#IgorNews 1. Well, what did you expect. Nvidia quietly rewrote the price tag on its own little box — 128 gigs now costs 6950 instead of 4000-something. A jump of nearly 75%, just because.
And it’s being presented not as "we got cocky" but as a "memory crunch." There’s not enough memory, you see. For everyone. A coincidence, of course.
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/02/nvidia-debuts-4999-dgx-spark-with-half-the-ram-and-storage-amid-memory-crunch/5300622
2. Excel Canvas now offers to turn your work file into a report for the bosses. Copilot will assemble the charts and metrics from the spreadsheet itself, and even update everything if the numbers change.
Convenient, sure. Though now it’s unclear why anyone who "knows how to work with data" is even needed in this chain. Most likely, the role that remains is the person who just hits "share" and hopes no one asks where these charts came from.
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/02/excel-canvas-offers-to-turn-your-workbook-into-the-bosss-next-report/5300812
3. A teenager allegedly ran the extortion group KillSec — three arrested, servers seized, the hole plugged. The leak site held over 110 terabytes of stolen data. You can breathe a sigh of relief and feel safe for about five minutes.
Although, if the sysadmin of "KillSwitch" is just a schoolkid on summer break, it’s scary to imagine what those with a diploma will get up to. But yes, a victory.
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/10/02/teen-suspected-of-running-killsec-ransomware-group-as-cops-seize-servers-arrest-three/5300784
4. The $35 computer now costs 67. Thanks, got it. Raspberry Pi apparently decided it’s done playing people’s project and it’s time to bring the price tag up to something respectable. They’re even being advised to look at older models or take less memory.
Classic: first you’re cheap and you save everyone, then you respect yourself. Now we just wait for this to be called "a correction toward sustainable business."
https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/10/02/once-a-35-computer-the-2-gb-raspberry-pi-4-now-costs-6750/5300774
5. "Patch urgently" again, but there’s still no patch. A hole was found in FortiMail that’s already being exploited — no login required, you just walk in and do whatever you want. Admins are left to sit and wait for an update to arrive and, possibly, for something else to arrive too.
A classic of the genre: first they exploit it, then they tell you about it. So if you’ve got FortiMail, that’s your personal weekend quest, and no hints.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/02/fortinet-sounds-the-alarm-over-actively-exploited-fortimail-zero-day/5300803
6. Capita is in the news again — this time the UK spending watchdog is digging into their pension fiasco. The company itself admits the service is still worse than promised, and the recovery deadline has been missed.
Lovely. First you outsource someone else’s pension, then you can’t handle it, and regulators show up to clean up the mess. Pensioners must be thrilled with this kind of "optimization."
https://www.theregister.com/public-sector/2026/10/02/uk-spending-watchdog-opens-investigation-into-capitas-pension-fiasco/5300766
7. British police decided to stop using phone-hacking software just in case — what if it’s actually Russian? American prosecutors did some digging and found Russian roots in the "American" company. So, whether you were hacking phones or being hacked is an open question, but for now we won’t use it.
It feels like Russia gets mentioned these days before the technical details even come up. Though honestly, an "American" startup with Moscow developers is almost a genre at this point, not news.
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/02/met-police-suspends-use-of-phone-hacking-software-over-russian-links/5300549
8. It’s always like this. Airport, flight delayed, the board shows "postponed" — and instead of just sitting there and suffering, some employee decided: "Hey, let’s update the display system while we wait." And it produced this.
"Flight delayed? So are these codec updates." Technically flawless, you have to admit.
Plus "a slice of Bolivian bork at Alcantarí International Airport" — a piece of Bolivian "bork" at the international airport. Someone clearly pressed the wrong button, and now passengers are reading technical logs instead of departure times. A delay is one thing. But a delay with codec updates on the board — that’s a whole separate genre of airport art.
https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/10/02/flight-delayed-so-are-these-codec-updates/5300405
9. A Harvard physicist published 36 papers written with Claude. Sounds like a headline, but really it’s just a guy who stopped pretending formulas write themselves.
Someone’s already nervously scrolling Reddit, someone’s gearing up to defend "real science." But in reality — if a neural network does the routine and you ask the questions, that’s closer to science than a year of peer review by email.
Harvard particle physicist Matthew Schwartz drops 36 papers coauthored with Claude
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10. European payment systems decided to unite against American dominance. Sounds proud, of course. Except they started uniting not out of the goodness of their hearts, but because Visa and Mastercard have grown so deep into every terminal that without a collective "we’re here too," it’s unclear why anyone would need you at all.
We’ll see what comes of it. Europe has long dreamed of its own payment sovereignty, but usually it all ends with a pretty press release and yet another committee.
https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2026/1001/1593639-european-payments-group/
11. Trump once again decided Brazil is his personal polling station and started meddling. Everyone’s pretending to be surprised, though after recent years it’s kind of awkward to be surprised anymore. "Clearly illegal interference" — sounds loud, but in reality it’s just another Tuesday.
The funniest part is everyone gets it, but there’ll be more talk than consequences. As usual.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-election-interference-brazil
12. An open-source audio editor for all platforms. GitHub, stars, enthusiasm. Multi-track, cross-platform — words that warm the soul right up until the moment you open it and realize it’s yet another project that lives exactly until the author gets bored.
Not that it’s bad. It’s just that for free and open-source, you always end up paying with your time, your nerves, and hunting for forks.
https://github.com/kvoltmer/Audionaut
13. You can argue about the podracing from "The Phantom Menace" all you want, but the scene really worked — racing over Tatooine, screaming aliens, little Anakin who comes out of nowhere. And now they’re going to turn it into a game.
Nostalgia is a powerful thing. You can sell anything with it, and there’s no guarantee there’ll be anything alive behind it. You want to believe, but after dozens of "childhood dreams come true," believing is getting harder.
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1002887/star-wars-galactic-racer-review
14. Now waiters have to answer for AI hallucinations too. Some Madison from New York asks about allergies, and customers show up already "prepared" — they’ve read the chatbot and are sure they know better.
The bot made something up, the person believed it, and the waiter has to clean up the mess. Used to be it was just rudeness, now it’s rudeness with swagger and "I checked it all online."
https://www.theverge.com/report/1002963/ai-hallucinations-customer-service-jobs-agents
15. Data centers decided to disguise themselves as forests — apparently so locals won’t complain. An old trick: when a facility the size of a city block starts ruining the view, you just hide it behind trees and call it a concern for aesthetics. Except the question isn’t how it looks from the outside.
Inside — millions of square feet for AI, humming with cooling and devouring electricity.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1003681/microsoft-data-centers-ai-environment-biomimicry
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