Media Stories for 2016

Seattle Man Accused of Using Social Media To Set Up Fake Porn Agency 215
Czech Republic Sets Up Counter-Terrorism Unit To Counter Fake News Threat 119
North Korea's Android Tablet Takes a Screenshot Every Time You Open an App 85
China's Alibaba Poised To Invest $7.2 Billion in Entertainment and Media 14
VidAngel Keeps Streaming Videos, Defying Movie Studios and a US Judge 163
BitTorrent Live's 'Cable Killer' P2P Video App Finally Hits iOS 37
YouTube Views Are Down Across the Board, Analysis Says 122
After Insisting For Years That Facebook Is Not a Media Company, Zuckerberg Says Just Not a 'Traditional' One 52
Facebook Messenger Launches 6-Screen Group Video Chat 16
Germany Threatens To Fine Facebook Over Hate Speech 321
Rogue Lawyers Made $6 Million Shaking Down Porn Pirates, Feds Say 128
AT&T's DirecTV Now Plagued With Outages and Sports Blackouts 42
Apple Is In Talks With Hollywood For Early Access To Movies On iTunes: Bloomberg 51
Netflix Keeping Bandwidth Usage Low By Encoding Its Video With VP9 and H.264/AVC Codecs 76
Chrome 55 Now Blocks Flash, Uses HTML5 By Default 98
French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites 414
Plex Media Player Now Doesn't Require a Subscription; Pass Users Get Kodi Plug-in 84
Social Media Is Killing Discourse Because It's Too Much Like TV 220
Netflix Finally Gets Download Option 105
Malicious Video Link Can Cause Any iOS Device To Freeze 53
Amazon Wants To Include Live Sports as Part of Prime Membership 77
'ClickClickClick' Site Reveals How Much Browsers Know About Your Online Behavior 74
Instagram Launches Disappearing Live Video and Messages 18
4K Netflix Arrives On Windows 10, But Only Via Microsoft's Edge Browser 126
China Says Terrorism, Fake News Impel Greater Global Internet Curbs 143
Is Google's AI-Driven Image-Resizing Algorithm Dishonest? 79
AOL To Cut 500 Workers To Narrow Focus On Mobile, Video 60
German Minister: Facebook Should Be Treated Like a Media Company Rather Than a Technology Platform 117
DJI Unveils Phantom 4 Pro and Inspire 2 Drones 20
Facebook Disputes Gizmodo Report, Says It Never Built and Withheld Any News Feed Changes Based on Their Political Impact 68
Facebook's Fight Against Fake News Was Undercut by Fear of Conservative Backlash 470
Facebook Bug Tells Users They Are Dead 62
Pro Video Editor Says MacBook Pro Beats Out Superior Spec'd Windows Machines In Real-World 259
Blizzard Launches A Professional Sports League For 'Overwatch' 64
Munich Court To Try Facebook's Zuckerberg For Inciting Hatred 179
Hulk Hogan Settles With Gawker For $31 Million 156
National Geographic Releases Alarming Climate Change Movie 'Before the Flood' On YouTube 693
People Who Use Facebook Live Longer, Study Finds 122
Pornhub Offers To Buy Vine Because 'Six Seconds Is More Than Enough' 58
Twitter is Shutting Down Its Video App Vine 59
People Like Netflix's Original Content More Than Its Other Content: AllFlicks 77
Cisco Develops System To Automatically Cut-Off Pirate Video Streams 112
Facebook Bans Animated Breast Cancer Awareness Video Showing Circle-Shaped Breasts 99
Nurses In Australia Face Punishment For Promoting Anti-Vaccination Messages Via Social Media 656
Elon Musk: Negative Media Coverage of Autonomous Vehicles Could be 'Killing people' 270
Russia Today: NatWest To Close Russian Channel's UK Bank Accounts 131
Journalists Face Jail Time After Reporting on North Dakota Pipeline Protest 357
More Performers Are Demanding Audiences Lock Up Their Phones 552
Netflix Is 12x As Popular As Its Streaming Competitors Among Younger Viewers, Says Survey 44
Facebook Now Lets You Use Google Cast or AirPlay To Stream Video On Your TV 31
Upcoming Blade Runner Sequel Gets a Title: Blade Runner 2049 136
Zuckerberg Teases An 'Affordable' Standalone Oculus VR Headset 63
Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge 348
Online Journalists Launch An Onslaught Against Donald Trump 843
Trump Takes On 'Crooked Hillary' With Snapchat Geofilter 136
Moving Beyond Flash: the Yahoo HTML5 Video Player 96
Google Open Sources Its Image-Captioning AI 40
Snapchat's 10-Second-Video Glasses Are Real And Cost $130 Bucks 92
The Verge's Deputy Editor Chris Ziegler Was Secretly Working For Apple For Two Months 80
Google Play Starts Bringing Android Apps To Chromebooks 14
GoPro Launches Karma Drone and Voice-Controlled Hero5 Cameras 14
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Build Your Own Vacuum Tubes? 275
SciFi TV Series 'Space Patrol Orion' Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary 73
21st Century Fox Sues Netflix Over Executive Poaching 83
26% of Netflix Users May Cancel Cable TV This Year, Says Survey 92
YouTube Gets Its Own Social Network With Launch of YouTube Community 73
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg On 'Napalm Girl' Photo: 'We Don't Always Get it Right' 196
Facebook Is Collaborating With The Israeli Government To Determine What Should Be Censored 232
Facebook Features 9/11 Conspiracy Theory as 'Trending' 251
Norway's Largest Newspaper Accuses Mark Zuckerberg of Abusing Power After Facebook Deletes 'Napalm Girl' Post 273
Today Marks The 50th Anniversary of 'Star Trek' 204
Leaked Demo Video Shows How Government Spyware Infects a Computer 116
Meet URL, the USB Porn-Sniffing Dog 299
New HDMI Mode Will Allow USB-C Connections 85
Creators Call Out YouTube For Demonetizing Videos 193
Researchers Map Locations of 4,669 Servers In Netflix's Content Delivery Network 57
Google Integrates Cast Into Chrome, No Extension Required 43
Facebook Is Telling the World It's Not a Media Company, But It Might Be Too Late 47
What Jonathan Coulton Learned From The Technology Industry 88
Welcome To 1986: Inside 'Halt And Catch Fire's' High-Tech Time Machine 75
Kim Dotcom Will Revive Megaupload, Linking File Transfers To Bitcoin Microtransactions 76
EU Copyright Reform Proposes Search Engines Pay For Snippets 172
The Slashdot Interview With VideoLAN President and Lead VLC Developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf 40
Canon Unveils EOS 5D Mark IV DSLR 160
Facebook Is Testing Autoplaying Video With Sound 152
Sony Tries To Remove News Articles About PlayStation 4 Slim Leak From The Internet 85
'SingularDTV' Will Use Ethereum For DRM On A Sci-Fi TV Show 78
India Threatens 3-Year Jail Sentences For Viewing Blocked Torrents 96
Gawker.com To End Operations Next Week 134
Univision To Buy Gawker Media For $135 Million 138
Nicholas Carr Says Tech 'Utopia Is Creepy' 213
EFF Asks FTC To Demand 'Truth In Labeling' For DRM 122
NASA: Revolutionary Camera Recording Propulsion Data Completes Test 81
Aggressive Hackers Are Targeting Rio's Olympics 71
Star Trek Convention Celebrates The Show's 50th Anniversary 25
1,000+ US Spies Are Protecting Rio Olympics, Says Report 105
Olympic Committee Prohibits Streaming Apps, Vines and GIFs From Its Events 188
Police Asked Facebook To Deactivate Woman's Account During Deadly Standoff 447
Gawker Founder Nick Denton Files For Bankruptcy 138
Chased Off of YouTube, Leaked 'No Man's Sky' Footage Runs to Pornhub 134
British Newspaper Fooled By Online Harry Potter/Pokemon Go Hoax 36
A Look Inside Tesla's $5 Billion Gigafactory 60
Dark Patterns Across the Web Are Designed To Trick You 128
North Korea Is Blackmailing Top South Korean Online Retailer For $2.66 Million 45
Comcast Excited To Have Lost 4,000 TV Subscribers This Spring 68
Rio Olympics Will Be First Sporting Event Watched By 'Eye In The Sky' Drone Cameras 33
Subscribers Pay 61 Cents Per Hour of Cable, But Only 20 Cents Per Hour of Netflix 174
AMD Unveils Radeon Pro WX and Pro SSG Professional Graphics Cards 53
China Releases Test Footage of Ballistic Missile Defense System 68
China Bans Internet News Reporting As Media Crackdown Widens 74
MIT's Ori Robotic Modular Furniture Is Designed To Make Small Places Feel More Roomy 68
Facebook's Android App Can Now Save Offline Videos 30
Netflix Stock Price Tanks As Customers Quit Over Higher Prices 460
Slashdot Asks: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? 351
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube Blocked In Turkey During Reported Coup Attempt 153
Microsoft: Only Microsoft Edge Will Play Netflix Content At 1080p On Your PC 237
Mozilla Will Ship Its First Rust Component In Firefox 48 167
NBC Universal Patents a Way To Detect BitTorrent Pirates In Real-Time 104
Warner Bros. Settles FTC Charge For Not Disclosing Payments To YouTubers For Positive Reviews 81
Netflix Is The Least-Cancelled of All Major Streaming Services, Says Study 72
George Takei Opposes Gay Sulu In 'Star Trek Beyond' 354
YouTube Looking To Launch Online TV Service Next Year With ESPN, ABC, and CBS 24
UW, Microsoft Successfully Encoded 200MB of Data Onto Synthetic DNA Molecules 46
Facebook Decides Which Killings We're Allowed to See 293
Japan Says Yes To Mirrorless Cars 290
73% of Subscribers Would Download Netflix Content, Says Survey 94
Japan's First VR Porn Festival Shut Down Due To Unprecedented Popularity 74
That Digital Music Service You Love Is a Terrible Business 240
Why Did The Stars Wars and Star Trek Worlds Turn Out So Differently? 359
DVD Player Found In Tesla Autopilot Crash, Says Florida Officials 485
Man Who Teaches People How To Repair Their MacBooks Alludes To Apple Lawsuit 150
CBS/Paramount Sets Phasers To Kill On Star Trek Fan-Fiction With New Guidelines 254
Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device? 226
RIP Xbox Fitness: Users Will Soon Lose Access To Workout Videos They Bought 115
Apple Patents a Way To Keep People From Filming At Concerts and Movie Theaters 266
Minecraft Movie To Compete With Avengers and Star Wars In 2019 91
US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names 397
Is The Future Of Television Watching on Fast-Forward? 296
Russia Lawmakers Pass Spying Law That Requires Encryption Backdoors, Call Surveillance 109
Boston Dynamics' SpotMini Is All Electric, Agile, and Has A Capable Face-Arm 36
C-SPAN Uses Periscope and Facebook Live To Broadcast The House Sit-In 350
74% of Netflix Subscribers Would Rather Cancel Their Subscription Than See Ads 316
Russian Bill Requires Encryption Backdoors In All Messenger Apps 207
Tumblr Is Launching Live Video This Week 21
Delete Or Update All Adobe Flash Player Instances, Experts Warn 172
Facebook Is Wrong, Text Is Deathless 189
Executive Says Facebook Will Be All Video, No Text In 5 Years 244
Social Media Overtakes Television As Young People's Main Source of News, Says Report 159
Peter Thiel's Lawyer Wants To Silence Reporting On Trump's Hair 301
Hacker Steals 45 Million Accounts From Hundreds of Car, Tech, Sports Forums 47
A Tour of Campus 2, Apple's Upcoming Headquarters 119
Facebook Now Lets Users Comment With a Video 29
There's No Evidence That Google Is Manipulating Searches To Help Hillary Clinton 142
Yahoo Bidders Can't Even Agree On What They're Buying 46
Gawker Files For Bankruptcy After Hulk Hogan Lawsuit 284
British Startup Strip Mines Renters' Private Social Media For Landlords 371
Movie Written By Algorithm Turns Out To Be Hilarious and Intense 160
PayPal Denies Twitch Troll $50,000 Worth In Refunds 194
Firefox 47 Arrives With Synced Tabs Sidebar, Better YouTube Playback 129
Wonder Boy Remake Finally On The Way 48
Elon Musk: 'One In Billions' Chance We're Not Living In A Computer Simulation 951
Google Boosts Mobile Web Speed On Apple Devices With Accelerated Mobile Pages 28
Study: '50% of Misogynistic Tweets From Women' 291
Tech Billionaire Peter Thiel Secretly Bankrolled Hulk Hogan's Lawsuit Against Gawker: Reports 307
Americans Used Nearly 10 Trillion Megabytes of Mobile Data Last Year 91
September: Netflix Will 'Become Exclusive US Pay TV Home of Films From Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar' 175
TV Journalists Try Buying AK-47 On Dark Web, Fail 88
Live-Action Tetris Movie Secures $80 Million Funding, Plans To Be Part Of A Trilogy 122
EFF Confronts World Copyright Committee 32
The Pirate Bay Loses Its Main Domain Name In Court Battle 107
Samsung Unveils 256GB MicroSD Card, Highest Capacity In Its Class 117
Netflix Cuts Out Over 6 Days Of Commercials From Your Life Per Year, Compared To Cable TV 127
'Battlefield 1' Trailer Most Liked In YouTube History, 'Infinite Warfare' Trailer Most Disliked 131
Panama Papers Source Breaks Silence Over 'Scale Of Injustices' 114
GoPro Footage Gives You A Rocket's-Eye View Of Spaceflight 80
YouTube To Launch 'Unplugged' Online TV Service In 2017 67
HTC Announces $100 Million Fund For Virtual Reality Startups 43
YouTube To Roll Out 6-Second Ads That You Can't Skip 279
Your Media Business Will Not Be Saved 83
Valve Inks Deal With Lionsgate Adding Over 100 Movie Titles To Steam Platform 117
Pro-Clinton Super PAC Caught Spending $1 Million On Social Media Trolls 429
RIP Prince, A Legendary Musician With A Complicated Internet History 196
Animated Simulation Lets You Watch the Titanic Sink In Real Time 129
Verizon and Hearst Team Up To Buy Complex Media 22
Amazon Splits Prime Video Service To Compete Directly With Netflix 105
GameStop Forms Publishing Program GameTrust To 'Revolutionize' the Process 40
YouTube Introduces Live 360 Video Streaming and Spatial Audio 7
Music Industry Sees First Big Gains in 20 Years Thanks to Streaming Services 134
Google's Android N OS Will Support Pressure-Sensitive Screens 68
Mitel Buys Polycom For $1.96B In Enterprise Communications Consolidation Play 14
Apple Deprecating Quicktime For Windows, Micro Trends Urges Users To Uninstall 212
Shockwave Images Help NASA In Development of 'Quiet' Supersonic Jet 63
GoPro Announces Third-Party Developer Program With Over 100 Partners 15
Facebook Hires Google 'Moonshot' Exec For R&D 49
About 40,000 Unionized Verizon Workers Walk Off the Job 189
Piracy Fails To Prevent Another Box Office Record 221
Obama: The Word 'Classified' Means Whatever We Need It To Mean 554
Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law 766
Medium, Twitter Founder on Media: We Put Junk Food In Front Of Them and They Eat It 123
Genetic Studies Prove Cuckolded Fathers Are Rare In Human Populations 282
Newspapers Try To Stop Ad-blocking Browser Brave From 'Stealing Content' 112
Adobe Patches Flash Zero-Day Exploited By Magnitude Exploit Kit 69
Facebook Rolls Out Major Live Video Update 16
Steam Hacker Says More Vulnerabilities Will Be Found 37
AT&T Caps Are A Giant Con And An Attack On Cord-Cutters 173
Skype is Getting Cortana and Crazy Bot Messaging 43
Microsoft Unlocks the Ability To Turn Xbox One Consoles Into 'Development Kits' 73
Researcher Uses Valve Security Bug To Upload Paint Drying Game On Steam 48
Redbox Plans To Launch New Streaming Service 'Redbox Digital' 62
University of Illinois Transmits Record 57Gbps Through Fiber Optic Lines 57
Report: Intel May Dump Nvidia, Turn To AMD For Radeon Graphics Licensing 124
Snapchat Reportedly Acquires Bitmoji Maker Bitstrips For $100 Million 33
Heavy Social Media Users 'Trapped In Endless Cycle of Depression' 110
Slashdot Asks: Should NPR Stop Promoting Its Own Podcasts and NPR One App On Air? 143
Starboard Launches Proxy Fight To Remove Entire Yahoo Board 136
Apple Worries Spy Technology Has Been Secretly Added To Computer Servers It Buys 251
Pornhub Unveils Free VR Porn Channel 91
Music Streaming Sales Outstrip Digital Downloads For First Time 74
FBI Grows "Cyber Most Wanted" List With Syrian Electronic Army Members 18
Pale Moon Devs Ponder Dropping Current Codebase And Starting From Scratch 167
Jury Orders Gawker To Pay $115 Million To Hulk Hogan In Sex Tape Lawsuit 236
Samsung Ships 15.38TB SSD With Up To 1,200MBps Performance 103
FujiFilm Discontinues Last Film For Millions of Polaroid Cameras 81
Next-Gen Ultra HD Blu-Ray Discs Probably Won't Be Cracked For A While 244
China Set To Ban All Foreign Media From Publishing Online 110
Backblaze Dishes On Drive Reliability In their 50k+ Disk Data Center 145
French Court Rules That Facebook Can Now Be Sued in France 145
The Pirate Bay Now Let You Stream Movies and TV, Not Just Download 125
In Japan, a Battle Brewing Over the Right To Record 4k and 8k Broadcasts 105
Torrents Time Lets Anyone Launch Their Own Web Version of Popcorn Time 144
iTunes Radio Is Now "Apple Music" (and You Need a Subscription) 105
Spotify To Launch New Video Product This Week 9
Hollywood Turning Against Digital Effects 232
Why I'm a Defender of YouTube 138
Netflix's Doomed Battle Against VPNs Begins 159
BBC Confirms 50% Bitrate Savings For H.265/HEVC Vs H.264/AVC 110
Entering the Age of Body-Worn Police Cameras 202