It’s always porn’s fault. Yet another cybersecurity firm has studied mobile internet users and their habits and determined porn is a primary vector for malware and malvertising, as well as a major source of data leakage. “Almost a quarter of malware on mobile devices comes from...

MONTREAL – To be fair, my issue with the recent Rolling Stone piece “How the Internet Changed Porn” doesn’t involve its central thesis, or for that matter, involve any particularly significant point made in the article. Now that I’ve copped to the fact I’m nitpicking, here’s the...

WASHINGTON – When U.S. Navy Seals raided al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound in 2011, they uncovered a huge trove of documents intelligence authorities considered a boon to the war on terror. Ever since, various entities within the intelligence...

MADRID – Facebook “does not adequately collect the consent of either its users or nonusers” before collecting and sharing intensely personal information about their lives, according to the Spanish Data Protection Agency. That “constitutes a serious infringement” of Spain’s...

HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. – Pleasure products retailer Adam & Eve has launched an international shopping cart on its flagship website, AdamAndEve.com. The cart embraces 138 countries, allowing shoppers to browse in their own language and pay with their own currency. “We’re now able...

WASHINGTON – Overnight Monday, the Twitter account belonging to Ted Cruz, the junior Republican senator from Texas, “liked” a 2-minute, 20-second hardcore pornographic video clip posted by @SexuallPosts. It’s not terribly difficult to infer Sexuall Posts exists solely to post...

LOS ANGELES – Shortly before the debut of Kink, a documentary he produced about Kink.com and the people behind it, James Franco explained his impetus for producing the film. He said he was interested in “how we define ourselves as people, how we interact with each other, and what...

BATH, England – Pleasure product manufacturer Lovehoney has launched a new male sex toy, BlowYo. Designed for solo play or as an addition to oral play with a partner, BlowYo is a stroker that mimics the sensations of intense oral sex. Designed with a solid ring at both ends of a...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – When Google launched the forerunner of Search Console in 2005, the product offered only four reports: query stats, crawl stats, page analysis and index stats. Today, Search Console provides users with more than two dozen tools that can help webmasters...

LONDON – When it comes to advice columns, self-help books or drunken uncles dispensing their hard-earned wisdom at a family gathering, I have only one requirement, just a single hurdle these sources of guidance must clear if they expect me to pay attention: They must tell me...