#IgorNews 1. Now Washington has decided that a European fine for Musk is, actually, a personal insult to America. The DOJ has joined the fight over 120 million, posing as a defender of free enterprise in someone else’s jurisdiction.
Classic: when they want to fine someone themselves, it’s "the law," but when their own guy gets fined, it’s "excessive zeal." No principles, just us versus them.
https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/09/25/uncle-sam-wants-in-on-musks-120m-fight-with-brussels/5299123
2. Two guys, using coding agents, built a driver and an accelerated desktop for Linux on an M4 Mac mini in a couple of weeks. This used to take months, if not years, of someone else’s pain. Now LLMs write the code for you, and you just decide where to bolt it all on.
Beautiful, of course. Only question is: if almost anyone can build this, who even needs it as a separate achievement anymore?
https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/25/asahi-fork-embraces-llms-and-lands-linux-on-the-m4-mac-mini/5298931
3. Amazon sellers are once again sitting and watching their goods dissolve somewhere in "pending orders." Money frozen, goods neither here nor there. Formally it looks like a technical glitch, but in reality sellers have been guessing for three days now: is the platform fixing something, or did someone just find a way to siphon off expensive inventory through a hole in the system?
While some write to support and wait for an answer, others are already seriously discussing whether it’s time to go on the attack. Classic: a giant breaks something, and for some reason the little seller has to deal with the consequences.
https://www.theregister.com/channel/2026/09/25/amazon-sellers-watch-as-inventory-vanishes-into-pending-order-purgatory/5298922
4. If your sysadmin suddenly started meditating over a burnt-out server, don’t be surprised. Seems there’s been some tectonic shift in the world of support: now, instead of yelling into the phone "have you tried rebooting?", they open their third eye and seek harmony in the logs.
Apparently, when you explain for the hundredth time to accounting that Caps Lock is not a "make it louder" button, sooner or later you’ll reach nirvana yourself. Or you’ll just burn out. It’s a coin toss.
https://www.theregister.com/bofh/2026/09/25/bofh-the-helldesk-opens-its-third-eye-and-ascends-to-a-higher-plane-of-troubleshooting/5298803
5. Police and "cybersecurity" again. Dyfed-Powys reported: citizens’ data apparently untouched, but employees’ data may have been swiped after all.
Convenient wording, of course. "Potentially" is like "we don’t yet know what was stolen, but something definitely was." Cops are usually the first to advise everyone to change passwords and "stay vigilant." Now it’s their turn.
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/25/dyfed-powys-police-cops-to-cyberattack-staff-data-potentially-nicked/5299112
6. Another week — and once again something leaked at Revolut. Right on schedule: before the previous stories had even cooled off, a new one landed.
And on top of that, DriveWealth — the ones sitting behind the scenes of a bunch of neobanks — handed over historical customer data after someone just walked in and politely asked. Social engineering, 21st century.
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/25/another-week-another-data-breach-for-revolut-customers/5299092
7. A guy from Ohio attached a tracker to a delivery van to hunt down scarce Pokémon cards. Got caught. A year suspended.
On one hand — absurd, on the other — perfectly sound 2020s business logic: scarcity, demand, real-time analytics. Only instead of a drone on the roof — a bug on the bumper.
https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/09/25/judge-uses-electronic-tag-on-pokemon-card-tracker-its-super-effective/5298631
8. British IT folks got together for dinner and discovered that the main problem with corporate files is that nobody knows where the correct version lives. Copies in four places, each with its own owner, and everyone’s sure that theirs is the current one.
Nobody’s in a hurry to change the infrastructure everyone quietly hates. Simply because replacing it means figuring out who, what, and why has been dumping stuff in there for the last fifteen years. Easier to leave it as is and not touch it.
https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/09/25/sponsored/5298972
9. The British decided that heat from servers shouldn’t just fly off into the sky anymore. They’ll heat homes with hot water from data centers, and yes, the water will be piped through a tunnel under the Thames. Sounds like something out of the Soviet magazine "Tekhnika — Molodyozhi."
Millions on pipes and networks — lovely, of course. Only when the cloud inevitably goes down again, the homes will cool down right along with it. Saving on heating and internet, now in one package.
https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/09/25/uk-wants-more-homes-heated-by-waste-heat-from-datacenters/5298827
10. Huawei Cloud is once again "opening" and "building" everything — now it’s an open agentic cloud. Sounds like someone finally tidied up a closet somewhere and solemnly announced it to the world.
I like this "silicon bedrock." A solid silicon foundation on which, of course, all of the enterprise future rests. Just say plainly what you’re selling already.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/25/partner-content-huawei-cloud-rolls-out-enterprise-ai-products-across-the-board-building-an-open-agentic-cloud/5298765
11. No, this is a classic. The manager sincerely believed that if he explained everything on a call, the team understood exactly what he meant. And the team understood it literally. And then he spent half a day cleaning up the "interpretation."
And there’s zero malice. Everyone just filled in their own blanks in their heads. Cultural differences have nothing to do with it — people everywhere hear what’s convenient.
https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/09/25/project-leader-thought-his-team-understood-the-plan-ended-up-fixing-their-interpretation-of-it/5298754
12. Starlink satellites are gradually descending, and one astronomer decided to look at this not as junk in the sky, but as an instrument. The atmosphere swells and contracts, and by how the satellites decelerate in orbit, this can literally be measured.
The idea of a "planetary barometer" sounds beautiful, though essentially it’s just a very expensive and slightly uncontrollable replacement for an ordinary thermometer. But for the first time, the climate has its own sensor network that nobody designed on purpose — it just flew up there by itself.
https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/09/25/astronomer-watches-starlink-satellites-sinking-to-build-a-planetary-barometer/5299036
13. Amazon decided that 2026 is the year of FreeBSD on the desktop. They assembled AMIs that "behave as much like Windows as possible." Meaning that onto the desktop that most people only tolerate out of inertia, you can now slap a system that a normal person only remembers once in their life, when a server goes down.
Sounds like an on-ramp for new users. In reality — like trying to explain to your mom why she needs this.
https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/25/2026-just-became-the-year-of-freebsd-on-the-amazonian-cloud-desktop/5299025
14. DeepMind made talking heads. Cartoon, photorealistic — your choice. Lips sync with any generated text, and it looks… well, it works.
The researchers honestly note: how exactly human imitation affects people — we don’t know yet. Thanks for the heads-up. Though usually this kind of thing is discovered after the fact, when it’s too late.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/25/google-gemini-can-present-cartoon-or-lifelike-avatars-to-lip-sync-generative-chatter/5299016
15. A guy spent an average of 25 dollars on a hack. For that money he got into a Fortune 500, a major airline, and a couple dozen other places — just by feeding everything to three open-source agents. This used to require a team and months of work, but now the AI bill is like lunch at a fast-food joint. Not a hacker genius, just a guy with a subscription. The question is no longer "will they hack it," but "how much will it cost on the menu."
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/09/25/crook-used-three-open-source-agents-to-break-into-a-fortune-500-hospitality-company-a-major-us-airline-and-25-other-orgs/5299012
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