#IgorNews 1. Microsoft has leaned on someone again. Exchange Web Services is quietly heading for the finish line, and after April there will be no exceptions — access will be cut off for everyone. Someone out there is still keeping integrations on this ancient API for years and pretending it doesn’t concern them.
The funny part is how these things are always presented as "end of lifecycle." In reality — just another case of breaking something that worked for decades and calling it progress. Time to start looking for new jobs, old scripts.
https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/10/01/exchange-web-services-enters-the-final-stretch-before-microsoft-pulls-access/5300458
2. A British politician presented NHS figures in Parliament, and Palantir’s chief corrected him — the data, apparently, was torn out of context and without caveats. The irony is that with NHS figures it’s almost always like this: they exist in roughly the same form as Palantir’s own reports about its own usefulness.
Everyone demands "accuracy" right up until the moment it works against them. After that, accuracy becomes "context," and context becomes "warnings you somehow missed."
https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/10/01/palantirs-tom-watson-lectures-mp-on-accuracy-citing-selective-data/5300493
3. Two-thirds of English schools now recover from cyberattacks immediately. Sounds like a victory, but let’s be honest: "recover immediately" doesn’t mean "don’t break." They’ve just learned to bring the server back up quickly before anyone notices.
And teachers are still arguing about whose job this even is — the head of computing, the part-time IT guy, or the guy who "knows computers." Cybersecurity in schools is like fire safety: everyone agrees it’s needed, but nobody wants to be responsible.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/01/englands-schools-are-getting-better-at-mopping-up-cyber-incidents/5300465
4. The British data regulator decided that one commissioner is boring, and now there will be a whole Information Commission. A collegial body, collective responsibility, headquarters in Manchester — just to make sure it’s not like London.
Essentially they changed the sign and moved north. Statutory powers are now under the control of a group of comrades, which sounds solid until you remember that this is how structures usually get rewritten when they want to start with a clean slate and not explain what was wrong.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/01/uk-privacy-watchdog-starts-over-with-new-board-and-manchester-hq/5300439
5. Capita won a contract with DWP, and it seemed like everything was settled — but no. Sopra Steria dug around, obtained an unredacted version and is now waving it like a flag: apparently, it’s not just sweet terms in there, but a whole set of risks that were somehow hung on the government department.
The lawyers are probably happy — work for a long time to come. And the taxpayer can only watch as two contractors measure contracts in court.
https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/10/01/sopra-steria-widens-legal-challenge-to-capitas-whitehall-outsourcing-deal/5300051
6. British cybersecurity — still the same closed club for the in-crowd. There are fewer women than you’d like, and young people aren’t exactly being rushed to the top. One of the reasons stated outright: "she might get pregnant."
It’s fun to watch an industry that loves to talk about innovation and the future live by 1950s logic.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/01/fewer-women-than-ever-in-uks-old-boys-club-cyber-industry/5300064
7. The British, it turns out, unanimously declared they’re ready to delete social media tomorrow. Only the consumption statistics for that very content stubbornly say otherwise. Something doesn’t add up.
It seems all these surveys about "I would delete it" are just a way to feel better. And then the hand reaches out on its own. So don’t worry, social media isn’t going anywhere.
https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/01/erase-social-media-tomorrow-brits-say-yes/5300109
8. A British ex-cop who "examined" devices in the Silk Road 2.0 case simply helped himself to 50 bitcoins. Now the court is asking him to return £1.8 million.
Eighteen months suspended and confiscation — even though he’s most likely long since spent the coins. It’s funny that a system that catches drug dealers can’t catch its own at the table with the evidence.
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/09/30/ex-nca-officer-ordered-to-surrender-18m-for-stealing-seized-bitcoin/5300179
9. Google promised ten years of updates for Chromebooks. Turns out "ten years" is a marketing figure, not a commitment. Devices just stop getting patches, and that’s it, no explanation for you.
It’s funny how corporations have learned to stretch the word "promise" to the consistency of rubber. The main thing is to sell in time, and after that the grass can stop growing.
Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks
10. Street edits in OpenStreetMap have finally made it to iOS. StreetComplete lived only on Android for years, and now — a public beta. 134 points on HN, twenty-four comments, and all of this for an app where you walk down the street and answer questions like "is this really a pedestrian crossing?"
A little of a good thing.
https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421
11. OpenAI and Synopsys decided that AI will now design chips. Well, of course. Every year someone "revolutionizes" chip design, and then it turns out engineers are still sitting there fixing things after the model.
Sounds pretty, but in reality — just another excuse for a press release. Let’s see in a couple of years what’s left of "frontier intelligence" besides a slide in an investor presentation.
https://news.synopsys.com/2026-09-30-OpenAI-and-Synopsys-Announce-GPT-Synopsys-Frontier-Intelligence-to-Revolutionize-Chip-Design
12. Another YC startup is looking for a "GTM Founder’s Associate." Sounds like "we don’t want to pay for a Head of Sales, but we want someone to do all the work and call it an opportunity." Truemetrics from S23, zero comments on HN — apparently the vacancy is so attractive that nobody even dropped in to laugh.
Founder’s Associate is a classic: you’re expected to handle strategy, sales, marketing, and coffee, and in return you get experience at an early-stage startup. Except the experience is what happens when a startup has no real GTM lead.
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/truemetrics/jobs/THLEzXI-gtm-founder-s-associate
13. Seems someone is seriously concerned that Wi-Fi might "switch" between access points. Technically — yes, it sounds like a solution to the roaming problem for real-time streaming. In practice — most of us are still sitting on one router and praying it doesn’t drop at the worst possible moment.
So yes, multi-channel is pretty. It’s just that the question remains: how many people even notice the difference between "seamless switching" and "it just works"?
https://nanoping.com/benchmarks/wifi-roaming
14. Jacques Barzun back in 1980 was saying what people now wear on posters as a fresh idea: culture doesn’t collapse in a day, it just slowly erodes while everyone is busy with their own affairs. Sounds like musty old-century tedium, but somehow it’s still relevant.
Such texts are good to read about forty years later — when you can see that the man wasn’t panicking, just looking more carefully than others. No prophecies, just a statement that hasn’t aged. A rarity.
https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0717/071710.html
15. Gears of War: E-Day is coming out at a strange moment. The game itself is confident, knows what it wants to be — a brutal, intense action game that doesn’t try to be anything more. Twenty years have passed, and the formula is the same.
The problem isn’t the game, it’s what’s around it. It feels like it’s being released not because the time has come, but because there’s nothing else left on the shelf.
https://www.theverge.com/games/1002768/gears-of-war-eday-review-xbox
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