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Swedish VPN provider Mullvad says that national police came to its headquarters and demanded user data but didn't…

Lots of folks have concern about the direction of AI. Should we, uh, maybe heed those warnings?

The encrypted email service has more features than ever and surpassed 100 million users worldwide. Gizmodo talked to…

After a quarter of a century, Netflix is officially retiring its DVD rental service.

Secret Pentagon documents have flooded the web in recent weeks. The military says the leaker is a 21-year-old IT guy…

New reporting claims that a "young, racist gun enthusiast" is the person who distributed classified U.S. and NATO…

Bob Lee knew his alleged stabber, Nima Momeni, who also worked in tech, according to local reports.

The newspaper of record has launched Digits, a new numbers-based game that tries to replicate the charm of its word…

Adding to the long list of AI's powers: cajoling the protagonist of American Psycho to talk about his love of 4chan.

The disgraced crypto exchange had no dedicated cybersecurity staff and "protected" users assets with minimal…

Did a pro-Russian group hack a major Canadian energy project? A recently leaked U.S. intelligence briefing says so.

Pentagon and NATO war plans are said to have leaked online yesterday. More followed today. But are they legit or is…

Thirty years ago, the U.S. government first floated the idea of a backdoor into public-key encryption, an idea it's…

Think your fancy new ride's in-vehicle surveillance videos are private? Think again.

The feds took down a hotbed of digital malfeasance this week. Where will dark web goons hawk stolen identities now?

A host of software flaws in products sold by the smart home company Nexx makes them ripe for manipulation by…

Less than a week after the White House blacklisted a controversial spyware vendor, a federal agency negotiated a…

Big tech and big law enforcement have partnered up to share your personal information, but which countries have the…

After years of debate about the cause of the strange malady, a recently declassified document points the finger…

A hacking campaign that targeted U.S. activists was coordinated by an Israeli private eye. Who were his clients?