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Developer Sloclap is rebuilding how Rematch decides who touched the ball, at the cost of 50 milliseconds of input delay. Ball contacts will be worked out by the server instead of the player who kicked it, and players' own character animations will start three frames late to make this possible.

Google's XR Blocks reached version 0.22.0 on October 10, with the headline change being that three.js WebGPURenderer now runs in the library's desktop simulator. Google notes that "the spatial UI is not yet supported on WebGPURenderer", calling this "initial simulator support, not end-to-end coverage".

The two Linux fixes Valve promised for SteamVR have arrived in beta 2.18.3, posted October 10 at 00:50 UTC. The changelog lists them under Steam Link: fixing colors appearing greyer than they should on certain AMD GPUs, and removing the VK_KHR_maintenence_9 requirement on Linux — with the requirement's name misspelled in the log.

Anthropic's Claude Code 2.1.296 changelog fixes Edit and NotebookEdit replacing every non-ASCII character in files that are not valid UTF-8 (Windows-1252, Shift-JIS, GBK); the shipped repair is a refusal to operate rather than a better conversion.

Valve's beta Steam client now disables HDR when streaming a game to the OLED Steam Deck. The change appears as a single line, "Disabled HDR when streaming to the OLED Steam Deck," in a client note titled October 9th, published at 00:42:30 UTC on October 10.

A fix for the freeze Linux players logged as an Nvidia Xid 109 in Deadlock has landed in DXVK, the translation layer Proton uses to run Direct3D games on Vulkan, rather than in Nvidia's driver. Pull request 5958, 'Merge overlapping buffer loads', was opened on October 8 and merged into DXVK's master branch on October 10.

According to the report, OpenAI's Codex now predicts what a user was about to type and writes it into the message box; the feature is called composer predictions and is in beta. OpenAI's help article says it is on by default for eligible users, and the headline states Personal Pro users have it on by default.

In a production update posted to its Beyond blog on October 10, headset maker Bigscreen said Valve's Steam Frame launch brought massive demand for the Bigscreen Beyond 2 and 2e, growing its sales. The company also said its Halo Mount has slipped again.

Two accounts that post graphics card supply claims said on October 10 that Nvidia has stopped sending its GB202 chip to the GeForce RTX 5090 and that every one it makes from now on goes to professional cards instead. Treat it as a rumour: neither post offered a date, a notice number or anything beyond the claim.

According to MIXED, SteamVR beta 2.18.3, posted October 10 at 00:50 UTC, makes Steam Frame controllers use gamepad input by default in VR games that never supported VR controllers, with no opt-in required; the report notes three betas were needed.

According to an amdgpu patch, AMD's integrated graphics will give up the IOMMU's containment of direct memory access by default in the next Linux kernel in exchange for lower DMA latency. AMD documented the trade-off in its own commit message, noting the setting is enabled by default for GPUs.

Two groups in the Dutch parliament have asked their cabinet to push for a European ban on using camera glasses in public. The request came five days after ministers refused to argue at EU level for binding design rules on the same devices; the CDA group wants the subject raised at the informal EU Telecom Council.

KRAFTON has published documentation for two Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for inZOI, one of which is intended to let an AI assistant read and control the game while it is running. The studio's ModKit documentation, read at 21:47 UTC on October 10, names Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Cursor.

An optics researcher at Meta's Reality Labs has published a hard limit of 2.13 arcmin on how sharp a thin AR waveguide can be. According to MIXED, at the thickness glasses makers want, laser-lit 500µm waveguides fall short of the acuity target by more than a factor of two; the limit applies only to waveguides lit by a narrow-linewidth laser.

According to the report, the web_fetch tool in Claude Managed Agents now fetches only URLs that have already appeared in the session, for example in the text of a user message or in a web_search result. The change is intended to prevent an agent that reads a poisoned document from calling out to a web address found inside it.

Nvidia's open render library NRI had been feeding every upscaler it supports a fixed value where a real one belonged, a ghosting bug noticed by a developer outside Nvidia. The contributor's pull request, containing both commits that make the change, was merged into the library's main branch at 11:37 UTC.

Meta has named the first fixture in its ESPN immersive sports deal: Texas vs Oklahoma on October 10 at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, carried in the TV app on Meta Quest. A Meta blog post published on October 8 describes the games as select live, 180-degree immersive games throughout the season.