#IgorNews 1. A thousand bucks for a robot that can turn on the lights and hold a FaceTime call. So basically Apple has finally made the thing we’ve all been waiting for — a very expensive iPad stand that also drives around.
By 2027, of course. By then, who knows, maybe light bulbs will learn to turn themselves on without a thousand-dollar robot. But marketing is a stubborn thing.
https://arstechnica.com/apple/2026/11/apples-roaming-home-robot-may-do-facetime-switch-lights-on-and-yell-at-your-cat/
2. Oh, another noble gesture from Anthropic: they’ve banned their Claudes from cloning other people’s games. Sounds lovely until you remember that plugging one hole in the fence when the whole fence has been torn down around you is more of a ritual than a solution. They’ll copy anyway — the only question is whose tool they’ll use.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/claudes-new-rules-against-game-cloning-wont-stop-the-ai-copying-boom/
3. China decided not to mess around and is going straight for a Moon landing within three years. No intermediate steps like orbiting or pretty photos — straight to business.
Only it’s 2025 outside, not 1969. If the US with its budget, team, and years of preparation is stuck on Artemis with endless delays, then China’s "three-year timeline" sounds like a promise of apartment renovations from a builder you know. It’s symbolic that they decided to skip the orbital flyby — possibly to avoid showing too much.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/11/china-releases-timeline-for-lunar-landing-on-the-moon-targeting-before-2030/
4. In Mexico, Ferrari put on a circus again, but this time it was more interesting to watch than usual. There was drama on the track and off it, and somehow the race ended up taking a back seat. Though, honestly, watching Ferrari has long been more interesting than watching the sport itself — there’s stability there, it’s never boring.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/11/f1-in-mexico-city-we-have-a-new-world-champion/
5. A new plan to save nature. Again. Targets for 2030 that need saving right now, because the previous ones didn’t quite work out. And the main thing — there’s no money again.
A familiar scheme: first they solemnly signed ambitious goals, then they calculated how much it would cost, and quietly stuffed the bill in a drawer. Now there’s a new plan to save the plan. Nature will wait, of course — it’s used to it.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/11/the-world-has-a-new-plan-to-save-nature-but-it-still-needs-the-money/
6. Another gadget that "can be anything." E-paper for 48 bucks, works in two ecosystems or on your own server — and that’s where it gets interesting, as usual. On your own server it works right up until the moment you just want to look at it and end up spending the weekend in config files.
This isn’t a gadget. It’s a hobby disguised as a gadget.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/11/this-48-e-paper-display-can-be-whatever-you-want-it-to-be/
7. Another "revolutionary" device that reads lips. Or rather, silent mouth movements. Convenient, probably — you sit on a call, say nothing, and someone types for you. Now we just need to wait for these glasses to start reading thoughts too, and then you won’t have to make any effort at all.
Though with that approach, "efficient employee" and "weird person silently moving their lips" are literally the same person. Just in different glasses.
https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/02/these-smart-glasses-promise-to-turn-your-silent-mouth-movements-into-text/5307070
8. AI, it turns out, now finds loopholes in laws better than lawyers. It doesn’t hack the system, it just finds what was already there but nobody noticed. Laws, as it turns out, were written by people, and they have bugs — who would have thought.
Sounds like a sci-fi headline, but in reality it’s just another reason to remember that any system with holes will sooner or later find someone who looks into those holes. Only before it was an expensive lawyer, and now it’s a script.
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/11/02/ai-could-break-legal-systems-by-finding-previously-hidden-loopholes/5307066
9. 1.3 million infected TV boxes — and those are just the ones they found. Firmware with a backdoor straight from the factory, no lone hackers in a basement, just regular manufacturing. You sit there watching a show, and the box under your TV is quietly working for someone else.
It’s funny that "botnet" sounds like something from the 2010s, but in reality it’s just a cheap TV with an extra feature nobody asked for.
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/11/02/cops-bust-botnet-of-13m-infected-android-tv-boxes/5307045
10. Marvell is once again telling us how everything will be. Optics will explode, copper will run out, we urgently need to buy a photonics leader and pretend it’s a strategy rather than buying technology they couldn’t develop themselves. Five billion here, a couple more there, and then we’ll see.
Overall it makes sense: Nvidia and the rest are building increasingly insane systems, and copper heats up and hits a wall. Someone has to sell light in a box. Marvell wants to be that someone. Bold, if you don’t read the fine print.
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/11/02/marvell-wants-to-be-a-copper-topper-bets-115b-on-photonics-leader-to-push-optical-networking/5307028
11. Oracle announced a $20 billion borrowing limit a week ago — and has already maxed it out. They’re building data centers, money is burning, and the promise of "no more borrowing until 2030" sounds about like "this is the last time" on a Friday night.
That’s reassuring, alright. I do believe in discipline, especially when it’s introduced after everything’s already been spent.
https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/11/02/oracle-gobbles-20-billion-borrowing-limit-a-week-after-setting-it/5307014
12. Ericsson came up with a way to catch drones using cell towers. Apparently a base station now not only provides connectivity but also notices suspiciously low-flying objects. It has a nice name — ISAC.
Sounds like "we found another use for hardware that’s already installed." It probably works in lab conditions so far. In a real city with hundreds of towers each pointing wherever, that’s an open question. But the press release is already written, yeah.
https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/11/02/ericsson-says-it-can-detect-track-drones-using-only-mobile-networks/5306958
13. Another "cloud" service, another leak — this time environment variables were pulled from Trigger AI. Curtain. Same thing every time: "we thought of everything," "data is protected," and then someone just walks in and takes the keys.
People are already joking about going back to their own server in a back room. Funny, until you remember that one’s also set up with "I’ll change the password later."
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/02/thieves-pilfer-environment-variables-from-trigger-ai-workflow-tool/5306998
14. Someone out there is writing that "token thieves" cost companies a hundred grand a day. Sure, sounds like a headline for a cybersecurity conference. In reality — someone just figured out how to exploit what was poorly secured, and now it’s called a hack.
And the main thing — "don’t let LLM hijackers get you." Wonderful. So now we have token theft too. A little more and we’ll have insurance against prompt theft.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/02/token-thieves-costing-companies-100k-per-day-in-illicit-llm-charges/5306967
15. SUSE decided to cut every tenth employee — and of course seasoned it with the word "AI." Not "we’re bad at counting money," but "modern tools are changing our workflows." Sounds nice until you realize that "workflows" means people.
Open source, by the way, has always relied on living developers, not on slides about transformation. But now it’s more convenient to say progress is to blame, not management. Classic: first AI as hype, then AI as an alibi.
https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/02/suse-to-cut-one-in-ten-employees-because-of-ai/5306950
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