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.

Apple has updated its App Review Guidelines to expand the list of user-generated content experiences that can be removed from the App Store without notice. Here are the details. Apple’s App Review ...

Anonymous Content has named Darren Walker as its next president and CEO. Walker, who previously served as the president of the Ford Foundation, will oversee all aspects of the production and ...

Walker, who was most recently president of the Ford Foundation, joins as Emerson Collective is making a "material investment" into the production and management company. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor ...

A new law next year will require callers to New York’s child abuse and neglect hotline to leave their name and contact information, ending a practice of “anonymous reporting” that advocates said was ...

Nicholas Merrill has spent his career fighting government surveillance. But he would really rather you didn’t call what he’s selling now a “burner phone.” Yes, he dreams of a future where anyone in ...

At a position more or less immune to the bloodthirst of the sport, a snapping career can be a rapture. Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; Photos: Kevin Langley / Icon Sportswire via ...

From electronic health records and blood tests to the stream of data from wearable devices, the amount of health information people generate is accelerating rapidly. Yet, many users struggle to ...

Shortly after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, people who were squarely in the middle of newsworthy issues began asking for anonymity. Government employees, school teachers, college professors, ...

The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. In 1960 Bill Wilson, the co-founder of ...