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Tech News Roundup: Nvidia Eyes Reflection AI, Apple’s HomeView Leaks, FBI Nabs a Ransomware Negotiator & More (Oct 11, 2026)

Sunday’s tech news is all about deals and devices. Nvidia might scoop up open-model startup Reflection AI, the FBI’s ShinyHunters hunt just nabbed a ransomware negotiator, and Apple’s pre-event leaks are pouring out: a HomeView home hub, a new HomePod mini, a pricier OLED iPad mini and a mountain of iPhone Duo demo units. Add Cloudflare buying Deno, AI pricing your Big Mac and AI agents attacking power grids in the lab, and here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 11, 2026 . Nvidia is reportedly in talks to buy (or go bigger on) Reflection AI The Financial Times reports Nvidia is in early talks to deepen its investment in open-weight model startup Reflection AI or acquire it outright. Nvidia has already put $800 million in, and Reflection was last raising at a $25 billion pre-money valuation. One option on the table is an acqui-hire, where Nvidia hires the staff and licenses the tech instead of buying the company, which could dodge a long regulatory review. Reflection, founded i...
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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered Review Roundup

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered (Image: CD Projekt Red, via GamesRadar+) The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Remastered came out September 29 on PC, PS5, Xbox Series X|S and Nintendo Switch 2, and it's a free upgrade if you already own the game. We're a little late on this one, but it's easily one of the biggest remasters of the year and it deserves a proper roundup. The reviews are about as close to unanimous as it gets: every critic on OpenCritic recommends it, and none of the 13 PC reviews on Metacritic are mixed or negative. Critics say CD Projekt Red didn't turn it into a new game, but it did a ton of smart cleanup: a big lighting overhaul with ray tracing and path tracing, better animations, reworked combat and skill progression, new accessibility options, and lots of small fixes (Roach finally stops getting stuck on trees). Both expansions, Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine, are included. The complaints are mostly familiar ones: combat still feels a bit cl...
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Gaming News Roundup: GTA 6 Leakers' Full-Build Threat, Squadron 42 Dated, Marvel Tokon Year One Fighters & More (Oct 11, 2026)

Grand Theft Auto VI (image via GamesRadar+ / Rockstar Games) The GTA 6 leak saga got even weirder this weekend: the Cyberleek group says it'll dump a full build of the game unless Take-Two gives it physical discs and a public apology, and then it posted another clip anyway. Squadron 42 finally has a Steam page and a Q2 2027 window, Marvel Tokon revealed the rest of its Year One fighters, and a Resident Evil Code Veronica remake DLC rumor is making the rounds. Also on Sunday's list: Metro 2039 pre-orders look close, Gran Turismo 7 is still selling better than Polyphony expected, Forza Horizon 6's PS5 disc comes with a catch, and BlazBlue: Central Fiction is coming to PS5. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 11, 2026. Grand Theft Auto VI (image via Eurogamer / Rockstar Games) Update: GTA 6 leakers threaten a full-game leak unless Take-Two puts out physical discs and apologizes Earlier this week the Cyberleek group posted 25 minutes of GTA 6 footage. Now...
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Tech News Roundup: PC Shipments Crater 20%, Microsoft Joins the Decision-Model Race, AI Bots Scam the Scammers & More (Oct 10, 2026)

Saturday’s tech news has a theme: AI is everywhere, but the payoff is messier than the hype. PCs just had their worst Q3 on record as prices climb, Microsoft jumped into the Jev-style decision-model race, a big Harvard study says AI coding agents make more code but not more software, and AI bots are now wasting scammers’ time for a living. Add a Chromium lookalike-domain trick, an AWS agent takeover bug, and publishers quietly using AI, and here’s the Lanbrew tech roundup for October 10, 2026 . PC shipments just had their worst third quarter IDC has ever recorded IDC says global PC shipments fell 20.1% year over year in Q3 2026 to 62.7 million units, the biggest third-quarter drop it has ever tracked, and down 9.1% from Q2 when Q3 usually beats it. Omdia’s numbers look just as rough: shipments down 21.2% to 58.1 million, with desktops off 23.5% and laptops off 20.6%. Rising prices are hammering demand, and TrendForce now warns notebook shipments could fall again in 2027, by as much...
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Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival Review Roundup

Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival (Image: Saber Interactive, via IGN) Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Revival came out October 8 on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2 and PC, and the reviews are all over the place. Saber Interactive's first-person survival horror game follows Aiden, who goes into the Labyrinth to get his girlfriend Sunny back after the Cenobites drag her to hell, with original actor Doug Bradley back as Pinhead. Critics pretty much agree it's faithful to Barker's work, looks great and holds nothing back (the opening alone got a YouTuber banned this week). Where they disagree is everything else. Fans of the series are giving it 8s and 9s and calling it one of the best licensed horror games ever, while others are hung up on bugs, enemy AI, weak boss fights, repetitive chase sequences and a story that leans on exposition dumps. A lot of reviewers also say it borrows heavily from Resident Evil, especially the inventory and merchant setup. Ag...
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Gaming News Roundup: Gears of War: E-Day Sales, Silent Hill's Next Waves, Sonic Racing x Final Fantasy 7 & More (Oct 10, 2026)

Gears of War: E-Day (image via IGN / The Coalition) Gears of War: E-Day got great reviews, but early sales estimates say Game Pass ate most of the Xbox revenue. Konami says Silent Hill's "second and third waves" are already being planned, and Sonic Racing CrossWorlds' Year 2 lineup now includes Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Persona. Also on Saturday's list: Nintendo says to go ask Rockstar about GTA 6 on Switch 2, Arc Raiders is testing a no-PvP mode next week, Modern Warfare 4 dated DMZ early access, and a lot of Marvel's Wolverine buyers still went physical. Here's the Lanbrew gaming roundup for October 10, 2026. Gears of War: E-Day (image via Eurogamer / Xbox Game Studios) Gears of War: E-Day reportedly sold just 230,000 copies, while 1.7 million played on Game Pass Alinea Analytics' Rhys Elliott estimates E-Day sold about 230,000 copies in its first week: 168,000 on Steam and only 62,000 through Xbox on console and PC. Meanwhile, roughly 1.7 ...
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