Software Stories for 2019

Baidu Has a New Trick For Teaching AI the Meaning of Language 12
A Twitter App Bug Was Used To Match 17 Million Phone Numbers To User Accounts 5
A 22-Year-Old Was Convicted For Attempting To Blackmail Apple For $100,000 In iTunes Gift Cards 32
Volkswagen Has 'massive' Software Problems With New ID3 Electric Vehicles 107
State of Apple's Catalyst 16
Contractor Admits Planting Logic Bombs In His Software To Ensure He'd Get New Work 117
Tesla Is Nerfing Autopilot In Europe To Comply With New Regulations 110
Facebook Has a Neural Network That Can Do Advanced Math 36
Microsoft Starts Showing Non-Removable Ads In Windows 10 Mail, Calendar Apps 176
Apple Pulls App That Let You Turn Your Phone Into a Virtual iPod With Click Wheel 39
Ask Slashdot: Who Is Most Likely To Challenge Microsoft In the Office? 147
Fake Princesses, Pulled Teeth, and a Whole Lot of IP Infringement 104
Researchers Fooled Chinese Facial Recognition Terminals With Just a Mask 24
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94 26
New Orleans City Government Shuts Off Computers After Cyberattack 30
Cigna Uses AI To Check If Patients Are Taking Their Medications 32
Cisco Outlines Silicon, Software Roadmap For Next Generation Internet 21
Microsoft Reveals New Windows Logo, Office Icons 52
Getting Drivers for Old Hardware Is Harder Than Ever 165
Researchers Report Breakthrough In 'Distributed Deep Learning' 16
Apple's Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market 105
Oculus Quest Becomes First VR Set With Native Hand Tracking 16
New Iranian Wiper Discovered In Attacks On Middle Eastern Companies 37
TikTok's Parent Company Sued For Collecting Data On Kids 23
FaceApp and Other Russian Apps Pose Potential Counterintelligence Threats, Says FBI 22
Putin Signs Law Making Russian Apps Mandatory On Smartphones, Computers 64
10 Years In, WhatsApp Still Needs True Multi-Device Support 22
High-Paid, Well-Educated White Collar Workers Will Be Heavily Affected By AI, Says New Report 147
Go Master Lee Se-Dol Quits Because AI 'Cannot Be Defeated' 106
Microsoft Starts Talking Up Its Progressive Web App Plans 27
Transport Canada Official Says 737 MAX MCAS System 'Has To Go' 130
Amazon's Ring Planned Neighborhood 'Watch Lists' Built On Facial Recognition 68
Google Addresses Complaints of Sub-4K Image Quality On Stadia 44
Finland Has an App Showing Shopping's True Carbon Footprint 57
Russia Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software 78
Inside Apple's iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut 55
Ride-Hailing Apps Have Allowed More Binging and Increased Demand For Bartenders 110
EverQuest and Pantheon Developer Brad McQuaid Has Died 52
MIT Teaches Autonomous Cars How To Deal With Selfish Drivers 117
Apple Announces Special App-Focused Event For December 2nd 5
Intel To Remove Old Drivers and BIOS Updates From Its Site 130
GitHub Places Open-Source Code In Arctic Cave For Safekeeping 50
IBM's 200,000 Macs Have Made a Happier and More Productive Workforce, Study Finds 169
'Platinum' Hacking Group Strikes Again With Complex Titanium Backdoor To Windows 14
GitLab Director Resigns, Says It's Engaging In 'Retaliatory Behavior' 44
Chrome OS 78 Rolling Out With Picture-In-Picture Support For YouTube, Split Browser/Device Settings, More 15
Adobe Exec Defends Photoshop for iPad After App Falls Flat 74
Google Asks Three Mobile Security Firms To Help Scan Play Store Apps 13
Facebook Says 100 Software Developers May Have Improperly Accessed User Data 17
Adobe Photoshop Finally Arrives on the iPad 30
Text Editor Releases 'Free Uyghur' Edition, Gets Swamped With Chinese Spam 245
Apple App Store Bug Reportedly Erases Over 20 Million App Ratings In a Week 10
New 'Unremovable' XHelper Malware Has Infected 45,000 Android Devices 60
Top Linux Developer On Intel Chip Security Problems: 'They're Not Going Away.' 87
Ask Slashdot: How Was the Quality of Your Academic Tech Education? 96
iPadOS Discoverability Trouble 41
iOS 13.2 Released With Deep Fusion, Siri Privacy Settings 23
Adobe Gets US License To Operate In Venezuela Despite Sanctions 31
Australia Wants To Use Face Recognition For Porn Age Verification 89
Algorithms Will Be 'Driving the Majority of Facebook News,' Says Facebook 11
Google Researchers Taught An AI To Recognize Smells 18
Researchers Find Racial Bias In Hospital Algorithm 114
Google's Play Store Gives a Worse Age Rating To Fleksy, a Gboard Rival 23
Android Pie Passes 20% Adoption After 12 Months 36
Chrome 78 Arrives With New APIs, Dark Mode Improvements On Android and iOS 45
An Interview With Former Purism CTO Zlatan Todoric Hints At Chaos At Purism 8
Google Says a Fix For Pixel 4 Face Unlock Is 'Months' Away 32
California Launches First Statewide Earthquake Early Warning System 17
MediaLab Buys Kik 8
DoNotPay App Waits On Hold For You 39
GitLab Won't Exclude Customers On Moral Grounds, Says That Employees Should Not Discuss Politics At Work 175
Google's New Voice Recorder App Transcribes in Real Time, Even When Offline 27
Google Announces New Google Assistant With Huge Boost To Speed 21
China Has Gained the Ability To Spy On More Than 100 Million Citizens Via a Heavily Promoted Official App, Report Suggests 47
Smart TVs Are Data-Collecting Machines, New Study Shows 41
Google's Next Pixelbook Is Basically a MacBook That Runs Chrome OS 44
Tim Cook Defends Decision To Remove Hong Kong Maps App In Memo 120
China Attacks Apple For Allowing Hong Kong Crowdsourced Police Activity App 69
Thunderbird Announces OpenPGP Support 40
Apple's Merged iPad, Mac Apps Leave Developers Uneasy, Users Paying Twice 38
Slashdot Asks: What Did You Like/Dislike About iTunes? 131
Hulu Finally Adds Downloads For Offline Mobile Viewing 16
Egypt Used Google Play In Spy Campaign Targeting Its Own Citizens 12
Docker Is In Deep Trouble 141
New App Claims It Can Identify Venture Capitalists Using Facial Recognition 70
We Are in the Middle of a Wave of Interesting New Productivity Software Startups 45
Top Oracle Lawyer Attempting To Gaslight Entire Software Community: Insists APIs Are Executable 173
Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop Hits General Availability 30
ExpressVPN To Be Pre-installed on HP Consumer PCs 41
Do We Need To Rethink What Free Software Is? 136
Alternative iOS App Store Doesn't Require a Jailbreak 55
Microsoft Bans CCleaner: Report 71
Windows 10 Is Used On Over 900 Million Devices 115
Mysterious Avid Issue Knocks Out Mac Pro Workstations Across Hollywood 98
Busy North Korean Hackers Have New Malware To Target ATMs 25
Ask Slashdot: Why Doesn't the Internet In 2019 Use More Interactive 3D? 153
Google Play Pass Bundles 350 Android Games and Apps For $4.99 Per Month 14
Systemd-homed: Systemd Now Working To Improve Home Directory Handling 238
Apple's iOS 13 Just Launched But iOS 13.1, iPadOS Arrive Next Week 51
Google Preps 'Smart Screenshots' Feature To Let You Search With a Screenshot 17
Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT 725
Linux Foundation Survey Proves Open-Source Offices Work Better 35
Volkswagen's Bold Plan To Create a New Car OS 63
Alabama Tracking Students' Locations To Penalize Them For Leaving Games Early 114
iPhone 11 Lineup Said To Include Two-Way Charging Hardware, But Software Disabled 16
GNOME 3.34 Released 28
Most Android Flashlight Apps Request An Absurd Number of Permissions 109
Apple Arcade Will Be Available On September 19 For $4.99 39
The Feature-rich Vivaldi Browser Arrives on Android 33
How Apple Stacked the App Store With Its Own Products 52
'It's Not You. Software Has Gotten Far More Expensive' 145
'It Shouldn't Be This Hard To Responsibly Fly a Drone' 67
Wunderlist Founder Wants To Buy His App Back 31
Apple Change Causes Scramble Among Private Messaging App Makers 40
Faulty Tesla App Locked Some Owners Out of Their Cars For Hours 144
Don't Get Locked Up Into Avoiding Lock-in 63
Company Behind Foxit PDF Reader Announces Security Breach 17
Huawei's Next Phone Will Not Have Google Apps 42
17-Year-Old RSS Reader for Mac, NetNewsWire, Releases v5.0 7
NPM Bans Terminal Ads 25
Microsoft Unveils New Tablet Experience For Windows 10 21
Illinois County To Use Algorithm To Automatically Expunge Old Marijuana Convictions 65
Trojan Dropper Malware Found In CamScanner Android App With 100+ Million Downloads 34
Valve Says Turning Away Researcher Reporting Steam Vulnerability Was a Mistake 27
VMware Buys Carbon Black and Pivotal, Valued Together at $4.8 billion 12
Amazon, Microsoft Are 'Putting World At Risk of Killer AI,' Says Study 95
Splunk To Buy Cloud-Monitoring Software Maker SignalFx For $1.05 Billion 6
DoorDash Still Pockets Workers' Tips Almost a Month After It Promised To Stop 81
YouTube Removes Videos of Robots Fighting For 'Animal Cruelty' 94
Bitbucket Dropping Support For Mercurial 42
Huawei Is Working On Its Own Version of Google Maps 42
Anime Studio, Khara, Is Planning To Use Open-Source Blender Software 20
Huge Survey of Firmware Finds No Security Gains In 15 Years 61
Apple Files Lawsuit Against Corellium For iOS Emulation 60
AI Startup Claims To Automate App Making But Actually Just Uses Humans 38
Researchers Found World-Readable Database Used To Secure Buildings Around the Globe 9
Cray Is Building a Supercomputer To Manage the US' Nuclear Stockpile 65
Google Launches 'Live View' AR Walking Directions For Google Maps 20
Trump Asks Social Media Companies To Develop Pre-Crime Algorithms 333
$10.7 Billion Broadcom-Symantec Enterprise Deal Creates Software Titan 30
Skype, Slack, Other Electron-Based Apps Can Be Easily Backdoored 82
Samsung's DeX On Note 10 Brings Phone Apps To Your PC 32
Final Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Version Released 69
Microsoft's New Windows Terminal Update Is Out and It's 'Huge' 152
Ask Slashdot: Do You Prefer One-Time Purchases or SaaS Subscriptions? 356
Google Is Testing a $4.99 App Subscription Bundle 49
Researchers Demonstrate Two-Track Algorithm For Detecting Deepfakes 41
Chrome 76 Arrives With Flash Blocked By Default 87
200 Million Devices -- Some Mission-Critical -- Vulnerable To Remote Takeover 46
On the Benefits of Speedy Software, and How It Affects User Perception of Engineering Quality and Overall Usability 140
GitHub Starts Blocking Developers In Countries Facing US Trade Sanctions 143
Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines To Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours 131
Boeing Says It Might Have To Shut Down 737 Max Production 188
DoorDash Flip-Flops On Controversial Pay Policy, Says Tips Will Go To Delivery Workers 235
Siemens Contractor Pleads Guilty To Planting Logic Bomb In Company Spreadsheets 165
Delivery Apps Like DoorDash Are Using Your Tips To Pay Workers' Wages 242
SUSE Names Melissa Di Donato New CEO 87
Microsoft Pays $25 Million To End US Probe Into Bribery Overseas 52
Emotion-Detection Applications Are Built On Outdated Science, Report Warns 18
Chuck Schumer Asks FBI To Investigate FaceApp 108
Dropbox Accidentally Installed New File Manager App On Users' Systems 74
DoNotPay's New Service Auto-Cancels Free Trials 37
To Foil Hackers, 'Morpheus' Chip Can Change Its Code In the Blink of An Eye 80
Oakland Becomes Third US City To Ban Facial Recognition 63
Making the Case For a Microsoft Surface Phone That Runs Android 73
40 Years Later, Lessons From the Rise and Quick Decline of the First 'Killer App' 77
Apollo 11 Had a Hidden Hero: Software 171
Apple Plans To Bankroll Original Podcasts To Fend Off Rivals 50
Glitch Causes Smart Meter Displays In England To Appear In Welsh Language 107
Machine Learning Has Been Used To Automatically Translate Long-Lost Languages 111
Broadcom and Symantec End Buyout Talks 17
Microsoft Office 365: Now Illegal In Many Schools in Germany 137
Monroe College Hit With Ransomware, $2 Million Demanded 97
Microsoft Stirs Suspicions By Adding Telemetry Files To Security-Only Update 154
Facebook AI Pluribus Defeats Top Poker Pros In 6-Player Texas Hold 'Em 58
Malicious Apps Infect 25 Million Android Devices With 'Agent Smith' Malware 26
Microsoft Teams Overtakes Slack With 13 Million Daily Users 89
The Most Clever 'Zip Bomb' Ever Made Explodes a 46MB File To 4.5 Petabytes 102
Google Contractors Are Secretly Listening To Your Assistant Recordings 129
Microsoft Might Crush Slack Like Facebook Crushed Snapchat 144
Samba 4.11 Removes SMB1 File-Sharing Protocol Version By Default 40
Email App Superhuman's Superficial Privacy Fixes Do Not Prevent It From Spying on You 32
Microsoft Releases Public Preview of Desktop Analytics To Help With Windows 10 Update Readiness Checks 21
Broadcom Said To Be In Talks To Buy Symantec, the Security Software Maker 39
iOS 13 Will Add Fake Eye Contact To FaceTime For Improved Intimacy 73
Microsoft Is Teasing Windows 1.0 and Other 1980s Software 67
India's First CPUs Are Ready For App Development 142
Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced To Lower-Paid Engineers 355
Microsoft Excel Power Query Feature Can Be Abused For Malware Distribution 13
Google Maps Can Now Predict How Crowded Your Bus Or Trail Will Be 41
Slashdot Asks: Which iPhone Is Your Favorite? 203
New Flaw Discovered On Boeing 737 Max 114
Smartphones and Fitness Trackers Are Being Used To Gauge Employee Performance 115
Apple Cites Irrelevant Spotify Subscription Stats In New Antitrust Defense 41
German Regulator Says It Discovered New Illegal Software On Daimler Diesels 73
Should Slack-Like Chat Clients Replace Email? 164
Desjardins Data Breach Affecting 2.9 Million Members Caused By Employee Who's Since Been Fired 27
Google Admits Bug Could Let People Spy On Nest Cameras 30
Slack is Now Worth More Than $20 Billion 104
Tech Companies Are Binge-Hiring Neuroscientists 46
Boeing To Use Computer Simulations Instead of Physical Certification Tests For Some Aircraft 138
Google Is Finally Taking Charge of the RCS Rollout 40
New Deepfake Algorithm Allows You To Text-Edit the Words of a Speaker In a Video 97
Adobe's Experimental AI Tool Can Tell If Something's Been Photoshopped 65
KDE Plasma 5.16 Released 49
Ask Slashdot: Should All OSs Ship With a Programming Language Built In? 307
'The New Dropbox Sucks' 135
SwiftUI and Catalyst: Apple Executes Its Invisible Transition Strategy 44
Huawei Started Serving Ads On Phone Lock Screens Without Asking Users' Permission 71
Google Made a Video Game That Lets You Build Video Games 36
Netflix Unveils Plans To Develop Original Shows Into Video Games 57
Google Drive Will Stop Syncing With Google Photos In July 48
Scientists Train AI To Learn People's Voices, Then Generate Their Faces 63
Google Maps Will Tell You If Your Taxi Driver Is Veering Off Course To Rack Up a Higher Fare 115
Opera, Brave, Vivaldi To Ignore Chrome's Anti-Ad-Blocker Changes, Despite Shared Codebase 112
Training a Single AI Model Can Emit As Much Carbon As Five Cars In Their Lifetimes 156
Google To 'Stop Supporting' Google Trips For Android 27
The Clever Cryptography Behind Apple's 'Find My' Feature 91
Microsoft and Oracle Link Up Their Clouds 69
Google Offers New Treasure Trove of Air Quality Data To Researchers 32
Mouse Support In iOS 13 and iPadOS Includes USB and Bluetooth Devices 69
Google Launches Android Q Beta 4 With Final APIs and Official SDK 13
Apple Will Permanently Remove Dashboard In macOS Catalina 98
Firefox Starts Blocking Third-Party Cookies By Default 51
Apple Is Now the Privacy-As-A-Service Company 92
Apple Limits Tracking and Ads In Kid-Focused Apps 27
Apple Expands tvOS Gaming With PS4, Xbox One S Controller Support 27
Apple Debuts SwiftUI and New Xcode Interactive Development Experience 41
Blockchain Firm Planning To Build 'Smart City' Buys Slock.it 25
Apple's MacOS Catalina Will Open Up To iPad Apps, Be Available In the Fall 38
iOS 13: Apple Brings Dark Mode To iPhones and Multitasking Overhaul To iPads 51
Ask Slashdot: Why Is 3D Technology Stagnating So Badly? 188
iTunes Expected To Be Retired After Over 18 Years 82
Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform App Dream Is Dead and Buried 69
Amazon Patent Reveals Plans To Allow Alexa To Listen, Record Users At All Times 171
Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China In Plastic 76
DIY Facial Recognition For Porn Is a Dystopian Disaster 532
PCI Express 5.0 Announced With 32GT/s Transfer Rates 62
Uber Will Start Deactivating Riders With Low Ratings 136
Apple Sued By iTunes Customers Over Alleged Data Misuse 29
YouTube Gaming App Shuts Down This Week 52
Huawei Has Now Been Cut Off By the SD Association, Wi-Fi Alliance 276
Microsoft Is Putting the Sexy Into Unsexy Software 89
Intel SVP Gregory Bryant Opens Up On Project Athena Laptop Initiative 41
GitHub Launches Sponsors, Lets You Pay Your Favorite Open-Source Contributors 85
Deepfakes Can Now Be Made From a Single Photo 64
Apple Agrees To Notify iPhone Users If iOS Updates Will Affect Performance, UK Watchdog Says 42
Consumer Reports: Latest Autopilot 'Far Less Competent Than a Human' 196
Millions of Golfers Land In Privacy Hazard After Cloud Misconfig 29
Crowdfunded Android Console Ouya Will Be Shut Down On June 25th 77

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