Lubuntu 16.04 LTS is one of the distros that use ALSA by default. Lubuntu users who upgraded to Firefox 52 through the regular update channel were, without warning, left with a web browser that plays no sound.

For now only real “solution” to get sound working in Firefox on ALSA systems is to either downgrade to an earlier version of Firefox; switch to Firefox ESR (which still has ALSA support at the time of writing); switch to a different browser entirely (Chromium plays nicely with ALSA) — or suck it up and install PulseAudio.

The move meant that customers had to wait 28 days to receive updates that fixed vulnerabilities that allowed hackers to completely hijack computers and networks.

If protecting customers truly is Microsoft's top priority, company officials should explain exactly why they delayed critical bug fixes for four weeks. Canceling Patch Tuesday at the last minute is a major event that warrants an explanation.

Soft drinks makers admit more needs to be done to stop people discarding single-use plastic bottles.

The biggest brand Coca-Cola is under fire for refusing to disclose how much plastic it produces.

“All plastic bottles are 100% recyclable so it is important that consumers are encouraged to dispose of bottles responsibly."

Farmers living in central Tolima province in Colombia say they were terrified when an object they took to be a UFO crashed in a field on Sunday.

X, which was formerly known as Google X, is using the devices to extend internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas by having the balloons, which travel on the edge of space, relay the signal.

At the end of last year, Vodafone was fined a record £4.6m for failing customers for mis-selling to customers, inaccurate billing and poor complaints handling.

Vodafone UK chief executive Nick Jeffery said: "These new, skilled roles will make a real difference to our customers and a real difference to the communities that are the focus of our customer services investment.

Schneider said Munich had solved compatibility problems related to running line-of-business software on LiMux and swappping documents with outside organizations.

Schneider echoed the findings of an earlier report by consultants Accenture and arf, that the problems with IT at the council were related to the fragmented structure of the city's IT management, which falls under both the central IT@M and local IT departments.

For the move to save money overall, using Windows would need to be considerably more effective as an operating system, because past estimates have put the price of Munich returning to Windows at more than €17m, not including software licensing and new infrastructure costs.

In layman’s terms, WebAssembly is a binary format for web pages. Its main advantage is that it allows developers to pack web page resources in a smaller payload.

“We expect that WebAssembly will enable applications that have historically been too complex to run fast in browsers – like immersive 3D video games, computer-aided design, video and image editing, and scientific visualization. We also expect that developers will use WebAssembly to speed up many existing web apps,” said Nick Nguyen, Vice President of Product, at Mozilla.

The €100bn project will focus on bandwidth, security and response times, minister for transport and digital infrastructure Alexander Dobrindt said.

The network will use "the most advanced technologies, such as fibre and the future 5G mobile communications standard", he said.

One of the least popular new “features” in Windows 10 is the advertising function Microsoft injected directly into the operating system. Ads show up in a number of ways, from promotions of Windows Store apps in the Start menu to pop-up “reminders” that Microsoft’s Edge browser gets better battery life than Google’s Chrome.

OneDrive is baked into Windows 10 and can’t easily be uninstalled, and Microsoft wants to make sure you know that the 5GB of free OneDrive storage can be easily upgraded to significantly more space.

The number of Dark web services has gone down significantly following the Freedom Hosting II hack that took place at the start of February, and is only around 4,400 services, according to a recently published OnionScan report.

Overall, despite its allure, the Dark Web has shrunk tremendously during the past year and is riddled with misconfigured servers. It is no surprise that Sigaint, a very popular email provider operating from the Dark Web, went down ten days after the Freedom Hosting II hack, and has yet to return.