| Date / Time |
Story |
| Wednesday March 15, 2023 @01:42AM |
Microsoft Lays Off Key AI Ethics Team, Report Says |
| Thursday February 24, 2022 @07:33PM |
ACM, Ethics, and Corporate Behavior |
| Thursday April 08, 2021 @09:45PM |
Studies That Add Human Cells To Animal Brains Are Ethical, Panel Says |
| Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:54PM |
Google AI Research Manager Quits After Two Ousted From Group |
| Friday April 17, 2020 @01:51PM |
AI Researchers Propose 'Bias Bounties' To Put Ethics Principles Into Practice |
| Monday March 23, 2020 @04:32AM |
Make ventilator designs open source |
| Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:37PM |
Amazon Asks Court To Halt Microsoft's Work on Pentagon 'War Cloud' |
| Monday November 25, 2019 @05:45AM |
Do AI Deserve the Same Rights as Animals? |
| Friday November 22, 2019 @07:23PM |
Ask Slashdot: Is There A Physiological Explanation For Unethical Behaviour? |
| Thursday November 14, 2019 @05:12AM |
GitHub Faces More Resignations In Light of ICE Contract |
| Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:55PM |
Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students' Essays |
| Sunday July 07, 2019 @01:25PM |
The Netherlands National Airline Encourages People To Not Fly |
| Friday May 31, 2019 @01:48PM |
Google Declines to Remove Outrageous Antivaxxer's YouTube Videos |
| Thursday May 30, 2019 @10:24AM |
Tech Giant Brings Software To a Gun Fight |
| Thursday April 18, 2019 @03:38AM |
Microsoft Turned Down Facial-Recognition Sales On Human Rights Concerns |
| Wednesday April 10, 2019 @06:54PM |
Chinese Scientists Have Put Human Brain Genes In Monkeys -- And Yes, They May Be Smarter |
| Friday April 05, 2019 @12:04AM |
Google Cancels AI Ethics Board In Response To Outcry |
| Tuesday March 26, 2019 @04:03PM |
Google Launches Global Council To Advise on AI and Tech Ethics |
| Monday March 25, 2019 @04:48AM |
Can We Build Ethics Into Automated Decision-Making? |
| Saturday March 09, 2019 @06:57PM |
A Doctor Remotely Told A Patient He Was Going To Die Using A Video-Link Robot |
| Saturday March 09, 2019 @02:28PM |
Doctor Tells Patient He Is Going To Die Through Video-Link Robot |
| Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:21PM |
Ask Slashdot: Is It Ethical To Purchase Electronics Products Made In China? |
| Tuesday February 12, 2019 @05:43PM |
Ask Slashdot: Is It Ethical To Purchase Electronics Products Made In China? |
| Friday January 18, 2019 @07:20PM |
Giving Algorithms a Sense of Uncertainty Could Make Them More Ethical |
| Tuesday December 11, 2018 @04:05AM |
China To Force Changes To 20 Popular Games, Ban 9 Including Fortnite and PUBG |
| Sunday October 28, 2018 @06:00PM |
In a Crash, Should Self-Driving Cars Save Passengers or Pedestrians? 2 Million People Weigh In |
| Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:35PM |
Tim Berners-Lee on the Huge Sociotechnical Design Challenge |
| Wednesday October 10, 2018 @01:40PM |
Mozilla Challenges Educators To Integrate Ethics Into STEM |
| Monday October 08, 2018 @10:36AM |
Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For? |
| Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:31PM |
Senior Google Scientist Resigns Over 'Forfeiture of Our Values' in China |
| Friday May 11, 2018 @10:01PM |
Google's 'Duplex' System Will Identify Itself When Talking To People, Says Google |
| Thursday March 15, 2018 @10:41AM |
Can AMD Vulnerabilities Be Used To Game the Stock Market? |
| Wednesday January 17, 2018 @04:44PM |
The World's Top-Selling Video Game Has a Cheating Problem |
| Tuesday June 06, 2017 @02:24PM |
More Than 20 Employees Fired at Uber in Sexual Harassment Investigation |
| Monday November 21, 2016 @10:29PM |
Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? |
| Monday September 19, 2016 @05:22PM |
UK Standards Body Issues Official Guidance On Robot Ethics |
| Friday July 29, 2016 @04:00PM |
Instagram Will Soon Allow Users To Filter Comments |
| Tuesday July 26, 2016 @08:31PM |
'Sister Clones' Of Dolly The Sheep Have Aged Like Any Other Sheep, Study Says |
| Friday May 20, 2016 @04:34PM |
Judge Orders 'Intentionally Deceptive' DOJ Lawyers To Take Remedial Ethics Class |
| Monday May 09, 2016 @12:54PM |
Twitter Blocks Feds From Data Mining Service |
| Thursday March 24, 2016 @02:54PM |
Slashdot Asks: Should NPR Stop Promoting Its Own Podcasts and NPR One App On Air? |
| Wednesday March 23, 2016 @09:22PM |
Company Behind Badlock Disclosure Says Pre-Patch Hype Is Good Marketing |
| Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:49AM |
That Awkward Moment When 'Apple Mocked Good Hardware and Poor People' |
| Thursday February 25, 2016 @02:27PM |
Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Shelved OSS Project Fixes? |
| Thursday February 11, 2016 @10:22PM |
Debating a Ban On Autonomous Weapons |
| Wednesday February 10, 2016 @11:28PM |
Why Winners Become Cheaters |
| Tuesday February 09, 2016 @11:25PM |
Most IT Pros Have Seen Embarrassing Information About Their Colleagues |
| Wednesday February 03, 2016 @04:00PM |
Ethics Panel Endorses Mitochondrial Therapy, But Says Start With Male Embryos |
| Monday February 01, 2016 @02:16PM |
U.K. Researcher Receives Permission To Edit Genes In Human Embryos |
| Thursday January 28, 2016 @01:36PM |
12 Years Later, Warrantless Wiretaps Whistleblower Facing Misconduct Charges |
| Monday January 11, 2016 @09:06AM |
Using Tech To Create Safe and Ethical Retail Supply Chains |
| Monday December 28, 2015 @12:55AM |
The Problem With Self Driving Cars: Who Controls the Code? |
| Sunday December 13, 2015 @11:21AM |
Elon Musk, Others Fund $1B Non-Profit To Advance AI Research, Ethics |
| Saturday December 05, 2015 @09:23AM |
Canadian Cable Company Shames Non-Paying Customers Publicly On Facebook |
| Thursday December 03, 2015 @09:40AM |
Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years |
| Sunday November 29, 2015 @02:05PM |
Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss |
| Thursday November 19, 2015 @12:16PM |
Animal Rights Group Targets NIH Director's Home |
| Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:55PM |
"Fallout 4" Release Raises Questions About Reviews of Buggy Games |
| Thursday November 05, 2015 @08:52AM |
Dungeons & Dragons and the Ethics of Imaginary Violence |
| Monday November 02, 2015 @01:25AM |
Crime Lab Scandals Just Keep Getting Worse |
| Saturday October 24, 2015 @05:33AM |
European ISPs Exaggerate Performance; US ISPs Slower But More Honest |
| Friday October 23, 2015 @05:52PM |
RIP: Prolific Amazon Customer Reviewer Harriet Klausner (1952-2015) |
| Friday October 23, 2015 @05:45PM |
Hands-On With the Fairphone 2 Modular Android Smartphone |
| Sunday October 18, 2015 @09:16PM |
Amazon Lawsuit Aims To Kill Fake Reviews |
| Friday October 16, 2015 @07:38AM |
Beware of Oracle's Licensing 'Traps,' Law Firm Warns |
| Thursday October 15, 2015 @08:56AM |
Chinese Company To Sell Genetically Modified Micro Pigs as Pets |
| Tuesday October 13, 2015 @12:06PM |
How Amazon's Monster Erotica Book Ban Shaped CloudFlare's Censorship Stance |
| Tuesday October 06, 2015 @08:57AM |
What Effect Will VW's Scandal Have On Robocars? |
| Saturday October 03, 2015 @04:27PM |
Google As Alphabet Subsidiary Drops "Don't Be Evil" |
| Thursday October 01, 2015 @08:44AM |
The Real Cost of Mobile Ads |
| Wednesday September 23, 2015 @01:03PM |
VW Fiasco Puts Ethics In Engineering Under the Spotlight, CEO Steps Down |
| Saturday September 19, 2015 @09:31AM |
UK Researcher Applies For Permission To Edit Embryo Genomes |
| Sunday August 23, 2015 @12:25PM |
Not All Uber Drivers Like Surge Pricing, Either |
| Friday August 21, 2015 @06:24PM |
Do You Have a Right To Use Electrical Weapons? |
| Thursday August 20, 2015 @11:33AM |
New Rules Say UK Video Bloggers Must Be Clearer About Paid Endorsements |
| Thursday August 20, 2015 @08:21AM |
Another Slew of Science Papers Retracted Because of Fraud |
| Friday July 24, 2015 @07:06PM |
An Interview With Hacking Team's CEO |
| Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:40PM |
Hackers Exploit MacKeeper Flaw To Spread OS X Malware |
| Thursday April 30, 2015 @10:01AM |
Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video |
| Friday April 24, 2015 @10:54AM |
Groupon Refuses To Pay Security Expert Who Found Serious XSS Site Bugs |
| Wednesday April 22, 2015 @06:17PM |
Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California |
| Wednesday April 22, 2015 @06:16PM |
Chinese Scientists Claim To Have Genetically Modified Human Embryos |
| Tuesday April 21, 2015 @05:40PM |
Update: No Personhood for Chimps Yet |
| Tuesday April 21, 2015 @08:42AM |
Robot Workers' Real Draw: Reducing Dependence on Human Workers |
| Thursday March 26, 2015 @04:38PM |
Wikipedia Admin's Manipulation "Messed Up Perhaps 15,000 Students' Lives" |
| Thursday March 26, 2015 @01:45PM |
German Auto Firms Face Roadblock In Testing Driverless Car Software |
| Tuesday February 24, 2015 @01:52PM |
Facebook AI Director Discusses Deep Learning, Hype, and the Singularity |
| Saturday February 21, 2015 @09:39PM |
How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests |
| Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:48AM |
Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers |
| Sunday February 08, 2015 @03:33AM |
Canadian Supreme Court Rules Ban On Assisted Suicide Unconstitutional |
| Friday February 06, 2015 @06:37PM |
Does Showing a Horrific Video Serve a Legitimate Journalistic Purpose? |
| Thursday February 05, 2015 @06:38PM |
Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call |
| Friday January 09, 2015 @10:02AM |
How Close Are We To Engineering the Climate? |
| Thursday January 01, 2015 @03:39PM |
Would Twitter Make President Obama 'Follow' the Tea Party If the Price Is Right? |
| Saturday December 13, 2014 @08:43PM |
Judge Rules Drug Maker Cannot Halt Sales of Alzheimer's Medicine |
| Thursday December 11, 2014 @12:16PM |
Study of Massive Preprint Archive Hints At the Geography of Plagiarism |
| Thursday December 04, 2014 @04:37PM |
New Effort To Grant Legal Rights To Chimpanzees Fails |
| Thursday November 20, 2014 @06:51PM |
Scientists Optimistic About Getting a Mammoth Genome Complete Enough To Clone |
| Thursday November 20, 2014 @09:19AM |
Is a Moral Compass a Hindrance Or a Help For Startups? |
| Saturday October 11, 2014 @06:07PM |
Ex-NSA Director Keith Alexander's Investments In Tech Firms: "No Conflict" |
| Saturday October 11, 2014 @05:06PM |
Experts Decry Randomized Ebola Treatment Trials As Unethical, Impractical |
| Tuesday August 26, 2014 @04:49PM |
Uber Has a Playbook For Sabotaging Lyft, Says Report |
| Tuesday August 19, 2014 @09:01AM |
Selectable Ethics For Robotic Cars and the Possibility of a Robot Car Bomb |
| Tuesday August 12, 2014 @12:20PM |
The Fiercest Rivalry In Tech: Uber vs. Lyft |
| Tuesday August 12, 2014 @09:32AM |
Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording |
| Monday July 28, 2014 @11:53AM |
Internet Census 2012 Data Examined: Authentic, But Chaotic and Unethical |
| Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:24AM |
Nasty Business: How To Drain Competitors' Google AdWords Budgets |
| Tuesday July 22, 2014 @08:56AM |
Experiment Shows People Exposed To East German Socialism Cheat More |
| Tuesday July 01, 2014 @08:26AM |
How Often Do Economists Commit Misconduct? |
| Monday June 30, 2014 @01:02AM |
Facebook's Emotion Experiment: Too Far, Or Social Network Norm? |
| Saturday June 28, 2014 @09:48PM |
In 2012, Facebook Altered Content To Tweak Readers' Emotions |
| Thursday June 19, 2014 @08:15AM |
Wikipedia Forcing Editors To Disclose If They're Paid |
| Thursday June 05, 2014 @08:06AM |
Key Researcher Agrees To Retract Disputed Stem Cell Papers |
| Saturday May 03, 2014 @09:14AM |
Steve Jobs Defied Convention, and Perhaps the Law |
| Monday April 21, 2014 @06:42PM |
The Ethical Dilemmas Today's Programmers Face |
| Saturday April 05, 2014 @11:28AM |
British Domain Registrar Offers 'No Transfer Fees,' Charges Transfer Fee |
| Tuesday April 01, 2014 @08:19AM |
Mt. Gox Questioned By Employees For At Least 2 Years Before Crisis |
| Thursday March 13, 2014 @10:13AM |
Top U.S. Scientific Misconduct Official Quits In Frustration With Bureaucracy |
| Monday March 10, 2014 @03:33AM |
Hackers Allege Mt. Gox Still Controls "Stolen" Bitcoins |
| Friday February 21, 2014 @10:36PM |
UAE Clerics' Fatwa Forbids Muslims From Traveling To Mars |
| Tuesday February 11, 2014 @11:40AM |
IBM Employees Caught Editing Wikipedia |
| Monday February 10, 2014 @05:51AM |
A Corporate War Against a Scientist, and How He Fought Back |
| Saturday February 08, 2014 @10:01PM |
EA's Dungeon Keeper Ratings Below a 5 Go To Email Black Hole |
| Saturday February 08, 2014 @10:57AM |
Dirty Tricks? Look-Alike Websites Lure Congressional Donors |
| Friday January 17, 2014 @08:36PM |
Alleging 'Malpractice' With Climate Skeptic Papers, Publisher Kills Journal |
| Saturday December 28, 2013 @02:47PM |
How the Dark Lord of the Internet Made His Fortunes |
| Friday December 20, 2013 @11:58PM |
How Asimov's Three Laws Ran Out of Steam |
| Friday December 20, 2013 @08:41PM |
Reuters: RSA Weakened Encryption For $10M From NSA |
| Thursday December 05, 2013 @12:59PM |
Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work |
| Friday November 29, 2013 @07:53PM |
Study Linking GM Maize To Rat Tumors Is Retracted |
| Sunday November 17, 2013 @03:48PM |
How MOOC Faculty Exploit People's Desire To Learn |
| Friday October 25, 2013 @06:51PM |
Ask Slashdot: Developer Responsibility When Apps Might Risk Lives? |
| Tuesday October 08, 2013 @07:03AM |
Cyborg Cockroach Sparks Ethics Debate |
| Friday September 20, 2013 @06:29PM |
US Killer Robot Policy: Full Speed Ahead |
| Tuesday August 27, 2013 @02:07PM |
Just thinking about science triggers moral behavior |
| Sunday June 23, 2013 @07:18AM |
The Men Trying To Save Us From the Machines |
| Friday June 07, 2013 @10:28AM |
The Amish Are Getting Fracked |
| Saturday June 01, 2013 @12:29AM |
Too Many Smart People Chasing Too Many Dumb Ideas? |
| Thursday May 30, 2013 @05:27PM |
UN Debates Rules Surrounding Killer Robots |
| Thursday May 30, 2013 @09:55AM |
Pitcher-Turned-Law Student On Cheating In Baseball |
| Friday May 17, 2013 @06:28PM |
Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells |
| Thursday April 11, 2013 @11:01AM |
RapLeaf Is Back and Bad As Ever |
| Monday March 04, 2013 @09:16PM |
Not Quite a T-1000, But On the Right Track |
| Thursday November 29, 2012 @09:35AM |
How Do We Program Moral Machines? |
| Monday October 29, 2012 @09:58PM |
Is Silicon Valley Morally Bankrupt and Toxic? |
| Thursday October 25, 2012 @10:53AM |
72% of Xbox 360 Gamers Approve of "More Military Drone Strikes" |
| Wednesday October 10, 2012 @12:33PM |
Geneticists And Economists Clash Over "Genoeconomics" Paper |
| Wednesday October 10, 2012 @08:46AM |
Geneticists to economists: You're racist! |
| Monday October 08, 2012 @12:54PM |
Meet The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (Video) |
| Sunday September 30, 2012 @08:47AM |
A Suicide Goes Viral On the Internet |
| Friday September 21, 2012 @07:02AM |
Your moral compass is reversible |
| Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:28AM |
Nokia Apologizes For Misleading Lumia 920 Ad |
| Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:24AM |
Nokia Faked Lumia 920 Ad, Issues Apology |
| Thursday September 06, 2012 @08:21AM |
Social Robots May Gain Legal Rights, Says MIT Researcher |
| Thursday August 30, 2012 @07:28PM |
If Extinct Species Can be Brought Back... Should We? |
| Tuesday August 28, 2012 @12:14AM |
Robot ethics: Thou shalt not kill? |
| Saturday August 18, 2012 @02:53AM |
Genetically Engineering Babies a Moral Obligation, Says Ethicist |
| Thursday August 16, 2012 @10:27AM |
Dozens of Reported Plagiarism Incidents On Coursera's Free Online Courses |
| Monday August 13, 2012 @11:20AM |
Intellectual Ventures Tied To 1,300 Shell Companies |
| Friday August 10, 2012 @07:58AM |
In Hacker Highschool, Students Learn To Redesign the Future |
| Thursday August 09, 2012 @08:34AM |
War By Remote Control, With Military Robots Set To Self Destruct |
| Thursday August 09, 2012 @07:08AM |
Telco Company Claims Freedom of Speech Includes Misleading Ads |
| Saturday July 21, 2012 @06:50PM |
Harvard Study Suggests Drone Strikes Can Disrupt Terror Groups |
| Thursday July 19, 2012 @09:22AM |
Judge In Kim Dotcom Extradition Case Steps Down |
| Monday July 16, 2012 @01:40PM |
What Is an Astronaut's Life Worth? |
| Tuesday July 03, 2012 @10:13AM |
Silicon Valley Values Shift To Customersploitation |
| Sunday June 10, 2012 @09:01PM |
Publicly Funded GMO Research Facing Destruction In Italy |
| Sunday June 10, 2012 @08:56PM |
Ask Slashdot: Ambitious Yet Ethical Software Jobs? |
| Thursday June 07, 2012 @08:00AM |
Sequencing the Unborn |
| Monday May 14, 2012 @12:04PM |
Resumegate Continues At Yahoo: Thompson Out As CEO, Levinsohn In |
| Thursday April 26, 2012 @06:40AM |
Ask Slashdot: What are the most dangerous lines of scientific enquiry? |
| Saturday April 07, 2012 @02:10PM |
Some Hotspot Operators Secretly Intercept, Insert Ads In Web Pages |
| Tuesday April 03, 2012 @08:06AM |
Biosecurity Board Recommends Full Publication of Bird Flu Studies |
| Saturday March 31, 2012 @03:55PM |
Why Onagawa Nuclear Power Station Survived the Tsunami |
| Sunday March 25, 2012 @10:31AM |
China Plans To End Executed Prisoner Organ Donations Within 5 Years |
| Wednesday March 21, 2012 @04:11PM |
Meet the Hackers Who Get Rich Selling Spies Zero-Day Exploits |
| Monday March 19, 2012 @06:33PM |
Woman Wants To Replace Her Non-functioning Hand With a Bionic Prosthesis |
| Monday March 19, 2012 @04:53PM |
Woman wants to replace her non-functioning hand with a bionic prosthesis. |
| Tuesday March 13, 2012 @08:42AM |
Solving Climate Change By Bioengineering Humans? |
| Thursday February 16, 2012 @04:44PM |
Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers |
| Wednesday February 15, 2012 @04:59PM |
Ask Slashdot: Tech manufacturers with better labor practices? |
| Monday January 30, 2012 @01:42PM |
Ian Bogost Replies: Deep Thoughts On Gaming |
| Friday January 20, 2012 @08:06PM |
Mutant Flu Researchers Declare a Time Out |
| Friday January 13, 2012 @07:06PM |
Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup |
| Friday December 30, 2011 @11:56AM |
Copyright Claim Sets Back Cognitive Impairment Testing |
| Thursday December 29, 2011 @03:42PM |
How Doctors Die |
| Sunday December 18, 2011 @10:44AM |
Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics |
| Tuesday December 06, 2011 @04:29AM |
Kaspersky Quits BSA Over SOPA Support |
| Friday November 11, 2011 @07:05PM |
So You Want To Be a Zero Day Exploit Millionaire? |
| Tuesday November 08, 2011 @09:11AM |
Survey Finds Cheating Among Students At All GPA Levels |
| Friday November 04, 2011 @04:09PM |
What are some good ethical standards |
| Saturday September 17, 2011 @12:23PM |
Inspector General Investigated For Muzzling Inconvenient Science |
| Monday September 12, 2011 @02:42PM |
Kevin Mitnick Answers |
| Monday September 12, 2011 @08:50AM |
Why aren't there any civilians in military video g |
| Wednesday July 20, 2011 @07:44AM |
Getting inside the minds of ethical hackers |
| Friday June 17, 2011 @06:10PM |
Are 'Nudging Technologies' Ethical? |
| Saturday June 04, 2011 @02:29AM |
Jack Kevorkian Dead at 83 |
| Thursday April 14, 2011 @12:54AM |
IT guy makes stirring speech to human rights group |
| Friday March 25, 2011 @06:46PM |
Top French Chess Players Suspended For Cheating |
| Thursday March 17, 2011 @03:22AM |
Microsoft On List of Most Ethical Companies |
