Poem – Computer Virus (By David Russell)

Computer Virus Gulleted  in spark glint veins Flabbering circuits in floppies Print-out piled high, choking, crimped;   Programme busy; not applied; Insufficient memory.   Germs swallowed ink; Myopic suction   Greek symbol coffee grounds The winking green a vaccine   The quantum got under the mouse   Insufficient disk space. We crash the orbit.   A spiky cursor jams backlogs […]

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Hungarian power grab

Budapest Power grab: In the face of mass protests and international condemnation, the Hungarian parliament has overwhelmingly passed 15 pages of amendments to the country’s 1-year-old constitution that practically abolish all judicial checks on the government. The amendments retroactively restore a number of controversial laws that were passed by the right-wing Fidesz government but subsequently ruled unconstitutional by the courts. […]

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