Software Stories for 2017

Kodi Media Player Arrives On the Xbox One 57
Slashdot Asks: How Should Apple Have Responded To the Battery Controversy? 177
Kodi 18 'Leia' 64-Bit For Windows Is Finally Ready To Replace the 32-bit Version 80
Windows 10 Visits To US Government Sites Surpass Windows 7 For the First Time 111
Google Stops Selling the Pixel C Android Tablet 48
HTC, Motorola Say They Don't Slow Old Phones Like Apple Does 133
Chrome OS Will Finally Run Android Apps in the Background 42
FBI Software For Analyzing Fingerprints Contains Russian-Made Code, Whistleblowers Say 174
Apple To Release Lisa OS For Free As Open Source In 2018 95
Some Sonos and Bose Speakers Are Being Hijacked To Play Ghostly Sounds 41
Google's Voice-Generating AI Is Now Indistinguishable From Humans 101
WeChat To Become China's Official Electronic ID System 54
Is Google Home Fit For Elderly and Disabled Users? 93
Thunderbird Will Phase Out Legacy Add-Ons, Will Support WebExtensions 171
Opera 50 Web Browser Will Offer Anti-Bitcoin Cryptocurrency Mining Feature 76
Nvidia To Cease Producing New Drivers For 32-Bit Systems 92
Apple Hit With Class Action Lawsuit After Admitting To Slowing Down Old iPhones 244
Apple Says Apps Must Now Disclose Odds For Loot Boxes 88
Slashdot Asks: Should Tech Companies End the One-Year Software Update Cycle? 187
Magic Leap Finally Unveils Mixed-Reality Goggles 79
PSA: Spotify Now Available As a Snap For Linux 66
Apple Plans Combined iPhone, iPad and Mac Apps To Create One User Experience 247
Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Alternatives To Android Or iOS? 304
Microsoft Removes Google's Chrome Installer From the Windows Store 124
'Loapi' Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Is Causing Phone Batteries To Bulge 55
Apple Seems To Have Forgotten About the Whole 'It Just Works' Thing 242
Venezuela Will Force Bitcoin Miners To Register With the Government 152
WhatsApp Ordered To Stop Sharing User Data With Facebook 119
Plexamp, Plex's Spin on the Classic Winamp Player, Is the First Project From New Incubator Plex Labs 209
'The Year That Software Bugs Ate the World' 95
Opera Software Changes Name To Otello Corporation 55
Chrome 64 Beta Adds Sitewide Audio Muting, Pop-Up Blocker, Windows 10 HDR Video 43
Mozilla Slipped a 'Mr. Robot'-Promo Plugin Into Firefox and Users Are Pissed 307
Google Is Shutting Down Project Tango 37
A Cryptocurrency Without a Blockchain Has Been Built To Outperform Bitcoin 186
PSA: AIM Will Be Discontinued Tomorrow 105
Author of BrickerBot Malware Retires, Says He Bricked 10 Million IoT Devices 149
Avast Launches Open-Source Decompiler For Machine Code 113
T-Mobile Is Becoming a Cable Company 92
Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco 422
Google To Open AI Center In China Despite Search Ban 38
What Does Artificial Intelligence Actually Mean? 130
AMD Is Open-Sourcing Their Official Vulkan Linux Driver 75
Twitter Officially Launches 'Threads,' a New Feature For Easily Posting Tweetstorms 47
Microsoft Releases Free Preview of Its Quantum Development Kit 31
AI-Assisted Fake Porn Is Here and We're All Screwed 291
Apple Buys Shazam To Boost Apple Music 36
Google Releases Tool To Help iPhone Hackers 52
Top iOS Apps of 2017: Bitmoji Beats Snapchat, YouTube, and Facebook Messenger 27
Zero-Day iOS HomeKit Vulnerability Allowed Remote Access To Smart Accessories Including Locks 39
'Process Doppelganging' Attack Bypasses Most Security Products, Works On All Windows Versions 126
Google Puts Android Accessibility Crackdown On Hold 28
Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Building Dedicated Chips For Autopilot 32
Apple Is Reportedly Buying Shazam For Nearly Half a Billion Dollars 60
Chrome 63 Offers Even More Protection From Malicious Sites, Using Even More Memory 63
Android 8.0 Oreo For Android Wear Released 10
Apple Has Ruined Its Podcasts App 134
Google's DeepMind AI Becomes a Superhuman Chess Player In a Few Hours 93
Google Wants Progressive Web Apps To Replace Chrome Apps 154
PayPal Says 1.6 Million Customer Details Stolen In Breach At Canadian Subsidiary 24
'App Truthers' Question the Accuracy of the Domino's Pizza Tracker 205
Two Technologists Create Black Metal Album Using An AI 57
Blockchains Are Poised To End the Password Era 129
CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video 163
System76 Will Disable Intel Management Engine On Its Linux Laptops 149
Australian Man Uses Snack Bags As Faraday Cage To Block Tracking By Employer 193
Google Bans Apps From Displaying Lock Screen Ads 58
Google Launches App That Can Help You Track and Conserve Mobile Data 46
Amazon Will Let Alexa Developers Use Voice Recognition To Personalize Apps 30
AI Goes Bilingual -- Without a Dictionary 99
Three Quarters of Android Apps Track Users With Third Party Tools, Says Study 46
A Supreme Court Case This Week Could Change US Digital Privacy Standards 74
Tesla Owners Are Mining Bitcoins With Free Power From Charging Stations 141
Destiny 2 Misrepresented XP Gains To Its Players Until the Developers Got Caught 112
Microsoft Office Now Available On All Chromebooks 113
The Pixel 2's Dormant 'Visual Core' Chip Gets Activated In Latest Android Developer Preview 32
Facebook Rolls Out AI To Detect Suicidal Posts Before They're Reported 171
Pokemon Go Led To Increase In Traffic Deaths and Accidents, Says Study 80
iPhone Users Complain About the Word 'It' Autocorrecting To 'I.T' On iOS 11 and Later 116
Plex's DVR Can Now Automatically Remove Commercials For You 75
Two Major Cydia Hosts Shut Down as Jailbreaking Fades in Popularity 90
Legislators Take Aim At Star Wars Battlefront II, EA Over 'Gambling In Games' 72
Samsung's Galaxy S9 Will Appear At CES In January, Says Report 41
Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Greatest Successes and Weaknesses With Wine (Software)? 252
Apple Scientists Disclose Self-Driving Car Research 34
Stop Using Excel, Finance Chiefs Tell Staffs 273
How a Wi-Fi Pineapple Can Steal Your Data (And How To Protect Yourself From It) 46
Microsoft Confirms Surface Book 2 Can't Stay Charged During Gaming Sessions 138
Ask Slashdot: How Are So Many Security Vulnerabilities Possible? 354
Sacramento Regional Transit Systems Hit By Hacker 35
New Windows Search Interface Borrows Heavily From MacOS 86
Over 400 of the World's Most Popular Websites Record Your Every Keystroke 263
Uber Expands Driverless-Car Push With Deal For 24,000 Volvos 176
iMac Pro Will Have An A10 Fusion Coprocessor For 'Hey, Siri' Support and More Secure Booting, Says Report 164
Google Is Working On Fuchsia OS Support For Apple's Swift Programming Language 54
An Ethereum Startup Just Vanished After People Invested $374K 190
Deep Learning Is Eating Software 147
'Robots Are Not Taking Over,' Says Head of UN Body of Autonomous Weapons 77
Microsoft and GitHub Team Up To Take Git Virtual File System To MacOS, Linux 150
Windows 8 and Later Fail To Properly Apply ASLR 62
Proprietary Software is the Driver of Unprecedented Surveillance: Richard Stallman 197
iOS 11 'Is Still Just Buggy as Hell' 258
Stanford Trains AI To Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than a Radiologist In Just Two Months 75
Tesla Unveils 500-Mile Range Semi Truck, 620-Mile Range Roadster 2.0 373
Bluetooth Hack Affects 20 Million Amazon Echo, Google Home Devices 40
Consumers Are Holding Off On Buying Smart-Home Gadgets Due To Security, Privacy Fears 143
Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? 589
Russia Posts Video Game Screenshot As 'Irrefutable Proof' of US Helping IS 132
All 500 of the World's Top 500 Supercomputers Are Running Linux 288
Apple Is Back To Being the World's Top Wearable Maker 48
Pentagon To Make a Big Push Toward Open-Source Software Next Year 99
Investigation Finds Security Flaws In 'Connected' Toys 32
The Strange Art of Writing Release Notes 70
Fedora 27 Released 65
All Major Browsers Now Support WebAssembly 243
Uber Drivers In Lagos Are Using a Fake GPS App To Inflate Rider Fares 86
Ask Slashdot: Which Software/Devices Are Unusable Without Connecting to the Internet? 201
Google To Kill a Bunch of Useful Android Apps That Rely On Accessibility Services 105
Paradise Papers Expose Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme 146
Sex Toy Company Admits To Recording Users' Remote Sex Sessions, Calls It a 'Minor Bug' 81
Some iPhone X Displays Plagued By Mysterious 'Green Line of Death' 76
Following Equifax Breach, CEO Doesn't Know If Data Is Encrypted 104
Ask Slashdot: What Should A Mac User Know Before Buying a Windows Laptop? 449
Google Working To Remove MINIX-Based ME From Intel Platforms 181
Self-Driving Shuttle Involved In Crash Two Hours After Debut 204
NASA: We're Not Building Flying Taxi Software For Uber 24
Windows 10's Version of AirDrop Lets You Quickly Share Files Between PCs 108
Intel Recruits AMD RTG Exec Raja Koduri To Head New Visual Computing Group 58
Chrome Update Kills Annoying Redirects and Trick-To-Click Popups 41
Logitech To Shut Down 'Service and Support' For Harmony Link Devices In 2018 131
iOS 11 Passes 50 Percent Adoption In Under 2 Months 133
A Huge Redesign Is Coming To Snapchat 42
Israeli Company Sues Apple Over Dual-Lens Cameras In iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8 Plus 56
Apache OpenOffice: We're OK With Not Being Super Cool 106
Toyota Is Uneasy About the Handoff Between Automated Systems and Drivers 135
Microsoft Releases Standards For Highly Secure Windows 10 Devices 173
iPhone X Has the 'Most Innovative and High Performance' Smartphone Display Ever Tested 233
Apple Wins $120 Million From Samsung In Slide-To-Unlock Patent Battle 72
Fake WhatsApp App Downloaded 1 Million Times 51
Audacity 2.2.0 Released 103
Some Google Pixel 2 XL Units Shipped Without an Operating System 34
Eric Schmidt and Bob Work: Our AI 'Sputnik Moment' Is Now 174
Hilton Paid a $700K Fine For 2015 Breach; Under GDPR, It Would Be $420 Million 110
Apple Crushes Expectations, Sees Record Holiday Quarter 97
The Fourth US Navy Collision of the Year Was Ultimately Caused By UI Confusion 220
Android Oreo Bug Sends Thousands of Phones Into Infinite Boot Loops 78
NVIDIA-Powered Neural Network Produces Freakishly Natural Fake Human Photos 140
MIT Researchers Trained AI To Write Horror Stories Based On 140,000 Reddit Posts 37
Apple Uses Machine Learning To Chronicle All the Bra Pics On Your iPhone 115
New VibWrite System Uses Finger Vibrations To Authenticate Users 44
Algorithm Can Identify Suicidal People Using Brain Scans 87
BlackBerry CEO Promises To Try To Break Customers' Encryption If the US Government Asks Him To 107
Indiana Is Purging Voters Using Software That's 99 Percent Inaccurate, Lawsuit Alleges 509
Samsung Made a Bitcoin Mining Rig Out of 40 Old Galaxy S5s 73
Everything New In the Android 8.1 Oreo Developer Preview 42
Time To Move on from DevOps and Continuous Delivery, Says Google Advocate 116
Google Addresses Pixel 2 XL Display Issues, Pixel 2 Clicking Sounds With Software Updates 103
Microsoft Is Working On a Foldable Device With a Focus On Pen and Digital Ink 87
Critical Flaws In Maritime Communications System Could Endanger Entire Ships 41
Walmart Tests Shelf-Scanning Robots In Over 50 Stores 76
Linux Mint Is Killing the KDE Edition 141
Roku Wants To Start Streaming To Third-Party Devices 25
Google's Sentiment Analyzer Thinks Being Gay Is Bad 453
Ask Slashdot: Where Do Old Programmers Go? 481
Oracle Engineer Talks of ZFS File System Possibly Still Being Upstreamed On Linux 131
Sony Reportedly Announcing New Robot Dog Next Month 45
Legal Hack Back Lets You Go After Attackers In Your Network 47
Tech Giants Are Paying Huge Salaries For Scarce AI Talent 156
Why Xbox One Backward Compatibility Took So Long 62
Tim Cook Confirms the Mac Mini Isn't Dead 191
Software Developer Creates Personal Cryptocurrency 102
Could VR Field Trips Replace the Real Thing? 96
Denuvo's DRM Now Being Cracked Within Hours of Release 113
How Google's Pixel 2 'Now Playing' Song Identification Works 129
DeepMind's Go-Playing AI Doesn't Need Human Help To Beat Us Anymore 133
EA Shuts Down Visceral Games, Shifting Development On Its Star Wars Game 75
Android Oreo Helps Google's Pixel 2 Smartphones Outperform Other Android Flagships 91
Google Maps Ditches Walking Calorie Counter After Backlash 364
Netflix, Amazon, Movie Studios Sue Over TickBox Streaming Device 135
Companies Overlook Risks in Open Source Software, Survey Finds 132
Essential Is Getting Sued For Allegedly Stealing Wireless Connector Technology 43
Google Photos Now Recognizes Your Pets 60
Microsoft's Fall Update With Redesigned Xbox Dashboard Is Now Available To All 38
Every Patch For 'KRACK' Wi-Fi Vulnerability Available Right Now 140
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Hard Truths IT Must Learn To Accept? 421
Apple To Appeal Five-Year-Long Patent Battle After $439.7 Million Loss 69
Kaspersky Lab Finds Flash Vulnerability Through Microsoft Word 50
How Open Source Software Helps The Federal Reserve Bank of New York 24
Russia Reportedly Used Pokemon Go In an Effort To Inflame Racial Tensions 211
Latest iOS Update Shows Apple Can Use Software To Break Phones Repaired By Independent Shops 128
Over 500 Million PCs Are Secretly Mining Cryptocurrency, Researchers Reveal 78
Samsung Electronics CEO Resigns Over 'Unprecedented Crisis' 16
Apple To Ditch Touch ID Altogether For All of Next Year's iPhones 137
Dutch Privacy Regulator Says Windows 10 Breaks the Law 63
Google Is Really Good At Design 187
Alphabet's Waymo Demanded $1 Billion In Settlement Talks With Uber 11
Is the Chromebook the New Android Tablet? 182
PornHub Uses Computer Vision To ID Actors, Acts In Its Videos 135
OxygenOS Telemetry Lets OnePlus Tie Phones To Individual Users 164
Symantec CEO: Source Code Reviews Pose Unacceptable Risk 172
KDE Plasma 5.11 Released 62
How Does Microsoft Avoid Being the Next IBM? 223
Alphabet's Waymo and Intel Are Launching Public Campaigns To Build Trust In Self-Driving Cars 191
OpenBSD 6.2 Released 114
Microsoft Exec Says Windows 10 Mobile is No Longer a 'Focus' 135
Apple Doesn't Deliberately Slow Down Older Devices According To Benchmark Analysis 163
Uber's iOS App Had Secret Permissions That Allowed It to Copy Your Phone Screen, Researchers Say 91
Mattel's New Baby Monitor Uses AI To Soothe Babies and Lawmakers Aren't Happy About It 131
The Google Clips Camera Puts AI Behind the Lens 150
Mozilla To End All Firefox Support For XP, Vista In June 2018 131
Ask Slashdot: Share Your Security Review Tales 198
According To Star Trek: Discovery, Starfleet Still Runs Microsoft Windows 237
Code is Too Hard To Think About 397
Microsoft Explains Why Edge Has So Few Extensions 152
Microsoft Releases 'Next Generation' Preview of Skype For Linux 92
Apple Recommends Children Under 13, Twins and Siblings Do Not Use Face ID On iPhone X 120
Internet Explorer Bug Leaks Whatever You Type In the Address Bar 99
Tesla Model 3 Owners Share More Info On Model 177
Is Project Management Killing Good Products, Teams and Software? 176
iOS 11 Is Causing Massive Battery Drain Problems 158
Apple's Swift 4.0 Includes A Compatibility Mode For 'The Majority' Of Swift 3.x Code 122
Adobe Security Team Accidentally Posts Private PGP Key On Blog 60
A New Zealand Company Built An AI Baby That Plays the Piano 87
Ford Is Using Microsoft's HoloLens To Design Cars In Augmented Reality 31
Firefox For iOS Gets Tracking Protection, Firefox Focus For Android Gets Tabs 28
Bill Gates Says He's Sorry About Control-Alt-Delete 320
Amazon Is Reportedly Working On Alexa-Enabled Smart Glasses 32
iOS 11 Released 139
Ethereum Will Match Visa In Scale In a 'Couple of Years,' Says Founder 114
AI Just Made Guessing Your Password a Whole Lot Easier 136
Navy Plans To Use Xbox 360 Controllers For New Periscope Systems Aboard Its Submarines 121
Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed 90
Samsung Finally Lets You Disable the Bixby Button Without a Third-Party App 55
Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Business Model for An Open Source Developer? 87
More Millennials Would Give Up Voting Than Texting 350
KDE Plasma 5.11 Beta Released 59
GNOME 3.26 Released 176
Windows 10 Will Soon Give Users More Control Over App Permissions 76
Researchers Catch Microsoft Zero-Day Used To Install Government Spyware 83
Apple Is Releasing macOS High Sierra On September 25 95
'Operational Limitations' In Tesla Model S Played a 'Major Role' In Autopilot Crash, Says NTSB 210
BlueBorne Vulnerabilities Impact Over 5 Billion Bluetooth-Enabled Devices 121
Apple Announces iPhone X With Edge-To-Edge Display, Wireless Charging and No Home Button 570
Equifax's App Has Disappeared From Apple's App Store and Google Play 73
Chatbot Lets You Sue Equifax For Up To $25,000 Without a Lawyer 111
Google Publicly Releases Internal Developer Documentation Style Guide 96
Virginia Scraps Electronic Voting Machines Hackers Destroyed At DefCon 194
The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers In Dead-End Jobs 207
Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach 283
How Proprietary Software Lets Companies Cheat 228

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