As far as a human-powered explanation of what's going on, I usually post that on the SPC alt, @p . Unfortunately, because of journos scraping, SPC is no longer available to the public so, now that I think about it, you have to have an alt to read the posts there. It is good to have an alt regardless, but there should probably be a way to get at the updates without logging into anything.
The upside is that the hardware problem might finally be solved.