Google began rolling out Android 17 QPR1 to Pixel phones and tablets alongside the September Feature Drop and security patch. The update adds blur in the system interface, updated power and volume menus, a new Material 3 media player, and distance and calorie tracking support in Health Connect.
iOS 27 adds a Hide Location feature in Find My: users can temporarily hide their location from a specific person for 12 hours without disabling permanent location sharing. The other party is not notified and sees "No Location Found". Custom temporary sharing from 15 minutes with a chosen end date and time was also added.
Riot Games will add an experimental Gauntlet: Glitched mode to Valorant with patch 13.06 on September 22, 2026. Sixteen players in eight pairs fight on four arenas, building hybrid Robo-agents from different characters' abilities with leveling from 1 to 3. Matches last 8–15 minutes.
Google Translate has begun rolling out offline support for Live Translate for conversations without internet. Pairs with English are available for French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Russian, and Swedish.
Tesla's summer 2026.26 update added Grok voice commands for calls, music and climate, preferred routes and adaptive navigation. Undocumented changes include browser bookmark syncing across cars, colored point-of-interest icons and removal of lyrics on the rear Caraoke screen.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 Season 6 starts September 17 at 19:00 MSK and is the last before Modern Warfare 4. The season includes the Halloween The Haunting event, two new 6v6 maps (Quantum and Bloodstead), the T.E.D.D. Trials mode with three zombie maps and a night version of Avalon.
Google began rolling out Cross-device services on Android 17 via a Google Play Services update. The Continue Activity hub unifies tasks, apps, notifications, files and media under a single set of settings and builds on Continue On. The launch came ahead of the Googlebook laptops release.
Microsoft is testing an 'AI voice' feature in the beta version of SwiftKey for Android (v9.13.16.4) — improved voice input with AI cleaning of filler words and text formatting. Unlike Rambler on Pixel 11, the feature works offline with a local model (163 MB), but without voice editing commands.
Mozilla added a free built-in VPN to Firefox for Android with a 50 GB monthly limit, available to some users in a gradual rollout. It is a TLS-encrypted Fastly proxy rather than a full VPN, routing only browser traffic and DNS requests.
Microsoft revealed the second wave of Game Pass titles for September 2026, including Minecraft Dungeons II (September 29), Dune: Awakening (September 22), Ninja Gaiden 4 (September 17) and co-op roguelike Kernel Hearts (September 17). Little Nightmares 2 Enhanced Edition, Sifu and Atomfall leave the catalog on September 30.
watchOS 27 adds a standalone Siri app with chat history, as on iPhone, iPad and Mac. On Apple Watch, however, you cannot continue a conversation from the app itself — you must invoke Siri by holding the Digital Crown or by voice, and the reply is added to the open chat.
In watchOS 27, the double-press Digital Crown gesture for switching between apps is gone. The reason is the Live Rewind feature with 15-second speech transcription, which uses this gesture and is available only on Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4.
The Tesla Robotaxi app has added remote control features: directing air vents, adjusting seats, interior lighting, launching YouTube on the 22-inch Cybercab screen, and a Grok call button. The features launched ahead of public Cybercab rides in Austin; Tesla is considering moving some to the main app.
Canva launched ProSuite, combining Affinity, Cavalry, Flourish and Leonardo with 100 new features. Affinity 3.3 adds an improved RAW engine, hue-preserving curves, a Blend tool and scripting; the app remains free, but some AI features require Canva Pro at $144 per year.
Mojang released the Wilderness Bound (26.3) update for Minecraft Java and Bedrock. Added Dappled Forest biome with poplars, abandoned camps with loot, sitting cushions, straw beds, improved explorer maps, and new blocks.
Microsoft announced the second wave of September removals from Xbox Game Pass: 8 games leave on September 30, including Atomfall, Sifu, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and Little Nightmares 2 Enhanced Edition. In total, 18 games will be removed from the service during the month.
Samsung is preparing to integrate Google Photos into the Gallery app on Galaxy devices with One UI 9.0. The Gallery Cloud Sync system app update (version 1.6.09.31) already contains the relevant changes, but the feature is not yet visible on the Galaxy S26 Ultra beta. Microsoft OneDrive support ends on September 30, 2026, and Google Photos may replace it starting October 1.
Canonical has ported the last utilities cp, mv, and rm to uutils coreutils, a Rust implementation of GNU Core Utilities. The migration was completed for Ubuntu 26.10 after a Zellic audit found 113 issues, 44 of which received CVEs.
The Coalition released a new trailer for Gears of War: E-Day ahead of its October 6 release on Xbox Series X/S and PC. The video focuses on the first hours of the Locust invasion: a subway station with civilians collapses in Kalona, and a Corpser rises from the rubble.
At BlizzCon 2026 Blizzard showed World of Warcraft: Forever, a reimagining of the classic game with updated graphics and new quests. The new Skyborne race will be available only for a fee starting at $29.99, with a November release. Players criticized the price and the race's design, resembling blue elves.
Microsoft announced the games coming to Game Pass in late September to early October, including Dune: Awakening, Minecraft Dungeons II and Gears of War: E-Day.
Rockstar Games began teasing the GTA 6 soundtrack: Travis Scott, Future, Morgan Wallen, Metro Boomin and Yung Lean posted fragments of shared artwork in the game's style. Their music will likely appear in the game, but character or radio host roles are unconfirmed. Release is about two months away.
Roblox removed the anime Rent-A-Girlfriend from its Kodansha license catalog two days after the September 12 announcement. Players questioned whether the series' mature themes comply with platform rules; the updated list retains Fairy Tail, Knights of Sidonia, and Ghost Encyclopedia.
Streaming guide JustWatch announced its own platform, JustWatch TV, launching in October. It will offer a free ad-supported option, movie rentals and purchases, and an ad-free paid subscription. The catalog starts with content from Fremantle, Paramount and Bleecker Street.
Morgan Wallen, Travis Scott and the Freebandz label posted GTA-style teasers hinting at a music announcement for GTA 6. Scott tagged Rockstar Games and wrote "See yall soon." The game releases on November 19 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.
After X threatened legal action, Nitter and XCancel, services that allowed reading posts on X without logging in, ceased operations. Nitter's GitHub page was archived on September 11, and XCancel suspended service on September 15 due to 'new legal proceedings'.
At BlizzCon, Blizzard announced World of Warcraft Forever, a revamped version of classic WoW with new zones, dungeons, raids, the Skyborne race, and 100 quests. Executive producer Holly Longdale and lead designer Chris Zierhut said a sequel is unnecessary: the game's engine and server infrastructure have evolved over 25 years, so starting over makes no sense.
In iOS 27, the Camera app gained a Siri mode with visual intelligence features: text recognition, translation, and adding events to the calendar. A setting for customizing the set of controls for each shooting mode was added. Exclusive to iPhone 18 Pro are Pro controls, Photographic Styles 3, and Apple Reference Image.
At the Splunk .conf26 conference (September 14–17), Cisco announced the Network Intelligence App for Splunk Observability, combining network topology, device status, and events. Integration with ThousandEyes was also expanded for synthetic testing, and observability for AI agents was added.
Microsoft is adding a feature to new Outlook and Teams to handle 'orphaned' meetings when the organizer leaves the company. Classic Outlook will not receive the update.
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