The nonprofit that oversees Wikipedia briefly enforced a 'read-only' mode on Thursday morning as users spotted code designed to delete articles and place Russian text in the edit summary.

The Wikimedia Foundation suffered a security incident today after a self-propagating JavaScript worm began vandalizing pages and modifying user scripts across multiple wikis.

A 19-year-old Florida man is recovering after police say he was dragged by a car and pepper-sprayed during a Facebook ...

A Chrome extension named "QuickLens - Search Screen with Google Lens" has been removed from the Chrome Web Store after it was ...

Charles Hoskinson, a co-founder of Cardano, hopes to expand blockchain technology beyond the financial industry and into commonplace applications, potentially reaching billions of users on Facebook ...

PCWorld reports that hackers are increasingly using browser-in-the-browser (BITB) attacks to steal Facebook login credentials through sophisticated fake browser windows. Facebook’s large and diverse ...

With 21 million users, Facebook Dating is a secret hit, including among Gen Zers who use it for clout and content as much as for finding love. Twenty-one million users, actually. In November, for the ...

What Happened: Everyone keeps saying Facebook is dead, but the numbers say otherwise. Why Is This Important: This flips the script on the whole “Facebook is for boomers” narrative. Sure, kids love ...

A hot potato: In 2020, Meta launched an internal research effort called Project Mercury to examine the psychological effects of Facebook use. Working with market research firm Nielsen, the company ran ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

Facebook’s free dating service has 21 million users, more than the popular dating app Hinge, as the social network reinvents itself. By Eli Tan Reporting from San Francisco For years, Alyssa Landguth, ...

When we gather ’round the proverbial fire and exchange our online dating war stories, we’re usually talking about the usual suspects: Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Grindr, and sometimes more niche apps like ...