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Malware is pretty sophisticated and vicious these days, but back in the 1990s some of it was actually quite adorable. The Malware Museum is a labour of love from Finnish security expert Mikko Hypponen, who has managed to collate 78 computer viruses from the 1980s and 1990s that would have made IT experts at the time lose sleep at night.

A suspected bank robber who always dons a fake beard and a covering over his nose has finally been caught by police and the FBI. Christian Franzwa, 57, was arrested at around 11 a.m. in Everett, the city where all seven of the bank robberies occurred between June 1 and Dec. 23, 2015.

The CBS News Battleground Tracker poll shows that Donald Trump keeps a large lead in South Carolina, bolstered by support from conservatives and also from evangelical voters, who make up a large share of the electorate here. The billionaire businessman is currently the top choice among likely Republican primary voters in the state, polling at 42%, the latest CBS News …

Tech giant Apple has now over 11 million music subscribers. The company’s senior vice presidents, Craig Federighi and Eddy Cue, confirmed the figures on John Gruber’s “The Talk Show” podcast. These figures dovetail with an estimated 1bn Apple gadgets now in use worldwide although both Cue and Federighi were mindful not to rest on their laurels following a spate of …

A man was arrested at Mandy Moore’s Los Angeles home on Friday for allegedly stalking her. The unnamed suspect, who is said to be in his 40s, reportedly made two unwanted visits to Moore’s residence in Hollywood this week.

Coquitlam RCMP are looking for two people who left psychiatric care in recent days. A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for both 41-year-old Violet Miharija and 38-year-old David Fomradas.

Two suspects are now in custody for the shooting of a Clarksdale Police officer that occurred Saturday night. According to Clarksdale Mayor Bill Luckett, a 19-year-old suspect’s father turned in him around 1 p.m. Sunday. Luckett said this is the suspect that shot officer Couch. Luckett confirmed the second robbery suspect was taken into custody near 4:15 p.m.

Mattel refreshed the View-Master for virtual reality last year with a version based on Google Cardboard, and this weekend it showed off an updated design at the New York Toy Fair. For instance, in order to accommodate smaller phones like the iPhone 5, a plastic adaptor was included that was easy to misplace. So for the View-Master Virtual Reality Viewer …

DARPA is christening its autonomous robot ship in April, the agency’s director, Arati Prabhakar, has revealed at a media roundtable. The Obama administration requested $2.973 billion for DARPA for fiscal year 2017, the same amount in its 2016 request, and $105 more than what was appropriated, said DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar. That amounts to only 2 percent of federal R&D …

Two people were struck by blow darts while walking on the Golden Gate Bridge Friday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol. According to KRON4, a pedestrian flagged a bicycle patrol officer down on the bridge at 2:45 p.m. Friday, saying that as he walked north he was “hit in the thigh by a long metal dart.” Speaking with ABC7, …

Zac Brown incited an unruly Boston crowd at a Fenway Park concert and security failed to protect a blind woman from the mob … so she claims in a new lawsuit. Karen Perry claims she was seated in the disabled section at the Zac Brown Band’s Fenway Park concert in Boston, Massachusetts, in August last year, when the singer left …