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Tech News Roundup: SpaceX’s Starlink Carrier Play, OpenAI Defends Safety Firings, iPhone 18 Pro Cuts & More (Oct 9, 2026)

Friday’s tech news is all about who controls the pipes, who gets to talk about AI safety, and whether people still want pricier phones. SpaceX bought its way closer to being a real mobile carrier, OpenAI is standing by its firing of three safety researchers, and Apple is reportedly trimming iPhone 18 Pro orders on soft demand. Add a Musk-vs-Ambani fight over Starlink in India, GitHub rebuilding its storage for the AI agent flood, and a Claude bill nobody wants to refund, and here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 9, 2026 . Update: SpaceX buys low-band spectrum to turn Starlink Mobile into a real carrier What’s new: earlier this week we posted about the FCC’s plan to auction spectrum for satellite-to-phone service, and now SpaceX has gone and bought some of its own. It’s acquiring Grain Management’s nationwide portfolio of up to 14MHz of paired 800MHz spectrum, pending FCC approval, which SpaceX says fills “one of the key remaining technical gaps” for Starlink Mobile to become...
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Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave Review Roundup

Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave (Image: Nintendo / Intelligent Systems, via OpenCritic) We're late on this one (it launched September 17, before Lanbrew's daily roundups got rolling), but Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave is too big to skip. Intelligent Systems' Nintendo Switch 2 strategy RPG sends you back in time from an undead apocalypse to the Heroic Games of 1449, where you follow four heroes, Cai, Leda, Dietrich and Theodora, each with their own story path, recruits and battles, before everything comes together in a shared finale. Critics are close to unanimous: the tactical battles are being called the best the series has ever had, and the sheer amount of content is staggering (reviewers clocked 80 to 100+ hours). The common complaints are a single save slot, grindy support-building and side content between fights, a weak dungeon Clash battle system, and pacing that slips late. But the consensus is that this is one of the best Fire Emblem games ever made. ...
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Gaming News Roundup: Cyberpunk 2077 Movie, Forza Horizon 6 PS5 Date, Ace Combat 8 Hits 1 Million & More (Oct 9, 2026)

Cyberpunk 2077 (image via Eurogamer / CD Projekt Red) Night City is heading to theaters. Paramount is making a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie with CD Projekt Red co-producing, Forza Horizon 6 finally has a PS5 date (plus its first expansion), and Ace Combat 8 just became the fastest-selling game in the series. Also on Friday's list: Rainbow Six Mobile is shutting down, Charlie Cox recorded 40 hours of lines for a mystery Sega game, a YouTuber lost his whole channel over Hellraiser: Revival, and Richard Garriott is about to get Ultima back from EA for free. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 9, 2026. Cyberpunk 2077 key art (image via VGC / CD Projekt Red) Paramount is making a live-action Cyberpunk 2077 movie, with CD Projekt Red co-producing Deadline broke it and CD Projekt Red confirmed it: a live-action film set in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe is in development at Paramount Pictures, with Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura attached alongside CDP...
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Tech News Roundup: Microsoft & Adobe Cut From Green Card Program, OpenAI’s $20B Revenue Gap, Amazon’s Alexa Tablets & More (Oct 8, 2026)

Thursday’s tech news has the government picking a fight with Big Tech, AI money facing a reality check, and Amazon reinventing its tablets. The US just cut Microsoft and Adobe out of the green card program, OpenAI’s revenue came in $20 billion under the hype, and Amazon replaced the Fire tablet with Google-powered Alexa Tablets. Add Apple’s new event date, Google’s coworker-style Gemini agent, and a farewell to Apollo coding legend Margaret Hamilton, and here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 8, 2026 . The US cuts Microsoft and Adobe out of its green card program The Labor Department says it will stop accepting or processing new Permanent Labor Certification applications, a key step toward a green card, from Microsoft and Adobe, citing “multiple active federal investigations.” Outsourcing giants Cognizant, Infosys, Capgemini, Tata, Wipro and HCL are suspended too. Vice President JD Vance singled out Microsoft over its 2025 layoffs. Microsoft fired back that “the vast majority”...
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Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen Review Roundup

Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen (Image: Capcom) The reviews are in for Dragon's Dogma 2: Dark Arisen , Capcom's big expansion for its 2024 open-world RPG. It launches this week on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PC, and Nintendo Switch 2 (Steam lists it for October 8, while most outlets list October 9). The expansion costs $29.99 on its own, and Dragon's Dogma 2 arrives on Switch 2 for the first time with Dark Arisen included. It sends the Arisen north to Norgan, a huge frozen region with whiteouts, new monsters, and a new story about Eir and the Fallen Dragon. It also adds 12 Lost Rites dungeons across the original map, new vocation skills, and a randomized "Spoils"/relic loot system. Critics mostly agree Norgan is gorgeous and the story is a big step up from the base game. The most common complaints are recycled enemy types, an endgame gear grind that won't be for everyone, and changes like unlimited fast travel that strip away some of the series...
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