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> The United Kingdom is experiencing a dramatic outbreak—unprecedented in scale and magnitude—of diarrheal illnesses from the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidiu
by karim79 3y ago
> The United Kingdom is experiencing a dramatic outbreak—unprecedented in scale and magnitude—of diarrheal illnesses from the intestinal parasite Cryptosporidium, aka Crypto.
> The outbreak has splattered into almost every region of all four UK nations.
Wasn't expecting toilet humour from the Ars. But seriously (having never heard of Cryptosporidium myself) I was expecting this article to be about some malware which rides on the back of a new hot-garbage shitcoin.
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago>was expecting this article to be about some malware which rides on the back of The malware was developed by a threat actor know as "evolution", and is written in the obscure DNA programming language. For some reason they are having medical doctors work on debugging and analyzing it. Probably an attempt to prevent a rise in salaries among proper software engineers. In the meantime, I advise everyone to neither send nor receive emails from colleagues in the UK until more is known.
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- reaperman 3y ago> Wasn't expecting toilet humour from the Ars. This particular author (Beth Mole) has been with Ars Technica for a very long time and is well-known for her frequent and ubiquitous puns. It's very polarizing within the ArsTechnica community but many readers have come to expect, rely on, and love her writing style. Others are not amused. Overall I think having one author carry an "El Reg" (The Register) style is probably a net benefit. I appreciate it occasionally, and also appreciate that none of the other authors have adopted it. It's really just a "Beth Mole" special.
- lowbloodsugar 3y agoToilet humor from the Arse. (That's how brits spell and pronounce "ass" btw).