Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

The next version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—the network protocol that defines how browsers talk to Web servers—is going to make a major break from the versions in use today. Today’s ...

The Internet can be a dangerous place, wrought with fraud and data theft. To help protect your small business data it's a good idea to have a basic understanding of secure Internet protocols. These ...

Global Initiative Highlights the Internet as Humanity’s Architecture of Peace Internet Pioneers for Peace, an international coalition dedicated to recognizing the Internet’s role in promoting global ...

Update: We're in the last throes of winter break 2019, which means most Ars' home office phones can stay dormant for a few more days. As such, we've been resurfacing a few classics from the ...

The RIPv1 routing protocol is being used to launch DDoS attacks against many hosts on the Internet, according to an Akamai threat report Routing Information Protocol (RIP), an obsolete network routing ...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced last week that it has chosen an Internet-based protocol for electronic data exchange with thousands of its national and global suppliers. Wal-Mart said that the use of ...

Vinton Cerf helped create the internet 40 years ago, and he’s still working to connect people around the world — and off it. Space exploration is hard, not least because of how difficult it is to ...