An anonymous reader writes: Functional programming seems to be all the rage these days. Efforts are being made to highlight its use in Java, JavaScript, C# and elsewhere. Lots of claims are being made about it’s virtues that seem relatively…

Slashdot user #1083, downwa, writes: Canonical engineer Simon Fels has publicly released an Alpha version of Anbox. Similar to the method employed for Android apps on ChromeOS, Anbox runs an entire Android system (7.1.1 at present) in an LXC container….

“We have decided to close down our email business,” Verizon has announced — in a move which affects 4.5 million accounts. Slashdot reader tomservo84 writes: Strangely enough, I didn’t find out about this from Verizon, itself, but SiriusXM, who sent…

Long-time reader Esther Schindler writes: Innovation occurs outside the Bay Area, New York, Boston, and Austin. So why is it so hard for a startup to get attention and acquire venture capital? Steve Case and Kara Swisher discussed this never-ending-topic…

MIT Technology Review reports: David Mitchell, a lanky, soft-spoken atmospheric physicist, believes frigid clouds in the upper troposphere may offer one of our best fallback plans for combating climate change… Fleets of large drones would crisscross the upper latitudes of…

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft is still encouraging businesses to rent their Office software, according to TechRadar. “In a bid to further persuade users of the standalone versions of Office to shift over to a cloud subscription (Office 365), Microsoft…

An Android app that falsely claimed to be a tool for keeping smartphones up-to-date with the latest version of the OS was found surreptitiously tracking the physical location of it users using spyware called SMSVova.

Almost half have experienced a cyber attack while a third do not have anyone at board level tasked with cyber security.

As with every router vulnerability, a key issue is, “How many owners will hear about the issue and bother to update?”

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