Vol. 1 · No. 2Sunday, 18 October 2026Price: 0 tokens

All the feed that fits · eight days of Yarden's dev and games desks

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230items · 212 dev, 18 games44sources with news37T3 Code releases in 8 days186KARC Raiders players on Steam at once

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A weekly paper about developer tools, AI agents and games. Every Sunday an AI agent reads Yarden's Riffle desks, ranks the news, writes the headlines and links every story to its source. Want the same news in your own feed?

Extra!
15 OctClaude CodeDevelopmentBonus

Claude writes about 90% of Claude Code. This is how the team reviews it

After Scion, the review side: review runs like spellcheck while you write, risk sets how many humans approve, and Code Review is GA.

Follows Anthropic outgrew git and built Scion in five months · Vol. 1 · No. 1

From June to September, merged pull requests more than doubled, and the share that had to be reverted fell by more than 40 percent. A classifier puts each change in a risk tier that needs no person, one or two. Code Review, the product, now finishes most reviews in 6 to 10 minutes. Every finding must be fixed, or answered with a reason.

Continued at claude.dev Blog → · Claude Blog · Simon Willison

Also shipped · 12
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14 OctGitHub Actions

GitHub Actions gets lockfiles

In public preview: pin actions and their dependencies to exact commits, so a moved tag cannot slip new code into a locked workflow.

Github Blog Changelog

Corrections

Fixed, retracted, or never happened.

Overheard

Short quotes, long week.

14 OctCopilot

Copilot's HydraFusion gets a Max mode

The multi-model mode now mixes Claude Opus 5.5 with three OpenAI models, drafts at medium effort and reviews at high effort.

Github Blog Changelog

Classifieds

Rates: one merged pull request a line.

15 OctOpenCode

OpenCode ends session sharing

Share links and commands stop working in 1.19.1. OpenCode 1 also stays on 1.x, so OpenCode 2 is an explicit upgrade.

OpenCode Releases · v1.19.2

14 OctOpinion

AI is mass decompiling old games

Popcar sees a boom in ports that keep old games playable, and a threat: any paid app can be open-sourced against its owner's will.

Simon Willison

Success stories

Customer stories from OpenAI News. Every one of them has a happy ending.

16 OctPython

ty learns to infer return types

Astral's type checker can infer return types of unannotated functions; turn it on with analysis.return-type-inference. uv 0.13.1 adds CPython 3.16.0a1.

ty Releases · uv Releases

The front office

Headlines from company newsrooms. Summaries not included.

Most words filed

Articles only. The release bots have their own ticker.

  1. Github Blog Changelog22
  2. Simon Willison19
  3. OpenAI News12
  4. Gemini and Gemma on Google Developers Blog10
  5. GitHub Blog6
  6. Cloudflare One Changelog4

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Still from THE FINALS PRIME TIME trailer: a contestant flies through exploding concrete and gold coins in a stadium.
Image: GamingTrend
Extra!
18 OctTHE FINALSDevelopmentBonus

THE FINALS goes PRIME TIME on 20 October

Embark's gameplay trailer shows a suspended structure that breaks in two yet stays airborne, and new gadgets for Light players.

Follows THE FINALS X GALAXIES SHOWCASE · Vol. 1 · No. 1

PRIME TIME is the next season of Embark Studios' arena shooter, where the buildings come down. The studio's YouTube channel also has videos on map changes, new sponsors, and HUD and UI reworks.

Continued at GamingTrend →

16 OctTeam Fortress 2

Team Fortress 2's zombies hit harder

Zombie Pyro's melee rises from 45 to 65 damage, and its spew slows humans. cp_holyhell gets five-minute rounds and rare spells instead of stalemates.

Steam News

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Classifieds

No refunds on cosmetics.

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