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Google says Extended Thinking can talk through longer tasks as it works, with rollout beginning in Gemini Live, developer tools and selected Workspace features.

Core and Premium combine paid features across Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp. Meta says the apps’ core experience will remain free.

The company says it banned accounts, but has not established harmful intent or an imminent biological threat.

Meta is advancing custom MTIA silicon, planning to deploy MTIA 450 (Arke) in H1 2027 and MTIA 500 (Astrid) by end-2027. These target efficient inference workloads with better performance-per-watt and cost than Nvidia systems. Meta partnered with Broadcom and TSMC.

Kotaku says Xbox did not confirm rumors that Game Pass would lose day-one new games in 2027 and describes its answer as noncommittal.

The September 14 updates address Remote Desktop failures, Linux shared folders and multichannel audio. Microsoft says some USB audio devices still may not work.

XDA Developers describes the OLED-ultrawide combination as "not perfect" in a first-person look at using one.

XDA Developers shares a writer’s account of using Ventoy for every installer they needed on a single USB stick.

eeNews Europe reports that AI dominated the Hot Chips conference in California, with processors for inference, data centers and desktops.

XDA describes a writer's experience with a shell script that automated half their week—but left them too afraid to change it.

XDA describes a writer's screen-flickering problem that persisted after a driver rollback but stopped following a registry tweak.

XDA recommends Infuse for Apple devices when running multiple media servers.

Kotaku describes a rough launch for Season of Hell's Legacy, Diablo 4's 30th-anniversary season, whose kickoff Blizzard delayed.

Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.8 Live, a native speech-to-speech model with low-latency voice interactions, and Extended Thinking for complex multi-step reasoning. Both support visual context, multilingual switching, and agentic workflows available via Gemini API and Google AI Studio.

Kotaku reports on the developers’ response, noting on September 15, 2026, that no other major video games were announced for 2029.

Kotaku says a developer interview also reveals a distinct reason the game's “Nun with a Gun” exists.

Apple’s rebuilt assistant starts in English as a beta, requires a newer iPhone and initially excludes iPhones and iPads in the EU.

The redesigned interface debuts in the 2027 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra, Ars Technica reports. Engadget describes split-screen support for CarPlay and Android Auto.

The account-free X reader cites a new legal development. Nitter’s repository is read-only, but permanent closure remains unconfirmed.

Microsoft revealed a San Francisco event on how local AI will shape the PC, featuring CEO Satya Nadella, Windows chief Pavan Davuluri, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. Expectations include Windows improvements, new Surface devices with NPU capabilities for local AI, and Arm/Windows progress.