The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.

The legislation will define social media services as the publisher of the comments, allowing them to be the...

In the Web3 vision of the internet's future, tech giants like Facebook and Google aren't as critical. The internet instead is a peer-to-peer experience built on what's known as the blockchain.

A unique performance art project shows just how useless NFTs can be

None of my neighbors subscribe to my Substack newsletter, as far as I can tell. That’s fine with me. I don’t talk much about my vocation around here. We’ve lived in this house for many years (although we will be moving in a few days), and during that whole period I’ve never spoken to anyone on our street about my writing. From their perspective, I’m just another family man who works from home.

The attorney general's lawsuit alleges that Meta cost investors and Ohio's largest pension fund $100 billion since its bad practices first surfaced.

The company’s CEO says the old way of social media is broken—but is his alternative much different?

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) email servers were hacked to distribute spam email impersonating FBI warnings that the recipients' network was breached and data was stolen.

New technique is used to gather information before launching a phishing attack

Nicholas Carr on bringing America's spirit of the common good to online governance

Like MoviePass before it, Zillow’s iBuying adventures were a rare and fleeting handover...

Ten US-based and Russian state media outlets responsible for 69% of content on Facebook, finds Center for Countering Digital Hate

The flurry of social media apps aimed at conservatives promise free speech will reign—but more often than not they’re crashing and burning before they can even get going.

The flip-side of always-on instant messaging: Finding meaning in how you say you're "away."

Channels like Buzzr are finding a way to compete in the streaming wars.

iFixit, ahead of its MacBook Pro teardown, has carved out a little bit of time to do a small teardown of Apple's new polishing cloth.

Facebook officially launched its new name on Thursday, one that focuses attention on where it sees its future while drawing attention away from its contentious present and past.

A notorious Russian cybercriminal group has posted what appear to be National Rifle Association files to the dark web.

Codenamed "Project Mic."

Inspired by Web Rings from the 90s, I created a tool for serendipitous discovery of blogs called RSS Discovery Engine. Similar to how web rings work, I make the assumption that interesting blogs will tend to link to other related blogs, and therefore, linked blogs are likely to also be interesting.