Arduino IDE "calls home"?

You guys are all guessing and making conclusions about guesses.

We appreciate your "conclusions and guesses" about the conclusions and guesses.

My concern is that the IDE may have updated itself to where my servo code is now broken. Since the developers don't follow the forum, speculation will rule the day. I've still got to do some testing to see what is now different such that my servo code no longer works. Interesting mystery to figure out.