Microsoft has released a redesigned Copilot app that merges chat, coding tools, and AI agents into three tabs: Home, Code, and Autopilot. Home combines Copilot Chat and Cowork with a new personalized dashboard called Today, while Code lets users build apps and automations powered by GitHub Copilot's technology. Microsoft also renamed its Scout personal assistant, first shown at Build, to Autopilot, now framed as a cloud-based 'digital teammate' that can keep working autonomously.
Insta360 cofounder Max Richter says the company, having sold its 10 millionth 360-degree camera and opened a flagship store in Times Square, wants to become a top imaging or even tech company, rivaling Canon, Sony, Nikon and Fujifilm. Founder JK Liu has separately confirmed two mirrorless cameras are in development, one with an unusual design, and Richter says any Insta360 smart glasses would prioritize easy high-quality capture over AI assistant features.
A roundup identifies ten business books being released this fall that address topics including collaborating with AI, leadership, ambition, teamwork, and knowing when to quit. The list frames these titles as challenging conventional workplace assumptions amid rapid changes in how people work.
An opinion piece contends that three years of AI adoption in newsrooms has focused mainly on efficiency—speeding up story ideas, research, production, headlines and social copy. It argues this framing treats AI as a tool for doing the same journalistic work faster rather than differently.
A US District Court awarded Nintendo $4.5 million in damages against James Williams, known online as Archbox, after he failed to respond to the company's lawsuit. Nintendo had accused Williams of running Pirate Shops and using the 190,000-member r/SwitchPirates subreddit to direct users to pirated game downloads and circumvention tools. Judge Lauren King granted the default judgment on September 23, also issuing a permanent injunction requiring Williams to shut down any related shops and stop distributing pirated titles.
Ardit Kutleshi, 28, has pleaded guilty to running Rydox, an online marketplace that sold stolen identities, login credentials, credit card data and cybercrime tools. Court documents show Rydox facilitated over 7,600 sales of stolen personal data and offered more than 321,000 other cybercrime products to over 18,000 users between 2016 and its 2024 shutdown. Kutleshi was extradited from Kosovo to the US in 2025 after a joint law enforcement operation seized the site's domain and servers in Kuala Lumpur.
Amazon has cut off Meta's newly launched Muse AI agent from its e-commerce platform, saying the tool accessed the site and handled user credentials without disclosing that it was an AI agent acting on a shopper's behalf. Amazon says it asked Meta to withdraw Muse from Amazon's store, but Meta refused, prompting Amazon to now show users a pop-up blocking Muse's shopping attempts. Amazon says similar action will apply to shopping agents from Google and OpenAI.
A reviewer used a modified build of 86Box 6.0 to emulate a Pentium II PC with a Voodoo 3 graphics card on Apple's M6 Mac Mini, achieving a stable emulated clock of 600MHz. A 650MHz attempt produced occasional audio underruns, so 600MHz was recorded as the reliable result, tested alongside the M4 Mac Mini using identical disk images and emulated hardware configurations.
Google has widened availability of several Google Photos features, according to a company blog post. The Redact tool for blurring sensitive image details and the AI-powered Moods filter presets are now rolling out globally on Android, while AI Wardrobe and Video Remix are expanding to more users in the US, India, and Brazil.
Google has published a Play Store listing for its Create My Widget app, first teased at I/O 2026, showing how it will work on Android phones and Googlebook laptops. The app lets users generate custom widgets using natural-language prompts processed by Gemini, with preset categories like combo widgets, weather alerts and daily briefs as starting points.
Researchers identified a double-fetch flaw in Avast's kernel driver that can lead to a pool overflow, potentially allowing code execution outside the antivirus sandbox. The flaw involves multiple reads of the same user-supplied data, which can be manipulated between fetches. Recent Windows updates mitigate this issue by enforcing user-mode access checks, reducing the exploit's viability.
Recorded Future's Insikt Group reports that Russia is combining influence operations, cyberattacks, and physical incursions across Europe as part of its broader war effort against Ukraine. Examples cited include the CopyCop network impersonating European news outlets with AI-generated content, drone incursions near Estonia's border, and a Russian drone intercepted near Romania's Neptun Deep gas project in the Black Sea.
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