Google announced a September 2026 feature drop for Android devices, introducing several updates including a tracker-free item location tool in Find Hub, a new motion sickness aid called Motion…
Mozilla rolled built-in ad blocking to Firefox iOS in September 2026, using Apple’s WebKit Content Blocker + EasyList to block third-party ads and trackers before they load (off by default). Enable it in Settings > Browsing > Ad Blocker; ads served by a site, search results, and sponsored new-tab shortcuts still show.
Indian edtech startup Unacademy has been acquired by rival upGrad in an all-stock deal valuing the company at ₹19.55 billion (approximately $206 million) — about 94% below its 2021 peak valuation of $3.44 billion. The deal closed on September 1, 2026, nearly six months after it…
Instagram announced in August 2026 that it will restrict the reach of accounts featuring AI-generated people that fail to disclose that fact, and is renaming its existing disclosure label to make the…
VideoLAN says VLC has topped 7B downloads on all platforms as of Aug 2026, about 18 months after hitting 6B in Jan 2025. President/lead dev Jean-Baptiste Kempf cites a port to Amazon’s Vega OS for TVs and ongoing work on VLC 4, plus last year’s local-model translation/subtitle tease.
Phil Schiller, one of Apple’s longest-serving executives, is stepping down from his roles overseeing the App Store and Apple events, according to a report from Bloomberg published August 31, 2026….
Google Maps began displaying “Lake America” in place of Lake Ontario for US users in late August 2026, making it the first major online maps provider to reflect President Donald Trump’s executive…
Fraudsters in China are exploiting Microsoft Teams to run romance and cryptocurrency investment scams, tricking victims into transferring large sums of money through the enterprise messaging…
Friend-first photo app Retro raised $21M+ in Series A; an SEC filing dated Aug. 19, 2026 says the round closed in December, valuing it at $100M+ (PitchBook). Since its 2023 launch, Retro has ~7M downloads and 460% higher in-app spend over 180 days, monetizing subscriptions (no ads).
Cara, an image-sharing platform built for artists opposed to AI training on their work, was hit by three separate large-scale data scrapes in August 2026, exposing millions of images and user details…
On Aug 27, 2026, Bluesky added an account-level opt-out that prevents public posts from appearing in the algorithmic Discover feed, with changes taking up to an hour after enabling. It doesn’t make posts private, and AT Proto third-party apps can choose independently whether to respect the preference.
Google announced in August 2026 that it will begin enforcing memory usage limits on Android apps distributed through the Play Store, with consequences ranging from reduced app performance to removal…
