This episode tells the stories of some of the worlds biggest spamming botnets. We'll talk about the botnets Rustock, Waledac, and Cutwail. We'll discover who was behind them, what their objectives ...

When anything on social media can become A Thing, trends take on an unnerving shape and velocity.

Twitter’s product leaders have their work cut out for them.

Hour-long YouTube videos are thriving in the TikTok era. Their popularity reflects our desire for more nuanced content online.

A French dad faces jail time and a hefty fine after using a signal jammer to prevent his kids from going online and taking the rest of a nearby town down with them.

An interview with the author of Web3 Is Going Just Great

George Farmer doubles down on his efforts to revive a right-leaning social media company that was taken offline a year ago.

According to him looking at website source code is a crime

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Things look a little different around The Verge today. Very different. Like a thousand lasers shining through your mind, pointing at the future.

This week, Alex's favorite place on the Internet is in danger... thanks to a bunch of robot snipers.

Seemingly overnight, there’s been a whole new version of the Web invented, dubbed “web3.” I’ve seen a lot of people talk about it online ...

As someone who closely follows the ebbs and flows of the internet, I can’t help but find the sudden, overwhelming hype around “Web3,” essentially the blockchainification of the internet, to be something of a massive bubble.As anyone who has read a Gartner report can tell you, hype cycles tend to crest before they dissipate, and might bounce back after all that.But I think the reason why so many have become overexcited about the possibility of Web3 taking over the internet has much less to do wi…

Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.

We've got a crossposted episode for you this week: Mike recently joined The Cato Daily Podcast with Caleb O. Brown for a discussion about the "hacking" fiasco in Missouri and the state's treatment of the journalists who exposed its...

Tantalizingly close to a power user’s Google alternative.

It’s kind of a hellacious cookie hack, but it works.

We said earlier this month Twitter was just a few weeks away reinstating inbound SMS to UK mobile users - and now it's happening. By Robert Andrews

Say goodbye to Twitter SMS notifications too.

Twitter says it’s making the change "to protect people’s accounts."

“About to record "1000 Words" with @dami_lee ... the thumb drives have the pictures on them!”

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About to record "1000 Words" with @dami_lee ... the thumb drives have the pictures on them! pic.twitter.com/k2udetLRBY— Paul Miller (@futurepaul) August 5, 2016

The Verge is a big thing that feels small; we’re going to keep it that way.

Twitch streamers are building tools to combat hate raids.

Millions of comments, posts, and links, charted.

Studies of the social impact of the Internet must consider the changing lifestyle of the new economy and not relate solely to industrial-age concepts.