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Tech Culture

January

Web innovator, activist Aaron Swartz dies at 26

Software dev outsources his job to China, makes good money goofing off all day

Atari files for bankruptcy in the US, selling iconic logo and assets

February

FCC chairman wants to build a free nationwide Wi-Fi network

AOL dial-up users account for 70% of profit, posts first gains in 8 years

Watch this: TPB AFK, The Pirate Bay documentary is out

The Pirate Bay sues anti-piracy group for copying its design

Scientists develop computer that never crashes

Controversial 'six-strikes' copyright alert system launches in US

After review Tesla loses hundreds of orders, $100 million in stock market value

Gates, Zuckerberg and others come together in coding PSA

'Game of Thrones' director David Petrarca isn't concerned with piracy

Time Warner says there is no demand for residential gigabit Internet

March

Manning pleads guilty, hoped leaks would "cause society to reconsider" war on terror

White House: It's time to legalize cell phone unlocking

Phone-unlocking petition author launches "Fix the DMCA" campaign

Generation Free: Piracy, distribution, and entertainment

Australian store implements $5 cover charge to combat showrooming

April

Disney closes LucasArts, staff laid off, Star Wars 1313 cancelled

Rackspace goes after 'most notorious patent troll in America'

May

Staples becomes first major US retailer to sell 3D printer

Can't afford Google Glass? Make your own like this guy did

Timelapse project shows how Earth has changed over 28 years

Television Consumer Freedom Act aims to eliminate pay TV bundles

Quantum computer dominates traditional PC in head-to-head battle

New bill aims to legalize cell phone unlocking, fix the DMCA

Bill Gates discusses the last time he met with Steve Jobs

Bill Gates is once again the richest person in the world

Bitcoin's big mystery: who created the virtual currency system?

IBM's Watson conquers Jeopardy, cancer and now customer service

June

Canadian Filmmaker granted access to excavate Atari landfill

Made in America: Lenovo opens manufacturing facility in Whitsett, North Carolina

American public deems NSA's phone spying acceptable, says Pew study

Top 10 countries requesting user data from tech companies

DNA can no longer be patented, says US Supreme Court

Sharp develops world's most efficient solar panel

China reclaims world's fastest supercomputer title

PayPal to address the future of space currency

July

Doug Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, dies at 88

Samsung disappoints investors despite record $8.3 billion profit

Driverless cars to have a tremendous impact on our cities

Researchers create five-dimensional storage medium with 360TB capacity that can outlast the human race

Elon Musk to publish Hyperloop transport system plans next month

AI has the mental capacity of a four-year-old with no common sense

Tesla's Model S factory is full of advanced robotics

August

Snowden granted 1-year temporary asylum in Russia

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison implies Apple is doomed without Steve Jobs

Tesla's Model S electric car earns highest safety rating of any vehicle

WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison

Kevin Spacey urges TV, film industry to revamp distribution methods

September

Dell cleared for $25 billion buyout, will remain committed to PCs

Renowned audio engineer Ray Dolby passes away

Defining a generation: The audio cassette turns 50 today

Bill Gates claims stake as richest American for 20th straight year

White House files petition with the FCC to legalize cell phone unlocking

'Breaking Bad' secret to success is in the technology: HD, DVR, Netflix

Palo Alto to require new homes be wired for electric car charging

October

Bitcoin price plummets following FBI seizure of Silk Road

Canadian government wants to unbundle television channels, offer a la carte programming

Mark Zuckerberg was the highest-paid CEO in North America last year at $2.28 billion

Self-driving cars projected to reduce injuries by 90 percent, save $450 billion annually

World's first Bitcoin ATM to open in Vancouver this week

Dell closes $25 billion buyout, moves forward as a private company

Man forgets about $27 Bitcoin investment made four years ago, now worth $1M

November

UK town to deploy driverless pods for public transport

Dish to close remaining 300 Blockbuster retail stores, shutter DVD-by-mail service

Computer History Museum publishes Apple II DOS source code

24 accidental scientific discoveries that reshaped the world forever

Coin is the all-in-one credit card designed to slim down your wallet

Newly appointed FCC chairman calls for wireless carriers to unlock cell phones

Gaming company hit with $1 million fine for turning customer PCs into Bitcoin miners

FCC may allow passengers to make in-flight cellular calls

Cable TV subscriptions at major providers set to drop below 40 million

Bitcoin exchange rate tops $1,000 for first time ever

OCZ files for bankruptcy, will sell assets to Toshiba

Man searches for hard drive worth $7.5 million in UK landfill

December

Amazon reveals plans to deliver packages using autonomous drones

KnCMiner sells $8 million worth of new 20nm Bitcoin mining hardware in 24 hours

Bank of America report: Bitcoin could become a 'major means of payment'

Bill Gates plays Santa for one lucky Reddit user

IT Security

January

Anonymous seeks to make DDoS attacks a legal form of protest

New zero-day vulnerability in Java being widely exploited

Kaspersky uncovers five-year cyber espionage campaign, Red October

February

Anonymous reveals personal information of 4,000 U.S. bank executives

Report links Chinese military to majority of cyberattacks against US

Apple says they were hacked by the same group that hit Facebook

Google has reduced hacked Gmail accounts by 99.7 percent since 2011

March

All browsers fall at Pwn2Own but Chrome OS survives Pwnium

Reuters employee indicted for conspiring with Anonymous members

Origin vulnerability lets attackers hijack gaming machines

April

Rackspace goes after 'most notorious patent troll in America'

Hacker demonstrates how to hijack an airplane using an Android app

LulzSec leader arrested in Australia, authorities say

May

UK LulzSec hackers sentenced to varying prison terms

LulzSec member Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to Stratfor attack

June

Georgia Tech researchers hack iPhone with malicious wall-charger

Zeus Trojan returns: Facebook being used to spread the infection

Microsoft and FBI take down Citadel botnet responsible for stealing $500 million

U.S. government confirms PRISM surveillance program, tech companies deny involvement

Anonymous leaks NSA documents linked to PRISM

NSA PRISM whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals himself

PRISM declassified by NSA to mitigate misimpressions and inaccuracies

In the wake of PRISM, should we give up on online privacy?

Whistleblower Edward Snowden answers questions in live Q&A session

Cookie-blocking browser plugin Ghostery feeds data to the ad industry

Onion Pi transforms Raspberry Pi into anonymous Wi-Fi hotspot

Help Microsoft find bugs in Windows 8.1 Preview and earn up to $100,000

SSL encrypted communications intercepted and stored by PRISM

July

Report: France runs its own surveillance program similar to PRISM

Made ya look! Google Glass was hackable with a simple QR code

NSA and GCHQ siphoning data from undersea fiber optic cables

Nowhere to hide: Feds reportedly demand passwords from internet companies

Acclaimed hacker Barnaby Jack dead ahead of anticipated Black Hat chat

August

Researchers demo 'fake charger' iPhone hack, fix coming in iOS 7

The FBI can remotely activate laptop and Android microphones with spyware

Tor advises users to ditch Windows after anonymity-busting attack

Chrome draws criticism for storing passwords unprotected

Hackers demonstrate Toyota Prius hijacking on video

Private email conversations are impossible, says secure email provider

Hacker pleads guilty to selling login credentials for US supercomputers

September

Google knows every single Android user's WiFi password

Ivy Bridge hardware trojan is nearly impossible to detect

October

Symantec grapples with one of the largest botnets in history

Cyber attack hits Adobe, 2.9 million accounts compromised

Microsoft awards $100,000 to single researcher in Windows 8.1 bounty program

D-Link router backdoor vulnerability allows full access to settings

Security research firm says Apple can read your iMessages

Malware Alert: Downloading the "GTA V PC torrent" is 18GB worth of bad ideas

Leaked documents reveal NSA spied on the phone conversations of 35 world leaders

Latest Snowden documents reveal the NSA infiltrates Google, Yahoo data center traffic at will

November

Watch this 1988 news report about the world's first computer worm

badBIOS: The unstoppable malware that infects firmware, jumps 'Airgaps'

Hackers infiltrate wallet service and get away with 4,100 Bitcoins worth $1.18 million

FBI: Anonymous has been hacking US government computers for a year

December

Huawei decides to exit the US market over cyber espionage concerns

Hacker database discovered with millions of account credentials from Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo

Someone's reportedly hijacking vast amounts of government and financial data through a US internet security hole

NSA uses Google-specific cookie to locate and hack selected targets

MacBook webcams can spy on you without any warning, research shows

Infamous NSA leaker Edward Snowden says he's "already won"



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