Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg is 17 years old, legally a minor. Despite her age, in the past week, numerous actual adults have made her the subject of many forms of online harassment. Some say she ought to be “burnt at the stake”; others have circulated images of a sex doll that resembles Thunberg and purportedly “speaks” using recordings of her voice; still others created and distributed a cartoon that appears to depict the activist being sexually assaulted.

On the 11th of January 1982 twenty-two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email).

We dive into the history of ad blocking, from the very first banner on the web to present days, and even have a peek into the future of ads and ad blockers.

People used to think the crowdsourced encyclopedia represented all that was wrong with the web. Now it's a beacon of so much that's right.

Alex Lunney was a victim of cyberbullying before the word existed.

The Trifo Ironpie robot vacuum is designed to do double duty. The fans on the swiveling disc hoover your house, while the camera mounted on it acts as an ankle-high securitydevice. The idea is to stay tidy while staying safe. There's just one problem, according to cybersecurity firm Checkmarx. The internet-connected Ironpie has multiple security vulnerabilities.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wants a do-over on his 2005 decision in a case that had a major impact on the power of federal agencies and regulation of the broadband industry. In National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, better known as Brand X, Thomas wrote the 6-3 majority opinion that upheld a Federal Communications Commission decision to classify cable broadband as an information service.

As AT&T moves to lift usage caps, lawmakers begin pressuring ISPs to do more.

Is SpaceX's planned Starlink constellation a real, low-latency broadband service? That's the question at the heart of a new funding discussion, which could unlock up to $16 billion in federal subsidies.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, AOL’s Instant Messenger introduced millions of people to the internet—and the idea that you were always online, even when you were “away.”

Why your electronic voting options might not get better any time soon: RISC-V-based solution under development, but the very nature of a voting system raises issues.

2020 is off to a chaotic start, but locking down your online privacy is still vital. Give yourself an online privacy check-up and start 2020 securely

Those with the most to lose don’t always safeguard their privacy very well. You can do better.

By now, you’ve likely come to terms with the fact that escape from Jeff Bezos is impossible. You may have weaned yourself off that sweet sweet next day delivery, procuring all your worldly needs from a boutique array of small local shops, but if you venture online, Bezos still wins – cutting out Amazon’s cloud computing services renders the internet literally unusable.

For a long time, the internet was filled with games and animation all built-in Flash. But when this year ends, Flash will die as nearly all major web browsers will remove Flash support on Dec. 31, 2020. Luckily, all that content won’t be lost thanks to Flashpoint, a project which has saved over 36,000 Flash games from disappearing forever.

To regular folks with some basic computer skills the Dark Web seems to be Enemy #1. People talk about it like it’s the Internet Demogorgon. And the media doesn’t help either, not to mention InfoSec marketing departments. As far as they’re concerned, if you don’t say the name of your password manager 7 times before bed the Dark Web will haunt your closet.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday questioned whether Facebook, Goo...

If you want to find the best work alone jobs for introverts, check out our comprehensive list. These are the best jobs where you work alone.

Renting apartments has never been as simple as it is now. Airbnb makes it an easy job to find and book a living space for your holidays. However, you can be just a few clicks away from turning your weekend runaway into a horror story.

The world of work is in transition. Are you ready?