#IgorNews 1. A projector at that price that "beats a movie theater." Yeah, sure. In a dark room any box with a laser looks like a genius, especially when there’s no proper screen nearby and nothing to compare it to.
And yes, "works in bright sunlight" — that’s apparently if you really want to believe. The hardware is probably decent. It’s just that every time I read "gives movie theaters a run for their money," I remember that we don’t go to movie theaters anyway.
https://www.wired.com/review/review-awol-vision-aetherion-max-rgb-laser-ust-projector/
2. AI models, it turns out, are stealing jokes from comedians. Not scripts, not ideas — they just take the material and use it as bait for their adult-content accounts. It looks absurd, but the comedians who got burned can only throw up their hands: there’s no one to really complain to.
So while some argue about whether AI will replace creative people, AI is already quietly moonlighting as a pimp.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-hot-girls-are-ripping-off-comedians-to-boost-their-horny-content/
3. The new Jabra Enhance Select M3 cost half an iPhone, and the improvements are like a firmware update. The manufacturer proudly announces: it’s gotten better. How much better? One step, invisible to the eye. For that kind of money you usually expect a leap, but you get a tiny little nod toward progress.
To buy or not — decide for yourself. But if you have the previous model, you can safely skip this one and lose nothing.
https://www.wired.com/review/review-jabra-enhance-select-m3/
4. So everyone’s wondering what’s with the new doc about Holmes from Theranos. And the reason, it turns out, is a comedian from Adult Swim who trolls reality so hard that the PR industry goes to hell. Classic: the corporate world turned itself into a cult, and now any stand-up with a camera shows that there’s long been nothing left to protect. It’s nice when absurdity paves its own way without any pomp.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-new-fans-guide-to-the-unreal-world-of-nathan-fielder/
5. Well, that’s convenient, of course. For years they told us about "super-corals" in the Red Sea that don’t die when all the others die. A convenient story — no need to stress too much. And now it turns out that even they are starting to give out. And nobody really knows why. So all that time the "immunity" was more of an observation than an explanation. Okay then.
https://www.wired.com/story/egypts-climate-resilient-super-corals-are-starting-to-feel-the-heat/
6. We continue to watch private companies conquer space faster than government agencies can sign off on paperwork. The FAA is already eyeing more traffic at Starbase, India is pulling in US customers, and Stoke Space quietly rolled out its reusable stage for testing.
Space stopped being a government project with flags and speeches a long time ago. Now it’s logistics, flight schedules, and customer service. Who would’ve thought.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/rocket-report-faa-eyes-more-starbase-traffic-indias-skyroot-snares-us-customer/
7. Blue Origin decided that rockets are like minibuses: the more often you fly, the more you earn. By the end of the decade they want to launch New Glenn several times a week. They’re already building the infrastructure for it.
Sounds nice, especially if you don’t mention that so far they haven’t had a single regular launch. But yeah, "by the end of the decade" is a convenient horizon — nobody’s going to come check.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/10/blue-origin-is-going-all-in-on-the-new-glenn-rocket/
8. An Android laptop. Sounds like an idea invented at a meeting where everyone was too lazy to argue. In reality it’s just a phone with a keyboard slapped on, pretending that was the plan all along. Android stayed Android — with all its quirks, notifications going to the wrong place, and logic that lives its own life. Google, of course, promises to fix everything. It’s always like that with them: ship first, think later.
https://arstechnica.com/reviews/2026/10/googlebook-review-android-on-a-laptop-is-still-android/
9. Microsoft is dragging Defender onto desktop Linux. Yes, that same antivirus that half of humanity is trying to get rid of is now coming to the people who switched to Linux precisely to avoid seeing it.
The comments section is already a party, of course: "the year of corporate compliance on Linux has finally arrived." And you can’t argue — the free OS that people installed to hide from corporate oversight is now getting its own little flag in the tray.
https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/16/microsoft-bringing-defender-to-linux-desktops-repeat-microsoft-bringing-defender-to-linux-desktops/5303477/
10. Postgres 19 was pushed to November. Turns out AI reviewers find more bugs than live developers can fix. They had to roll back about ten features.
And here’s the funniest part: the blame isn’t on "vibe coding" or laziness, but simply on good tools. Before, bugs just went unnoticed and got released. Now everything gets noticed. Progress, eh.
https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/10/16/postgres-19-delayed-after-ai-reviewers-find-more-bugs-than-humans-can-fix/5303471/
11. Someone walked off with memory cards containing photos of children from a school in Britain — and, naturally, it turned out the data was barely protected at all. It feels like people only remember privacy when something’s already been lost.
I wonder if anyone in the principal’s office even blushed? Or did they just get away with a letter to parents in the style of "we take the safety of your children seriously."
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/16/thief-snatches-school-snappers-sd-cards-in-smash-grab/5303379/
12. Open-source sovereignty has finally reached the stage where you don’t shout slogans but quietly sit and configure migrations, access, and metrics. Before it was a beautiful idea about freedom from vendors; now it’s spreadsheets, regulations, and boring calls.
Telling, actually. As soon as abstract independence turns into a workflow, the enthusiasm goes somewhere, but what appears instead is something that actually gets fixed and maintained.
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/10/16/open-source-sovereignty-gets-down-to-the-boring-business-of-making-it-work/5303206/
13. Tesla showed the Roadster again, the one that hits 60 in under a second. A flying debut, all that. Musk has been talking about this car for years now, and it still isn’t here — but the presentations get regularly updated.
0 to 60 in a second is, of course, beautiful on a slide. It’s just that driving one on regular roads, where there’s a live car with a person behind the wheel in front of you, doesn’t exactly sound appealing.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/teslas-new-roadster-makes-flying-debut-hitting-60-mph-under-second
14. Sony once again promised more than it intended to deliver. The Xperia 10 VI was supposed to get three Android updates, all the way up to seventeen. Now the British support site quietly reveals — it won’t. Sorry, changed our minds.
Nothing new, just another phone that lived five years on paper but in reality lasted as long as it was convenient to sell. Buyers get the short end again, but who cares.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1012789/sony-xperia-10-vi-smartphone-android-17-update-security
15. The world’s first "vibe-coded" gun. Sounds like a joke, but no — Cody Wilson, who 13 years ago printed the first 3D gun, now says he made a weapon with the help of AI. It’s called WASP.
And so you sit there thinking: on one hand, well, progress. On the other — now anyone with a prompt and a printer can "print a gun." Before, you at least had to know CAD. Now it’s enough to ask the neural network nicely.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1011950/vibe-coded-3d-printed-gun-ai-generated-cody-wilson
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