Studios complain that movie-review-aggregator sites are killing the industry. But their gripes about Rotten Tomatoes are sour grapes.

Many websites and applications these days are designed to trick you into doing things that their creators want. Here are some examples from timewellspent.io:

Microsoft, Cisco, and VMWare among those infected with additional mystery payload.

The web is not as open as it once was, with nation-states exerting their power over the internet. Facebook and other tech companies are dealing with the consequences.

This is a bad day for the W3C: it's the day it publishes a standard designed to control, rather than empower, web users. That standard that was explicitly published without any protections -- even the most minimal compromise was rejected without discussion, an intransigence that the W3C leadership tacitly approved. It's the day that the W3C changed its process to reward stonewalling over compromise, provided those doing the stonewalling are the biggest corporations in the consortium.

There's a whole industry dedicated to producing fake US news in Macedonia – and it's getting ready for 2020

The IT admin demanded $10,000, when he didn’t get it things got X-rated

The IAB, 4As and ANA say Apple’s plans to integrate cookie-blocking into Safari could hurt the existing economic model of the internet.

Pepe the Frog will no longer be a go-to symbol for the white supremacist far right, if creator Matt Furie has his way. Motherboard reports that Furie’s legal representatives have sent DMCA takedown...

On October 10, EU lawmakers will vote on a dangerous proposal to change copyright law. Mozilla is urging EU citizens to demand better reforms.

The dust has settled since Medium’s most recent business pivot. Now, its founder is once again trying to explain what Medium is.

In many ways, Geisha Monroe and Mandy Morbid are typical Twitch streamers—they’re gamers who share their play experiences with an online following. They cosplay, they collect game-related memorabilia, they tweet Overwatch memes. And like most streamers, Twitch isn’t their job. But what does pay their bills makes them unusual among Twitch streamers: they’re cam performers.

It’s becoming increasingly evident that, for some people, trolling isn’t just playing an asshole on the internet.

Google today announced Chrome is going to war with autoplay. Starting next year, Chrome will only autoplay a given piece of content when the media won't play sound or the user has indicated an interest in the media.

Opinion: Facebook and Google's growing power has spurred calls to decentralize the web.

The dark web showcases the worst parts of the internet - but it also shows us it’s possible to browse without giving up our privacy

Researchers from high-profile institutions are falling for these scams.

Experts say a "mind-boggling" amount of user data has been gathered by a hacking operation.

Riding a motorized pony and strumming a cigar box ukulele, Dana Cory led a singalong to the tune of “If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.” “You’re a Nazi and you’re fired, it’s your fault,” she sang. “You were spotted in a mob, now you lost your freaking job. You’re a Nazi and you’re fired, it’s your fault.”

A huge spambot ensnaring 711 million email accounts has been uncovered. A Paris-based security researcher, who goes by the pseudonymous handle Benkow, discovered an open and accessible web server hosted in the Netherlands, which stores dozens of text files containing a huge batch of email addresses, passwords, and email servers used to send spam.

“It’s hard to get a job, hard to make a living, hard to have a normal social life when all your friends and family know you believe in ethnic cleansing.”

Firefox Focus is a simple, lightweight browser to do whatever you need to do and get back to life.

In a world where many brick and mortar stores are struggling and some well-known retailers may actually shut their doors, the sales at online stores are getting stronger. As an article in Retail Dive notes, companies like Sears, Neiman Marcus and J. Crew are contending with a drop in sales, which has led to the closing of many of the retail giants' locations. In addition, stores like rue21, Payless and Gymboree have all entered bankruptcy proceedings, and Macy's recently announced that they would be shutting down over 60 stores.

A bug that exposed users’ contact information affected a far greater number of accounts than Instagram originally said. The bug, which appears to have been responsible for Selena Gomez’s account being hacked this week, allowed hackers to scrape email addresses and contact information for millions of accounts, Instagram said today.

It's about who you know and how much money you have.

There’s a real person behind the pro-Trump account thanked by the president—but her online name, her photo, and her 146,000 followers are all lies.

Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer has found itself in an increasingly heated battle with technology companies that it relies on to operate after it posted an article mocking Heather Heyer, who was killed at the white-nationalist march in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday. Both its domain provider, GoDaddy, and Zoho, the company which provides its email server, have dropped the hate website as a customer. Google also dropped the site as a customer. Notably, Cloudflare, a security firm which the Daily Stormer uses, continues to lend its services to the hate-speech website.

More than 3 million people have endorsed the tweet, which quoted Nelson Mandela, after far-right rally in which woman was killed.

Neo-nazi news site Daily Stormer will need to find another host after Namecheap announced on Sunday that it will not host the site. The hate site was registered with the company on Friday after being kicked off of GoDaddy, Google Domains, and a Russian registrar earlier this week before being shut down by each. On Friday, the company’s Twitter account began replying to users about the registration, saying its legal and abuse department was “already looking into it.”

Stormfront, an international supremacist web forum, appears to have been seized by its website host, Network Solutions, LLC. The forum disappeared Friday. WhoIs, a web service that tracks site ownership, reported the Stormfront domain's status as "under hold."

Showtime and UFC Fight Pass both had major issues with their streams of the Mayweather-McGregor fight. And those issues demonstrate a larger problem with the promise of streaming technology.

Porn browsing habits and confidential documents are found in supposedly anonymised data.

Automated accounts are being programmed to spread fake news, according to the first systematic study of the way online misinformation spreads

Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer, which helped organize a gathering in Virginia on Saturday that turned violent, moved to the so-called Dark Web on Tuesday because its registration to use the open internet was revoked.

Early books and periodicals about the internet were the atlases of the digital world in the mid-90s—and like atlases, they frequently pandered to the largest possible audience.