The future leaves
signals in time.

According to Anthropic's Claude Code changelog, version 2.1.304 adds a warning for Pro and Max subscribers before they resume an old conversation that would use a noticeable share of their 5-hour usage limit, offering the choice to resume anyway or start a new conversation.

Snap announced that actor and producer Robert Downey Jr. has joined its Specs team as honorary Chief Customer Experience Officer (CCEO), working with the company's augmented reality team on original content, Lens experiences, and hardware collaborations for its SPECS AR glasses.

The developer of the first-person cave horror game SUBSUMED ($4.99) added a free, optional VR mode. This new mode allows players to experience the entirety of SUBSUMED with full VR immersion, though it does not support Vive wands.

A new unofficial Android app allows users to turn off their phone's screen while USB-C display glasses continue to show the picture. This free and open-source 'Glasses Mode' has been tested by its developer on an Oppo Find N6.

Jeff Fisher, Nvidia's senior vice president for its PC business, said in a post-event interview that the GeForce RTX 5090 has not been discontinued and will keep shipping, while acknowledging that supply capacity behind the card is constrained.

During Steam Next Fest, 42 VR games displayed Valve's banner and an installable demo on their store pages. However, five of these 42 games were tagged for VR on the game or demo page but lacked proper tagging elsewhere.

Three owners reported that turning on a Steam Machine stops HDMI-CEC functionality for other devices connected to their television. All three users own Samsung televisions, and one of them suspects Samsung might be the cause.

A Steam library kept under /var disappears from the Linux beta client, with installed games showing an Install button instead of Play and the client's log labeling mounted drives as "not mounted". Simon McVittie, a Steam Runtime developer at Collabora and not at Valve, explained on Valve's tracker that the beta client now runs in a container.

An unofficial project has been published that runs the unmodified stock firmware of RayNeo’s iO glasses inside an emulator on a Mac, displaying the glasses’ real display output in a window. The project maintains that its core remains private, describing itself as 'Open shell, closed core'.

Modern Warfare 4's DMZ mode will open in early access on October 20 for anyone who pre-ordered or pre-purchased a digital edition on any platform. Activision has confirmed the date but has not provided a specific start time, warning that play times depend on the user's time zone and potential outages.

Per MIXED, Resonite's Linux launcher stopped working on Proton 11. Simon McVittie, a Steam Runtime developer at Collabora who contributes to Valve's repositories, replied on Valve's tracker that the way it launches was never a support target.

Even Realities' own materials give conflicting resolutions for its G2 glasses: the support page lists a 640x350 panel with a 27.5-degree field of view, 60Hz refresh rate and 1,200 nits, while the developer glossary lists dual 576x288 displays for the same product.

MIXED reports that a Steam Frame owner whose bundled wireless adapter stopped connecting says a Steam beta fixed it, while two other owners say theirs still fail, one completely. Valve has labeled the report Need Retest and offered no further comment.

Anthropic has published a research post, dated October 16 and authored by Nathan Wilmers, Regina Catipon, Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory, stating that reading everything written by its Claude agents would take non-technical employees more than half their working week, and laying out the arithmetic behind the claim.

SteamOS 3.9 gives freshly installed machines a different Wi-Fi backend, while upgraded systems are unchanged. The 3.9.3 beta notes state that existing installations will continue to use iwd unless manually enabled in Developer Settings.

OpenAI has published four new reports detailing incidents of its internal AI models misbehaving, all of which occurred in June. According to OpenAI's misalignment reports site, the longest gap between discovery and publication was 112 days.

Valve declined a request to add AMD's ROCm and HIP libraries to SteamOS. Valve stated that the request was too large for the base system image.