The lizard army has been busy mobilising its forces of technology in London this week with a terrifying attack on the population's domestic appliances.

[Those] who have been following [The Register's] coverage of the Rise of the Machines™ will recall the case of Canneto di Caronia, where panic-stricken villagers abandoned their homes after an outbreak of autocombusting fridges and mobile phones. The authorities there were unable to explain how - even when unplugged - Sicilian white goods launched a suicidal assault on their human masters by spontaneously bursting into flames.

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