Software Stories for 2013

Ask Slashdot: Life Organization With Free Software? 133
The Biggest Tech Mishap of 2013? 162
US Requirement For Software Dev Certification Raises Questions 228
Prince of Persia Level Editor 'Apoplexy' Reaches 2.0 44
GNU Octave Gets a GUI 166
Tesla Updates Model S Software As a Precaution Against Unsafe Charging 148
Linux x32 ABI Not Catching Wind 262
How Healthcare.gov Changed the Software Testing Conversation 118
Run Netflix On OpenSUSE 128
Open Source Add-on Rewrites the User Interface of IE11 86
Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? 159
Comparing G++ and Intel Compilers and Vectorized Code 225
The Software Inferno 109
NZ Developers Win 'Koha' Trademark Case 26
Under the Hood of SteamOS 201
GitHub Takes Down Satirical 'C Plus Equality' Language 575
Valve Releases Debian-Based SteamOS Beta 211
Google Brings AmigaOS to Chrome Via Native Client Emulation 157
Estonia Sharing Its Finnish-Made E-Government Solution With Finland 83
Ask Slashdot: To Publish Change Logs Or Not? 162
Open Source 'Wasn't Available' Two Years Ago, Says UK Gov't IT Project Chief 113
Firefox 26 Arrives With Click-To-Play For Java Plugins 208
Gift Idea: Custom Photomosaics With AndreaMosaic and PhotoGrabber 61
DARPA Makes Finding Software Flaws Fun 46
About 25% of HealthCare.gov Applications Have Errors 157
Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013? 317
Supreme Court To Review Software Patents 115
Opus 1.1 Released 62
FTC Drops the Hammer On Maker of Location-Sharing Flashlight App 187
Tech Companies Set To Appeal 2012 Oracle Vs. Google Ruling 198
Ask Slashdot: Application Security Non-existent, Boss Doesn't Care. What To Do? 310
FLOSS 2013: the Survey For Open Source Contributors, a Decade Later 27
Intel Linux Driver Now Nearly As Fast As Windows OpenGL Driver 113
Bitcoin Miners Bundled With PUPs In Legitimate Applications Backed By EULA 194
Google Is Building a Way To Launch Chrome Apps Without Installation 135
US Military Settles Software Piracy Claims For $50M 127
Free Software Foundation Announces 2013 Holiday Giving Guide 104
Docker 0.7 Runs On All Linux Distributions 88
Chicago Transit System Fooled By Federal ID Cards 196
Female Software Engineers May Be Even Scarcer Than We Thought 445
Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Is Missing 138
Failed Software Upgrade Halts Transit Service 125
Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) On Every Raspberry Pi 99
Airline Pilots Rely Too Much On Automation, Says Safety Panel 270
Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 400
How Munich Abandoned Microsoft for Open Source 294
Contiki 2.7 Released 21
Ars Checks Out CyanogenMod's New Installer 143
FCC App Lets Android Users Measure Mobile Broadband Speed 93
Ask Slashdot: What Makes You Uninstall Apps? 243
SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors 198
DRM To Be Used In Renault Electric Cars 231
POV-Ray Is Now FLOSS 121
Microsoft Warns Customers Away From RC4 and SHA-1 92
Apple II DOS Source Code Released 211
Oracle Kills Commercial Support For GlassFish: Was It Inevitable? 125
Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January 260
Protect Your Android Phone By Killing All Its Crapware 201
Gate One Will Support X11: Fast Enough To Run VLC In Your Browser 164
Speed Test: Comparing Intel C++, GNU C++, and LLVM Clang Compilers 196
Google Attacks Microsoft Again: Android 4.4 Ships With Quickoffice 178
OpenBSD 5.4 Released 102
'Morris Worm' Turns 25: Watch How TV Covered It Then 51
Microsoft To Can Skype API; Third-Party Products Will Not Work 330
Inmates Program Logistics App For Prison 98
Android KitKat Released 358
Does Software Need a Siskel and Ebert? 169
How Your Compiler Can Compromise Application Security 470
Toyota's Killer Firmware 610
Chrome Will End XP Support in 2015; Firefox Has No Plans To Stop 257
How Kentucky Built the Country's Best ACA Exchange 333
Ask Slashdot: Best Cross-Platform (Linux-Only) Audio Software? 223
GCC 4.9 To See Significant Upgrades In 2014 191
Mac OS 10.9's Mail App — Infinity Times Your Spam 158
Do Is Done 51
Apple Converting Trial and Pirated iWork, iLife and Aperture To Full Versions 134
Blackberry BBM App and Suspicious Google Play Ratings 67
Users Slow to Update Netgear ReadyNAS Boxes Open To Remote Exploit 53
How To Lose $172,222 a Second For 45 Minutes 327
Apple Announces iPad Air 471
Dell Ad Says Windows 8.1 Apps Will Run On Xbox One 148
DHHS Preparing 'Tech Surge' To Fix Remaining Healthcare.gov Issues 429
Forrester Research Shows Steep Decline in Free Office Suite Stats 337
Advances In Cinema Tech Overcoming a Strange Racial Divide 164
Crossing the Divide From Software Dev To Hardware Dev 105
Wireshark Switches To Qt 79
VirtualBox 4.3 Comes With New Multi-Touch Support, Virtual Cam and More 114
Windows 8.1 Rolls Out Today 398
Blizzard Wins Legal Battle Against WoW Bot Company 285
Finland's Algorithm-Driven Public Bus 123
Charlie Stross: Why Microsoft Word Must Die 479
Who's Getting Pay-By-Phone Right? The Fast Food Industry 153
Google Offers Cash For Security Fixes To Linux and Other FOSS Projects 94
GNU Make 4.0 Released 179
AMD Intentionally Added Artificial Limitations To Their HDMI Adapters 256
Administration Admits Obamacare Website Stinks 516
How Many Android OEMs Cheat Benchmark Scores? Pretty Much All of Them 189
AMD Brings 3D GPU Documentation Up To Date 64
The Changing Face of Software Development 173
RMS On Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before 319
Microsoft Shows Off Its Vision For Gesture-Controlled PCs 139
GNOME 3.10 Released 218
Undiscovered Country of HFT: FPGA JIT Ethernet Packet Assembly 452
VLC Reaches 2.1 127
Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source CRM/ERP System For a Small Business? 163
FDA Will Regulate Some Apps As Medical Devices 130
Meet the Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy (Video) 29
New App Aims To Track Your Dreams 112
GitHub Adds Support For Diffing 3D Files 29
WeChat IM Application Could Disclose Your Password To Attackers 49
GNOME 3.10 Is Now Properly Supported On Wayland 128
SkyOS Now Free (As In Beer) 88
Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates 706
Raspberry Pi As an Ad Blocking Access Point 82
Massachusetts Set To Repeal Controversial IT Services Tax 122
Microsoft Botches More Patches In Latest Automatic Update 254
The Tech Behind Man of Steel's Metropolis 74
Intel, Red Hat Working On Enabling Wayland Support In GNOME 168
Thought Experiment: The Ultimate Creative Content OS 226
Intel Rejects Supporting Ubuntu's XMir 205
Elon Musk Shows His Vision of Holographic Design Technology 109
Parallels Update Installs Unrelated Daemon Without Permission 170
Epic: A Privacy-Focused Web Browser 223
GNU MediaGoblin 0.5.0 "Goblin Force" Released 42
Open Source Photometry Code Allows Amateur Astronomers To Detect Exoplanets 38
LGPL H.265 Codec Implementation Available; Encoding To Come Later 141
PayPal Freezes MailPile's Account 443
SUSE's LibreOffice Core Team Moves To Collabora 72
Software Brings Eye Contact To Video Chat, With a Little Help From Kinect 111
How Patent Trolls Stalled a New Transit App 85
Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters? 190
New Zealand Bans Software Patents 150
Researchers Reverse-Engineer Dropbox, Cracking Heavily Obfuscated Python App 242
PTSD-Monitoring App Captured the Psychological Effects of the Boston Bombing 68
X.Org Foundation Loses 501(c)3 Non-Profit Status 208
Calibre Version 1.0 Released After 7 Years of Development 193
Teens Actually Care About Online Privacy 93
Autodesk To Follow Adobe's 'Rent Our Software' Business Model? 89
Valencia Region Government Completes Switch To LibreOffice 93
Internet Infrastructure for Everyone 63
Single Developer Responsible For Over 47k Apps In BlackBerry World 176
Write Windows Phone Apps, No Code Required 210
Mozilla Planning Firefox Metro For Windows 8 On December 10 179
Amarok 2.8 "Return To the Origin" Released 99
Web Apps: the Future of the Internet, Or Forever a Second-Class Citizen? 205
Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Med-School Note-Taking? 217
SDL 2.0 Release Improves 2D/3D Rendering, Better Audio & New Features 42
New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use 246
How To Build a Simple Open Source Server Monitoring Solution With Mobile Support 58
MS Office For Android: Pretty, But Woefully Incomplete 174
New Android App Encourages Users To Throw Device As High As Possible 156
Using Zillow's Creative Commons Neighborhood Boundary Data For the U.S. 32
The Old Reader Will Stay Open To the Public Thanks To US Corporation 61
New, Privacy-Oriented, FOSS Web-mail: Mailpile 116
KDE Releases Calligra 2.7 30
Computer Scientists Develop 'Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles' To Encrypt Software 245
Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? 142
The Old Reader To Close Public Site In Two Weeks (Unless It Doesn't) 93
Fidus Writer: Open Source Collaborative Editor For Non-Geek Academics 160
Ask Slashdot: Asynchronous RAID-1 Free Software Backup For Laptops? 227
New Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Packs Roll Out 44
Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Released With Major New Features 238
Next-Gen Video Encoding: x265 Tackles HEVC/H.265 104
Nobelist Gary Becker Calls For an End To Software Patents 147
Google Is Bringing Chrome Remote Desktop App To Android 104
VLC For iOS Returns On July 19, Rewritten and Fully Open-Sourced 203
Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: a Programmer's Comparison 543
HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player 364
Oracle To Stop Developing Sun Virtualization Technologies 145
Casting a Jaundiced Eye On AnTuTu Benchmark Claims Favoring Intel 82
Ask Slashdot: Is Postgres On Par With Oracle? 372
Linux 3.11 Features Fall Into Place With Merge Window 70
Giving GNOME 3 a GNOME 2 Look 181
Google Chrome 28 Is Out: Rich Notifications For Apps, Extensions 90
Lead Developer of Yum Killed In Hit-and-run 413
Apple and Amazon End Lawsuit Over the Term 'App Store' 79
Obamacare Software Glitch Will Limit Penalties Charged To Smokers 490
UCSD Lecturer Releases Geotagging Application For "Dangerous Guns and Owners" 976
Ask Slashdot: Will the NSA Controversy Drive People To Use Privacy Software? 393
Patching Software on Another Planet 96
Boxee Sold To Samsung 128
LibreOffice Calc Set To Get GPU Powered Boost From AMD 211
Why Automakers Should Stop the Infotainment Arms Race 317
MagicPlay: the Open Source AirPlay 177
Firefox Takes the Performance Crown From Chrome 326
NSA Backdoors In Open Source and Open Standards: What Are the Odds? 407
Microsoft To Shut Down TechNet Subscription Service 280
Flaws In ZRTPCPP Library, Used In Secure Phone Apps 42
XenServer 6.2 Is Now Fully Open Source 86
You Will Get DirectX 11.2 Only With Windows 8.1 403
Google Adds Microsoft Word, Excel Editing To Latest Chrome OS Build 72
Microsoft Research Adds 'Mood Detection' To Smartphones 110
Reject DRM and You Risk Walling Off Parts of the Web, Says W3C Chief 433
Dr. Dobb's Calls BS On Obsession With Simple Code 381
Netflix Ditches Silverlight With HTML5 Support In IE11 337
Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Browser In an Age of Surveillance? 391
Are You Sure This Is the Source Code? 311
Subversion 1.8 Released But Will You Still Use Git? 378
KWin Maintainer: Fanboys and Trolls Are the Cancer Killing Free Software 406
Software-Defined Data Centers: Seeing Through the Hype 39
POTI, Creators of the Songbird Media Player, Call It Quits 67
Microsoft Office Finally Gets iOS App 139
TreeSheets (Cross-Platform Data Organizer) Now Open Source 29
Your License Is Your Interface 356
German Parliament Tells Government To Strictly Limit Patents On Software 75
Man Who Sold $100 Million Worth of Pirated Software Gets 12 Years In Prison 304
Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? 335
What Keeps You On (or Off) Windows in 2013? 1215
Futuristic UC Berkeley OS Tessellation Controls Discrete 'Manycore' Resources 28
Clearing Up Wayland FUD, Misconceptions 240
Can Microsoft Survive If Windows Doesn't Dominate? 497
Indian FOSS Evangelist Atul Chitnis Dead At 51 39
GIS Community Blocks Esri's Geospatial 'Open Standard' REST API 53
Will Your Video Game Collection Appreciate Over Time? 127
U.S. Authorizes Sales of American Communication Tech To Iran 108
Google Advocates 7-Day Deadline For Vulnerability Disclosure 94
First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button 800
Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook's Home App Needs Some Work 34
Aussie Government Proposes OpenDocument As the Standard Format 113
BSA Study Demonstrates Open Source's Economic Advantage 87
Ask Slashdot: Safe Learning Environment For VMs? 212
Opera Releases Its First Chromium-Based Browser 191
Java Developer Says He Built, Launched Basic Open Source Office Suite In 30 Days 266
Schrödinger's Cat and RCU (Well, Structured Procrastination, Actually) 43
Six Months Developing Software For Wearable Computing 28
World's Biggest 'Agile' Software Project Close To Failure 349
Google Unable To Keep Paying App Developers In Argentina 169
Scanner Identifies Malware Strains, Could Be Future of AV 70
Ask Slashdot: When Is the User Experience Too Good? 397
Red Hat's Diane Mueller Talks About OpenShift (Video) 21
Why the 'Star Trek Computer' Will Be Open Source and Apache Licensed 129
Ask Slashdot: Moving From Contract Developers To Hiring One In-House? 524
Immigration Reform May Spur Software Robotics 146
Goodbye, Lotus 1-2-3 276
Music and Movies Could Trigger Mobile Malware 88
Trade Group: US Software Developer Wages Fell 2% Last Year 237
NetBSD 6.1 Has Shipped 105
Intel Rolls Out "Beacon Mountain" Android Dev Platform For Atom 126
Patenting Open Source Software 60
Apache OpenOffice Downloaded 50 Million Times In a Year 155
A Peek At Google's Software-Defined Network 75
Interactive Raycaster For the Commodore 64 Under 256 Bytes 143
How Maintainable Is the Firefox Codebase? 127
iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years 519
Firefox 21 Arrives 246
Mozilla Handing Out Free Firefox OS Developer Phones To Bolster App Marketplace 53
17-Year-Old Girl Wins Boston TV API Programming Contest 117
(Highly Divided) Federal Circuit Opinion Finds Many Software Patents Ineligible 116
Snapchats Don't Disappear 85
Cyanogenmod 10.1 RC1 Starts To Roll Out To Devices Near You 124

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