Internet writer Adrian Chen decided to investigate professional trolls working for the Russian government and they played him like a fiddle.

Even in the age of on-demand knowledge downloaded to a device in the palm of your hand, common misconceptions and urban legends persist.

Techno-utopians sold a world on the narrative that the web was built for a free exchange of information. But that's never actually been true...

Bureaucrats keep thinking about how to tame the internet, but the internet's very nature makes it trivial to resist their efforts.

A European lawmaker wants the web to forget your embarrassing moments. But at this point, that's pretty much an impossible task.

Data centers are getting a bum rap, but behind the scenes, they're working hard on trying to keep the internet more reliable and their power usage more efficient.

PROTECT IP and SOPA aren't just threatening to gut the internet under the guise of fighting piracy, they're giving cranks and quacks a powerful new weapon ripe for abuse against their critics.

If we accept that internet connectivity in the 21st century is a part of vital infrastructure, the next question is what is the minimum speed we can call acceptable.

Online advertisers are starting to cross into downright stalkerish behavior...

How could it be harder to lie online if you can hide your identity? Well, the internet never forgets a fib...

No matter how tamed the web of the future will be, it will always have its wild, adults-only parts.

Sometimes looking through the spam trap leads you down a path of abject insanity...

The internet kill switch bill is back and its author and sponsors have learned absolutely nothing about how the technology works.

There's a good case for trying to bring the developing world online, but it's going to be hard to get today's financial gatekeepers to sign on to such a project.

The internet may have broadened our horizons, but it hasn't changed how we think about sex. With maybe one exception...