The good news: One intrepid blogger offers up a massive cut-and-paste Gmail filter operator that corrals and archives non-English messages. The bad news: It only works when spammers are semi-honest.

I don't know what I did to deserve it, but I've recently been hit with an overwhelming flood of foreign-language (primarily Russian) spam. I can't even read these emails, so I have no idea what the ...

Microsoft's language filter on Xbox Live is strangling the linguistic skills of Quarrel players, banning such words as "help," "train," "balls" and "shaft" from being played. While we can understand ...

Twitter’s API is getting two important additions to its metadata, the company announced via blog post. Developers can now detect a tweet’s language, as well as algorithmic curation to surface “high ...

Is there any chance of adding an optional foul language filter (set in user preferences) to this forum software? You know, something that would change "fvck" to "f***ing," for example. Personally, I ...