The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed to delete articles and place Russian text in the edit summary.

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

Modern software increasingly depends on data structures that go far beyond basic arrays and trees. Some of the most powerful systems rely on designs that rarely appear in traditional programming ...

The New York Times argued that it was “time to acknowledge reality” and “admit” that the United States has a “marijuana problem” in a new editorial admitting that the legalization of weed in most ...

In Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, the HAL 9000 computer did not go rogue and kill the entire crew except one because it was evil in any sense. Rather, the operators threatened the ...

Soon after the U.S. Department of Justice released a batch of documents related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in late December 2025, social media users claimed the text hidden by redactions ...

Google updated its JavaScript SEO documentation for the third time this week, this time to say that "while pages with a 200 HTTP status code are sent to rendering, this might not be the case for pages ...

Bluetooth is a technology for short-range data transmission that has become so ubiquitous in recent years that we can no longer imagine life without it. This makes it all the more annoying when ...

In the past few weeks, the most talked about start-up in the world has been emitting some alarming signals. OpenAI should expect some “rough vibes” in the coming months, CEO Sam Altman said in an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. When it comes to enterprise-based data security, the general ...