[Editor’s Note: Independent security consultant Christopher Budd worked previously in Microsoft’s Security Response Center for 10 years.] Commentary: Yes, 2020 really sucked. But it could have been ...

Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Government-imposed internet blackouts increased in length by 49% in 2020 compared to 2019, per research by digital security and rights group ...

For years, social-media platforms had held firm: Just because a post was false didn’t mean it was their place to do anything about it. But 2020 changed their minds. As if to make clear how far things ...

Joyce Greenberg Brown first learned about political organizing from Martin Luther King Jr. in 1957, when he visited her youth group at a Philadelphia YWCA. She worked for George McGovern in ...

We were all online more than we’d have liked this year. All the time we were meant to spend at dinner or the movies was instead spent scrolling for news—good news, bad news, what’s the difference? The ...

Lee Rainie, Director of Internet and Technology Research at the Pew Research Center, presented this material on October 14, 2020 at a gathering sponsored by the International Institute of ...

Almost 40 million people around the world have contracted Covid-19, and more than 1 million have died from the virus. The devastation has rippled even further, thanks to a global recession and rising ...