EA FC 27 launches September 25, 2026 on PlayStation, Xbox, PC and Nintendo Switch. Early access for Ultimate Edition and Ultimate Plus Edition owners starts September 18, and the Ultimate Team web app opened September 16.
An unfinished destination card for Google Maps was found in Android Auto 17.8, showing place photos, an Overview section, contacts and a Gemini-based AI summary. The feature is not yet released and Google may change or cancel it.
Apple released tvOS 27 for Apple TV with a redesigned liquid glass interface, side menus, lossless and high-res lossless audio support, 4K video from cameras and faster AirPlay. It adds system-wide text size settings, expanded gamepad compatibility and update management via iPhone.
Microsoft said Windows Server 2022 will stop receiving mainstream support updates on October 13, 2026. The system moves to extended support with monthly security patches until October 14, 2031; hotpatching for Datacenter: Azure Edition is extended to October 2027.
Stellar Blade: Complete Edition will launch on Switch 2 on November 5 for $59.99. The game ships on a 32GB cartridge rather than as a Game-Key Card. Pre-orders are open, including a steelbook edition for $69.99.
Cloudflare introduced a tool that blocks data collection for AI training without affecting search crawlers. According to the company, mixed crawlers make up 36.6% of verified crawler traffic on its network.
Google expanded AI overviews in Gmail to users worldwide: users can now ask natural language questions in the search bar, and answers are generated only from email content. The feature still requires a Google AI subscription or Workspace account.
Riot Games will add the new automatic rifle Warden to Valorant on September 22, 2026, in patch 13.06. The weapon costs 2900 credits, has a 2x scope, an 18-round magazine, and deals 200 damage to the head and 50 to the body with no damage falloff.
Sony released PS5 system update version 26.06-14.00.00. Enhanced PSSR image quality on PS5 Pro is enabled by default, voice chat now shows speaker names, and the Welcome Hub adds Trending Now and Top 10 games widgets.
MongoDB 8.2 in public preview added $encStrStartsWith, $encStrEndsWith and $encStrContains operators for searching encrypted fields in Queryable Encryption. Tests showed substring search insert costs 22.9 ms per document versus 1.16 ms for equality-only encryption and 0.03 ms unencrypted, with storage growing 380 times relative to plaintext.
Microsoft updated Media Creation Tool for clean installation of Windows 11 25H2 (build KB5129195). This is one of the last ISO images of the 25H2 branch before the release of 26H2.
Samsung announced the end of the One UI 9.0 beta program for Galaxy S26, S26+, and S26 Ultra — no new beta builds will be released. Seven beta versions have been released since May 2026, and the company is ready to release the stable update.
OptiScaler Client 1.0.7 has been released — an open tool for swapping upscalers (DLSS, FSR, XeSS) in games. It adds FSR 4 DLL swapping support (INT8, FP8), frame generation and multi-frame generation with multipliers up to x6, improved recommended configs, and stability on Windows 10 and Linux.
Open-source project OpenMANET builds long-range ad-hoc mesh networks on Raspberry Pi and Wi-Fi HaLow (802.11ah) chips from Morse Micro. Unlike LoRa-based Meshtastic and MeshCore, it provides full IP, PTT voice, RTSP video, and ATAK integration at speeds of 1–15 Mbps, but requires more expensive and power-hungry hardware.
Pinterest Engineering reworked its Manas distributed search platform, serving tens of billions of embeddings across 80 clusters. SQ and PQ quantization cut HNSW indexes by 59–74%, while SPANN with SSD-based posting lists delivered 3x the QPS of DiskANN and saved 20–30% in serving costs.
Blizzard confirmed that no more major expansions are planned for Diablo IV, with support continuing through seasons and content. The company previously announced Diablo V, slated for release in 2029.
Oracle released JDK 27, a short-term release without long-term support. It includes four production-ready JEPs: compact object headers (64 bits instead of 96) enabled by default, G1 replacing Serial GC in constrained environments, added data redaction in Flight Recorder, and post-quantum hybrid key exchange based on TLS 1.3.
Team Ninja announced the release date for Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember — March 4, 2027. An alpha demo is available until September 30, 2026 on PS5, Xbox Series, and PC, excluding Switch 2. Standard edition costs $69.99, Digital Deluxe $99.99.
Xiaomi released the first HyperOS 4 beta build for testing program participants. The update is initially available only for Xiaomi 17 Ultra, Xiaomi 17 and Leica Leitzphone by Xiaomi, with Xiaomi 17T, 17T Pro, 15 and 15 Ultra joining the beta on September 17. Stable release timing has not been announced.
Team NINJA showed a Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember demo at Gamescom 2026. Combat is more varied: parrying no longer dominates, with a martial arts skill tree, the Insight Skill dodge and aerial combos added. Levels are built as open zones, like in Nioh 3.
Fujitsu released the Open Quantum Application Research Package (OpenQARP) as open source on GitHub with more than 100 components, including its own quantum algorithms. The beta version, available since February 2026, has been used by more than 80 organizations; it supports a 40-qubit simulator based on 1024 PRIMEHPC FX700 and the NVIDIA CUDA-Q platform.
React Compiler 1.0 automatically memoizes components, a critical vulnerability CVE-2025-55182 with a CVSS score of 10.0 was found in React Server Components allowing remote code execution, and React 19.3 added ViewTransition, Fragment refs and browser(). The project moved under Linux Foundation stewardship.
Windows design lead Marcus Ash told insiders that testers are already feeling improved Windows 11 responsiveness. Explorer and Start menu improvements have begun rolling out, with remaining changes due this fall.
Microsoft is preparing a Windows 11 feature to restore keys that laptop manufacturers removed from keyboards to make room for a dedicated Copilot button. The date and details of the change were not disclosed.
Microsoft announced Project Zenith, preconfigured Windows 11 machines for developers and local AI work. Requirements include at least 64 GB unified memory and 250 GB/s bandwidth to run models over 30 billion parameters, with first systems on AMD Ryzen AI Halo.
Diablo 5 senior game director Joe Shely said at BlizzCon that the team uses Diablo 2: Resurrected as a source of modern inspiration, not just the original Diablo 2. He said the remaster exists thanks to fan passion, and its item system and modern mechanics influenced the sequel. Diablo 5 is planned for spring 2029.
Microsoft confirmed the upcoming release of a DataGrid-like TableView control for WinUI — a basic element for tabular data that the framework has lacked for years. The code is already merged into the development branch, with a stable release expected in the coming weeks.
Grindr is moving its app to AI: new features will appear in the paid Edge subscription, with launch expected in late 2026 to early 2027. CEO George Arison floated a tier costing more than $6000 per year for a few tens of thousands of users. AI already writes more than 80% of the app's code, and headcount has shrunk about 20% over three years.
Samsung is ending its OneDrive partnership on September 30, and a new version of Gallery Cloud Sync has appeared in the Galaxy Store with backup of photos and videos to Google Cloud. Uploaded images will also appear in Google Photos; no official confirmation from Samsung yet.
Kernel maintainer Arnd Bergmann published the board-remove-7.3 branch, removing about 247,000 lines of code: 55,000 lines supporting obsolete 32-bit ARM platforms (A1100, Footbridge, OMAP24xx, i.MX31, STM32, and others) and about 192,000 lines of drivers needed only by them. The series of ~300 patches adds about 5,000 lines; removal is expected in Linux 7.5.
