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...
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...