The Silicon Valley maverick has a radical vision for how we can all earn money from our data.

When hackers took over the Twitter account of Twitter’s chief executive, Jack Dorsey, last week, they used an increasingly common and hard-to-stop technique that can give them complete access to a wide array of the most sensitive digital accounts, including social media, email and financial accounts.

Mesh networking: how you communicate when China censors the internet.

Finally, someone has figured out an answer to that age-old question: How do I stream porn while also saving the Earth?

Harper Lee’s bestselling literary classic To Kill a Mockingbird has caused no end of conflict—mainly in PTA meetings, of course, but also on the internet, the endless PTA meeting of our damne…

Matchmaking is now the primary job of online algorithms, according to new research from Stanford sociologist Michael Rosenfeld.

Authorities now want to know who was behind the post, which contained medically accurate details about the financier and accused sex trafficker.

One of New Zealand’s largest telecommunications providers, Spark, has banned the far-right site 8chan after the country’s chief censor offered his backing for any internet service provider who did so in the wake of the El Paso mass shooting. Censor David Shanks applauded Spark’s “brave and meaningful” decision, describing the message board as “the white supremacist killer’s platform of choice”.

Refugees from the anonymous 8chan forum are flooding into a new censorship-resistant home on the dark web, and inadvertently giving up their anonymity along the way. A reincarnated version of the hate-filled forum, now linked to three mass shootings, appeared Monday when the original 8chan lost its hosting service. The new site, called 08chan (with a leading zero), has no affiliation with the original and it’s not entirely clear who set it up, but 8chan’s diaspora have been flooding in as word of the site spreads through right-wing social media.

Can a human touch make Silicon Valley’s biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place?

You’ve never heard of her, but somewhere in America, a top-secret investigator known as the Savant is infiltrating online hate groups to take down the most violent men in America. Cosmopolitan goes undercover as she races to get ahead of the next large-scale attack.

In his trademark disingenuous response to the latest wave of massacres, Donald Trump has identified the internet as both the cause and, more insidiously, the solution to the spread of rightwing domestic terrorism. Ignoring his own hate-filled social media feeds and fervent embrace of gun denial-ism, the US president has set his sites on the “dark recesses” of the internet, where hatred foments through “gruesome and grisly” video games that celebrate violence.

Loneliness is a powerful psychological, emotional and behavioral state, associated with significant risks to mental and physical health. Online trolling is a huge and growing problem, as well. According to the Pew Research Center (Online Harassment, 2017

If author Dale Beran is to be believed, all the world's an Internet forum. His new book offers an overview of Internet culture and explores the mindset and techniques of early Internet trolls.

There’s a new hacking group on the radar targeting telecommunications and oil and gas companies across Africa and the Middle East. Industrial security company Dragos, which discovered the group, calls it “Hexane,” but remains largely tight-lipped on its activities. The security company said Thursday, however, that the group’s activity has ramped up in recent months amid heightened tensions in the region since the group first emerged a year ago.

Rachel Whalen remembers feeling gutted in high school when a former friend would mock her online postings, threaten to unfollow or unfriend her on social media and post inside jokes about her to others online. The cyberbullying was so distressing that Whalen said she contemplated suicide. Once she got help, she decided to limit her time on social media. It helps to take a break from it for perspective, said Whalen, now a 19-year-old college student in Utah.

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

I am back, once again criticizing Bethesda’s marketing, or lack thereof, for failing to tell me and a whole lot of other people that a major game was on the verge of release. Thanks to SkillUp, today I learned that Wolfenstein: Youngblood is actually out six days from now on July 26. As a video game journalist who spends probably 16 hours a day on the internet, this is genuinely the first I’m hearing about Youngblood since probably E3 itself a month ago.

Many Chinese people find that when they go overseas and leave behind the Great Firewall, they crave a return to the heavily censored content they're accustomed to consuming online.

The new law, set to take effect July 1, 2020, would require Internet service providers to get permission from their customers before any data could be sold to a third party. Legal pushback is expected.