News Stories for 2024

New York Retires Iconic Subway Cars 24
US Army Soldier Arrested In AT&T, Verizon Extortions 10
10 Million Trees To Be Planted in US To Replace Ones Destroyed By Hurricanes 11
US Files Complaint Against Fintech App Dave And Its CEO 10
What Has Biden Wrought? 206
The Average American Spent 2.5 Months On Their Phone In 2024 51
South Korea To Inspect Boeing Aircraft as It Struggles To Find Cause of Plane Crash 44
Nvidia Open-Sources Run:ai, the Software It Acquired For $700 Million 8
Trump Defends Foreign Worker Visas 373
Most Safety Complaints From Plane-Industry Whistleblowers 'Go Nowhere', Risk Retaliation 41
When Jimmy Carter Spoke At a Wireless Tradeshow 76
'Did Anything Good Happen in 2024? Actually, Yes!' 45
What Happens to Relicensed Open Source Projects and Their Forks? 7
New York Passes Law Making Fossil Fuel Companies Pay $75 Billion for 'Climate Superfund' 164
'Raspberry Pi Holdings' Stock Price Nearly Doubles In December 6
Journal's Editors Resign Over Elsevier Meddling, Budget Cuts, and Errors Introduced by AI 40
Lyft Says San Francisco Overcharged It $100 Million In Taxes 37
Valve Makes More Money Per Employee Than Amazon, Microsoft, and Netflix Combined 32
Bill Requiring US Agencies To Share Custom Source Code With Each Other Becomes Law 26
South Korean Crypto-Boss Do Kwon To Be Extradited To US 5
Chinese Hackers Breach Ninth US Telecoms Group in Espionage Campaign 41
Trump Transition Leaders Call For Eased Tech Immigration Policy 167
US Data Center Boom Creates Windfall For Electricians 62
Bald Eagle Officially Declared US National Bird After 250 Years 31
Germany Joins EU's 'Ultra-Low' Fertility Club 175
Elite Colleges Have a Looming Money Problem 94
In Maine, Remote Work Gives Prisoners a Lifeline 54
Post Office Creates CTO Role To Support 'Extensive and Complex' Plans 10
Arizona Races To Power Data Center Boom as Maricopa County Set For Number 2 Spot 30
Biggest Banks Sue the Federal Reserve Over Annual Stress Tests 67
US Targets China With Probe Into Semiconductor Industry 15
Encyclopedia Britannica Is Now an AI Company 59
Google's Counteroffer To the Government Trying To Break It Up is Unbundling Android Apps 12
Drones Collide, Fall From Sky in Florida Light Show, Seriously Injuring 7-Year-Old Boy 79
Energy Prices Drop Below Zero In UK Thanks To Record Wind-Generated Electricity 135
With Drones Over US Military Bases, Agencies Urge Congress to Pass Drone-Defense Legislation 89
Sea Levels are Already Rising in America's Southeast. A Preview of the Future? 87
Months After Its 20th Anniversary, OpenStreetMap Suffers an Extended Outage 10
Luigi Mangione's Ghost Gun Was Only Partially 3D-Printed 199
US Life Expectancy Rose to 78.4 years in 2023 - Highest Level Since Pandemic 43
US Drone Sightings Provoke Reactions From New Jersey Legislature, Federal Government 51
California's Population Jumps Back to Near Pre-Pandemic Levels 79
'Open Source Software Funding Report' Finds 86% of Corporate Contributions are Employees' Time 15
Startup Set To Brick $800 Kids Robot Is Trying To Open Source It First 35
10 Years Later: Malaysia To Resume Hunt For Flight MH370 73
Cory Doctorow's Prescient Novella About Health Insurance and Murder 175
10,000 Amazon Workers Go On Strike Ahead of Holiday Rush 53
Arizona's Getting an Online Charter School Taught Entirely By AI 48
US Data-Center Power Use Could Nearly Triple By 2028, DOE-Backed Report Says 37
FDA Sets Stricter Rules for 'Healthy' Food Labels 51
Academic Writing is Getting Harder To Read 108
Senators Rip Into Automakers For Selling Customer Data and Blocking Right To Repair 48
Feds Warn SMS Authentication Is Unsafe 88
FAA Bans Drone Flights Near 'Critical Infrastructure' in New Jersey 88
Biden Declares Tougher 2035 Emissions Targets Weeks Before Trump Return 168
UK Arts and Media Reject Plan To Let AI Firms Use Copyrighted Material 52
Congress Funds Removal of Chinese Telecom Gear as Feds Probe Home Router Risks 43
NHTSA Will Require Audible Seatbelt Reminders For Everyone In the Car 279
Montana Supreme Court Upholds Right To 'Stable Climate System' For Youngsters 222
'World's First' Grid-Scale Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Announced In the US 134
CDC Confirms First Human Case of Severe Bird Flu In US 83
China is Losing Interest in English 159
Coal Use To Reach New Peak - And Remain at Near-Record Levels For Years 195
US Government Tells Officials, Politicians To Ditch Regular Calls and Texts 38
EPA Lets California Set Its Own Stricter Emissions Standards Until 2035 66
Nebraska Sues UnitedHealth Unit Over 100 Million Patient Data Breach 16
Legal Language Is Deliberately Arcane To Signal Power, Study Finds 133
US Weighs Banning TP-Link Router Over National Security Concerns 148
Driverless Bus Service In Scotland To Be Withdrawn Due To Lack of Interest 72
Spain Introduces Bill To Combat Online Fake News 97
Big Loss For ISPs as Supreme Court Won't Hear Challenge To $15 Broadband Law 30
Hundreds of Websites To Shut Down Under UK's 'Chilling' Internet Laws 100
DHS Says China, Russia, Iran, and Israel Are Spying on People in US with SS7 76
The Slow Death of Neon 124
FTC Orders Ticket Sellers, Hotels To Show 'All-in' Prices Upfront 131
YouTube Is Letting Creators Opt Into Third-Party AI Training 37
More Than a Million Vapes a Day in UK Thrown Away, Says Research 62
SoftBank Chief And Trump To Unveil $100 Billion US Investment Plan 31
Are Adults Forgetting How To Read? 212
Bill Gates Recommends Four Books That 'Make Sense of the World' 130
Two Drone Pilots Arrested Near Boston, and Drones Cause One-Hour Runway Closure at North New York Airport 89
Are AI-Powered Tools - and Cheating-Detection Tools - Hurting College Students? 89
Wales Police Begin Using a Facial-Recognition Phone App 36
Raspberry Pi Announces New $90 Computer in a Keyboard, Plus 'Raspberry Pi Monitor' 92
America Prepares New AI Chip Restrictions to Close China's Backdoor Access 20
Police Report OpenAI Whistleblower Committed Suicide in November 75
Meta Asks the US Government To Block OpenAI's Switch To a For-Profit 29
The US Military is Now Talking Openly About Going On the Attack in Space 107
Officials Demand Explanation On Mysterious Drone Sightings 112
US Lawmakers Tell Apple, Google To Be Ready To Remove TikTok From App Stores on January 19 104
US Curbs Scope of China Science Accord Amid Tech Rivalry 5
Texas House Introduces Bill To Establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve 166
A Controversial Plan To Refreeze the Arctic is Seeing Promising Results 75
YouTube TV Price Hike Coming January 2025 98
UK Low-Carbon Renewable Power Set To Overtake Fossil Fuels For First Time 62
Chinese Scientists Have No Choice But To Leave US, Top Mathematician Says 235
Drylands Now Make Up 40% of Land on Earth, Excluding Antarctica, Study Says 75
Scientists Advise EU To Halt Solar Geoengineering 149
Everybody Loves FRED 56
Slashdot's Interview with Bruce Perens: How He Hopes to Help 'Post Open' Developers Get Paid 61
Bitcoin Miner Purchases 112-Megawatt Texas Wind Farm, Takes it Off the Grid 104
America's Phone Networks Could Soon Face Financial - and Criminal - Penalties for Insecure Networks 55
OpenAI Partners with Anduril, Leaving Some Employees Concerned Over Militarization of AI 46
Amazon Offers $100M in Cloud-Computing Credits for Education Projects Like 'AI Teaching Assistant' 15
US Government Orders Nationwide Testing of Milk for Bird Flu to Stop the Virus's Spread 135
75 Years of Lead in Gasoline Caused 150 Million Mental Health Disorders, Study Finds 212
The Verge Explains Why, After 13 Years, It's Offering a 'Subscription' Option for Its Supporters 27
Earth Began Absorbing More Sunlight in 2023, Climate Researchers Find 56
The Rust Foundation's Plan to Grow the Pool of Well-Trained Rust Developers 65
After 7.0 Earthquake, Coastal Northern California Phones Get 'Tsunami Warning' Alert (Since Cancelled) 46
Backdoor in Compromised Solana Code Library Drains $184,000 from Digital Wallets 22
Hard Drive Tossed in Landfill With Bitcoin Now Worth $800 Million. Lawsuits Continue 205
Bitcoin Reaches and Surpasses $100k USD 300
Internet Archive: We Will Not Appeal 'Hachette v. Internet Archive' Ruling 62
Ask Bruce Perens Your Questions About How He Hopes to Get Open Source Developers Paid 93
America's Next NASA Administrator May Be Former SpaceX Astronaut Jared Isaacman 83
Wikipedia Announces the Most Popular Articles of 2024 61
Handful of Countries Responsible For Climate Crisis, Top Court Told 195
US Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Apps Amid Unprecedented Cyberattack 58
Musk Signals Fresh Push To End US Daylight Saving Time 263
Telcos Struggle To Boot Chinese Hackers From Networks 49
The Number of Americans Wanting To Switch Jobs Hits a 10-Year High 80
UK Cyber Chief Warns Country 'Widely Underestimating' Risks From Cyberattacks 7
'Brain Rot' Named Oxford Word of the Year 2024 26
China Extends Dominance Over US in Critical Technology Race 89
For Moon Missions, Researchers Test a 3D-Printable, Waterless Concrete 31
UN Plastic Treaty Talks Collapse Without a Deal 67
'Hour of Code' Cartoon Includes a Shout-Out to AI 23
Despite Clean Energy Use, Global Warming is Still Projected to Continue 242
OpenWRT One Released: First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt 62
Oceans Cool the Climate More Than We Thought, Study Finds 101
US Insurers Are Still Charging for HIV Prevention Pills That Should Be Free 144
YouTube is Full of Old, Unseen Home Videos. Now You Can Watch Them at Random 18
To Urge Local Shopping, America Celebrates 15th Annual 'Small Business Saturday' 62
TfL Abandons Plans For Driverless Tube Trains 89
UK Lawmakers Vote in Support of Assisted Dying 127
Canada's Major News Organizations Band Together To Sue OpenAI 39
The New Climate Math on Hurricanes 136
Crypto Entrepreneur Eats $6 Million Banana on Stage 70
Intel Required To Keep Control of Foundries Under $7.9 Billion Chips Act Deal 20
NHS Major 'Cyber Incident' Forces Hospitals To Use Pen and Paper 28
Canada's Antitrust Watchdog Sues Google Alleging Anti-Competitive Conduct in Advertising 8
Coffee at Highest Price in 47 years 188
Even Central Banks Are Losing Faith in CBDCs 31
Plastics Lobbyists Make Up Biggest Group at Vital UN Treaty Talks 34
Denmark Will Plant 1 Billion Trees, Convert 10% Farmland Into Forest 120
Google Opens AI Campus In London 4
FTC Launches Broad Microsoft Antitrust Investigation 17
Philippines Recruits Civilian Tech Talent To Fend Off Cyber Attacks 11
Intel's CHIPS Act Funding Cut By Over $600 Million 25
US To Reportedly Sanction 200 More Chinese Chip Firms 82
Microsoft Shuttering Dedicated Licensing Education, Certification Site 12
Supreme Court Wants US Input On Whether ISPs Should Be Liable For Users' Piracy 114
Indonesia Says Apple's $100 Million Investment Proposal Inadequate 41
SUSE Unveils Major Rebranding, New Data-Protecting AI Platform 12
US Says Google Is an Ad Tech Monopolist, in Closing Arguments 33
Northvolt Files For Bankruptcy as Europe's Battery Champion Loses Spark 58
Three-Quarters of US Adults Are Now Overweight or Obese 303
Solar Glut: Half of California's Solar Power Sometimes Goes to Waste, Research Shows 192
World Agrees on $300B Climate Aid Financial Deal - After COP29 Summit 'Nearly Implodes' 120
Coding Boot Gamp Graduates Find Tough Prospects In an AI-Powered World 104
MacFORTH Code for 1984 Robot-Coding Game 'ChipWits' from 1984 is Now Open Source 10
GitHub Announces New Open Source Fund with Security Mentoring 2
America's DEA Ordered to Stop Searching Random Travellers at Airports - and Seizing Their Cash 211
Bank Employees Resign After Executive Demands Return to Offices Without Space for Everyone 141
Is the 'Hour of Code' the New 30-Minute Saturday Morning Cartoon Commercial? 20
Neuralink Receives Canadian Approval For Brain Chip Trial 17
China Wiretaps Americans in 'Worst Hack in Our Nation's History' 91
Mozilla Warns DOJ's Google Breakup Plan May Hurt Small Browser Makers 114
School Did Nothing Wrong When It Punished Student For Using AI, Court Rules 129
Jim Zemlin, 'Head Janitor of Open Source,' Marks 20 Years At Linux Foundation 3
US Agency Votes To Launch Review, Update Undersea Telecommunications Cable Rules 21
SEC Chair Gary Gensler To Step Down 81
MIT Undergrads With Family Income Below $200K Can Attend Tuition-free In 2025 81
Is Your Master's Degree Useless? 138
US Regulators Seek To Break Up Google, Forcing Chrome Sale 144
Ubuntu Linux Impacted By Decade-Old 'needrestart' Flaw That Gives Root 87
Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds 41
Delhi Trudges Through Another Air Pollution Nightmare With No Answers 71
Five Firms in Plastic Pollution Alliance 'Made 1,000 Times More Plastic Than They Cleaned Up' 43
FLTK 1.4 Released 21
Can Google Scholar Survive the AI Revolution? 44
Indian News Agency Sues OpenAI Alleging Copyright Infringement 10
Embattled Superconductivity Scientist Is Out 39
Bhutan, After Prioritizing Happiness, Now Faces an Existential Crisis 132
Twenty Is Building an Open Source Alternative To Salesforce 22
London Bus Crashes Are the Result of an Unsafe Model 119
DOJ Wants Google To Sell Chrome To Break Search Monopoly 108
Explicit Deepfake Scandal Shuts Down Pennsylvania School 138
China Population Set for 51 Million Drop as Pro-Birth Moves Fail 259
Trump Picks Carr To Head FCC With Pledge To Fight 'Censorship Cartel' 233
AI Investments Are Booming, but Venture-Firm Profits Are at a Historic Low 31
What Happened When a Washington County Tried a 32-Hour Workweek? 123
Carbon Emissions Continued Increasing Last Year, Especially in China and India - But Not the US 222
'Automotive Grade Linux' Will Promote Open Source Program Offices for Automakers 28
AI Lab PleIAs Releases Fully Open Dataset, as AMD, Ai2 Release Open AI Models 5
Chegg, Down From $12 Billion To $159 Million In Value, Lays Off Hundreds; CEO Blames Google and AI 23
Biden Administration Finalizes $6.6 Billion In Chips Grants For TSMC 39
FTC Reports 50% Drop in Unwanted Call Complaints Since 2021 50
The Rich Country With the Worst Mobile-Phone Service 72
Cop Summits 'No Longer Fit For Purpose', Say Leading Climate Policy Experts 63
Brazil's Online Betting Surge Sparks Debt Crisis as Users Turn To 400% Loans 53
Republican States' Attorneys General Sue SEC, Gensler Over Crypto 'Overreach' 103
Open Source Fights Back: 'We Won't Get Patent-Trolled Again' 64
US Regulators Plan To Investigate Microsoft's Cloud Business 20
CFPB Looks To Place Google Under Federal Supervision 26
Apple Faces UK 'iCloud Monopoly' Compensation Claim Worth $3.8 Billion 73
Experts Testify US Is Running Secret UAP Programs 177
FBI Seizes Polymarket CEO's Phone, Electronics After Betting Platform Predicts Trump Win 134
Amazon Shuts Down Secret Project To Develop Fertility Tracker 96
Secret Service Says You Agreed To Be Tracked With Location Data 103
Canada Passes New Right To Repair Rules With the Same Old Problem 16
Discord Leaker Sentenced To 15 Years In Prison 89
Spotify's Car Thing, Due For Bricking, Is Getting an Open Source Second Life 15
Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World 35
Bitcoin Pushes Past $90,000 92
The US Has a Cloned Sheep Contraband Problem 109
US Senate To Revive Software Patents With PERA Bill Vote On Thursday 111
Pakistan Limits Outdoor Activities, Market Hours To Curb Air Pollution-Related Illness 27
Somebody Moved UK's Oldest Satellite, No-One Knows Who or Why 52
SpaceX Alums Find Traction On Earth With Their Mars-Inspired CO2-To-Fuel Tech 49
GIMP 3.0 Enters RC Testing After 20 Years 55
Apple Will Let You Share AirTag Locations With a Link 16
FTX Sues Crypto Exchange Binance and Its Former CEO Zhao For $1.8 Billion 7
Biden Administration To Support Controversial UN Cyber Treaty 115
How ChatGPT Brought Down an Online Education Giant 60
2024 On Track To Be Hottest Year on Record as Warming Temporarily Hits 1.5C 105
Are America's Courts Going After Digital Libraries? 43
Firefox Gets More Investment in New Features, Prioritizing People (and Privacy) Over Profit 83
Can AI-Enabled Thermostats Create a 'Virtual Power Plant' in Texas? 113
How Gophers Restored Plant Life to a Volcano-Ravaged Mountain - in One Day. 55
Free Software Foundation Plans Year of Celebrations For Its 40th Anniversary 22
The Team Behind GitHub's 'Atom' IDE Build a Cross-Platform, AI-Optional 'Zed Editor' 29
Gig-Working Uber and Lyft Drivers Can Unionize, Say Massachusetts Voters 53
Behind the Scenes at a Minuteman ICBM Test Launch 61
Are Microbes Increasing Levels of Methane in the Atmosphere? 71
20 Years Ago Today: 'Firefox Browser Takes on Microsoft' 50
Forty-Three Monkeys Escape From US Research Lab 138
FBI Says Hackers Are Sending Fraudulent Police Data Requests To Tech Giants To Steal People's Private Information 42
Cop29 CEO Filmed Agreeing To Facilitate Fossil Fuel Deals at Climate Summit 70
Max Is Getting Ready For Its Own Password-Sharing Crackdown 42
Interview with Programmer Steve Yegge On the Future of AI Coding 73
Global Temperatures Likely To Exceed Key Limit For First Time 120
US Agency Warns Employees About Phone Use Amid Ongoing China Hack 8
Plastic Pollution is Changing Entire Earth System, Scientists Find 86
Canada Bans TikTok Citing National Security Concerns 86
Anthropic's Haiku 3.5 Surprises Experts With an 'Intelligence' Price Increase 13
UK Will Legislate Against AI Risks in Next Year, Pledges Kyle 17
Google Asked To Remove 10 Billion 'Pirate' Search Results 23
Russian Email Domains Target US Polling Sites with Bomb Threats, FBI Says 57

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