Just yesterday, we wrote about a bug in Google Pixel phones, apparently now patched, with potentially dangerous consequences.
The bug finders, understandably excited (and concerned) by what they’d found, decided to follow the BWAIN principle for maximum, turning it into a Bug With An Impressive Name: aCropalypse.
In case you’re wondering, the word apocalypse literally means any sort of revelation, but it’s usually used to refer to the biblical text known as the Revelation of St. John, which portrays the end of the world.
Thus its metaphorical meaning, in the words of the New Oxford American Dictionary, is “an event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale.”
