Google has incorporated a neat face blurring feature into YouTube in the hope of protecting the anonymity of protests in videos posted to the site.

Federal prosecutors have charged two men with using a computer botnet to launch crippling Web attacks on Amazon, eBay, and Priceline, and then bragging about them in online hacker forums.

AT&T launched its own "Mobile Share" plans today, matching Verizon Wireless' push to get more people to share their data plans with family members.

Browser security is now more important than ever for computer users, so it's no surprise that it's one of the key features in Firefox 14, which made its debut on Tuesday.

Facebook users are less satisfied with the social network than ever, while Google users are much happier, according to a new survey from the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ASCI).

Marissa Mayer, an executive at Google who ran its Search product, will be the next CEO of Yahoo, The New York Times reports. While the news comes as a bit of a surprise — some speculated that the company would tap Ross Levinsohn for the role — Mayer comes to Yahoo with a long list of credentials. Mayer was the first female hired at Google and was among the first employees to join the company. She was considered a top executive at the company near the level of Schmidt, Page, and Brin — though during last year's reorganization at Google she was pushed by Page from search to local.

Despite court cases in the Netherlands and the U.K. forcing ISPs to place blocks on their systems to prevent customer access to The Pirate Bay, the blocks may ultimately prove futile, according to data seen by the BBC and others.

Good news, MySpace: You’ve just been eclipsed as the biggest bust of the social media era.

Fights between cable operators and TV networks are nothing new, but an ongoing fight between DirecTV and Viacom has spilled over to the Web, with Viacom pulling Internet access to many of its shows.

Facebook automatically scans posts and chat logs for criminal activity, using big data processing techniques similar to those used in targeting advertising to determine the most vulnerable users, according to a new Reuters report that explores combating pedophilia in social media. The social network's scanning tools use factors such as mutual friends, past interaction, distance and age difference — alongside simple phrase searches — to flag potentially nefarious conversations for human moderators. They also rely on archives of previous conversations that are known to have led to sexual assaults, identifying patterns and searching for similar ones.