Musk proposed a buyout of the social platform yesterday.

The Yandex.Food leak implicates thousands of Russian users, including military personnel

The Yandex Food leak exposed the data of 58,000 users.

Bad actors contacted the platforms with emergency data requests.

What comes next.

It's an American solution to a global problem.

GM backed Trump’s fight with California and lost.

a comprehensive analysis of the year's new malware!

Employees say their complaints about workplace misconduct were routinely ignored

“Smishing" is an attempt to collect logins or other sensitive information with a malicious text message—and it's on the rise.

Microsoft could move slower to ship better code, discontinue old features (like Apple), or get its customers to a good security baseline (like Google).

Apple added a new feature in the iOS 15.2 iPhone update to give kids a warning before they send or open nude photos—and made a difficult decision to omit a feature that would have warned their parents.

Independent experts from NYU, UMass Amherst, Columbia, Marquette, and the ACLU are partnering with Gizmodo to responsibly publish this historic leak.

The journalists of Novaya Gazeta report on dangerous conflicts—and endure threats of their own.

Companies speaking to reporters — especially tech companies, but they're by no means the only ones; media companies do it too — like to add information "on background." That means that the information they provide can be included in the story, but can't be attributed specifically to …

Facebook Doc Stories October 27, 2021 WaPo: In Poland’s politics, a ‘social civil war’ brewed as Facebook rewarded online anger WaPo: Former Facebook auditor says whistleblower’s claims have ‘revived’ civil rights concerns WSJ: Federal Trade Commission Scrutinizing Facebook Disclosures ​​ Forbes:...

This is an ongoing public Google Doc collecting all the stories published surrounding the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook Files” project. Shortlink: https://bit.ly/fbdocstories

Facebook knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws but hasn’t fixed them. That’s a key finding of a Journal series that launched this week, based on an array of internal company documents. Read all the stories here.

Selling the story of disinformation

Cryptocurrency promises to liberate the monetary system from the clutches of the powerful. Instead, it mostly functions to make wealthy speculators even wealthier.

Firefox can now set itself as default in just one click.