I'm surprised by that list to be honest. Not a tree with an ear in sight? Nor anything VW? Talk Talk? Encryption backdoors? Is a server in Ireland under US law? Jeep? Stagefright? Sony vs the Norks? Tax avoidance? Data retention? Stupid things done by [insert IOT device name]? Google cars doing or not doing something they should or should not be doing? Truecrypt? Rockets landing or spectacularly not landing? TOR at public libraries?
Many of those topics were spread over weeks as new information came out as opposed to a single article so dilutes the figures no doubt.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
