Could a client lead technology development? Does this scheme successful for the final product? Let’s figure out this together.

A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, was left exposed and without a password allowing anyone to look inside.

Are memes fair use? Or can you be sued for sharing and profiting off them?

Some very sad news. Grumpy Cat, the Internet’s most famous feline with a perpetually grouchy mug, has died. Grumpy Cat, whose real name was Tardar Sauce, died on Tuesday...

In 2018, Google reported an incredible 3,234 improvements to search. That's more than 8 times the number of updates they reported in 2009 and an average of almost 9 per day.

Trump boosters are baffled: Hustler and scam artist who raised $20 million on GoFundMe isn't really building a wall

Journalism's dependence on part-time freelancers has been bad for the industry—not to mention the writers themselves.

Dump the Lycra and competitive attitude. Cycling is open to all. Activist Jools Walker reveals why life is better by bike – and why she’s fighting to make it more socially inclusive. By Robyn Wilder

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It always sucks being the new guy. It always sucks to start something new, to have no idea what needs to be done.

Coworking spaces, friendship apps, and adult dorms are selling human connection.

According to some, the financing round for the question-and-answer platform speaks to the high valuation for virtually everything these days in the tech sector.

The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces. Two suspects were arrested in Tel Aviv and Ashdod, according to Israel’s Tel Aviv Police.

What just happened? On Friday night as the clocks struck midnight, users of Mozilla's Firefox browser discovered that any add-ons they had installed no longer worked. Mozilla have ascertained that an expired security certificate is to blame and a hotfix is being deployed now.

The Austrian government Thursday (May 16) warned internet users to shun an online cow-kissing challenge, calling it a "dangerous nuisance".

Internet blackouts deprive people of impartial information and crucial connections with loved ones, without delivering improved safety or stability.

It’s a plus for privacy.

An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever.

The Department of Defense isn’t sure how many websites it runs. Stars and Stripes reports that at an event last month, US Army Colonel Paul Haverstick, the acting director of the Defense Media Activity at Fort Meade, Maryland said that the number of websites that the Pentagon runs is “undefined.”

We project the future accumulation of profiles belonging to deceased Facebook users. Our analysis suggests that a minimum of 1.4 billion users will pass away before 2100 if Facebook ceases to attract new users as of 2018. If the network continues expanding at current rates, however, this number will exceed 4.9 billion.

Facebook on Thursday announced that it is removing accounts for Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones, InfoWars, Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer from both Facebook and Instagram. Facebook had originally pulled some content from Alex Jones, including four pages, in August. Despite the so-called ban, Alex Jones’ InfoWars was quickly back online with a page titled “Infowars is Back” and a livestream where Alex Jones is talking about how he has been banned.

Warren Buffett, the man behind a print-media empire that includes the Buffalo News and Omaha World-Herald, doesn’t think most newspapers can be saved. The decline of advertising gradually turned the newspaper industry “from monopoly to franchise to competitive,” the billionaire chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. And now most newspapers are “toast.”

YOU’VE SEEN THE ads in your email or online: Celebrities supposedly hawking miracle weight loss cures or galaxy brain supplements. They’re at this point endemic to the web, as deeply ingrained as hashtags and puppies. But even though plenty of people fall for them, no one ever really does anything about it. Of all the security threats online, spam ranks pretty low on the priority list.

Online advertising has never been more invasive or more inescapable. A single site or app might carry dozens of trackers, building a detailed profile of who you are and what you do online. After Cambridge Analytica and countless other data privacy scandals, the danger of those profiles is clear, but no one in the tech industry or in government seems to know what to about it.

Mozilla also plans to be more aggressive towards taking down extensions that break its policies, with a focus on security issues.

So I have previously published pieces about the advantages of Medium (here) and later published a piece about the advantages of using it as a syndication platform, which mostly still stands...

A Twitter employee who works on machine learning believes that a proactive, algorithmic solution to white supremacy would also catch Republican politicians.

Pornhub confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it is interested in acquiring Tumblr after news broke that Verizon is looking to sell the blogging platform. Pornhub Vice President Corey Price said in an email to BuzzFeed News that the porn-streaming giant is extremely interested in buying Tumblr, the once uniquely horny hub for young women and queer people that banned adult content last December to the disappointment of many of its users.

It took nearly five years into the internet’s life before anyone made a concerted effort to archive it. Much of our earliest online activity has disappeared.

Older people play an outsized role in civic life. They also are more likely to be online targets for misinformation and hyperpartisan rhetoric.

A transparency tool on Facebook inadvertently provides a window into the confusing maze of companies you’ve never heard of who appear to have your data.

What was once limited to small-scale side hustles has mushroomed into so-called essay mills on the Internet, becoming a global industry.

For years, the arrest and case has been kept under-wraps. Friday, a court sentenced Thomas White to 5 years and 4 months for his role in running a huge dark web drug marketplace.

The larger lesson of an ongoing Ethereum crime spree: Be careful about who's generating your cryptocurrency keys.

All the stages have been passed for President Putin to sign the controversial 'sovereign internet' bill into law. This is part of the Kremlin's wider aim to control internet access for Russians, which critics say is a form of censorship.