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Tech News Roundup: DeepSeek’s Faster V4.1 Flash, Anthropic’s Nova Scotia Data Center, a California Student Data Hack & More (Oct 17, 2026)

Saturday’s tech news is heavy on AI infrastructure and security. DeepSeek pushed out a faster, cheaper V4.1 Flash update and opened its search engine to developers, Anthropic signed its first Canadian data center lease in Nova Scotia, and a hacker made off with data on millions of California students. Add India’s report of AI agents from several labs wandering into live company systems, Meta walking back its controversial AI-scraping terms, Qualcomm denying overheating claims about its newest flagship chip, Nvidia insisting the RTX 5090 isn’t dead, an arrest in the Qilin ransomware case, Windows networking trouble from an NTLMv1 crackdown, critical Drupal patches, Deno’s wind-down at Cloudflare, open-weight models’ growing share of AI spending, free plumbing repairs that train robots, E Ink’s brighter Kaleido 4, Japan’s false 9.9 earthquake alert, and more. Here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 17, 2026 . DeepSeek ships a faster, leaner V4.1 Flash update and opens its search e...
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Gaming News Roundup: GTA 6's Possible Stutter Fix, Samson Studio Goes Bankrupt, Funcom Cuts & More (Oct 17, 2026)

Grand Theft Auto VI (image via GamesRadar+ / Rockstar Games) GTA 6 might finally be fixing a problem Rockstar games have had since GTA 4. Digital Foundry spotted that the subtle animation stutter seen in every earlier GTA 6 trailer is missing from the new launch trailer. That's our lead, along with Sony's "Plays Best on PS5" marketing already swaying at least one very big streamer. Also on Saturday: a bank thinks the next Red Dead could come surprisingly soon, Samson studio Liquid Swords has gone bankrupt, Funcom is laying people off and changing CEOs, and Wardogs is moving Season 3 up after a rough Season 2. Plus: Marvel Rivals gets tougher on toxic chat, Mew2King is barred from a Smash tournament, the Nvidia App switched on AI agent control by default, a viral Steam game already has a copycat, Steam has passed last year's total number of releases, a BioWare veteran worries about CD Projekt's costs, the Ocarina of Time remake adds some new side content, Mod...
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Tech News Roundup: iPhone Duo Orders Slip to 2027, Microsoft’s 2.8T-Parameter AI, AI Bug Hunts Delay Postgres 19 & More (Oct 16, 2026)

Friday’s tech news has Apple’s foldable selling out fast and AI changing how software ships. iPhone Duo preorders opened and delivery dates slid into 2027 within an hour, the first Nvidia RTX Spark laptops (Surface Laptop Ultra included) got real tests, Microsoft finished pre-training a 2.8-trillion-parameter model, and AI code reviewers found so many bugs that Postgres 19 got pushed back. Add Meta’s new AI-scraping terms and its smart glasses recording without a wake word, Anthropic opening its doors to outside safety testers, Blue Origin’s $330M New Glenn push, Microsoft Defender coming to Linux desktops, a fake WhatsApp in the Play Store, KDE’s 30th birthday, and more. Here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 16, 2026 . Update: iPhone Duo preorders opened — and delivery dates slipped into 2027 within an hour Yesterday we noted that preorders for Apple’s first foldable were about to open; here’s what happened. Apple started taking iPhone Duo orders at 8AM ET Friday, and in les...
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Gaming News Roundup: GTA 6 “Never Completely Settled,” Ocarina's Dark Link, a Cancelled China Assassin's Creed & More (Oct 16, 2026)

Grand Theft Auto VI (image via GamesRadar+ / Rockstar Games) Five weeks out, Rockstar says GTA 6 still isn't locked down: its tech director says the team has changed things "even within the last few months," and a giant GTA 6 banner in Paris quietly lost its guns. That's our lead. Also on Friday: Nintendo's new Ocarina of Time TV spots give us our first look at Dark Link, footage of a cancelled Assassin's Creed set in ancient China has leaked, Activision's QA union has authorized a strike as Modern Warfare 4's campaign early access begins, and digital game ownership is back in the spotlight with a new bill in Congress and fresh comments from Ken Kutaragi. Plus: Battlefield 6 rolls back its XP cut, the Street Fighter movie gets rough reviews, Game Freak winds down Beast of Reincarnation updates, CD Projekt says the Cyberpunk movie will tell its own story, decomp.dev shuts down over AI spam, Nintendo raises Switch repair prices in Japan, Edge of Memori...
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