Connecting to a VPN server hides your traffic by rerouting it through an encrypted tunnel. Your ISP and other outside parties are no longer able to see your online activity—but the one who owns the ...

Bill McColl has 25+ years of experience as a senior producer and writer for TV, radio, and digital media leading teams of anchors, reporters, and editors in creating news broadcasts, covering some of ...

Editor’s note: This work is part of AI Watchdog, The Atlantic’s ongoing investigation into the generative-AI industry. The Common Crawl Foundation is little known outside of Silicon Valley. For more ...

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a software developer with a passion for making and electronics. I do a lot of things and here is where I document my learning in order to be able to inspire other people to make ...

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a new privacy law requiring web browsers to make opting out of data sales simple and accessible for all users, just over a ...

Correction: After publishing, Red Hat confirmed that it was a breach of one of its GitLab instances, and not GitHub. Title and story updated. An extortion group calling itself the Crimson Collective ...

Electronic health record software giant Epic previewed Thursday new app developer tools and interoperability features that simplify data sharing for providers and patients. In the past year, more than ...

Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business. A ...

Trump fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics head. In Argentina, the government manipulated the inflation rate. Economists went rogue to calculate the real rate, and people lost trust in the numbers.

What happens when an engineer builds a smart garden? This Arduino-powered system automates watering while collecting real-time data on soil moisture, temperature, and sunlight. From sensor calibration ...

President Trump fired the head of the BLS, claiming manipulated jobs numbers after a report of slowed hiring. While revisions were more dramatic than usual, these numbers are always revised. WSJ ...