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Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a phone scammer—and wins

If you're trying to extort money from people, there are probably better choices for a victim than William H. Webster. Back in 2014,...

Elsa and the gang are back and in a dark place in first teaser for Frozen 2

We awoke this morning to the first teaser trailer for , the sequel to , Disney's inventive 2013 re-imagining of Hans Christian Andersen's...

Amid layoffs, Blizzard won’t release a “major” new game in 2019

Further ReadingActivision-Blizzard lays off 775 people after “record results in 2018”Blizzard fans are going to have to wait a little bit longer for...

Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror

It's no secret that many of us here at Ars are genuine fans of horror. As a child, I would compulsively devour horror short...

Microsoft patches zero-day vulnerabilities in IE and Exchange

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday this month had higher-than-usual stakes with fixes for a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability under active exploit and an Exchange Server...

Activision-Blizzard lays off 775 people after “record results in 2018”

Game publisher Activision-Blizzard will lay off 8 percent of its work force, or around 775 people, CEO Bobby Kotick announced on the company's...

Mozilla to use machine learning to find code bugs before they ship

In a bid to cut the number of coding errors made in its Firefox browser, Mozilla is deploying Clever-Commit, a machine-learning-driven coding assistant...

Researchers use Intel SGX to put malware beyond the reach of antivirus software

Researchers have found a way to run malicious code on systems with Intel processors in such a way that the malware can't be...

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