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Epic Games has released a Preview version of a redesigned Epic Games Launcher for Windows, macOS, and Linux, marking its first official Linux client. The update promises faster cold starts, reduced background resource use, a unified library that can display games from multiple sources, customizable collections, and improved download tracking.
Anthropic says the volume of code changes produced with Claude's help grew from about 2,500 merges per day in May 2026 to over 30,000 per day by September, overwhelming its Git-based infrastructure. The company spent months prompting models and five months migrating to a new centralized, monorepo-based version control system called Scion, built with AI-assisted review and search tools and an API-first design for agent access.
Epic Games has launched a preview of a redesigned Epic Games Launcher that it says is faster, more responsive, and now supports Linux. The company describes the rebuild as 'vibe coded,' meaning AI agents wrote and reviewed much of the code, according to Martin Keely, Epic's VP and GM of the Epic Games Store and Epic Online Services.
Fairphone has released the Fairbuds 2, a redesigned stemmed earbud with a case 37 percent smaller than its predecessor. Battery life nearly doubles to 40 hours without noise cancellation, and the buds add bio-cellulose drivers, LDAC codec support, multipoint connectivity and a five-band EQ. The earbuds cost £99/€119 in the UK and Europe now, with a US launch at $119 on November 2nd.
Researchers analyzed large collections of human and mouse RNA sequencing data—including bulk RNA-seq, TRAP-seq, single-nucleus and single-cell RNA-seq—to catalog known and previously unannotated microexons, short stretches of RNA that can be spliced into genes. Using a modified version of the MicroExonator pipeline alongside whole-genome sequencing and PsychENCODE/NIMH data, the team identified a regulatory pattern governing microexon inclusion and linked variation in this process to genetic changes found in people with autism.
Software engineer Brandon Thomas, known on Reddit as u/ai_art_is_art, released 13 free, open-source apps through his site ArtCraft that mimic core features of Adobe and Microsoft programs. The apps include PhotoCraft, WordCraft and DeckCraft, built to replace Photoshop, Word and PowerPoint respectively.
A developer has released Parsimony, an open-source benchmark that measures how much code AI models add when solving SWE-bench Verified tasks, rather than just whether they solve them. It parses patches to count syntax-level coding units added and removed, producing a net score, and ranks models by mean net units added on tasks they solved. The tool and underlying data are published on GitHub, with results also shown via an interactive leaderboard and charts.
A new analysis argues that although AI tools now let developers write, refactor, and document code far faster than two years ago, overall software shipping speed has barely improved. It attributes this gap to software development lifecycles still built around sprints, manual quality gates, and review handoffs designed for an era when writing code itself was the slowest step.
A developer released ai-deslop, an npm package bundling Oxlint rules aimed at flagging common low-quality patterns found in AI-generated TypeScript code, such as chained type assertions, unsafe use of 'unknown' types, and object-typed function parameters. The rules combine ones vendored from dmmulroy/anti-slop with additional checks, all under a deslop/* namespace, and ship as compiled JavaScript compatible with any Oxlint JS-plugin runtime including Bun, Deno, or Node.js.
Linus Torvalds submitted a set of kernel patches that address a page-cache contention bug causing memory slowdowns on multi-core, multi-thread systems. In his Git submission, Torvalds said the code, test programs, review and first draft of the accompanying text were produced with Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, under his direction. The bug, known since 2024, involves atomic reference-count updates to a shared cache line that force processor cores to compete, slowing performance in workloads with many concurrent small reads.
Google is expanding its Ask Play chatbot into a broader AI-powered search tool for the Play Store, letting users ask questions and get app comparisons, with similar functionality coming to Gemini. The company also launched Game Finder, a recommendation engine using a 'Gamer DNA' profile built from usage data across 1.2 billion Android gamers, rolling out in the US now. Separately, Google plans to let users privately host and share apps they build themselves using AI coding tools through the Play Store.
Google announced that users who build apps via prompts in AI Studio can now publish them for use on their own devices through a new 'personal library' in the Play Store, without needing a paid developer account. The feature targets users 18 and older in the US and select markets, and Google says it plans to add secure sharing with friends and family later. To reach a global audience, creators would need to upgrade to a professional developer account and pass standard Play Store safety reviews.