#IgorNews 1. China is once again telling us how their cosmonauts will be strolling around the Moon by 2030. And the most important thing in all of this isn’t the rocket β it’s the Wi-Fi and Ethernet they plan to build right into the spacesuits. So that an astronaut on the lunar surface can have a stable internet connection?
Sounds like the dream of a person who doesn’t remember what a congested airwave is. Before Wi-Fi existed, we had traffic jams here on Earth, and they’ll already have a network grid on the Moon. Sure, sure.
https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/11/04/china-outlines-plans-for-moonshot-it-hopes-to-land-by-2030/5307457
π Source: The Register
2. Intel seems to have finally gotten its "and he also used to fall down" moment. AMD is quietly creeping toward first place in x86 and isn’t making a fuss about it. The main thing is nobody’s panicking β everyone’s just noting it in the spreadsheet. The supply chain, if you believe the CEO, will handle the growth of datacenters and AI demand. We’ll see. That’s the corporate way of saying "we hope we don’t fall apart."
https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/11/04/amd-on-track-to-overtake-intel-as-biggest-x86-outfit/5307448
π Source: The Register
3. Canva is cutting 22% of its staff. The press release, of course, says nothing about AI β just "the pace of technological change." A convenient phrasing: technically they didn’t say anything, but everyone understood everything.
So don’t get too comfortable. A company that spent ten years living by the slogan "design for everyone" is now explaining that some of those "everyones" have somehow suddenly become superfluous.
https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/11/04/aussie-adobe-assailant-canva-announces-layoffs-in-re-org-affecting-22-of-staff/5307422
π Source: The Register
4. People joke for years about "try not to get hired by North Koreans," and then bam β someone actually made it through the interview. The result: six-plus billion, and this isn’t "one hacker’s slip-up," it looks like a calm, well-prepared operation. Binance is now saying it wasn’t phishing and it wasn’t a single hole.
It’s funny that the biggest vulnerability at a crypto exchange isn’t the code β it’s HR. I mean, you hire a person, he’s got a resume, a conversation, he’s charming. But he’s not who he says he is, and all that professional politeness was for nothing.
Impressive, sure. But there’s a feeling that the louder the scale, the quieter the question β and vetting someone during hiring is still considered bureaucracy.
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/03/north-korean-fake-job-interview-led-to-63b-binance-heist/5307398
π Source: The Register
5. The Democrats took everything that wasn’t nailed down, including Texas, and are now drawing a new map. The Republicans, apparently, were the last to find out.
No suspense β they just took the House, the Senate, and a couple of "deep red" states where, theoretically, this shouldn’t have happened. The question now isn’t what happened, but who’s next to pretend this was the plan all along.
https://www.wired.com/story/democrats-sweep-republicans-in-nearly-every-race-that-matters/
π Source: Wired
6. Laptops are getting more expensive by the minute, and against that backdrop a $900 discount on the Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5x looks almost suspicious. They say it’s the best deal in months. Sure, sure.
Let’s just remember: "a good deal" today means "not as expensive as it could have been." The bar has shifted so far that a regular price is now perceived as a gift.
https://www.wired.com/story/lenovo-ideapad-slim-5x-deal-11-26/
π Source: Wired
7. California is suing the Trump administration again. They were given a condition: get your broadband funding, but first repeal your laws. The state says "preposterous" and files a lawsuit. Some explain it as a concern for fairness, others as just another round of political ping-pong. The point is the same: Washington decided that money should only flow on certain conditions, and Sacramento decided not this time.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/11/california-fights-preposterous-trump-admin-demand-to-scrap-state-broadband-laws/
π Source: Ars Technica
8. Everyone collectively decided that data for fine-tuning models is some kind of shared well that everybody can walk up to. But there is no well. There are private gardens β some with a fence and a dog, some with just a greenhouse.
And that’s where the usual starts: those who have a garden call it an "ecosystem" and "open collaboration." Everyone else just looks at the fence. Nothing is collapsing, but somehow it becomes clear who the actual "community" is here.
https://openathena.ai/blog/there-is-no-posttraining-data-commons/
π Source: Openathena
9. AMD reported its quarterly results and is very pleased with itself: record revenue, record profit, "the largest and most profitable quarter in history." Lisa Su says it like she’s surprised, even though it’s obvious β the money came from datacenters, and everyone with even one suitably sized chip is milking datacenters right now.
The forecast for next quarter is even higher β seventeen billion. The main thing is that there’s enough electricity for everyone who’s already promised to build these datacenters.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1026148/amd-earnings-q3-2026-data-center-pc
π Source: The Verge
10. Nintendo decided that the best way to sell the Switch 2 is to sell us Ocarina of Time again. Thirty years later, now with realistic graphics. As if graphics were ever a problem in that game. No, the problem is that I’ve already bought it three times.
It’s very sweet that they’re launching this right before GTA VI, as if hoping we’ll accidentally get confused and buy Zelda out of sheer inertia.
https://www.theverge.com/games/1026112/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-remake-nintendo-switch-2-news
π Source: The Verge
11. Nexus Mods decided that modders are now required to disclose if they used AI. Just a yes/no checkbox β that’s it, no investigations. Seems like a small thing, but it’s funny: the biggest warehouse of PC mods suddenly got concerned about transparency, as if everything there used to be crystal clear.
On one hand, it makes sense. On the other β so you admitted it, and then what? The mod doesn’t get better or worse from it. But the site apparently decided that honesty matters more than the result. Classic.
https://www.theverge.com/games/1026085/nexus-mods-ai-disclosures
π Source: The Verge
12. Everyone’s asking when the AI bubble will burst. And I’m sitting here thinking: if I actually knew the exact date, would I tell you? I’d quietly borrow money, invest big, and retire. So all these people pontificating on air about the "bubble" are just selling you the feeling that someone in this room knows more than you do. Spoiler: they don’t.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1025826/ai-bubble-pimco-apollo-bonds
π Source: The Verge
13. Canva decided that 22% of its staff is just a normal "optimization." Melanie Perkins explains: some people will have their roles changed, some will be asked to relocate to "centralized hubs," and some will simply be asked to leave. Nicely wrapped, no question about it.
Every time these letters β "dear colleagues, we need to change" β sound exactly the same. 1,271 people will read this and go update their resumes. And Canva will keep telling everyone how great things are.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1025971/canva-changes-layoffs
π Source: The Verge
14. Sonos decided that what we all desperately needed was another button. Now you can save a preset β music in a specific room at a specific volume β and tap it from the home screen. Before you had to tap twice, now once. Progress.
And for Americans, they’ve also rolled out a voice AI in beta. Apparently to finally legitimize the habit of talking to a speaker instead of to people. Convenient, I won’t argue. It’s just funny how the industry keeps selling us the same speaker all over again, adding one button a year.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1025903/sonos-presets-27voice-ai-early-access
π Source: The Verge
15. Valve suddenly noticed that there are more games on Steam than they can keep up with reviewing. Before, the check took 3-5 days, now up to 12 β and they still call it "running a bit behind." Indie developers are sitting and waiting for someone at Valve to open their page.
It’s nice that they at least acknowledged the problem. It’s just that "significant growth in submissions" doesn’t feel like a compliment to the store β it feels like a symptom of the fact that anyone with a laptop and a free evening can release a game now.
https://www.theverge.com/games/1025722/valve-steam-game-increase-submissions
π Source: The Verge
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