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Website driveby attacks on routers are alive and well. Here’s what to do

Website driveby attacks that try to boobytrap visitors’ routers are alive and well, according to antivirus provider Avast, which blocked more than 4.6...

Microsoft Teams is now officially bigger than Slack

Microsoft Teams may have only been around for two years, but the group-chat platform is already larger than one of its main competitors....

Savage tick-clone armies are sucking cows to death; experts fear for humans

Ravenous swarms of cloned ticks have killed a fifth cow in North Carolina by exsanguination—that is, by draining it of blood—the state’s Department...

Boom-shaka-laka: Call of Duty’s new “Gunfight” mode is like NBA Jam with guns

LOS ANGELES—This spring, I visited game studio Infinity Ward to learn about its upcoming "reimagining" of . During the reveal event, the studio's...

Steam uses machine learning for its new game recommendation engine

For years now, Valve has been testingnewapproaches to filter the glut of Steam games down to the ones in which individual users are...

Facebook denies allegations that you make friends on Facebook

Facebook is vigorously defending itself against a lawsuit brought by the attorney general of the District of Columbia—so vigorously, in fact, that it's...

There’s a big problem with Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Mark Zuckerberg is known for his boundless ambition. He's had a longstanding fascination with Caesar Augustus, the Roman emperor who (in Zuckerberg's words)...

Silent Mac update nukes dangerous webserver installed by Zoom

Apple said it has pushed a silent macOS update that removes the undocumented webserver that was installed by the Zoom conferencing app for...

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