#IgorNews 1. Quad9 is leaving France. The official reason is a court ruling that obliges them to block domains at the request of rights holders. It’s funny that a DNS resolver is being taken to court at all over someone finding something somewhere through it. But no, the court decided the intermediary is to blame.
French ISPs are, of course, delighted — now they’ll have yet another excuse to put a stub page on someone else’s service. And ordinary users get a little less choice and a little more headache. Though when has that ever stopped anyone.
https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/
2. A site with the cute name pwn.watch is yet another showcase of what we already suspected: half the internet runs on good faith and forgotten passwords. While some write posts about cyber hygiene, others just walk in and take what’s lying around.
And the funniest part — people are reading this as news. As if they’ve just discovered for the first time that the door to the building entrance doesn’t close.
https://pwn.watch/
3. It’s always touching how companies announce their exit from an entire market with the face of someone who’s simply "optimizing the portfolio." eMudhra has decided that global SSL certificates are not for them. Okay then. The digital certificate market is a strange place in general: it looks like security infrastructure, but in reality it’s a race for whose browser likes you by default. You can’t leave it quietly, so the press release will have lots of words about focusing on the core business. It’s funny that someone in the comments has already been discussing for fifteen minutes that HTTPS still works without certificates, just with a warning. In short, big security means big business, and the little guys are left explaining why their departure is a "strategic decision."
https://emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhra-to-exit-global-ssl-tls-certificate-business
4. The Crystal language has released version 1.22.0. They put together a changelog, all as it should be: a couple of new features, a bunch of fixes, the compiler got a bit faster. For those who write in it — nice.
For everyone else — another piece of news from the "there exists a language that isn’t Ruby but is very similar" category. Steady, quiet, no hysterics.
https://crystal-lang.org/2026/10/12/1.22.0-released/
5. Fly.io wrote about how they built a block device for their "sprites." In plain terms: the guys came up with yet another way to store data on servers and are now explaining why it’s not the same as a regular file system. The article has lots of words about virtio and all sorts of infrastructure magic.
Reading this without a drink is hard, but the gist is simple: "we have our own system, and it’s better." Maybe it is better. It’s just that every post like this is a reminder of how the industry has been reinventing the file system for years — only now with a block device and a blog.
https://fly.io/blog/sprites-block-device/
6. Someone collected 5.8 million images from major museums and hooked up semantic search. You type "sad landscape with water" — and it searches not by tags, but by what’s actually depicted.
Sounds lovely until you realize that now anyone can find the painting they need in a minute and never go to any museum. Though hardly anyone goes to museums anyway.
https://lastmuseum.com/
7. Keyboards for iPad got half off, and the headline honestly warned that there’s a catch. The catch is that the warranty is 90 days from Woot, and AppleCare doesn’t apply. So you save now, then pray that the keys don’t start living their own life.
Though who am I kidding — half the price is half the price.
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1016640/apple-magic-keyboards-ipad-air-pro-deal-sale
8. 70% of the internet runs on PHP — and now a couple of holes have been found in it that took down even 4chan and DeviantArt. Sounds like a small thing, but in reality half the sites we open without thinking are at risk. Classic: the language everyone curses and everyone uses has reminded us of itself again.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1016574/php2shell-security-vulnerability-websites-down
9. Finally. Samsung noticed that not everyone has fifteen hundred to drop on a new phone and decided to sell used ones on Amazon — with a new battery and a year of warranty. How thoughtful. It’s just that "certified renewed" is a pretty sticker slapped on "we held it in our hands and wiped it down."
They raised prices on new ones so much that old ones are now sold as premium. Genius: first make the new stuff unaffordable, then resell you your own old phone.
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1016626/samsung-galaxy-used-amazon
10. A bird feeder with a camera at half price. So we’ve reached the point where we now watch birds through an app, like it’s a reality show. You sit on the couch, scrolling through sparrows. Soon there’ll be premium bird subscriptions and donations for exclusive seeds.
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/1015984/aura-smart-bird-feeder-jbl-charge-6-speaker-deal-sale
11. Coolpad for $150 decided that if people like foldable phones with wide screens, you can just go ahead and make a wide screen. No hinge, no drama, no "innovations." Just a phone that doesn’t fit in your pocket but sits in your hand like a tablet from 2014.
Funny, of course. The industry spent years convincing us we need narrow stretched-out shovels, and now a wide screen is a selling point again — only as a budget move this time. For 150 bucks they won’t explain why you need it, they’ll just give it to you.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1016544/coolpad-cool-x-wide-widescreen-android-16-smartphone-china
12. Bill Gates is warning again: get ready, he says, for twenty years of "turmoil" because of AI. Sounds like a headline from a magazine everyone will flip past and close.
Sure, twenty years. A convenient horizon — no one will check. A man who spent half his life selling software is now selling anxiety about software. Maybe he’s right, but for some reason all these "get ready" messages sound like an invitation to yet another conference.
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1015408/bill-gates-ai-interview-microsoft-openai-anthropic-risk-policy-regulation
13. Apple came up with a new badge — "Made for iPhone Duo." Apparently so we can all collectively pretend that a folding phone isn’t just an expensive tablet you’re afraid to unfold all the way. The badge will grace apps that are "optimized for the extra screen space." That is, for space that didn’t exist before and now does — but there’ll still be nothing to use it for until everyone finishes updating their apps to the right size.
Classic: first sell the device, then use a separate sticker to hint that the content for it is, well, still in progress.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1016526/apple-made-for-iphone-duo-badge-app-store
14. Atari is shutting something down again. This time the app store for the VCS — quietly, without fanfare, by February of next year. A console that was made over some ten years with delays, renamings, and backers being assured everything was under control just turns off the lights.
No drama, no "we’re closing" — just "we’re leaving." It’s funny that the device survived the discussion of its own funeral back at the crowdfunding stage, and now has quietly made it to the end. Longer than many, actually.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1016481/atari-vcs-console-shutting-down-software-store-2027
15. I’ve never understood this genre. A $400 coffee maker that’s "like a barista," only without the bar and without the barista — and without the espresso machine. A hundred-dollar discount, refurbished, 25 percent — sounds proud until you count how much more you have to invest in yourself. Smart, precise, controlled from your phone.
Maybe it brews beautifully, who am I to judge. But buying a used coffee maker to feel like a barista — that’s already kind of really sad.
https://www.wired.com/story/fellow-aiden-precision-coffee-maker-deal-october-2026/
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