People from my Internet generation, those who came online in the mid-1990s, have rose-tinted memories of early Web “shock sites”—sites with unassuming URLs containing horrible pictures of awful things ...

The rise of the web's gross-out culture began, ironically, with a government crackdown on Internet obscenity. In 1996 the US Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, which criminalized the use ...

Last night, I received an alarming email. It was from the people who now own goatse.cx. “BREAKING NEWS: YOU can now OWN a piece of GOATSE.CX in the Ethereum blockchain!” it exclaimed. Worrying. If you ...

The infamous Goatse.cx domain, once home to a shock site with a picture of a man stretching his anus to a seemingly-impossible diameter, has endorsed the virtual currency Dogecoin. Users brave enough ...

Here at Ars, we’ve seen time and again how simple web and/or mobile games can be cloned or outright stolen by unscrupulous developers aiming to cash in on someone else’s game concept. But developer ...

The internet’s most notorious shock site will add a little bit of pizazz to your boring email address. Tired of people opening the emails you send them? An Australian IT consultant has just the thing.

Goatse Security, the folks who exposed the AT&T iPad security flaw last week, are back with some new observations. First, they think AT&T is exceedingly lame for blaming THEM for the security flaw (we ...

The price of the infamous Goatse.cx auction is up to a staggering $159,600 — a pecuniary sum so large that, even in c-notes, it could scarcely be crammed up the Goatse.cx guy's gaping, bleeding anus.

AT&T has fleshed out its response about an Apple iPad flaw that exposed customer email addresses and may just make matters worse. On June 7 we learned that unauthorized computer “hackers” maliciously ...

This iPad security breach story from last week continues to spin way out of control, and in our opinion fingers are being pointed in the wrong direction. The FBI is investigating the incident, and a ...