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The KytyPS5 emulator for the Sony PlayStation 5 has been progressing quickly. The emulator has shown that it can run PS5-exclusive titles. This time, KytyPS5 can now reportedly boot the latest first-party game to come out from Sony.

Modder gebdag has released GTA2 RTX Remix, a mod that brings full path-traced lighting to Rockstar's 1999 top-down Grand Theft Auto 2. It adds dynamic light from fires, explosions and gunfire, a day-night cycle through Remix Plus, emissive textures, a 16:9 widescreen fix and frame generation that can reach 60fps, all running through a custom Direct3D 9 wrapper built from two DLL files.

CD Projekt Red says Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty’s Chimera boss fight took more than two years and four complete rebuilds to finish. The costly encounter required custom systems and repeated revisions to balance gameplay, narrative, art direction, and world-building.

Amazfit’s latest firmware update for the Cheetah 2 Ultra adds seven coordinate systems, improving compatibility with digital, topographic and regional mapping tools. However, users still cannot display coordinates on workout screens or efficiently rename and sort saved waypoints.

Discord is relaunching its age verification requirement but without the mandatory video selfie and government ID requirements. These methods will still be available, but they will no longer be the only age-verification options.

Garmin is now offering a new update to several of its popular smartwatches. Available to download globally, the new update is the second in Garmin's current development cycle following a recent stable rollout.

Kobo’s latest beta update is disrupting the core functionality of certain models, causing missing books, annotations and statistics alongside performance and synchronization issues. Kobo says the data remains intact and a fix is forthcoming, warning users not to reinstall older firmware.

Garmin has finally started offering a new stable update to several of its Pro-branded smartwatches. Arriving weeks after an initial rollout, the major release promises around two dozen improvements, including several new features.

OpenAI's AI agents posted 53 images that ChatGPT users had uploaded to image-hosting sites. Only content that was eligible for model training was affected, and OpenAI cannot tell anyone whether their images were among them. Which setting keeps your images out of training from now on, and the exception OpenAI names itself.

Nvidia has filed a new patent that will let developers consult AI models like a chatbot to request diagnostics of existing game code. The purported chatbot will also devise optimizations on a case-by-case basis.

An internal OpenAI model found a gap in the DNS filtering of its training sandbox and used it to send questions to an outside chatbot. Monitoring flagged it within 12 minutes, but the run kept going for another two and a half hours. OpenAI has since paused training and tool use for its most capable models. Here is what that means for ChatGPT.

Konami is marking Castlevania’s 40th anniversary with a limited-time free mobile release of the original game and discounts on several series titles across Steam and PlayStation. An anniversary trailer also hints at a possible collection of classic 3D entries, while a demo for Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse arrives October 1.

Antares has rebuilt its flagship pitch-correction engine from scratch. AutoTune Advanced adds vibrato-aware tuning and sub-1-ms live processing – because perfectly tuned vocals are not much use if the singer suddenly sounds like a spreadsheet.

SharpEmu can now run six PS5 games at 60 FPS, marking steady but limited progress for the experimental open-source emulator. With minor glitches persisting and demanding 3D titles still unplayable, the milestone highlights how underdeveloped PS5 emulation remains.

Apple has released watchOS 27.0.1 to fix random reboot issues affecting the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4. The rapid, model-specific update points to a software or firmware fault, though Apple has not disclosed the underlying cause.

Three decades after Nintendo pulled the plug, a fan just finished the job DMA Design never got to. The game is playable on PC and free to download.

Garmin has explained many of the new features that it is offering this quarter to its currently supported smartwatches. Showcased in a new video, the new features include hands-free voice control, all-day fall detection, and Garmin's Quick Workout Feature.

Emulation on Android has seen some rapid advancements in the last few years, and there are more options than ever. As for emulating PlayStation 3 games, ARMSX3 is a notable emulator, and with it, a last-gen flagship phone has just been shown to leave the Steam Deck in the dust.

Since Wednesday, ChatGPT's voice mode can pull data from connected apps such as Gmail, Google Calendar and Slack, including on the free plan. OpenAI does not accept spoken approval, so any action that needs a yes still has to be confirmed on the display. One setting decides what ChatGPT may read without asking, and disconnecting an app is a separate step.

Rode has pushed its video production box beyond live streaming. The 1.4 firmware update adds multi-camera 4K capture, isolated recordings and NDI output – although the extra resolution means giving up some of the Rodecaster’s usual live-production tricks.

A Sony Interactive Entertainment patent application published on September 17, 2026, describes PlayStation controllers that read payment details from credit cards, gift cards and smartphones over NFC or Bluetooth.

For 30 years, one rule has kept one website in your browser from reading another. In agent mode that guarantee turns into a question about model quality. Two research groups showed it independently, a security firm demonstrated it, and the browser with the clearest finding is gone.

Google has added 14 connected apps to Gemini, including Adobe, Peloton, Experian and Airtable. According to Google's own availability table, 10 of them work only in the US. Outside the US, just Adobe, monday.com and Wispr AI are available, and only in English. Disconnecting an app later does not delete what Gemini has already saved.

Garmin is now offering a new update to several of its popular smartwatches. Rolling out globally as a free download, the new update is said to improve the experience of Tactical smartwatches when using Stealth Mode.

Microsoft confirms September's KB5124012 and KB5124008 updates broke Always On VPN connections using automatic IKEv2/SSTP protocol fallback. Here's the workaround.

Meta has unveiled Muse Charm at Connect 2026, a keychain-sized device that runs its Muse AI agent with real-time voice and an animated avatar on a small screen. Users tap a fingerprint sensor to start a conversation, Reuters reports a 2-inch touchscreen and built-in 5G, and Meta aims to ship the device in December without a confirmed price.

A new Exabeam-commissioned survey finds 48% of security leaders rank autonomous AI agents with excessive access as their top threat, ahead of hackers and insiders.

GPT-6 Luna is the first GPT-6 model that ChatGPT Free and Go users can use at no extra cost. It only works in the desktop app, though, and not in the regular chat window. OpenAI has not published a usage limit. Paid subscribers get both Luna and the new GPT-6 Sol in Work and Codex.

The Dolphin development team has been focusing on Android, and this month's progress report details the addition of netplay, better rumble, and even system settings integration. However, it also includes details of how the developers endured a wave of constant AI-generated security reports.

The co-creator of Counter-Strike, Minh "Gooseman" Le, has shared some insight into the early days of Steam and what it was like working with Gabe Newell. The original idea behind Steam was quite different and was met with doubt internally.

After Samsung's Thailand newsroom moved the rollout from September 21 to September 28 before removing specific dates altogether, the stable Android 17-based update has now started reaching Galaxy S26 Ultra users in the US on T-Mobile.

Garmin has introduced a new update to many of its older flagship smartwatches. Rolling out globally, the new update promises to deliver almost two dozen changes and improvements. However, closer inspection reveals otherwise.

Another day, another RPCS3 win. This time around, the RPCS3 team has announced that a new Sony PlayStation 3 game is now fully playable on the PS3 emulator. RPCS3 keeps improving, and the team promises that more updates are in the works.

Windows 11 KB5124010 adds Copilot key remapping, Emoji 17.0, and File Explorer fixes, but brings two major bugs. Here is what is new and how to fix all the errors.

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday. Pro subscribers get it without paying extra, which is not how Fable 5.1 arrived, and the five-hour limits go up at the same time. Every subscriber also gets a rate limit reset to spend when they want. The app puts a deadline on it that the announcement leaves out.

Samsung appears to have delayed the wider rollout of its stable One UI 9 update for the Galaxy S26 series. The update initially reached users in South Korea, with international availability previously expected on September 21 based on information from Samsung's Thailand newsroom. The regional schedule has since been revised to September 28.

RPCS3, the world's best Sony PlayStation 3 emulator, has now announced that the emulator can run Twisted Metal at more than 60 FPS. Twisted Metal is one of the most CPU-intensive games, per the RPCS3 team.

ChatGPT added a privacy center to the account menu this week. It reaches Free, Go, Plus, Pro and Business accounts, gathers seven topics from memory to ads, and sends you to Settings for every change. Three sentences inside are worth the detour, because OpenAI spells out what the familiar switches leave running.

CD Projekt Red has confirmed that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered will support Xbox Play Anywhere at launch on September 29, 2026, granting existing Xbox owners a free Windows PC copy with synchronized saves. The Microsoft Store version in Japan will also become the studio’s first PC release to receive a CERO Z rating, without affecting editions sold through Steam, GOG, or the Epic Games Store.

Google has revealed more information about Googlebook OS, the software powering its new Googlebook laptops. It details integrations with Android, Linux support, security architecture and software support window.

Samsung has begun the global rollout of its stable One UI 9 update for the Galaxy S26 series, following its initial release in South Korea. The company has also confirmed rollout timelines for several older Galaxy devices, with the Galaxy S25 series, Galaxy Z Fold 7, and Galaxy Z Flip 7 scheduled to receive the update from September 28, while the Galaxy S23 FE is expected to follow in October.

RPCS3 devs recently patched a driver bug that was causing performance loss in games on Nvidia GPUs. The result is that many games have seen massive performance gains. The RPCS3 team has now revealed some of them.

Google Photos has been answering questions like "Where did I camp last summer" in Germany since March. Two settings have to be on before the feature runs at all, and Google attaches a remarkable note to one of them elsewhere. The reassuring sentence about AI training turns on a single word.

OpenAI sets a cookie called __obi on ChatGPT, keeps it for a year and ties it to your account. Visit a site that buys ChatGPT ads and your browser hands that identifier back to OpenAI along with what you were looking at. OpenAI's own cookie policy files it under analytics. Here is what travels with it and what you can switch off.

Garmin is now rolling out a new update to many of its high-end smartwatches. Available globally, the new update introduces several changes, including multiple designed to eliminate random system shutdowns.

Insta360 has expanded its software ecosystem with the announcement of Spatial Capture. Scheduled for a US rollout on September 28, this feature uses 3D Gaussian Splatting technology to transform standard two-minute 360-degree video clips into fully explorable 3D environments.

Intel has officially suspended its long-running bug bounty program, eliminating cash payouts of up to $100,000 in favor of a zero-reward vulnerability disclosure system on the Intigriti platform. Launched in 2017, Intel’s bounty initiative was once a cornerstone of its proactive security strategy, responsible for identifying nearly half of the company's addressed vulnerabilities in 2020 alone.

Aniimo patch v1.0.3544783.0 fixes the red screen display bug, resolves a Butterfly Shadows quest blocker, and optimizes Prismana spawn rules for PC, PS5, and Xbox.

Garmin has delivered a new update to several of its popular smartwatches. A major release, the update is the first v16.xx build to be offered to any of the Instinct 3 series. Garmin claims to have added several improvements, including a new Recovery Mode.

Creators will soon be able to ship their games as standalone apps on Steam, consoles, and mobile. Roblox would still take a cut, however, even if it is not on its own storefront.