Month: June 2021

An Airport for Aliens Currently Run By Dogs review – surrealist humour in ruff packaging

PC, Xbox Series S/X; Strange ScaffoldThe joke wears a little thin, but there’s more to this indie title than internet dog gags and fetch quests As someone who has missed flights in the past at great personal expense, I’m not sure why I was so keen to review a game about running through airports. I …

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Sound Heap review – one podcast to spoof them all

Available onlineThe age of peak podcast meets its match in John-Luke Roberts and his procession of hilariously titled imaginary shows In 2018, John-Luke Roberts’s Edinburgh show consisted entirely of names of hitherto unheard-of Spice Girls. He’s up to something similar with Sound Heap, a new “podcast of infinite podcasts”, a medley of excerpts from imaginary …

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US meatpacking plants get back on stream after crippling cyber-attack

Experts warn ‘no one is out of bounds’ after ransomware attack halts production at JBS, which supplies more than fifth of US beef Meat-processing factories in the US run by the world’s largest company in that field are coming back on stream on Wednesday after a ransomware attack – as experts warned all corporate and …

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‘One of the worst jobs I ever had’: former Citizen employees on working for the crime app

Working for the app, which feeds users local crime information, ‘is very traumatic’ and the managers ‘don’t appear to care’ Susan, a former employee for the crime app Citizen, applied for a job curating the platform’s content and notifications in 2019 “in a pinch”. She had a writing background, was having trouble finding work in …

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White House contacts Russia after hack of world’s largest meatpacking company

The ransomware attack on JBS, probably by a Russia-based group, has disrupted meat production in North America and Australia A ransomware attack against the world’s largest meatpacking company that has disrupted meat production in North America and Australia originated from a criminal organization probably based in Russia, the White House was informed on Tuesday. The …

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