"Eat a bullet" is slang which means being shot. As in, the update kills certain fonts. It's also a pun, because fonts contain a character known as a bullet: "•"

"Eat a bullet" is slang which means being shot. As in, the update kills certain fonts. It's also a pun, because fonts contain a character known as a bullet: "•". Yes, the Reg is an IT tabloid; they do an entertaining, sarcastic, and pun-filled take on IT news. I wouldn't call it blogspam in general; they do real reporting, and provide more than the usual blogspam "link, quote, and one sentence summary." In this particular case, the source they quoted probably would have been a better article to post, as it is longer and contains more information.