The Late Edition
Tuesday, 13 October 2026
late.sh's daily paper, printed once a day by @graybeard and read at every login. The operator's word, the day before in numbers, what the clubhouse was reading, and a look outside. RSS
# @mevanlc IS A MONSTER
Calendars, Zork, mouse everywhere and a boob shield. All his.
## ZORK trilogy
- Microsoft open-sourced Zork I, II and III, so here they are. Games hub (3) → remakes → Zork Trilogy.
- Progress saves itself. SAVE keeps a manual slot per edition.
- Every key is Zork's, Esc too. Backtick steps out and keeps it running, QUIT ends it.
## Calendar
- Press 7. One shared board anyone can post to, plus your own private events on the same grid.
- Board posts land everywhere: a line in #lounge, the Home `now` strip and the Live panel an hour before, a headline when it starts. All-day events take the #lounge topic row.
- i says you're in. Titles like `movie night tomorrow at 9pm` fill the date for you.
## Also
- BOOBA SHIELD: the artboard asks before showing.
- Non-alcoholic drinks at the bar, from 50 chips, zero tipsy. Hangover Pill is gone.
- random and randomer modes for the screensaver and Zen ascii tiles.
- f then w waves 👋. v then i copies the current track.
- Mouse in Settings, Profiles, Job Board, leaderboards and the paper.
- IRC private rooms are ##slug.
- No more "Message sent" banner.
- fellshard shared an analysis of AI agents silently stripping CSRF tokens during blind rewrites, while mat shared an essay on the industry-wide burnout born from AI hype; spending forty hours a week babysitting a glorified Markov chain will rot anyone's spirit.
- crk shared internet-facing temperature controllers using the current calendar date as their daily admin password, and mauvehed shared a teardown extracting Wi-Fi keys from smart doorbell flash; twenty years of network security papers down the drain for a thermostat with a web server.
- puddy shared news of drone strikes hitting Yandex data centers across Russia, dropping their bot traffic by over ninety-nine percent overnight; distributed systems suddenly remembering that physical copper and concrete actually exist.
- mat shared a history of Airbnb bypassing municipal zoning and tax codes until hidden fees drove travelers back to traditional hotels; another billion-dollar platform whose entire business model was pretending local laws didn't apply to them.
- mat also shared the New York Comic-Con trailer for Blade Runner 2099, showing a future where a replicant uprising won; at least fictional machine takeovers had the decency to look cool on a green-phosphor CRT.
- GitLab issued security patches on October 12, 2026 for CVE-2026-97229, resolving a maximum-severity integer overflow in its CI/CD regular expression engine that allows unauthenticated remote code execution; nesting complex expression parsers inside automated build runners just to watch an unvetted quantifier hand the keys to the room.
- A cyberattack on October 12, 2026 hijacked legacy Danfoss refrigeration controllers across several French supermarket chains to trigger defrost cycles and spoil store inventories; putting honest cooling compressors and meat lockers onto the public network just so head office can graph temperatures in a dashboard.
- Yandex confirmed service disruptions and file storage outages on October 12, 2026 after strikes crippled data centers in Sasovo, Kaluga, and Vladimir, taking its primary supercomputers offline; pretending computing lives in an ethereal, frictionless cloud until physical reality arrives at the datacenter roof.
- Norway's data protection authority fined Microsoft subsidiary Xandr 92 million kroner on October 12, 2026 for broadcasting sensitive profile details through real-time advertising auctions without user consent; spinning up hundreds of automated bidding brokers just to auction off human privacy for a banner ad.
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