To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

Kara Alaimo is an associate professor of communication at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Her book “Over the Influence: Why Social Media Is Toxic for Women and Girls — And How We Can Take It Back” was ...

This report details the process of capturing and analyzing unencrypted web traffic using Wireshark, the world's foremost network protocol analyzer. The objective was to demonstrate fundamental network ...

After two and a half years we have enough data to form a clearer picture about who is using AI, what they are using it for, what they think about it, and what it means for learning. What do students ...

Testing your VPN’s encryption during live traffic reveals its vulnerabilities, helping you identify potential weak spots, like data leakages, and better understand connection drops or failures. This ...

As voters weigh in on measures that would broaden marijuana access, recent data reveals unexpected trends in who uses it, and how. By Dani Blum Voters in four states will weigh in this week on ballot ...

I have a number of hang-ups — to paraphrase Avenged Sevenfold guitarist Synyster Gates, all of us are a little (screwed) up — but one I didn’t realize I had until recently is alexinomia: the fear of ...

Originally known as Ethereal, with a name change in 2006, Wireshark was created in 1997 by Gerald Combs, who remains the lead developer. The improvements in Wireshark 4.4.0 to the graph dialogs, ...

Two recent studies have linked “problematic smartphone use” among teenagers to increased symptoms of anxiety, depression and insomnia. But is it a real problem? And how worried, if at all, should we ...