Scams promising fast, easy money or fake diet pills have proliferated. Tik Tok's audience skews especially young, leaving them particularly vulnerable.

Microsoft announced new "Video Authentication" software to detect fake media.

The USPS filed a patent to create a system of mail-in voting that would involve blockchain security. Sounds fancy, but it's not a silver bullet, experts say.

Some of the most popular platforms suffered massive devaluations, stagnation, or even death when big legacy companies purchased them.

Addressing employees, the CEO of ByteDance said a U.S. entity told it to divest from Tik Tok. Security questions have long swirled around the Chinese company.

All eyes were on Capitol Hill to see if Congress could muster up the focus to press Big Tech CEOs on their monopolistic practices. They couldn't do it.

Despite a reported 1,000 advertisers taking ads off the platform, including major names, Facebook largely shrugged in the face of this boycott.

Activists behind July's advertiser boycott of Facebook want Congress to grill CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the social network's control of the ad market.

Activists want Congress to call out Amazon’s monopoly in the online retail space. CEO Jeff Bezos is scheduled to testify before the House on July 27.

Stuxnet was scary for its level of sophistication and targeting, but cost-prohibitive to develop. Bad actors can now lean on a more efficient tool: Facebook.

Some Harvard students are struggling with poor internet connections, unsafe homes, and more as classes remain online this fall due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite security concerns about TikTok, experts say that TikTok's privacy policies are no more or less invasive when compared with other social media apps.

China's controversial National Security Law, which has raised the hackles of pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, seems to also have given WhatsApp pause.

They compared it to the $1,200 checks that the Trump administration sent Americans: it's not nothing, but it also isn't going to help with risking their lives every day.

Twitter’s move to flag President Trump's tweets may have given Big Tech the cover it needed to do what they want to do. Is tech finally taking Trump seriously?

While a lot of attention has been focused on the vulnerability of voting machines, the more imminent danger is the electronic infrastructure around elections.

Amazon workers allege bosses purposefully downplayed the presence of the COVID-19, at one point even playing videos to convince people there was no threat.

A wide range of bugs in a software firms code — which is used by many devices across several industries — would allow hackers easy access to control the devices.

Facial recognition could soon become as commonplace as public Wi-Fi and security cameras. But with the advance of technology comes major ethical questions.

Juneteenth, which is celebrated as the day when slavery in the U.S. officially ended, will now be an official company holiday at tech giants Twitter and Square.

Almost half of the accounts tweeting about the BLM protests could be bots or cyborgs, according to experts, and they're spreading misinformation.

Facial recognition algorithms are notoriously bad at identifying non-white and non-male people. But the tech may still be used today as protests roil the U.S.

Protesters and activists have been sharing advice for how to treat injuries, avoid police detection, and stay safe during demonstrations over police brutality.

In response to a new Twitter feature that fact-checked the President for the first time, Trump tweeted a threat to shut down or regulate social media.

February to March 2020 saw almost a 50% increase in the number of cyberattacks on health care systems and hospitals in the U.S. The Red Cross says "no more."

Bees all over the world face extinction; now Space10, the design firm behind Ikea, is launching an open-source design for people to create new homes for bees.

The FBI's iPhone hacks are cost-prohibitive, and it's unlikely the government would want to use these methods to spy on everyone, experts say.

Google has disputed an earlier report that the company had shut down its diversity training programs, telling Digital Trends the programs were still active.

A tussle over new amendments to the 2001 Patriot Act has ended with the Senate failing to block an expansion of the power to surveil web browser history.

A "live-capture" version of the Broadway musical Hamilton was slated for release in October 2021, but Disney+ has pushed up the release by more than 15 months.

Elon Musk reopened his Fremont factory, despite California's stay-at-home orders. Officials declared car manufacturing non-essential and said employees cannot work.

Researchers have developed the first wearable device that can track a person’s COVID-19 symptoms, possibly alerting health workers before you know you're sick.

As smart cities evolve, cameras proliferate, and all of our data is continually collected, the question of how to maintain personal privacy becomes more urgent.

A new Google Drive feature — which allows users to lock the app with a passcode, Touch ID, or Face ID — will be rolling out this week, Google announced.