Mike Thompson

If you can hear this image, you're old.

What happens when you have a dyed in the wool Tory running th UK's national broadcaster. You get a publicly funded Fox News.

The BBC's (and the Government's) broadcast code of ethics.

Ooof!

I'm in a webinar about ISO 42001. How's your day going, folks?

Retirement's not sitting too well with Daft Punk, it seems.

Where there's a will, right?

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We had Music Box as well, which I suppose was a contemporary / competitor. That was pretty good actually - the first time I remember there still being telly on at like 2am.

Oddly, I remember MTV showing the film American Graffiti way back in its early days.

Not quite in keeping with the format. 🤣

44 years ago today, MTV became a thing. Here are the first 50 videos it aired. Mental.

Courtesy of Charlie's 80s Attic Radio Station.

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A (marginally) Blue state. Interesting.

SafePay ransomware threatens to leak 3.5TB of Ingram Micro data The SafePay ransomware gang is threatening to leak 3.5TB of data belonging to IT giant Ingram Micro, allegedly stolen from the company's compromised systems earlier this month.

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Google Project Zero to publicly announce bugs within a week of reporting them The vulnerability hunters at Google Project Zero want to address what they call the "upstream patch gap," when a vendor has a fix available but the downstream product providers haven't integrated it y...

The elite bug-hunters at Google Project Zero are taking aim at how long it takes to fix cybersecurity vulnerabilities by publicly announcing bugs within a week of reporting them privately to vendors.

Swing and miss.

#PhishFail

Woman uses salt and pepper pots to patiently explain to confused husband how Lionesses are more successful than England’s men A woman has this morning spent thirty minutes explaining to her confused husband why the England’s women team is so much better than the men’s team.

NEWS! Woman uses salt and pepper pots to patiently explain to confused husband how Lionesses are more successful than England's men

Commiserations Spain, WELL DONE ENGLAND!!!

P.S. Joey Barton's boiling piss makes the celebration even sweeter.

Hyperreal 35 A remix of 1990 track by The Shamen's 1990, using vocal and drum samples from the album 'En-Tact', and the following instruments: Arturia Acid V Arturia Jun-6 V Arturia Jup-8000 V Arturia Matrix-12 V

New music. My rip off of a 35 year old track by The Shamen.

Much bass.

Enjoy!

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The US invented the grift. So, well done there.

Haha YES.

The facial recognition was fiddly but it was OK. If it's to be believed, the process includes deletion of the image once verification is done.

And tbh I'm less uncomfortable with it than the other options and I'm also broadly OK with the concept itself.

I got it last night and verified. It said I looked old enough, which was... comforting...

Black Sabbath's Ozzy Osbourne dies aged 76, his family announces A statement from his family says Osbourne was with his family and

RIP 🤘

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US justice department asks to meet Epstein conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell Officials say they want to ask Maxwell

That'll be her pushing up the daisies by the weekend.

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Israeli forces kill 67 Palestinians seeking aid in northern Gaza, Hamas-run ministry says The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it had

In other news, Royal Ballet and Opera said the protest (unfurling of a Palestinian flag during a performance) was "completely inappropriate for a curtain call".

Fuck. Off.

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