It's not so much that the scammers themselves are becoming better at their jobs, just that off-the-shelf scripts are so much more powerful. [NYT]
Nigerian email swindlers using more sophisticated hacks
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Someone made a robot to play Google Chrome's No Internet Dinosaur Game
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