Titbits – Robot manacles and mysterious animals

◆ “Why do you have to be human to access Hackney Council planning applications?” asked a bemused Twitter user who had posted a screenshot of an online security puzzle. Local architect David Lomax replied: “For those of us who remember resubmitting whole planning applications after Hackney’s massive cyber attack a few years ago, I’m okay with this bit of human-only discrimination. Until the robots become sentient at least.”

◆ Talking of puzzles, a sentence buried in the minutes of a recent corporate committee meeting at the Town Hall left this columnist with a head-scratcher. It read: “Officers responding to a complaint about a number of goats being kept in the borough had found nothing untoward.” How to unpick this? Did these goat-busters discover that there were no goats being kept? Did they find the goats, but in a number that they deemed appropriate? Could there be a kid-napper on the loose? Let us know if you’ve herd anything.