Cory Doctorow’s newest book provides ideas for how to de-enshittify the world wide web that’s become our everyday life.
We’ve known for a long time that passwords have their flaws. Whether it’s phishing, brute force, or dictionary attacks, password-based authentication remains one of the weakest links in cybersecurity.
Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to clarify how many Social Security beneficiaries currently receive paper payments. (NEXSTAR) — You may be in line to receive a benefits check from the ...
Amazon has agreed to pay $2.5 billion to resolve a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit alleging the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it exceedingly ...
Some Amazon customers could get cash from the retail giant as part of its $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. On Sept. 25, the FTC announced it secured the "historic" order to ...
What makes some knowledge feel sacred, or even forbidden? If you’re wondering how some truths, ideas and symbols reserved for a select set of people get to that point — look no further than the word ...
We know of Alzheimer’s as a progressive disease, with the first subtle indications emerging up to 18 years before people ...
Las personas que puedan arreglar su estatus migratorio en el país pueden comenzar a prepararse con documentos y algunos pendientes, en caso de que se apruebe la reforma migratoria de Joe Biden. iStock ...
"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A new scientific paper has a name for a different type of diabetes: type 5 diabetes. This form was ...
Trump threatened a 100% tariff on "foreign" movies Monday. President Donald Trump gestures after speaking during a meeting of senior military leaders convened by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, at ...

The Lesson of 1929

But all of that lay ahead on Tuesday, October 29, 1929—a day that the economist John Kenneth Galbraith would later describe ...