In macOS 27 Golden Gate, the Photos app gains AI tools Clean Up and Extend, 3D scene viewing, full-resolution shared albums with Android and Windows access, configurable slideshows and 1-5 star ratings.
Lenovo released its Vantage app on Google Play for Googlebook OS, showing system status and configuring the Lenovo AI Mouse, including DPI, RGB lighting and an AI key for Gemini. The launch coincides with Googlebook i 15 preorders.
With iOS 27, Apple added audio scrubbing, custom widgets and new wallpapers to CarPlay, available to all. However, video playback and sending routes to the instrument cluster depend on automaker support, and Siri AI features require a newer iPhone.
In iOS 27, iCloud+ subscribers received increased daily limits for Apple Intelligence server features, including image generation. HomeKit Secure Video also gained AI video descriptions, clip search, and automatic highlighting of important segments.
Alibaba open-sourced Open Code Review (ocr), a tool for automatic pull request review used internally for two years. Its hybrid architecture with a deterministic engine and AI agents cuts token usage by about 9x (89%) and improves comment positioning accuracy.
Dropbox integrated with Google Gemini as an official app: users can search, summarize, share, and manage files directly in Gemini chat and Gemini Spark. Launch is limited to the US, requires a personal Google account, age 18+, and English; Spark is available with Google AI Pro and Ultra subscriptions.
At Dreamforce 2026, Slack announced Slackbot updates: natural-language voice dialogue with action execution, Surface interface creation, and video and presentation generation. No release dates were given; features are marked as coming soon.
Apple released macOS 27 Golden Gate with an updated AI-based Siri. The assistant is built into Spotlight, has a separate app with dialogue history and iCloud sync, and answers open questions without redirecting to ChatGPT.
Code strings found in Android Canary 2609 indicate the imminent arrival of AI-generated clock styles on the Pixel lock screen. Users will be able to edit, delete, and rate created styles, as well as transfer them to a new device via cloud backup. The feature is not yet active.
Users are widely reporting Google Classroom is unavailable: in an hour, complaints on Downdetector rose from zero to over 500. Other Google Workspace apps, including Drive, are working normally. Google has not yet commented.
Developers at Oh So Video found a Safari bug: if anything imports a module worker's entry file, it executes twice with separate state. Chrome and Firefox return the already-running module. The bug reproduces in Safari 26.5 and 26.3 and is filed as WebKit bug 324459.
GitHub fully rewrote the Copilot runtime from TypeScript/Node.js to more than 800,000 lines of Rust using its own Copilot AI agents. The work took about 14.5 weeks and 128 pull requests; Anthropic previously ported Bun from Zig to Rust in 11 days with Claude.
Google Design detailed the creation of Noto 3D emoji, which after the Pixel 11 launch are rolling out to Google apps, Android, and devices from Nothing, Xiaomi, OPPO, OnePlus, vivo, HONOR, Motorola, and other partners. Designers manually crafted each character, limiting them to at most three key details for readability at 18x18 pixels.
Mozilla released Firefox 156.0, which loads the built-in PDF viewer up to 45% faster and reduces memory and CPU use when displaying large JPEGs. The update adds a macOS autostart option and includes significant security patches.
Microsoft removed MSN cards (Sports, Money, Daily Wonder and others) from the Windows 11 lock screen, which now shows only weather by default. The change appeared in the September 8 patch and was added to the changelog on September 14; other widgets can be restored manually in settings.
Windows Search stores file contents in the Windows.db database and reindexes them on every change. For some users the file grows to 200 GB, versus hundreds of megabytes normally. Enhanced mode indexes the whole PC, not just documents, music and images.
Affinity released its largest app update: over 60 new features, including a Blend Tool, scripting support, and an AI connector for Claude. Free AI tools added: Scene Decomposition, Mixed Light Correction, Motion Blur Reduction, Image to 3D, Generative Upscale, and SDR to HDR.
After installing the latest Defender Antivirus update in Windows 11, users receive 'Microsoft Defender Antivirus is turned off' notifications even though protection is active. Microsoft has acknowledged the issue and promises to fix it in a future update.
Microsoft and GitHub expanded the GitHub Skills platform with free courses on AI, data science and machine learning. Each course is a real repository with exercises checked via GitHub Actions; a free GitHub account is enough.
TrueNAS released a native plugin for Proxmox VE: VM disks are created as OpenZFS zvols on TrueNAS 25.10+ and published via iSCSI LUN or NVMe/TCP. The plugin manages creation, snapshots, resizing, migration and deletion of volumes from the Proxmox interface. Release is in Early Adopters status, Enterprise support under validation.
Quarkus 4 will enter beta in September and reach GA in November 2026, alongside Spring Boot 4.2. Quarkus rewrites its I/O core on Vert.x 5.1.2 and Netty 4.2, adds HTTP/3 and the Signal event bus; Spring focuses on modularity and lazy database connections.
Disney+ introduced Playlists — collections of films and series by genre, franchise, character, or mood with continuous playback. Users can pause, rewind, and skip titles; seasonal collections will appear within a year.
YouTube users report that maximum available video quality has dropped to 480p. The issue affects both free and Premium subscribers, mainly in the mobile app. Clearing cache or reinstalling only helps temporarily.
Tesla began rolling out update 2026.28.5, which brings FSD in Oceania to version v14.3.9 and adds features from the summer update.
Microsoft is expanding its Auto SR (Automatic Super Resolution) feature to more Windows 11 PCs. The AI-based technology improves in-game image quality without losing performance and works with thousands of games.
Honor officially unveiled MagicOS 11, an Android 17-based update with an Apple Liquid Glass-style design. Animations are about 20% faster, and the Yoyo AI assistant can now handle chains of up to 100 steps. The beta is available for more than a dozen devices, with the list to expand in October-November.
On September 16 from 16:04 to 17:30 GMT, some users could not open SharePoint Online sites and pages, encountering a 'Thread was being aborted' error. Microsoft rolled back the configuration change responsible for delivering page rendering code and said telemetry confirmed the issue was resolved.
A Beat Match feature was found in Google Photos that automatically syncs transitions between photos to the tempo and rhythm of selected music in Highlight Videos. Users can disable syncing and edit videos manually.
In the iPadOS 27.2 beta, a feature from macOS 27 Golden Gate appeared: when text is selected, a Siri icon appears in the corner, which expands into an 'Ask Siri' field when the cursor hovers. It works with a connected trackpad; without one, the standard edit menu is available.
Motorola began rolling out stable Android 17 to the Edge 70, making it the company's second smartphone with the new OS after the Signature. The update weighs 4.3 GB, build number A17WRH.35-10, and adds stacked widgets, Live Updates, and notification summaries.
