP Makes 10Gbps Available To All Residents 164
Ashley Madison Source Code Shows Evidence They Created Bots To Message Men 311
Turkey Arrests Journalists For Using Encryption 145
Comcast To Charge $30 For Unlimited Data Over 300GB Cap 229
Ask Slashdot: Can Any Wireless Tech Challenge Fiber To the Home? 190
Metal Gear Solid V PC Disc Contains Steam Installer, Nothing Else 217
CenturyLink Takes $3B In Subsidies For Building Out Rural Broadband 199
Malaysia Blocking Websites Based On Political Content 121
Germany Wants Facebook To Obey Its Rules About Holocaust Denial 728
Ashley Madison CEO Steps Down, Reporter Finds Clues To Hacker's Identity 215
Chrome To Freeze Flash Ads On Sight From September 1 190
Why In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Still Slow and Expensive 194
AT&T Hotspots Now Injecting Ads 187
The Muddy Truth About Kickstarter 'Staff Picks' 50
Virgin Media To Base a Public Wi-Fi Net On Paying Customers' Routers 113
Comcast Planning Gigabit Cable For Entire US In 2-3 Years 253
Court: FTC Can Punish Companies With Sloppy Cybersecurity 86
A Farewell To Flash 202
More Ashley Madison Files Published 301
Startup Builds Prototype For Floating Data Center 96
Former Russian Troll Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda "Factory" 49
Two Arrests In Denmark For Spreading Information About Popcorn Time 244
Another Wave of Publications Shut Down Online Comments 226
New Tool Allows Scientists To Annotate Media Coverage of Climate Change 185
Hackers Publish Cheating Site's Stolen Data 319
BitTorrent Clients Can Be Made To Participate In High-Volume DoS Attacks 47
The Promise of 5G 158
Legal Scholars Warn Against 10 Year Prison For Online Pirates 168
Ask Slashdot: How To "Prove" a Work Is Public Domain? 213
Mozilla Tests Improved Privacy Mode For Firefox 125
AT&T Helped the NSA Spy On Internet Traffic 82
New Rules From the FCC Open Up New Access To Wi-Fi 64
Can Cuba Skip Cell Phone Connectivity? 138
Russian Government Threatening To Block Reddit Over Cannabis 141
Tech Firms, Retailers Propose Security and Privacy Rules For Internet of Things 57
Cisco Developing Royalty Free Video Codec: Thor 145
Internet's Deep Infrastructure Could Double As a Sensor Network For Earthquakes and More 37
Google, Facebook and Twitter To Block "Hash Lists" of Child Abuse 177
Study: Ad Blocker Use Jumps 41 Percent 528
Cuba Uses Big Data To Help Tourism, But Their Networks Lack Capacity 60
Hacker Shows How To Fabricate Death Records 46
Hackers Actively Targeting Gas Pumps 123
The Man Who's Kept His Face Off the Internet for 20 Years 134
BitTorrent To RIAA: You're 'Barking Up the Wrong Tree' 109
EFF Releases Privacy Badger, an Addon That Algorithmically Blocks Online Trackers 136
Parts of SOPA Hiding Inside a Boring Case About Invisible Braces 174
China To Plant Internet Police In Top Online Firms 42
How Boing Boing Handled an FBI Subpoena Over Its Tor Exit Node 104
Amazon Cuts Down On Prime Sharing 79
NTT, Japan's Largest Fixed Telecom Provider, Begins Phasing Out ADSL 135
India Blocks Over 800 Adult Websites 205
Counterterrorism Expert: It's Time To Give Companies Offensive Cybercapabilities 220
EFF Coalition Announces New 'Do Not Track' Standard For Web Browsing 75
The Web We Have To Save 114
Unicode Consortium Looks At Symbols For Allergies 194
Research Scientists To Use Network Much Faster Than Internet 50
Facebook's Slender 'Aquila' Drone To Provide Internet In Remote Areas 55
ARIN IPv4 Addresses Run Out Tomorrow 215
Tor Project Pilots Exit Nodes In Libraries 37
Critical BIND Denial-of-Service Flaw Could Take Down DNS Servers 68
Cameron Tells Pornography Websites To Block Access By Children Or Face Closure 381
Interviews: Kim Dotcom Answers Your Questions 90
Symantec: Hacking Group Black Vine Behind Anthem Breach 18
Sun Tzu 2.0: The Future of Cyberwarfare 77
MPEG LA Announces Call For DASH Patents 66
Honeywell Home Controllers Open To Any Hacker Who Can Find Them Online 85

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