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Nigerian scammers slide into DMs, so Ars trolls them

I've got a history with Internet scammers. I've spent hours on the phone with tech support scammers, and I've hunted down bot networks...

The Greatest Leap, part 3: The triumph and near-tragedy of the first Moon landing

Update: Fifty years ago this week—July 16, 1969—the world watched as Apollo 11 launched towards the skies. The rest, quite literally, became history....

New trailer for IT Chapter Two ratchets up the horror

Pennywise the demonic clown gleefully inflicts all manner of psychological and physical torment on the grown-up members of the Losers Club in a...

Dropbox silently installs new file manager app on users’ systems

Hey Dropbox users, how has Dropbox been for you lately? Major changes are coming to the Dropbox desktop app. The company announced...

Warming climate likely leading to larger California fires

The last couple years have seen devastating and record-setting wildfires in California, leaving many in the region to wonder what to expect in...

More on DataSpii: How extensions hide their data grabs—and how they’re discovered

In our 5,000 word piece on "DataSpii," we explained how researcher Sam Jadali spent tens of thousands of dollars investigating the murky Internet...

Microsoft warns 10,000 customers they’re targeted by nation-sponsored hackers

Microsoft said on Wednesday that it has notified almost 10,000 customers in the past year that they’re being targeted by nation-sponsored hackers. According...

Zombifying fungus bypasses the brain to make ants its puppets, study finds

Pity the poor unsuspecting carpenter ant who unwittingly becomes infected with spores scattered by a parasitic fungus in the genus. The spores attach...

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