After imbibing large quantities of certain beverages, we Ars writers sometimes get carried away with telling each other true-life stories that probably shouldn't go anywhere but sometimes do. Last ...

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...

Nowadays, it has become a challenge to safeguard your digital privacy. There are numerous malware and spying agencies that want to spy on you all the time. Moreover, the attackers try to compromise ...

Creating and keeping track of the passwords that secure our online life is one of the defining problems of the internet age. Each year hundreds of millions of user accounts are hacked, thanks to ...