The Register has an article where it lays out the evidence for The Rise of the Machines.

This could just be baseless conspiracy mongering, but we can never be sure...

The following stories are linked to at the bottom of that page:

Battling teen crushes roboarm menace

French join motorised Lizard Alliance

Lizard Army develops copulating robot

We are Zogg: The Cuddly Menace

Lizard Army invades Alaska

London menaced by flaming DVD players

Killer hoover attacks Scotsman

Car self-destructs in assassination bid

The rise of the rat-brain controlled android

Japanese unveil trumpet-playing robot

Boffins unleash robotic cockroach

Ukrainian teen fights the Rise of the Machines

Man in satanic Renault terror ordeal

Killer cyberappliances: Satan implicated

US develops motorised robobollard

Killer cyberloo kidnaps kiddie

A robot in every home by 2010

Cyberappliances attack Italian village

Fire-breathing buses threaten London

Cyberloo blast rocks Stoke-on-Trent

Spanish cyberkiosks claim second victim

Cyberkiosk assaults Spanish teenager

Hi-tech toilet caught on camera

Hi-tech toilet swallows woman