#IgorNews 1. Oracle decided that the words "cloud" and "innovation" don’t speak for themselves, and called in Google with its TPUs — so customers would have a choice: expensive Nvidia, slightly less expensive TPU, or faith in a bright AI future. Meanwhile everyone is collectively waiting for "AI ROI," as if it were the salary they were promised last year.
While corporations shuffle chips between each other, customers are quietly calculating whether all this beauty will ever pay for itself. The good news: there’s a choice. The bad news: you’re still the one paying.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/27/big-red-gets-cozy-with-google-to-offer-tpus-to-ai-customers/5305846
2. Anthropic decided it was time to remove another safety net. Now Claude can do dangerous things without even asking — it just goes ahead and does them.
The name of the new setting, of course, speaks for itself, as if it were written by people who really want to see what happens. It seems someone at the company decided to test how much users trust AI. Spoiler: the answer will surprise us all.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/27/anthropic-now-lets-claude-users-jump-out-of-plane-without-parachute/5305807
3. AI found four holes in EPICS — the software that research facilities run on — in four hours. One critical, three just plain bad. This used to take weeks of man-hours, and now it’s as if someone just handed it the keys and said "go look."
And it seems like good news — the holes got patched. But there’s a lingering aftertaste: if a neural net took apart industrial software that controls reactors and accelerators in one evening, how much of this stuff is sitting unpatched right now.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/27/ai-hacker-finds-4-severe-bugs-in-popular-industrial-control-software-in-under-4-hours/5305811
4. Apple has released another new chip. M6. Sixth generation, more cores, faster memory, a fatter NPU. Sounds like the same thing every year, only the number changes. And it basically works — people buy it anyway.
What’s more interesting: Apple keeps talking about power, as if anyone was running short. The real question is what to do with all this hardware besides rendering timelapses. But those are details.
https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/10/27/apple-takes-powerful-m6-chip-to-the-macbook-pro-imac/5305797
5. These guys again. Five complaints across four countries against Scale AI for spying on its own contractors through Outlier. Surprise, of course — nobody could have guessed that a platform where people label data for AI for pennies would quietly monitor how they do it.
Maybe for a change we should be surprised that anyone still believes in the "independence" of such contractors. But no, let’s keep pretending that data labeling is about freedom and flexible hours.
https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/10/27/eu-privacy-advocates-accuse-us-data-annotation-firm-of-snooping-on-contractors/5305757
6. Someone can’t let go of the past again. Two enthusiasts built a Linux theme that pretends to be an old Mac. One option is the platinum gray of the nineties, the other is that "tasty" Aqua from the 2000s. Pick one, get nostalgic, take screenshots.
It’s funny, of course: people leave macOS only to manually recreate its look on a different system. Freedom of choice is a delicate thing.
https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/27/zacos-9-and-mavernix-two-classic-apple-desktops-find-their-wayland-to-linux/5305710
7. The University of New Mexico is on its second day of canceled classes because someone got into the health sciences campus. The hospital is taking patients again, but "recovery will proceed in phases" — that is, honestly: until we know when everything gets fixed, we’ll keep talking pretty.
It’s funny that a cyberattack hits a university and a hospital at the same time, yet it sounds like a technical malfunction. Though in reality it’s just that someone’s door turned out to be unlocked.
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/10/27/day-2-of-canceled-classes-at-university-of-new-mexico-after-health-sciences-center-cyberattack/5305690
8. Well, would you look at that — Satya Nadella’s pay slipped 6% in a record year. Revenue is up, profit is up, thirty million paid Copilot seats, data centers being stamped out like hotcakes, shareholders got nearly forty-four billion. And the boss gets minus six percent.
Apparently this corporation believes that if you dropped an entire platform from the sky, you don’t deserve money for it. Or maybe the board just decided to show solidarity with those who’ll soon be replaced by AI. Such modesty in an era of universal prosperity.
https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/10/27/take-it-on-the-chin-satnad-microsoft-chief-execs-pay-slips-6-in-record-year/5305737
9. "Critical vulnerabilities in PHP" again, and it’s the usual story: we’re sitting on ancient versions because "updating is scary, it’s legacy," and then CISA adds the holes to the actively exploited list, and it turns out someone has already built working shells. Classic.
Nobody’s panicking, just another Tuesday. Patches will come out, someone will apply them, someone will put it off until next quarter. A harmless little routine in which PHP is once again to blame for still being enabled somewhere on the periphery.
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/10/27/cisa-confirms-php2shell-under-attack-as-researchers-clock-successful-exploits/5305681
10. Three percent of executives believe AI has actually brought them productivity and savings. The rest are just spending for now — and, judging by forecasts, by 2027 they’ll be spending even more. Classic: first the budget, then the hope that it’ll somehow pay for itself.
Nobody, of course, will admit they don’t understand what they’re paying for. It’s just that the numbers in the presentation look nice.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/27/a-whopping-3-of-boardroom-execs-spy-productivity-and-costs-savings-from-ai/5305675
11. Apple has admitted that the foldable iPhone Duo has display problems. "A small number" — the favorite phrasing when you don’t want to say "we rushed it."
Creases on the screen that can’t be smoothed out. But hey, innovation.
https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/10/27/apples-foldable-phone-has-a-crease-in-its-reputation/5305669
12. Every time I see this corporate sigh about "legacy NAS and VPN," I want to ask: did you really think a file dump on a cabinet in the office was the infrastructure of the future? There are hidden costs, of course. It’s just that usually they don’t look like an "unoptimized workflow" — they look like Valera from IT, who’s been fixing the share for three years and keeps saying "don’t touch it, it works."
https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/10/27/sponsored-when-file-infrastructure-becomes-the-bottleneck/5305523
13. Microsoft has released out-of-band patches again. Certificates in Windows are expiring, and this needs fixing urgently — out of order, because it won’t sort itself out. As for eMudhra and the "power of four," better not to ask — it’s some internal kitchen that no normal person would want to poke into.
The point is simple: infrastructure quietly rots on schedule, and every couple of months we all dutifully install an urgent update. No drama, it’s just that certificates live their own lives and die without warning.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/27/microsoft-releases-out-of-band-windows-fixes-with-certificate-updates/5305637
14. Yep, AfD’s email hosting got hacked, and 345,000 accounts leaked online. The funniest part here isn’t even the hack itself but the reaction: a party that usually loves to talk about "security and order" just brushed it off like an annoying fly.
Journalists are now digging through this pile of correspondence, and there, I suspect, you’ll find both boring newsletters and a couple of awkward moments. In short, nothing new under the sun — a leak is a leak, sort it out yourselves.
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/10/27/attack-on-email-hosting-provider-for-german-far-right-party-afd-exposed-345k-accounts/5305660
15. The UK government, it turns out, has been communicating very closely with those who want to build AI data centers. With local communities and environmentalists — somehow it didn’t work out. A coincidence, probably.
It’s just that business shows up to meetings with a presentation and a budget, while residents show up with "we have to live here." Different weight classes.
https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/10/27/uk-ministers-had-plenty-of-time-for-ai-datacenter-bosses-but-none-for-environmental-groups/5305654
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