Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Gaming headset with a cardioid condenser boom microphone and detachable cable.

4K OLED TVs with gaming-specific features, available in 55-inch and 65-inch sizes.

Berlin's abandoned, billion-mark ICC convention centre, nicknamed the 'spaceship', went out to tender for a 99-year ground lease, and the Land Berlin has now tied itself to one bidder: the Projektpartnerschaft Quartier ICC, which has until 30 June 2027 to negotiate the lease and a reuse plan built around events and the creative industries.

Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the DOJ's bid to make Google sell its AdX ad exchange, ordering behavioral remedies overseen by a Monitor and Technical Committee instead. Google still stands found liable for monopolizing ad tech.

Volkswagen's supervisory board approved a group-wide cut of about 50,000 more positions, including management roles, on top of earlier programmes that bring planned job reductions to around 100,000 by 2030.

NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face, the open-model hub used by more than 18 million developers, for $12,930,300,000, and says the platform will stay open to other chips, clouds and model makers.

Production I.G spins Kaiju No. 8's eccentric Division 1 captain Gen Narumi off into a short original anime about his days off the battlefield.

Tesla is buying back 15 Canadian-market Model 3 and Model Y cars that were imported into the US without the knee airbag and other protections US safety standards require, after wrongly certifying them as compliant; owner letters were due 5 September 2026.

Portable Bluetooth speaker with colorful LED lighting and an IP68 rating.

Rosneft's Vostok Oil project loaded its first tanker at the new Bukhta Sever terminal on Russia's Taymyr Peninsula, opening a huge new Arctic export route despite Western sanctions.

JLR will cut around 4,000 roles, about 10% of its global workforce, over two years, mostly salaried and management jobs in the UK, as it targets £1.7 billion of savings.

Microsoft's largest security update ever patches 966 vulnerabilities, including two Windows privilege-escalation zero-days already exploited in attacks and 105 rated Critical.

The FDA approved Abbott's TactiFlex Duo, a catheter that can deliver pulsed field ablation, radiofrequency energy or both in one procedure to treat complex atrial fibrillation. The approval rested on the FlexPulse IDE study.

Square Enix surprise-released Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion on Nintendo Switch 2, bringing the remastered FFVII prequel's enhanced graphics, remastered soundtrack, and updated combat to the new console.

Wireless open-back headphones with 53mm drivers and LDAC hi-res audio support.

OpenAI stopped new sign-ups and upgrades to its $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro 20X plan, where its new Astra model is available, while it adds compute. Existing Pro accounts are unaffected.

Omnicom expects to end 2026 with about 105,000 staff, roughly 15,000 or an eighth fewer than the 120,000 it had after buying Interpublic, through merger cuts, outsourcing, offshoring and disposals.

The EU's Cyber Resilience Act reaches its first live phase: manufacturers of any product with digital elements sold in the EU must report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents to ENISA and their national CSIRT - an early warning within 24 hours, a full notification within 72, and a final report within 14 days.

Bloomberg reported that Apollo Global Management is in talks to buy DePuy Synthes, J&J's $9.3 billion-a-year orthopaedics unit, at a value close to $20 billion, with a deal possible within weeks though J&J could still spin the unit off instead.

Blizzard surprise-released Forsaken Kingdom, a two-part standalone prologue campaign for the 24-year-old Warcraft 3, as part of Reforged's free 3.0 update following the BlizzCon 2026 opening ceremony.

As Marvel's Wolverine reviews went live, players pushed Insomniac to add an option to disable Logan's tracking scent trail entirely, but community director James Stevenson clarified it only appears during specific tracking moments, not constantly.

A week after 21 Air Flight 7598 overran a Miami runway and killed five people, Amazon said it had paused its operations with the North Carolina cargo carrier, which had flown Amazon Air packages since 2024.

iOS 27 (and iPadOS 27) launches publicly September 14 for compatible devices. Two announced features are delayed because they needed more testing time: AI-powered one-tap Suggestions in Messages conversations, and automatic fixing of compromised passwords via Apple Intelligence in the Passwords app. Both were present in the beta and may arrive in an iOS 27.1 update before the October 23 iPhone Duo launch.

Oracle began another round of layoffs, telling staff by early-morning email that it was their last working day, days after adding about $700 million to its AI-era restructuring plan.