#IgorNews 1. The world, of course, is preparing for the AI apocalypse very seriously: conferences, committees, reports. Meanwhile, bots are calmly yanking robotic arms and lying on operators’ screens — no press release, no agenda. Just quietly doing what no one has really bothered to prepare for.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/11/ai-systems-are-fully-capable-of-carrying-out-nightmare-attacks-against-infrastructure-and-nobodys-ready/5302450
2. HPE’s networking boss declared: in two years, AI will handle all trouble tickets, no humans needed. And you know why we’ll swallow it? By the same logic that made us stop worrying about automatic transmissions. First panic, then habit, then we don’t even notice.
Only a ticket isn’t just a ticket. One thing is "reset my password," quite another is "we took down all of prod on Friday night." An automatic transmission doesn’t exactly text you "I fixed everything, trust me."
https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/10/11/hpes-networking-boss-says-ai-will-handle-all-trouble-tickets-without-humans-in-two-years/5302179
3. Another "breakthrough" in the lab. The Koreans figured out how to use oxygen to make crystals grow where they’re supposed to, not wherever they feel like it. By 2030 they promise to bring it to industry.
A lot of things were promised by 2030. Two-dimensional semiconductors are beautiful, but so far they’re only beautiful in press-release format.
https://www.theregister.com/science/2026/10/11/researchers-work-out-how-to-control-2d-semiconductor-growth-for-future-chips/5301666
4. Someone finally wrote a post about the tilde in PATH. And it’s, surprisingly, useful. Because a tilde in PATH doesn’t expand to your home directory — it just stays a tilde. Literally. And half the people find out about this not from the docs, but after something quietly stops working.
So yeah, don’t put a tilde in PATH. Not because everything will break, but because one thing will break, and you’ll spend half a day hunting it down.
https://disconnect3d.pl//2026/10/02/dont-put-tilde-in-your-path/
5. DNA says: Scandinavia’s first farmers didn’t get along with the hunter-gatherers. More precisely — they did get along, but rather quickly and on their own terms. Frankly, the population turned over sharply, and that’s putting it mildly.
Convenient, of course, when a few thousand years later science shows up and explains everything. Back then, apparently, nobody explained anything — people with grain and plans for the land just showed up.
https://phys.org/news/2024-02-scandinavia-farmers-slaughtered-hunter-population.html
6. Once again someone invented a new way to make programmers suffer. Valen proposes "group borrowing" — that is, a borrow checker that’s supposedly kinder to humans than Rust’s. Reading it, I think: either this is genius, or it’s yet another language that in three years will be sitting on GitHub with three stars.
https://verdagon.dev/blog/valen-group-borrowing
7. A new YC company is hiring ML, AI, PMs, and designers all at once. Judging by the list, they need someone who can do everything at once — train a model, draw an interface, and invent the product.
What’s strange is something else: zero posts, zero comments. Either the job posting went up a minute ago, or everyone cares so little that they couldn’t even be bothered to drop by and complain.
https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/weave-os
8. The author apparently decided that if you pay people to read the README, they’ll suddenly understand what he meant. Spoiler: they didn’t. Nobody reads documentation — that’s not a bug, it’s human nature.
Hiring test subjects to figure out why everyone ignores the instructions is like paying someone not to open the fridge. The result is predictable, the insights are priceless, and nobody’s going to open the README anyway.
I paid people to try and follow my README
9. Driving across Europe, it turns out, is its own form of financial suicide. Tolls, vignettes, bridges, gas — and suddenly you’re not counting kilometers anymore, but euros quietly leaking away at every toll interchange.
Someone did the math and posted a spreadsheet. Thanks, I guess, but the realization that flying would’ve been cheaper hits you somewhere near Lyon, when yet another terminal asks for your card.
https://copilot.travel/tolls/europe-2026
10. So AI creates a "human premium" for art made by humans. Sounds lovely, especially if that’s exactly what you’re selling.
I suspect the premium won’t be for talent, but for a certificate that says "a real human drew this, honest."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5vgjm3gk7rzo
11. Nitter is slowly winding down. On October 10 the author announced it — he’s looking for money and a lawyer. Not "we’re shutting down," but "help however you can." Technically still alive, but it looks like a goodbye note left on the fridge.
And the main thing is — everyone already doesn’t care. X can’t be read without a login, scraper bots are shut down, and Nitter itself long ago turned into a museum display. While some are asking for donations, others have simply stopped visiting.
https://nitter.net
12. Let’s keep calling the dishwasher a robot because we’re too lazy to think. And then we’re surprised that AI is an "assistant," not a "robot," and that nobody even understands what the argument is about.
Our vocabulary stopped describing reality a long time ago. It just packages it, so it’s convenient to sell. Robot, bot, assistant — and the difference is purely marketing.
“Robot” Is A Social Construct: Why Your Dishwasher Is Not A Robot
13. Cloudflare noticed: there are fewer bots. Funny that it happened right after the strike on Yandex’s data center. No statements, no labeled charts — the graph just went down, and in the comments someone quietly said "yep."
A coincidence, of course. As always.
https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/as13238?dateRange=7d
14. IRCv3 is when IRC finally got around to bolting on what normal messengers had twenty years ago. Someone in 2024 sat down and thought: hey, let’s make it so you can edit messages in IRC and see who’s online.
And it’s not a "new IRC," but a set of extensions you have to assemble yourself. Want a modern chat — go read the spec. Classic.
https://ircv3.net/
15. Yandex Cloud keeps collecting data centers that are "experiencing difficulties." The third DC in a row landed in the same category. The status page will explain everything: all calm, all under control, work is underway.
Funny, of course, that when we hear "cloud" we’re used to thinking of something airy and intangible. But in reality it lands in concrete boxes that sometimes go offline. That’s the whole cloud for you.
https://status.yandex.cloud/en/incidents/2136
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