Automattic code for the people is rallying cry for open internet

The free and open internet faces threats from companies propagating walled gardens designed to control your data and the rise ...
Newsweek

Woman Left Baffled by Own ‘Code’ in Secret Journal—Then Internet Steps In

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A woman who became interested in coding as a child developed her own ...
The Economist

A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers

In 2020 XKCD, a popular online comic strip, published a cartoon depicting a teetering arrangement of blocks with the label: “all modern digital infrastructure”. Perched precariously at the bottom, ...
CRN

Cisco Scoops Up Internet Monitoring Startup Code BGP

In its seventh announced acquisition of 2023, Cisco’s company’s network intelligence arm revealed it has acquired Code BGP, a privately held Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) monitoring company. Cisco ...
Forbes

The Internet Is Closing: Can Your Customers Still Find You?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan Gardner is a co-founder of Code and Theory. Consumers are disappearing from the reach of brands as Big Tech's AI innovations ...
The Economist

Why is so much of the internet’s infrastructure run by volunteers?

A DECADE AGO someone realised that the locks keeping swathes of the internet secure were not working. OpenSSL, a tool used to encrypt anything from social-media passwords to e-commerce purchases, had ...
Computerworld

Secret Windows code leaked on Internet

Microsoft Corp. confirmed late yesterday that some of the secret code underlying its Windows NT and Windows 2000 operating systems has been leaked on the Internet. The company played down any ...
Wired

Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science

“Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!” With a sly grin that I’d soon come to recognize, Paul Ginsparg quoted Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Ginsparg, a physics professor at ...
InfoWorld

JavaScript botnet code leaked to Internet

The code, which uses JavaScript to turn any Web browser into a hacker's tool, was created as a demonstration of how JavaScript can be used to dodge security measures Software that could be used to ...