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).

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.

Nearly five years ago, a 21-year-old computer-science nerd made his first postings on a Web site known as Slashdot. Those messages marked the beginning of what would become an Internet phenomenon.

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.

In an email interview, Slashdot President Logan Abbott says that the decision has nothing to do with Cloudflare's moves to cut ties with 8chan, Daily Stormer, or other controversial sites.

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 ...

For example, to "slashdot a vote" means to bombard congressmen by email before a critical vote. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires permission.

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 ...

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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 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 ...