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 government is currently considering an Australian-style social media ban for under-16s in the UK, and has highlighted infinite scrolling as a feature which "drives addictive or compulsive use".

A Chrome vulnerability allowed malicious extensions to hijack the browser’s Gemini Live assistant to spy on users and ...

Sounds weird, I know.

Rates of internet addiction among children and adolescents have nearly doubled since the pandemic – Symptoms, impact on academic performance and nutrition – Setting an age limit on social media is ...

Instagram head Adam Mosseri testified that 16 hours of daily scrolling isn’t “addiction” during a Los Angeles trial where Meta, TikTok, and YouTube face lawsuits over allegedly addictive algorithms.

Has anyone ever told you that the way that they reset after an intense experience is to sit down with their phone to maybe watch a funny video or two? It makes sense: laughter lowers cortisol and ...

Doomscrolling is bad for us, brand new research has found – but it’s the activity we spend most time on. In other breaking news, water is wet and the Pope is Catholic. This doomscroll discovery may ...