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A poster on Hacker News announced plans to go on strike in November and invited others to join by informing their employers they are also striking, citing grievances to be detailed in comments due to character limits. The post encourages participants to share the thread with employers and frames the action as a collective, decentralized effort rather than a formally organized labor action.
Micron's labor union at its Taoyuan facility in Taiwan plans a one-day work stoppage on October 22 over unresolved demands for a clear bonus proposal and a transparent profit-sharing formula. Talks broke down in September, leading workers to approve the strike in early October, though the union says the action is meant to force a deal rather than end negotiations. Separately, a union at Micron's larger Taichung site is set to meet management for mediation the same day but has not authorized a strike.
Russian state media TASS reported on October 9 that a drone attack hit Yandex's data center in Kaluga's Grabtsevo industrial park, completely disabling several of its modules. The facility, Yandex's largest in Russia, spans about 130,000 square meters with a planned 63-megawatt capacity and over 3,800 server racks. This comes just two days after satellite imagery showed damage from a separate drone strike on another Yandex data center in Sasovo, Ryazan region.
A master's student from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology developed a technique that can uniquely identify gamers based on their mouse and keyboard input signals. By analyzing data from over a thousand players, the method achieved 100% accuracy with mouse patterns and 98% with keyboard signals, even linking multiple accounts to a single individual. The approach uncovered previously unknown account connections, highlighting its potential for player identification.
Alinea Analytics estimates Steam generated $1.7 billion in September, up 13% year-over-year, and $5.5 billion in the third quarter, up 12%. Through nine months of 2026 the platform has taken in roughly $16.5 billion, leaving it needing about $3.5 billion in the final quarter to surpass $20 billion for the year for the first time.
Analytics firm Alinea Analytics estimates Steam generated a record $1.7 billion in September 2026, up 13% from the prior September record, marking its best third quarter ever at $5.5 billion. Year-to-date revenue through nine months reached an estimated $16.5 billion, up from $14.5 billion over the same period in 2025, with new releases like Wardogs and Onimusha: Way of the Sword among the top earners.
Woot is selling the Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro TKL gaming keyboard for $130, down from its usual $219.99. The tenkeyless board features a 2.4GHz low-latency wireless connection, low-profile linear optical switches, USB-C and Bluetooth options, and battery life Razer rates at up to 200 hours with RGB off.
Employees at Guai Guai's Zhongli, Taiwan snack factory, operating since 1968, voted 94% in favor of a strike after the company announced it would relocate to Hsinchu. Workers can keep jobs by relocating or commuting and were offered a 5% raise, but the union says this merely matches Taiwan's mandated minimum wage increase, and they want a share of the NT$5.6 billion (US$176.1 million) the company received selling the Zhongli site to ASE for redevelopment.
Icelandair reportedly turned down a proposal from its aircraft mechanics on Tuesday, setting the stage for a possible indefinite strike beginning September 23. The mechanics' union has set a deadline of midnight local time Tuesday (8:00 p.m. EDT) for the airline to reach a deal before the walkout begins.
Thousands of unionized security guards contracted through firms like Securitas and Allied Universal have walked off the job at Big Tech campuses in California. The strike follows a member vote earlier this month authorizing action after months of stalled contract negotiations with SEIU-United Service Workers West.
A developer has released Vinix, an open-source operating system written in the V programming language, designed specifically for MacBooks as a leaner alternative to macOS. It runs in roughly 100 MB of RAM and 1 GB of storage, boots quickly, and includes no telemetry or online account requirements. The project is also working toward running Windows-only PC games on Apple Silicon hardware by combining Wine with an x86-to-ARM64 translation layer and an in-progress Apple GPU driver.
An Entrepreneur opinion piece argues that many high-output professionals experience anxiety and restlessness when they finally stop working over Labor Day, rather than relief. The author traces the holiday's origins to an 1872 Toronto printers' strike for a nine-hour workday, noting that the freedom to actually stop has never fully arrived for many workers today. Instead of feeling refreshed, people often crash into stress once the pressure that masked exhaustion disappears.