Slashdot isn't a site where you go to read breaking technology news—it's a site where you go to read good commentary about that news (at least, it's good if you browse at +3).

Slashdot's community largely serves as moderators, and users with a high "karma" ranking at the site are more likely to be granted "mod points" upon logging in.

But unlike Slashdot, digg doesn't have editors deciding which stories make it onto the homepage. The users make that decision collectively, by submitting their vote (a "digg") for each story they ...

There once was a time that Slashdot was the nexus of news from the technologists in the trenches. To have your online article"Slashdotted" was akin to receiving heavy airplay on the radio.

British intelligence agency Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) reportedly used spoofed LinkedIn and Slashdot pages to compromise the computers of network engineers working for global ...

When I started Slashdot in '97, there were a lot of things happening in this area, but there wasn't a Web site that was dealing with the issues that we were dealing with on a sort of formal level.

Slashdot is so popular that traffic from its links can cripple small websites, sometimes for days. So a couple of fans have set up a site called Mirrordot to alleviate the problem by hosting ...

It all started in 1997, in a time before there was Gmail. Slashdot founder and editor Rob Malda, aka CmdrTaco, wanted a non-college-affiliated e-mail address, so he simply registered his own ...

When I was a computer science student in college, everyone I knew read Slashdot. Founded in 1997, the site was dedicated to "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." It featured about a dozen short ...