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So, was US Central Command (CENTCOM) hacked, were a LOT of Polish Airlines aircraft cyber breached, and did China block imports of products from Apple and others? The answer in all three cases was a simple “no”. So what of the multiple cloud outages, and Uber’s ongoing global legislative and driver woes? In a 140-character- …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    "bots created to lure men"

    And I for one, welcome....etc

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  2. VinceH

    "Lenovo countered with the defense that unnamed “other” PC makers were also doing this"

    Such as, Dell, who were caught doing something equally brain dead later in the year.

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  3. Your alien overlord - fear me

    Predictions for 2016 - same old shit. Twitter still doesn't make a profit, Google still No.1 ad-slinger, Facebook still shit, Govt cyber-spies still know everything you do, Microsoft releases Windows 11 to apologise for Windows 8-10 and pays you to install it this time.

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  4. Frumious Bandersnatch

    "146-character-driven culture"?

    What's that number? SMS allows 140 bytes, which can pack in 160 7-bit ASCII values and Twitter kept the same 140-character limit, after a fashion (apparently it uses UTF-8 and counts characters rather than bytes).

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  5. allthecoolshortnamesweretaken

    2016?

    The year of BaaS - Bullshit as a service.

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    1. Amorous Cowherder
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      Re: 2016?

      Brilliant! You should get that over to Redbubble and get some t-shirts knocked up. Possibly with the picture of a sheep in flagrante.

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  6. Glenturret Single Malt

    Breach not breech.

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    1. Michael Wojcik Silver badge
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      A loaded statement.

      For that matter, "a 'merge' several hundred pounds" was perhaps meant to be "a 'mere' several hundred pounds". But who can say for sure?

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