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 ...

On August 9, tech news aggregator Slashdot quietly removed one of its earliest features, which had been available to all visitors since its founding in 1997: the ability to post comments as an ...

Nearly five years ago, a 21-year-old computer-science nerd named Rob Malda made his first postings on a Web site known as Slashdot. Little did he know at the time--those messages marked the ...

Rob Malda, known to nerds everywhere as CmdrTaco, has resigned as editor-in-chief of Slashdot, the influential website he founded 14 years ago. Malda, who launched the site while still a college ...

The term comes from Slashdot.com, the "News for Nerds" site that posts articles on technical subjects submitted by users. The term has evolved to mean any electronic onslaught. For example ...

Der Spiegel suggests that the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), the British sister agency to the NSA, used spoofed versions of LinkedIn and Slashdot pages to serve malware to targets.

Ten years ago this morning, Slashdot founder Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda, foregoing the traditional bended-knee, used his insider access to one of the tech world’s most prominent public forums to ...

There are a lot of alternatives to Reddit, including sites like Slashdot, Quora, and Digg. Here are seven of the best Reddit alternatives you can explore today. In the early days of the internet ...

Slashdot commissioned a survey of readers of its RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) feed to determine just how its readers are using RSS technology now and detect future plans ...

The Slashdot comments were glowing: “You can actually drag the map with your mouse to move the part that’s being displayed. Way cool!” “This may be the most impressive Web application I ...

Six-year-old comments made by Linux creator Linus Torvalds at the annual Debian conference of 2014 and part of a private mailing list of that project have been leaked to the campaigning website ...

Anyone who's ever had their website linked on the Slashdot homepage is no doubt aware of the so-called "Slashdot effect" -- the sudden, huge rush of traffic that follows such a posting ...