The 2000 Beanies Stories

Hugo Administrators Resign in Wake of ChatGPT Controversy 36
XPrize In Carbon Removal Goes To Enhanced Rock Weathering 33
NASA Adds SpaceX's Starship To Launch Services Program Fleet 71
India's 'Human Calculator Kid' Shatters 6 World Records In a Single Day 39
Astro Bot Wins Game of the Year 25
Artist Appeals Copyright Denial For Prize-Winning AI-Generated Work 75
34th First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded 16
Hugo Awards Organizers Reveal Thousands Spent On Fraudulent Votes To Help One Writer Win 61
The Verge's David Pierce Reports On the Excel World Championship From Vegas 29
Reddit Reintroduces Its Awards System 20
Leaked Emails Show Hugo Awards Self-Censoring To Appease China 89
8-Year-Old Chess Prodigy Wins Title At European Championships 10
US Expects To Make Multi-Billion Chips Awards Within the Next Year 13
Baldur's Gate 3 Wins Game of the Year 24
Intel's 14th Gen 'Raptor Lake Refresh' CPUs Nail a Total of 50 World Records 40
OpenAI Chief Sam Altman Becomes the First To Get Indonesia's 'Golden Visa' 23
Magnus Carlsen Becomes Chess World Cup Champion 12
Sci-Hub's Alexandra Elbakyan Receives EFF Award For Providing Access To Scientific Knowledge 14
New Grammy Award Rules Require Human Input, Curb AI Use 38
The 2023 Video Game Hall of Fame Inductees 44
YouTube TV Nabs Its First Technical Emmy Win For 'Views' Feature 15
Nvidia AI Plays Minecraft, Wins AI Conference Award 17
Steve Jobs Awarded Posthumous Medal of Freedom By President Biden 143
Solar-Powered Desalination Device Wins MIT $100K Competition 77
E3 2022 Has Officially Been Canceled 22
Winter Olympics: Athletes Advised To Use Burner Phones In Beijing 54
Netflix Gets Its First Golden Globe For Best Motion Picture (Drama) 36
Lucid Air Named MotorTrend Car of the Year 143
Elon Musk To Offer $100 Million Prize For 'Best' Carbon Capture Tech 153
Australian 'Super Seaweed' Supplement To Reduce Cattle Gas Emissions Wins $1 Million International Prize 72
Nobel Prize In Physics Awarded To 3 Scientists For Work On Black Holes 56
Rat That Sniffs Out Land Mines Receives Award For Bravery 33
Netflix Breaks Record With 160 Emmy Nominations 41
John Conway, Game of Life Author, Dies At 82 of COVID-19 52
Billie Eilish Won Multiple Grammys Using Budget Studio Gear, Logic Pro X 137
Microsoft's Next Xbox Is Xbox Series X, Coming Holiday 2020 78
14-Year-Old Inventor Solves Blind Spots 125
NSF Greenlights $1.1 Million Remake of Microsoft's 2016 'Code Trip' PBS Show 40
New Experimental Lockheed Supersonic Jet Starts Production 88
Inventors of Omnidirectional Wind Turbine Win James Dyson Award 129
Student Engineers Build Hyperloop Test Pods That Set a New Speed Record 92
Microsoft Teases First-Ever 'Stream-To-Win' Option Built Into Xbox 26
'Father of GPS' Receives the IEEE Medal of Honor 22
Netflix Banned From Competing At Cannes Film Festival Due To Lack of Theatrical Releases 120
NRA Gives Ajit Pai 'Courage Award' and Gun For 'Saving the Internet' 563
Official: No One Is Going To Win the Google Lunar X Prize Competition 33
Arkansas Will Pay Up To $1,000 Cash To Kids Who Pass AP Computer Science A Exam 105
Why Is There No Nobel Prize In Technology? 148
IRS Awards $7 Million Fraud Prevention Contract To Equifax 115
The World Video Game Hall of Fame 2017 Inductees 73
Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals To Be Made From Recycled Phones 56
Netflix Partners With iPic To Release Its Original Movies In Theaters, NATO Urges To 'Tread Lightly' 134
World Anti-Doping Agency Says It Was Hacked By Russia 97
IFA 2016 Award Winners 28
Wrong Chemical Dumped Into Olympic Pools Made Them Green 180
Olympic Committee Prohibits Streaming Apps, Vines and GIFs From Its Events 188
Olympic Swimmers 'Certain' To Pick Up Virus From Three Teaspoons of Rio Water 280
Rio Olympics Will Be First Sporting Event Watched By 'Eye In The Sky' Drone Cameras 33
Can Tech Workers Skip The Olympics As Easily As Athletes? 93
Patent Troll VirnetX Wants To Ban FaceTime and iMessage, Increase Damages Award By $190M 94
Microsoft Awards Grants To Deliver Affordable Internet Access 25
DARPA Extreme DDOS Project Transforming Network Attack Mitigation 21
Harvard Scientist: Rio Olympics Could Spark 'Full Blown Global Health Disaster' 147
2016 Hugo Awards Shortlist Dominated By Rightwing Campaign 702
Japan To Begin Testing Fingerprints As 'Currency' 106
Fallout 4 Wins Best Game At Bafta Awards 120
Slashdot Asks: The Beanies Return; Who Deserves Recognition for 2014? 299
The 2014 Hugo Awards 180
John Scalzi's Redshirts Wins Hugo Award for Best Novel 112
MIT Crypto Experts Win 2012 Turing Award 32
Hugo Awards Live Stream Cut By Copyright Enforcement Bot 393
Among Others Wins Hugo For Best Novel 115
Scientists Inducted Into Chemistry "Hall of Fame" 35
Committee Lowers Nobel Prize Award 178
Arise SIR Jonathan Ive 183
The 2011 Hugo Awards 162
Why There's No Nobel Prize In Computing 229
2010 Ig Nobel Winners Announced 111
Beanie Award Wrapup 174
Final Call for Voting in Slashdot's Beanie Awards 165
Vote:Best Designed Interface in a Non-Graphical Application 17
Voting Begins for $100k Beanie Awards 93
Vote:Most Improved Open Source Project 16
Vote:Most Improved Kernel Module 4
Vote:Best Open Source Advocate 8
Vote:Most Deserving Open Source Charity 9
Vote:Best Newbie Helper 11
Vote:Unsung Hero 13
Vote:Best Designed Interface in a Graphical App 15
Vote:Best Designed Interface in a Non-Graphical App 14
Vote:Best Perl Module 2
Vote:Best Unix Earcandy 2
Vote:Best Desktop Theme 7
Vote:Most Deserving of $2000 2
Vote:Best Open Source Related Book 1
Vote:Best Apache Module 1
Vote:Best Open Source Text Editor 9
Vote:Best Unix Desktop Eyecandy 4
Vote:Why The Hell Not - Part II 12
Vote:Why The Hell Not - Part I 9
Nominations for the 2000 Beanies 81
Slashdot is Giving Away $100,000 151
Category: Most Improved Open Source Project 66
Category: Most Improved Kernel Module 35
Category: Best Newbie Helper 58
Category: Most Deserving Open Source Charity 49
Category: Best Open Source Advocate 40
Category: Unsung Hero 87
Category: Best Unix Eyecandy 57
Category: Best Open Source Text Editor 114
Category: Best Apache Module 25
Category: Best Designed Interface in a Graphical App 42
Category: Best Desktop Theme 11
Category: Best Perl Module 18
Category: Best Unix Earcandy 16
Category: Best Open Source-Related Book 23
Category: Best 'Deserving of a $2,000 Award' 28
Category: Best Designed Interface in a Non-GUI App 43
Category: Why The Hell Not? (Part I) 60
Category: Why The Hell Not? (Part 2) 32