Valve Opens the Steam Frame to Modders — Free CAD Files, PCIe Access, and a MIPI Camera Port
On October 10, Valve published a full hardware reference repository for the Steam Frame VR headset, giving modders STEP models, expansion port documentation, and PCIe and MIPI reference designs in KiCad and Altium. »
Apple Reveals HomeView Today — A Smart Home Hub with an A18 Chip and Two Form Factors
At its ‘Welcome Home’ event this morning in New York, Apple unveiled HomeView, a smart display built around Siri AI and Apple’s A18 chip, designed to serve as the nerve centre of a connected home. »
Planet Zoo 2 Launches Today — Aquariums, Flying Aviaries, and a Global Conservation Network Arrive
Frontier Developments launches Planet Zoo 2 today on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X/S — bringing proper aquariums, free-flying birds, and a multi-zoo conservation network that fundamentally expands what a zoo simulator can be. »
Claude Haiku 5.5 Cuts Token Prices by Up to 90% — Anthropic's Cheapest Capable Model Yet
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 drops input token prices to $0.10 per million for short contexts, making it 90% cheaper than Haiku 4.5 and opening AI-powered pipelines that were previously too costly to build. »
KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands October 14 — A Full Wayland Desktop for KDE's 30th Birthday
KDE Plasma 6.8 ships on KDE's 30th anniversary with Union theming for QtWidgets apps, a complete Wayland transition, and a fix for NVIDIA GPU tiling lag. »