Third-party ‘guerilla’ patching can be a good example of the community stepping up to fix flaws – but it could also compromise security
Companies Are Paying Millions For White Hat Hacking
White hat hackers “are in very high demand,” says PwC’s director of cyber investigation and breach response, in a New York Post article titled “Companies are paying millions to get hacked — on purpose.” An anonymous reader quotes their report:…
Uber Tried To Hide Its Secret IPhone Fingerprinting From Apple
theodp quotes today’s New York Times profile of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick: For months, Mr. Kalanick had pulled a fast one on Apple by directing his employees to help camouflage the ride-hailing app from Apple’s engineers. The reason? So Apple…
Is Social Media Making Us Hate Each Other?
Nicholas Carr’s book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. Now an anonymous Slashdot reader reports on Carr’s newest warning: It seems obvious: The more we learn about other…
Scientists Consider 'Cloud Brightening' To Preserve Australia's Great Barrier Reef
An anonymous reader quotes MIT Technology Review: A group of Australian marine scientists believe that altering clouds might offer one of the best hopes for saving the Great Barrier Reef. For the last six months, researchers at the Sydney Institute…
Ask Slashdot: Do You Like Functional Programming?
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…
Anbox Can Run Android Apps Natively On Linux (In A Container)
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….
Verizon.net 'Gets Out Of The Email Business'
“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…
Steve Case On How To Get Funded Outside Tech Corridors
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…
Can Geoengineering Drones Fight Global Warming?
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…