the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it.

If you're looking for a case study in toxic internet culture, look no further than the online world of young adult fiction. That might seem surprising: After all, we're talking about boy wizards and sexy vampires and mawkish coming-of-age tales here, right? Here's the short version: In recent years, young adult, or Y.A., fiction has come into its own as a genre, reliably producing a small number of megahits...

Japan will develop its first-ever computer virus by next March as a defense measure against cyberattacks, sources have said. The Defense Ministry is considering malware that can break into a computer system, hoping such a computer virus could work as a deterrent against cyberattacks, the sources said Monday.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) is expected to sign net neutrality legislation that bans internet service providers from getting taxpayer money in Colorado if they slow down internet access or unfairly speed up certain websites. The legislation passed the state's House and Senate chambers along strict party lines according to the Denver Post. The newspaper reported that Polis supports the legislation, which will now head to his desk.

For six years, from 2012 to 2018, my job was to read and delete the most inappropriate comments on a conservative news site. Not all the inappropriate comments. Just the most inappropriate comments. Hundreds of comments an hour. Thousands of comments a day. Tens of thousands of comments a week. More than a million comments a year.

Most people think of Telnet as "that thing I used to use to remotely access servers." But a few hearty souls are still keeping their Telnet services online — and it's a great way to experience some good old-fashioned time-wasting fun!

As Beto O'Rourke starts his run for U.S. president, members of a group famous for “hactivism” come forward for the first time to claim him as a former comrade.

We’re into the final days before members of the European Parliament vote on the Copyright and the Digital Single Market Directive, home of the censoring Article 13, and the anti-news Article 11. Europeans are still urging their MEPs to vote down these articles (if you haven’t already, call now, and stepping up the visibility of their complaints in this final week.

The film, now 20 years old, is probably the most famous art ever made by trans people. But its cultural legacy doesn’t end there.

If you have the option and privilege to work from home, you know how rewarding it can be. it's also challenging. We'll show you how to succeed in this post.

Freelance elite hackers can make more than $500,000 a year searching for security flaws and reporting those issues at big companies like Tesla and organizations like the Department of Defense, according to new data released by ethical hacking platform Bugcrowd. The company, founded in 2012, is one of a handful of so-called "bug bounty" firms that provide a platform for hackers to safely chase security flaws at companies that want to be tested.

Gatwick Airport is Britain's second busiest by passenger volume, and Europe's eighth. And yet it was brought to a standstill for two days by two people and a single drone. Its vulnerability reminded me of a conversation I had two years ago, at the Web Summit conference in Lisbon with cybersecurity investor Sergey Gribov of Flint Capital. He was talking up one of his investments, an industrial cybersecurity firm based in Israel called CyberX. Half-bored, I girded myself for his pitch.

A scathing takedown can be cathartic, thrill-inducing, or necessary—sometimes all at once. But with the collapse of monoculture and the rise of social media, the critiquing game has changed. Have reviews gotten harsher? Softer? Writers from Pitchfork, The New York Times, and others reflect.

The Chinese fascination with numbers – and how much they are part of both online and offline lives – is a societal quirk that baffles long-term tourists and expats alike.

Internet access is ubiquitous—except where it isn't. However, even in places where electricity or Internet connectivity are spotty, new e-learning innovations can help people get an education.

Born in a storm of snow, killed off in a blizzard of TCP/IP: The Bulletin Board System

Members of Congress will soon have another opportunity to restore net neutrality, and advocates for the open internet are holding their feet to the fire. With House Democrats expected to introduce the "Save the Internet Act" on Wednesday in an effort to restore net neutrality protections, a coalition of grassroots advocacy groups is urging Americans to flood their representatives with calls and emails in support of the legislation.

Hundreds of thousands of miles of cable connect continents to support our insatiable demand for communication and entertainment. Companies have typically pooled their resources. Now Google is going its own way.

Steven Furnell, University of Plymouth UK, and Eugene H. Spafford, Purdue University USA, turn the clock back 30 years and show that, though bigger, the internet might not be much safer.

At the ripe old age of 30 and with half the globe using it, the World Wide Web is facing growing pains with issues like hate speech, privacy concerns and state-sponsored hacking, its creator says, trumpeting a call to make it better for humanity. Tim Berners-Lee on Tuesday joined a celebration of the Web and reminisced about his invention at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, starting with a proposal published on March 12, 1989.

The far right is the dominant political community on YouTube. It's a flourishing world of men's rights activists, libertarians, anti-feminist atheists, and white nationalists. There are whole channels dedicated to showing "social justice warriors" getting "owned" by various conservative provocateurs. And this has gone largely unanswered by the left.

The Russian Duma has given its final approval to a bill creating a domestic internet. Lawmakers say it aims to protect Russia from cyber threats — but the law has sparked protest: Critics worry it will allow censorship.

We've seen dozens of erroneous DMCA takedown notices in recent years, many of which have caused their senders embarrassment. However, notices sent to Google last week by an anti-piracy company working for the Ultimate Fighting Championship are the most cringe-worthy yet, and a direct result of a carpet-bombing approach to takedowns when a precision strike was needed.

A survey finds substantial shifts in user behavior and attitudes in recent weeks.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe everything will be fine. Maybe the "widening gap between rich and poor" is temporary. Maybe the steady growth in the proportion of jobs that are part-time and/or low-paid will soon reverse.

A recent study shows the limitations to cracking down on pirating sites: When one goes down, a dozen others spring up to take its place.

Skype has confirmed it has developed 3D video calls. The news was revealed by a senior executive in an exclusive interview with the BBC to mark Skype's 10th anniversary

Two security researchers blew by Dropbox's security features and wrote a paper about how they did it.

Spammers posting links on Facebook fan pages to send people to third-party scam sites are earning $200m every year, according to calculations by a team of Italian security researchers who have investigated hundreds of thousands of posts on the social network.

According to a profile by Matthew M. Aid for Foreign Policy, it’s a highly secret but incredibly important NSA program that collects intelligence about foreign targets by hacking into their computers, stealing data, and monitoring communications.

Australian researchers claim data can be discovered and harvested via the Snapchat Android and iOS API, even if an account is private.

Across the globe, 2.4 billion people are Internet users, a number that is expected to grow to 2.7 billion by the end of 2013. This expansion of the Internet shrinks the globe, bringing brands closer to new audiences in new areas.

A survey shows that people are becoming more aware of servers going down. It's truly cramping their lifestyle.

Following the Syrian Electronic Army's attack on a Melbourne IT reseller which resulted in the temporary compromise of domain name records for targets as diverse as The New York Times and Twitter, a group claiming association with Anonymous now says it has compromised SEA databases and servers.

Instagram blocks users from searching a number of hashtags. Read our unofficial list of banned and unsearchable hashtags on Instagram.