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This article seems well below the usual standards of the BBC. It devolves into a soup of disjointed quotes under strange headings (all H2s) towards the end.

There's almost nothing worth reading here.

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Wow, you're not wrong. I couldn't help but look up the journalist's name as it's the type of name that you might give a fictional parody character.

I was surprised to see that the website of the BBC's first cyber reporter has so much horrible third party stuff on it - https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=joetidy.co.uk

Cyber reporter? People still use the word cyber? In 2020?

They're really good with the cybers.

Yes, and I'm sure people will be using it in 2077 as well.

Aside from using it in the word "cyberpunk", the word cyber has drastically fallen out of use, at least unironically. The only people who I've personally heard using it since the 90's are people who don't really know much about computers.

There is a field of US law called "cybersecurity law", which technically does not refute your anecdotal point. (I worked in cybersecurity law for a while.)

It is very common in government use. Don't confuse falling out of use among your peer group with falling out of use in general.

When I say "personally heard" I don't mean just my peer group, but media and whatnot too. Government use seems consistent with people who don't understand computers though.

The media you consume is part of your peer group.

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How else do you call a person writing articles in the cyberspace?

Maybe they're one of them cyber punker persons.

So - I know you're being mostly facetious (it does feel like an old-school word harking back to the 80s/90s era of Cyberpunk).

But in certain tech circles - Israeli tech in particular - "Cyber" has a very specific meaning and is very much used today. It refers to what we in the US call Security / InfoSec.

For example:

https://israelcyberalliance.com

https://www.gov.il/en/departments/israel_national_cyber_dire...

It almost looks like they published the outline instead of the actual article! It's terribly written.

I was ready to vote you down, but the article was hilarious at the end. Would read again, it's absurd comedy at the end.

Wife teases?

I could not believe that got left in there. Definitely a draft, and somebody had opened the wrong window when context switching!

Equally strange is “Deer peering” as a tagline for a section. It Has zero connection to the actual subject matter, hacking and security.

Agreed, something is seriously wrong with this article. Some of the images almost look like they were corrupted, others are very low-quality.

This is amazing! How does a draft of notes accidentally get published as the actual story? Do they use shared editing software? Or was there a (bizarre) human decision in there, intentionally pushing this content live??

And promoting it on cyber-Twitter.

After reading, I’m convinced that this must be a draft mistakenly published. Wow.

Same here, but then I looked up the author's Twitter, who's promoted the article two days ago: https://twitter.com/joetidy/status/1312654705781338112

Looks like this was really intended to be published. Weird, with all due respect.

Edit: And it's not been accidentally reverted to a draft - it already was this way two days ago: https://web.archive.org/web/20201004160433/https://www.bbc.c...

Is this GPT-3 written?

Looks closer to GPT-2.03234

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