8.8.8.8 offers more than just a simple alternative—there are potentially privacy benefits, too.

Learn how the internet works with a simple guide on DNS, IP addresses, and routing—explained clearly to show how online connections happen in seconds. Pixabay, ribkhan For many people, the internet ...

Cybercriminals that use the BreachForums dark web site may soon have their identities exposed after a database related to the forum was leaked online. On Friday, a website named after the ShinyHunters ...

The big picture: Chinese entrepreneur Lu Heng has built a global IPv4 leasing business from addresses initially allocated to Africa, igniting a legal and political fight over who should control one of ...

Lu Heng began fiddling with the internet as a boy growing up in Shipu, a fishing village in China. During college, he sold time cards for World of Warcraft videogames, then launched a company to ...

The open-source StarlingX cloud infrastructure project is out with its second major update of 2025, bringing with it new edge security and usability improvements. StarlingX is part of the Open ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

When the IPv4 address pool was depleted in 2011, some of the most impacted companies were internet service providers (ISPs) that needed these IPv4 addresses to grow their businesses. Less impacted, at ...

Confusion over how to handle requests for 0.0.0.0 has exposed a security vulnerability in multiple browsers. Attackers could use this method to bypass Private Network Access protection. Google’s got a ...