Internet
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Online regulators can accept untold degradations as long as they happen to women
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Sugg’s videos dispensing beauty and life advice have 307m views, and now she has the fastest selling debut novel ever
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Companies can spend millions on cyber security but still see sensitive data dumped on internet; the only full protection is to shut down business
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Ben Goldacre: We all worry about digital spies stealing our data – but now even the things we thought we were happy to share are being used in ways we don’t like. Why aren’t we making more of a fuss?
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A Tor URL is an economic opportunity for Facebook, but it may also help citizens who face government control over freedom of speech
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Sarah Koenig’s addictive series about a 1999 murder conviction has raised the bar for both podcasts and old-fashioned investigative reporting
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The Random Darknet Shopper, with bitcoin to burn, has purchased counterfeit jeans, dodgy cigs and even a bag of ecstasy tablets. Who is legally liable?
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Women’s clothing chain ‘moved quickly to block attack’ in which cardholder names, account numbers and verification codes may have been exposed
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With the demise of Clip Art, what other staples of 90s technology do we miss so much we want to use the cry-face emoji?
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US podcast to be broadcast daily at 9pm on digital station, beginning with Sarah Koenig re-investigating the 1999 murder of high-school student Hae Min Lee in Baltimore
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Actor and co-director Rogen took home over $8m for the North Korea-baiting comedy, while co-star Franco received over $6m
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Police find equipment capable of infiltrating bank accounts and cash machines in raids on homes in upmarket area of Nairobi
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Have your say on $1.2bn funding round as well as Facebook, mobile games v console games, Russian dark web drug lords and more
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Dean Burnett: The new rules have baffled many but do they hold up to scientific scrutiny? Not really, no
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Commenters on social media weigh in on the difference in police attitudes toward white Americans and black Americans
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Star fund manager is among investors in new service which aims to launch without branches in second half of 2015
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Alison Flood: Author unleashes stream of apoplectic tweets after her novel was not included on list of 2014’s literary highlights
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The actor and TableTop host on geek culture, not being a dick on the internet, and why gaming needs to stop treating women as an anomaly
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The ISC suggests internet companies can detect terrorist behaviour in the same way as search engines detect child abuse images. But these are very different technical undertakings
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A test called ‘No Captcha’ removes infuriating ‘guess the word’ forms for a simple checkbox to determine if you’re human or not
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The social media platform is no longer just the reserve of consumer facing businesses. Jess Collins explains how all businesses can benefit from the site
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Have your say on Google’s child-friendly plans, as well as reCAPTCHA, Apple iPod revelations, Ghostery Android browser and more
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Free online dictionary adds raft of words including teenspeak, gaming terminology and business lingo
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In memo to staff, the company told staff ‘large amount’ of confidential information, including movies and personnel files, was stolen
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Advertising on websites, smartphones, video and social media will see UK operations make £4.1bn in 2015, according to report
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iBooks chief fighting US court ruling that the company ‘conspired’ to fix prices in its competition with Amazon’s Kindle is defiant before trial. Tim Cook ‘feels the same’
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Heaviest spending day in history as eager US shoppers flock to shop following a ‘Black November’ that stretched out holiday bargain-hunting season
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A Christmas email campaign is asking Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos to improve terms for workers providing cheap digital labour
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Amazon CEO admits that failures have cost the company dear but experimentation like the Fire Phone is key to survival
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Hack saw entire computer system data destroyed by malicious software, prompting warning to other US businesses
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Singer-songwriter caps off a triumphant year by topping list of artists most popular on Spotify this year, beating Eminem and Coldplay
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It’s a moral dilemma – what should a defender of online anonymity do when trolled? For Andrea Shepard of the Tor project, the answer was simple
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Sigmund Freud’s daughter studied emotional difficulties in children after family fled to London before second world war
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Janus Friis is backing a communications startup that claims to solve ‘nagging problems’ in messaging, voice and file sharing. Can it really be the ‘ground up reimagination’ he claims?
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Only a cyber ‘arms control’ treaty can keep online criminals and terrorists at bay