Media Stories for 2017

Kodi Media Player Arrives On the Xbox One 57
Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version 80
Vietnam Deploys 10,000 Cyber Warriors to Fight 'Wrongful Views' 92
Firefox Is Now Available On Amazon's Fire TV, Bringing YouTube Access With It 49
Kids In 'Netflix Only' Homes Are Being Saved From 230 Hours of Commercials a Year, Says Report 118
Facebook Will Introduce Ads As Videos Start Playing 72
NiceHash Hacked, $62 Million of Bitcoin May Be Stolen 79
Vine Co-Founder Dom Hofmann Says He's Working On 'a Follow-Up To Vine' 54
Prepare for the New Paywall Era 263
Plex's DVR Can Now Automatically Remove Commercials For You 75
YouTube To Implement New Guidelines To Protect Minors From Disturbing Content 95
Massive US Military Social Media Spying Archive Left Wide Open In AWS S3 Buckets 85
FCC Repeals Decades-Old Rules Blocking Broadcast Media Mergers 146
YouTube Says It Will Crack Down On Bizarre Videos Targeting Children 109
Department of Justice Considers Blocking AT&T Deal For Time Warner 32
CBS Sues Man For Copyright Over Screenshots of 59-year-old TV Show 180
Is the Optical Cable Dying? 299
YouTube Is Fighting the 'Adpocalypse' With a Less Trigger-Happy Flagging System 218
Roku Wants To Start Streaming To Third-Party Devices 25
Verizon Will Stop Throttling Video On Unlimited Plans If You Pay An Extra $10 Per Month 110
Body Camera Giant Wants Police To Collect Your Videos Too 61
PornHub Uses Computer Vision To ID Actors, Acts In Its Videos 135
Hulu Lowers Prices After Netflix Raises Theirs 108
Windows 10 Update Removes Windows Media Player 255
Donate Your Noise To Xiph/Mozilla's Deep-Learning Noise Suppression Project 119
Homeland Security Plans To Collect Immigrants' Social Media Information 197
EFF Resigns From Web Consortium In Wake of EME DRM Standardization 221
Warning: 'MetalKettle' Repository For Kodi Becomes Vulnerable After GitHub Takeover 28
Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25 Percent Jump In Shoppers 94
Kodi Is Fighting Trademark Trolls 92
A Critical Apache Struts Security Flaw Makes It 'Easy' To Hack Fortune 100 Firms 42
Columnist Mocks The Case Against Cord-Cutting As 'Too Many Choices' 314
Another Crowdfunded Startup Takes Customers' Money, Then Shuts Downs 166
Selling Alterable Versions of Star Wars Is Still Infringement, Says Court 180
Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook Will Add Subscriptions For News Stories 57
Plex Responds, Will Allow Users To Opt Out Of Data Collection 91
Should Plex Stop Allowing Users To Opt Out of Data Collection? 158
Video Is Coming To Reddit 74
Facebook Downranks Video Clickbait and Fake Play Buttons 25
Judge Says LinkedIn Cannot Block Startup From Public Profile Data 166
Netflix Discussing Keeping Streaming Rights To Disney's Marvel, Star Wars Films 52
First Evidence That Social Bots Play a Major Role In Spreading Fake News 144
Man Used DDoS Attacks On Media To Extort Them To Remove Stories 34
Laurene Powell Jobs's Organization to Take Majority Stake in The Atlantic 84
Google Is Testing Autoplay Videos Directly In Search Results 126
SoundCloud Halts Volunteer Archiving Project 48
YouTube Will Now Redirect Searches For Extremist Videos To Anti-Terrorist Playlists 136
Facebook Is Looking Into Allowing Paywall For Selected Media Stories 35
Free Speech vs Billionaires: Netflix Streams A New Documentary About The Gawker Verdict 199
Tech Companies Capture A Third Of This Year's Emmy Nominations 31
Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker 508
Vintage SciFi Magazine 'Galaxy' Preserved Online - And Hopefully Also SoundCloud 52
FSF Sees Hopeful Signs Before Sunday's 'Day Against DRM' 124
CNN Warns It May Expose An Anonymous Critic If He Ever Again Publishes Bad Content 944
Hulu Joins Netflix and Amazon In Promoting Royalty-free Video Codec AV1 134
O'Reilly No Longer Selling Individual Books, Videos Online 82
Leaked Recording: Inside Apple's Global War On Leakers 81
Studio-Defying VidAngel Launches New Video-Filtering Platform 201
More Than 80% of US Adults Get News On Their Phones 67
HBO, Netflix, Other Hollywood Companies Join Forces To Fight Piracy 195
Younger Millennials Don't Know What Networks Are Responsible For TV Shows, Unless It's Netflix 185
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On Sloot Compression? 418
Former FBI Director Admitted He Was the Source Of At Least One Leak To the Press 559
DOJ Charges Federal Contractor With Leaking Classified Info To Media 241
Videotapes Are Becoming Unwatchable As Archivists Work To Save Them 125
OpenELEC 8.0.4 Kodi-Focused Linux Distro Now Available 43
YouTube Clarifies 'Hate Speech' Definition and Which Videos Won't Be Monetized 271
Mary Meeker's 2017 Internet Trends Report 40
US Intelligence Community Has Lost Credibility Due To Leaks 339
Facebook Signs BuzzFeed, Vox, Others For Original Video Shows 15
Malicious Subtitles Threaten VLC, Kodi and Popcorn Time Users, Researchers Warn 126
Endless OS Now Ships With Steam And Slack FlatPak Applications 95
Firefox 55: Flash Will Become 'Ask To Activate' For Everyone 114
Hackers Aligned With Vietnam Government Are Attacking Foreign Companies 19
Taser Will Use Police Body Camera Videos 'To Anticipate Criminal Activity' 76
US Adults Will Spend More Than Half the Day Consuming Media, Study Says 51
West Point Researchers Demonstrate Passive Netflix Traffic Analysis Attack 64
OpenELEC 8.0 Linux Distro Released For PC, Raspberry Pi, WeTek Hub 50
Over 90% of College Students Today Regularly Use Netflix, But Only 34% Are Actually Paying For Their Own Account 55
Walt Mossberg Is Retiring 37
Roku Has Hired a Team of Lobbyists As it Gears Up For a Net Neutrality Fight 85
ESPN Has Seen the Future of TV and They're Not Really Into It 155
Two Activists Who Secretly Recorded Planned Parenthood Face 15 Felony Charges 470
NASA Launches Massive Digital Library For Space Video, Photos and Audio 48
YouTube Loses Major Advertisers Over Offensive Videos 265
YouTube To Discontinue Video Annotations Because They Never Worked On Mobile 61
Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down 97
Court Orders ISP To Hand Identities Behind 5,300 IP Addresses To Copyright Trolls 41
Google Can Now Recognize Objects in Videos Using Machine Learning 47
Instant Messaging App Snapchat-Maker Snap's IPO Opened Trading At $24 a Share, Making the Company Worth $33 Billion 66
A New Video Shows Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Arguing With a Driver Over Fares 187
One Billion Hours of YouTube Are Watched Every Day 72
Your Personal Facebook Live Videos Can Legally End Up on TV 144
PewDiePie Calls Out the 'Old-School Media' For Spiteful Dishonesty 920
Facebook To Autoplay Videos With Sound On By Default 116
Netflix Geoblocking Loosened Under New EU Law 56
How Open Sourcing Made Apache Kafka A Dominant Streaming Platform 48
Secret Rules Make It Pretty Easy For the FBI To Spy On Journalists 189
CBS, Paramount Settle Lawsuit Over 'Star Trek' Fan Film 146
Facebook Has a Team That Handles Mark Zuckerberg's Page 55
Facebook To Stop Paying Publishers To Make Live Videos 32
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Place To Suggest New Open Source Software? 225
Facebook's 'Journalism Project' Seeks To Strengthen Online News 119