Would you walk through downtown with a megaphone shouting your bank details, personal info, and other sensitive data? No one would, but online people often forget the basic rules of anonymity.

If you’ve found that your internet bill is rising, you’re not alone. Reviews.org’s State of Consumer Trust Survey 2025 found that internet bills rose by an average of $20.78 per month in 2024. The ...

Are you eager to learn why is the internet mad at Taylor Swift? Recently, the pop sensation has faced a surge of online backlash, sparking curiosity among her fans. Taylor Swift, known for her ...

This first appeared in the Planet Money newsletter. Sign up here! A few years ago, Cory Doctorow coined a word that took the internet by storm. It appeared everywhere, including in our newsletter that ...

You’ve heard a lot (including from this column) about topics such as net neutrality and universal broadband. Behind the buzzwords, there’s a broader debate raging about how to characterize the ...

A system that explains what data a device collects or how often software is updated could help consumers understand their risks. In a world where so many of our tools and gadgets — security cameras, ...

Internet throttling could be the reason why your WiFi speed is too slow. In this photo illustration an internet page is displayed on a computer screen on April 13, 2006 in London, England. Photo ...

Someone on the Internet using a binary code. (Jakub Porzycki / Getty Images) For kids whose formative years fell in the late 2000s and early 2010s, when home computers ebbed with the widespread ...

In the early 1900s, an American chemist by the name of Harvey W. Wiley led the famous "Poison Squad" experiment; volunteers ate meals laced with chemical preservatives to test their effects on human ...