Tama Leaver receives funding from the Australian Research Council. He is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. The Australian Federal government’s Online Safety ...

From Dec. 10, young teenagers in Australia will be banned, under new legislation, from social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and TikTok — in one of the toughest online crackdowns in the ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Rust-based backdoor called ChaosBot that can allow operators to conduct reconnaissance and execute arbitrary commands on compromised hosts.

A massive phishing campaign targeted GitHub users with cryptocurrency drainers, delivered via fake invitations to the Y Combinator (YC) W2026 program. Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that funds ...

Republicans on the House Homeland Security Committee are pressing several social media platforms about their handling of extremist content following the assassination of conservative influencer ...

Discord, the widely used messaging platform popular with the gaming community, is at the center of the investigation of Tyler Robinson, the suspected assassin of Charlie Kirk. Robinson was arrested ...

Python developers often need to install and manage third-party libraries. The most reliable way to do this is with pip, Python’s official package manager. To avoid package conflicts and system errors, ...

Spam is annoying and can sometimes be dangerous if it’s part of a widespread phishing attack. When you see spam, you delete it, at least that’s what conventional wisdom suggests. However, it now seems ...

Programming used to entail spending long hours staring at black-and-white terminals and fixing syntax problems in silence. Now, a new movement called Vibe Coding is changing the way the next ...