The Thirsty Robot

October. The tenth month in the year, although the name looks like it is something to do with the number eight. Rather than every fortnight, The Thirsty Robot is now going to publish the summary every month, although this one is very late! So, here's some of what you may have missed in October's online meetings at The Thirsty Robot: Technology Photo by  Michael Dziedzic  on  Unsplash Data Breaches (or Leaks) At the start of October, the not-very-surprising news was that another InterWeb giant had lost some user data. You will excuse us if we aren't astonished by this news. This time it was Twitch, and once again, it barely made any headlines anywhere. It seems that nowadays the theft of personal information by organised crime is just regarded as inevitable and therefore should be acceptable and expected, and so we shouldn't get upset about it. Instead it seems that we should all just let the bad guys do it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58809169 https://www.bbc