#IgorNews 1. Well, who would have doubted it. iFixit tore down the iPhone Duo and found exactly what everyone had already suspected: the crease on the screen hasn’t gone anywhere, it’s just been neatly hidden, along with the hinge, which breaks on people with enviable regularity.
Repairability — 5 out of 10. And that, mind you, is the best result among foldables. So the bar is so low that a "five" already counts as a win. Apple, as usual, made it beautiful on the outside and maximally inconvenient on the inside. You buy it as a work of art, and you repair it like a DIY kit, except the parts aren’t on the shelf.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1018233/ifixit-iphone-duo-teardown-repairability-hinge
2. Scott Walker recorded an album you don’t want to listen to twice — and that’s a compliment. The Drift from 2006 isn’t background music, it’s something like the audio version of an anxious dream. There are no conventional songs, but there is the feeling that you’ve wandered somewhere you shouldn’t be. Sometimes that’s needed — a reminder that music can do more than entertain.
https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1018300/scott-walker-the-drift-music-album-review
3. The foldable iPhone started cracking on people a few hours after purchase. Some YouTuber has already torn it down and, of course, "found the cause" — as if that changes anything.
Classic: first a beautiful presentation about the future, then a subreddit with a video of the phone crunching. But hey, innovation.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1018290/dissected-iphone-duo-crackgate-hinge-screen
4. Everyone’s mourning Arc, but I’m curious: how many times can you bury a browser that nobody really cancelled? Atlassian bought it, focus shifted to Dia, and suddenly a niche opened up for a "replacement." Right on cue, Zen showed up, and of course it’s "the one."
Every year they sell us a new browser as a tiny revolution, and in reality it’s the same tabs, just on the side and with a trendy word attached. Let’s see how long Zen lasts in the "the one" status before someone buys it too and shifts focus off somewhere into AI.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1018275/zen-browser-arc-replacement
5. A $60 accessory that saved joy-cons from drift now has a version for the Switch 2. And it’s almost good — literally a couple of millimeters short. So pay again, but with a caveat. Cute.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1017508/crkd-nitro-deck-2-nintendo-switch-2-controller-case-hands-on
6. Instagram decided we don’t get enough of watching reels on the subway, and now it’s worming its way into the TV. First they tested it quietly on Apple TV, and now — welcome to the couch. It seems the idea of "just watching TV" is finally dead.
Soon we’ll all be zoning out to vertical videos as a family on the big screen. Progress, no doubt about it.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1018253/now-you-can-watch-instagram-reels-on-your-apple-tv
7. China first waved an AI export ban around, then changed its mind and let DeepSeek keep selling. Well, same as always: first the menacing look, then a quiet retreat. And Australia’s data-center bubble is already wobbling, while an Indian telecom is rushing to IPO while investors are still excited. The main thing is not to stop and keep pretending everything’s under control.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/26/after-threatening-ai-export-bans-china-allows-deepseek-to-keep-selling/5305267
8. Someone built a text generator in the style of 1997. The site is called TitleArt, and judging by the name, it’s about art from headlines — you know, 3D letters, shadows, all that. The irony is that the person spent time on a tool that reproduces an aesthetic everyone back then wanted to forget as soon as possible. But apparently nostalgia for cringe is its own genre. Or just an excuse to show you remember the internet before it became respectable.
https://titleart.dvy.io/
9. Lula is back in the presidential chair. A fourth term, a dramatic return — and the BBC, of course, adds drama, as if it could resist. A man who was already president, then sat in prison, then got out, and now he’s on top again. Brazilian politics in general looks like a series that keeps getting renewed just because everyone’s used to it.
You can only watch this calmly if you stop looking for logic in it. There isn’t any. There’s charisma, there’s fatigue with the alternatives, there’s habit. A fourth term isn’t about a "comeback" anymore, it’s about the fact that no convincing alternative turned up.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmvg7p001qj9o
10. Economists are counting money again, while people are losing not their salary but the reason to get up in the morning. Work isn’t just about the transfer at the end of the month — it’s also an excuse to leave the house, to argue with someone on a call, to feel like you’re part of something. AI won’t replace all that, it’ll just take away what can be counted.
And that’s where the really unpleasant part begins. It turns out that taking away a person’s salary is only half the trouble. It’s far more interesting to take away their sense that someone needs them. The article puts it delicately, but the point is simple: you sit at home, do nothing, and you’re supposedly free, but there’s also no reason to be.
https://www.economist.com/business/2026/10/22/if-ai-displaces-human-workers-they-will-lose-more-than-just-pay
11. They tore down the iPhone Duo, and as usual, repairing it is entertainment for the persistent. The battery is glued in, the display can only be replaced together with half the chassis, and the number of screws, I think, is growing faster than sales. Apple keeps making devices you have to love as a whole and not touch with your hands.
Nothing new, just another reminder that "thin and premium" in practice means "expensive to fix."
https://www.ifixit.com/News/119895/iphone-duo-teardown
12. A guy ditched Next.js — and suddenly he’s at a hundred across the board in Lighthouse. It sounds like a victory, but in reality it’s just "I stopped lugging a grand piano around and walking got easier." It’s funny that this is presented as a revelation, as if frameworks don’t add extra weight just for the company. Classic: first pile on the state-of-the-art, then heroically roll back to plain HTML with a couple of scripts and rejoice at the benchmarks.
https://korindiehacker.bloffy.blog/en/removing-nextjs-got-my-blog-to-100-on-every-lighthouse-category
13. Someone posted a "Steal My Bitcoin" proof-of-concept on GitHub — essentially a demo of how coins can be swiped. It looks like an educational CTF, but there’s an aftertaste: stuff like this usually gets read by more than just white hats. It’s funny that Bitcoin’s security doesn’t rest on magic but on the fact that there are enough people around who don’t click on random things. For now it holds.
https://github.com/KillaBoi/StealMyBitcoin-PoC
14. Everyone who’s spent the last few years cranking out PowerPoints about "the power of attention" and "the magic of transformers" can breathe a sigh of relief. A preprint came out whose very title says it: you don’t need attention. In the HN comments, apparently, the usual scramble has already begun — some explain it’s a revolution, others that the paper disproves nothing.
Essentially, it’s another attempt to say that the architecture that got everyone here isn’t all that important. Maybe so. But the number of people who’ve suddenly become experts on the topic is growing faster than interest in the preprint itself.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19428
15. Someone apparently spent quite a few evenings cramming F-Zero X from the N64 into a 3DS. And honestly, that alone is news — because Nintendo itself never bothered in twenty years.
I’m reading the postmortem and getting a strange feeling: a person ported a game nobody asked for to a console almost everyone forgot. And there seems to be more love for the craft in that than in all the quarterly reports of the big studios.
https://hypnotize.works/gdx-3ds/postmortem/index.html
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