Microsoft added a Windows 11 setting that hides the profile name and photo in the Start menu, showing a default account icon instead. The feature arrived with update KB5120998 and is rolling out gradually.
Mark Russinovich, CTO of Microsoft Azure, ported his 20-year-old ZoomIt utility from Windows to macOS over a weekend using AI. Basic functions were recreated in about 30 minutes and a dozen prompts, with the final version over 90% complete.
Xiaomi is preparing a stable release of HyperOS 4 based on Android 17. The first wave of updates will include Xiaomi 17, Redmi K90, and Redmi K100 Pro flagships, as well as Xiaomi Pad 8 tablets. Exact timelines for China, global markets, and EEA will differ.
Media player VLC updated to version 3.0.24 'Vetinari': switch from FFmpeg 4.4 to 8.1.2, built-in Flatpak build for Linux, Qt 6 improvements, support for ATRAC3/ATRAC9 codecs and CEA-708 subtitles in MP4. Added RIST via librist, SRT listener mode, and improved SFTP authentication.
Meta added podcast tools to Threads: profile banners, pinned favorite episode, transcription, video and guest data, saved posts and new-episode reminders. Podcast Insights analytics shows clicks, saves and views split by followers and others. Threads earlier reported 500 million monthly active users.
A developer tested the --min-dep-age flag in Deno 2.9.6: days and weeks work, but specifying months or years (P1M, P2Y) silently disables the filter and installs the latest package version. The deno.json key is named minimumDependencyAge, and the check is not applied to an already pinned lockfile.
Microsoft is warning Exchange Online tenants that if administrators do not populate the EWSAllowedAppIDs list and plan migration to Microsoft Graph API, legacy EWS settings will be deployed automatically, risking service disconnection.
The September 2026 Windows update has reportedly broken printing, according to user reports. This is the latest issue in a series of bugs from the update.
Microsoft released six fall updates for Teams for Education: reusable Collaboration Groups, differentiated Learning Groups, AI generation of assignments and flashcards, Copilot tools for lesson prep, and a Disable Undo Turn-In feature to lock in submissions.
Microsoft released VS Code 1.138. It introduces local container agent scenarios in Dev Containers, Codex session transfer between applications, and automatic cleanup on merge.
Microsoft explained to administrators how to migrate from classic Windows Autopilot to Autopilot device preparation and why they should do so soon. The company described the benefits of the new device provisioning mechanism.
Valve released a SteamOS beta update with Big Art Mode, which displays game covers on the main screen. It added personal screensavers from game art and screenshots, fixed CPU frequency instability after sleep, and improved HDMI CEC.
The TanStack team introduced TanStack Charts, a framework-agnostic visualization library for TypeScript based on a grammar of graphics. The project is in Alpha and already draws about 160,000 downloads per week, supporting React, Vue, Svelte, Angular and others.
Microsoft made its Advanced Shader Delivery technology available to all PC game developers. Shader packages can be built manually or via D3DCONFIG steps, eliminating compilation delays in dozens of games in the Xbox app.
The GNOME Foundation released GNOME 51 with improved frame scheduling for responsiveness under load, faster screenshots and a unified Nvidia GPU management interface. It adds fingerprint settings, screen auto-rotation, center window tiling and automatic touchpad disabling when a mouse is connected.
AWS introduced a new sign-up process: sign-in via Google, GitHub, or Apple, $100 in Free Tier starter credits, and work within a "project" where access rights are configured by AWS and coding agents. Paid projects get a monthly spend limit from $20, and the project pauses when reached. The change applies only to new customers and is rolling out gradually.
Microsoft announced the retirement of Graph modules for Windows PowerShell 5.x. Users will need to transition to current PowerShell versions and new Graph modules.
Microsoft warned Edge administrators of a seven-day deadline to migrate from Windows Information Protection (WIP) and Microsoft Defender Application Guard (MDAG). Without migration to Microsoft Purview and alternative isolation tools, commercial deployments will face broken configurations and inactive sandboxes.
Six authors in a report for the Technology Policy Council ACM warn that AI tools quickly write code and find vulnerabilities, but humans must still review them. Many open-source projects are underfunded: the Apache Software Foundation raised $2.38 million in 2024 versus $292 million for the Linux Foundation.
Swift 6.4 has been released. Swift Build is now the default build engine for Swift Package Manager, unifying the build process on Linux, macOS, and Windows. SBOM generation, a VS Code extension, and LLDB debugger improvements were added.
Apple released iOS 27 for iPhone 11 and newer, with apps launching up to 30% faster, a Liquid Glass transparency slider, lock screen customization and Connectivity Assist. Advanced Siri AI features are limited to iPhone 15 Pro and newer.
Floci launched as an MIT-licensed local AWS emulator: S3, DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS and other services run in Docker without an account or token. It is positioned as a LocalStack replacement after LocalStack closed its Community version in March 2026 and requires LOCALSTACK_AUTH_TOKEN.
GrapheneOS claims that Android 17 QPR1, released in the September Pixel Drop, contains APIs and changes unavailable to the rest of the Android ecosystem. It also alleges Google is withholding some security patches for standard Android components from other manufacturers until QPR2 in December.
Adafruit introduced CircuitPython Turbo, a workflow that compiles selected Python functions into native machine code on a computer before loading them onto microcontrollers. In a Mandelbrot test on Metro RP2040, the Viper emitter sped up computation from 8.335 to 0.423 seconds — 19.71 times faster than bytecode. Turbo support is already included in official CircuitPython builds for RP2040 and RP2350.
Apple released the first release candidates for macOS Tahoe 26.7.1 (build 25G309) and macOS Sequoia 15.8.1 (24H208). The release notes list only important security fixes. This came a few days after the release of macOS Tahoe 26.7 and Sequoia 15.8.
Tencent's WeChat team has open-sourced the WeKnora enterprise knowledge platform: a RAG stack, agent runtime, and self-updating Wiki. The Tencent/WeKnora repository has surpassed 25,000 stars on GitHub, and the official plugin @wxg-prc-cpg/dsh-weknora adds four knowledge base search tools to DeepSeek Harness.
SUSE, together with Savoir-faire Linux, provided support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time for the open LF Energy SEAPATH architecture. In tests by operator Alliander, the kernel achieved latency of less than 30 ms, required for high-voltage grid protection.
Cloudflare introduced a Disallow AI Training setting that prohibits the use of site content for training AI models without blocking search indexing. The directive is published in robots.txt via Bot Preference Sync; Applebot and Googlebot already comply, Bingbot from early 2027.
Salesforce reported that after adopting AI-assisted coding, code volume grew by about 30%, and pull requests regularly exceed 20 files and 1,000 lines. Review time for the largest PRs stopped growing and in places decreased—the company interpreted this as reviewers abandoning substantive checks of changes.
Apple released Xcode 27.2, but iOS SDK and simulator support for the iPhone Duo will only arrive in Xcode 27.1 later this month. Without that SDK, developers cannot begin adapting apps for the foldable iPhone.
