The speech given by 2019 Barlow/Pioneer award winner Danah Boyd about reckoning with how she benefited from men whose actions have helped uphold a patriarchal system that has hurt so many people.

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical weakness found in most mobile phones to surreptitiously track the location of users and possibly carry out other nefarious actions, researchers warned.The attacks work by exploiting an interface intended to be used solely by cell carr

The software, which is free and open to the public, scans social media in real time to detect evidence of automated Twitter accounts -- or "bots" -- pushing messages in a coordinated manner, an increasingly common practice to manipulate public opinion by creating the

A feature on MIT's Media Lab, including an agricultural project involving food computers.

As more and more devices get connected to the Internet of Things, researchers say compromising gas pumps has become a hot topic on cyber criminal forums.

The social media giant is putting $10 million into the “Deepfake Detection Challenge,” which aims to spur detection research. As part of the project, Facebook is commissioning researchers to produce realistic deepfakes to create a data set for testing detection tools.

Predictions based on two university reports on media, politics, disinformation and their impact on the 2020 presidential election.

Joseph Simons, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, described a settlement with Google over children’s privacy violations on YouTube as “a significant victory” for parents.

Dorsey’s account began posting racial epithets, profanities and bomb threats. A company spokesman confirmed it was hacked.

A French cryptographer exposes a security breach that allows access to voters' choices after a Russian radio station issues a public challenge to test the system.

A case for the use of storytelling as a more effective approach to teach ethics to computer science students, particularly sci-fi where near-future developments in tech can be imagined and discussed.

Smart technology can make it easier to keep tabs on your home when you’re on vacation, but it also makes it harder to really get away.

The European Commission is reportedly considering sweeping reforms to facial recognition regulation to protect citizens from public surveillance.

Hackers demanding collective ransoms of $2.5 million dollars have infiltrated 22 Texas municipalities simultaneously. This article discusses this event and the rise of ransomware attacks against government bodies.

A team of hackers given unprecedented access to a flight system used in F-15 fighter jets reportedly confirmed the existence of serious cybersecurity bugs.

When the researchers then tested Google’s Perspective, an AI tool that the company lets anyone use to moderate online discussions, they found racial biases.

U.S. retailers large and small are pressing ahead with testing the use of artificial intelligence to track what products shoppers pick up and to automatically bill their accounts when they walk out the door, eliminating the need for checkout lines.

A U.S. court has ruled that Facebook users in Illinois can sue the company over face recognition technology, meaning a class action can move forward. It's the first decision by a U.S.

As the major social platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter have taken steps to ban users for spreading false, hateful, or violent messages, bad actors have turned to private spaces where their communications are harder to track.