https://reveneau.com/ainews Short briefs on AI and software engineering: developer tools, open-source projects, model and agent releases. Each item links its original source. en-us https://reveneau.com/ainews/meta-microsoft-cut-employee-claude-code-usage-the-information https://reveneau.com/ainews/meta-microsoft-cut-employee-claude-code-usage-the-information Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:15:00 +0000 Go-to-market The Information reports that Microsoft dropped its per-employee monthly AI spending cap from $100,000 to around $10,000 and that Meta's Claude Code users fell from about 60,000 to 30,000, as both companies push staff onto their own coding tools. (Source: The Information) https://reveneau.com/ainews/economic-misalignment-personal-ai-agents-325k-experiments-13-models-wealth-steering https://reveneau.com/ainews/economic-misalignment-personal-ai-agents-325k-experiments-13-models-wealth-steering Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:15:00 +0000 Models & agents A new arXiv paper by Aman Priyanshu, Supriti Vijay, Brian Jabarian and Niloofar Mireshghallah ran 325,000 experiments across 13 personal AI agents on flights, health insurance and graduate programs, and reports that 8 of the 13 systematically pick more expensive options for users the agent has inferred to be wealthy, even when the request is identical. (Source: arXiv) https://reveneau.com/ainews/openssh-10-6-disables-lz77-compression-usernames-shell-metacharacters https://reveneau.com/ainews/openssh-10-6-disables-lz77-compression-usernames-shell-metacharacters Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:00:00 +0000 Infrastructure OpenSSH 10.6 disables the LZ77 part of its SSH compression after researchers used Claude Code to prove the shared dictionary leaks plaintext, and rejects dollar and backslash in command-line usernames so a shell cannot interpret them. (Source: OpenSSH) https://reveneau.com/ainews/anthropic-cyber-verification-program-three-tiers-defense-access https://reveneau.com/ainews/anthropic-cyber-verification-program-three-tiers-defense-access Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:45:00 +0000 Models & agents A defensive-leaning security team using Claude Opus 5.5 saw 46 of 50 offensive benchmark trials blocked under the new Defense Access tier, the most restricted of three new access levels for the Cyber Verification Program. (Source: Anthropic) https://reveneau.com/ainews/openai-gpt-6-intelligent-ui-charts-buttons-chatgpt-tiers https://reveneau.com/ainews/openai-gpt-6-intelligent-ui-charts-buttons-chatgpt-tiers Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:30:00 +0000 Models & agents ChatGPT answers now ship with buttons, forms, charts and small single-use tools built on the spot, powered by GPT-6 Sol on paid tiers and GPT-6 Luna on the free tier. (Source: OpenAI) https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-copilot-claude-haiku-5-5-generally-available-subagents https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-copilot-claude-haiku-5-5-generally-available-subagents Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:15:00 +0000 Dev tools Claude Haiku 5.5 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot across every paid tier, VS Code, JetBrains, Xcode and the Copilot CLI, aimed at subagents and quick terminal work. (Source: GitHub Changelog) https://reveneau.com/ainews/voltagent-official-mcp-servers-directory-286-vendor-built https://reveneau.com/ainews/voltagent-official-mcp-servers-directory-286-vendor-built Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:00:00 +0000 Dev tools VoltAgent published a curated directory of 286 Model Context Protocol servers, every entry built by the company behind the product rather than by a third party, organised into 14 categories. (Source: VoltAgent) https://reveneau.com/ainews/mortiflix-oss-motion-design-studio-claude-code-review-stage https://reveneau.com/ainews/mortiflix-oss-motion-design-studio-claude-code-review-stage Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:45:00 +0000 Dev tools Mortiflix is an open-source motion design studio that makes a video stage by stage, Claude Code does the work, and you review every stage before the next one starts. (Source: Mortiflix) https://reveneau.com/ainews/openqodex-open-source-ai-code-review-claude-code-codex-13-scanners https://reveneau.com/ainews/openqodex-open-source-ai-code-review-claude-code-codex-13-scanners Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:30:00 +0000 Dev tools OpenQodex is an open-source AI code reviewer that runs 13 scanners on the lines you changed, then starts a separate Claude Code or Codex process to check every finding, before you push. (Source: OpenQodex) https://reveneau.com/ainews/docker-agent-cli-plugin-yaml-multi-agent-apache-2-provider-agnostic https://reveneau.com/ainews/docker-agent-cli-plugin-yaml-multi-agent-apache-2-provider-agnostic Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:15:00 +0000 Dev tools Docker released Docker Agent, a CLI plugin that lets a developer define multi-agent AI systems in YAML, pull them from any OCI registry, and run them with built-in tools and MCP servers. (Source: Docker) https://reveneau.com/ainews/bluehost-ai-crawler-83-million-daily-90-percent-training-newfold https://reveneau.com/ainews/bluehost-ai-crawler-83-million-daily-90-percent-training-newfold Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000 Go-to-market Search Engine Journal reports Newfold Digital CEO Sachin Puri as saying a 90-day Bluehost analysis counted 83.4 million verified AI crawler requests a day, with roughly 90 percent for model training. (Source: Search Engine Journal) https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-copilot-cli-discover-local-ollama-models-slash-command https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-copilot-cli-discover-local-ollama-models-slash-command Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:45:00 +0000 Dev tools GitHub shipped a /model command in Copilot CLI version 1.0.94 that lists local Ollama models alongside the cloud ones, so a developer can switch to a model running on their own machine without leaving the terminal. (Source: GitHub) https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-copilot-local-sandboxing-ga-cli-vs-code-mxc-container https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-copilot-local-sandboxing-ga-cli-vs-code-mxc-container Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0000 Dev tools GitHub moved its local sandbox for the Copilot agent out of public preview and extended it to the Copilot CLI and VS Code sessions, with no extra cost on top of the Copilot plan. (Source: GitHub) https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-modernbert-classifier-secret-protection-two-milliseconds-double https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-modernbert-classifier-secret-protection-two-milliseconds-double Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:15:00 +0000 Dev tools GitHub says a new ModernBERT classifier assesses candidate secrets in under two milliseconds and will more than double the number of secrets push protection prevents, ships in private preview now, and reaches GitHub Secret Protection customers later this month. (Source: The GitHub Blog) https://reveneau.com/ainews/undo-coleman-parkes-survey-300-c-cpp-engineers-debugging-42-percent-week https://reveneau.com/ainews/undo-coleman-parkes-survey-300-c-cpp-engineers-debugging-42-percent-week Wed, 07 Oct 2026 19:00:00 +0000 Productivity Undo's survey of 300 senior engineering leaders by Coleman Parkes finds teams spend 9.8 hours a week producing code and 16.9 hours debugging it during development, with 79 percent saying release cycles are no faster despite AI coding agents. (Source: InfoQ) https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-gemini-free-plan-flash-lite-only-october-9-pro-paid-tiers https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-gemini-free-plan-flash-lite-only-october-9-pro-paid-tiers Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:45:00 +0000 Models & agents The Verge reports that Google will limit free Gemini users to the Flash Lite model from October 9, pushing Flash to a $4.99 AI Plus plan and Pro to AI Pro at $19.99. (Source: The Verge) https://reveneau.com/ainews/zohaib-ansari-claude-code-suggested-message-preference-training-signal https://reveneau.com/ainews/zohaib-ansari-claude-code-suggested-message-preference-training-signal Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0000 Productivity Zohaib Ansari argues on his blog that Claude Code's new pre-filled next-message feature is a cheap way to collect preference pairs from working engineers, with every edited suggestion a labelled correction from someone who knows the project. (Source: Zohaib Ansari) https://reveneau.com/ainews/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5-launch-10-cents-input-million-tokens https://reveneau.com/ainews/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5-launch-10-cents-input-million-tokens Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:30:00 +0000 Models & agents Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, dropping the input price to $0.10 per million tokens for requests up to 100,000 tokens, which the company says is 90 percent below Haiku 4.5. (Source: Anthropic) https://reveneau.com/ainews/oil-ui-coding-agents-distinct-page-designs-side-by-side-999-stars https://reveneau.com/ainews/oil-ui-coding-agents-distinct-page-designs-side-by-side-999-stars Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:15:00 +0000 Dev tools Oil UI is a Claude Code and Codex skill that explores several genuinely different design directions for one page, puts them on one comparison page, and refines whichever one you pick. (Source: GitHub) https://reveneau.com/ainews/thenewstack-wachtel-gpt-6-1-sol-vs-astra-15-runs-cost https://reveneau.com/ainews/thenewstack-wachtel-gpt-6-1-sol-vs-astra-15-runs-cost Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000 Models & agents Jessica Wachtel at The New Stack ran GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra through three real engineering tasks, five runs each, and both models got every answer right on all 15 runs. Sol cost $2.66 to Astra's $14.77 in total and was faster on the two longer tasks. (Source: The New Stack) https://reveneau.com/ainews/openai-codex-0-161-gpt-6-1-sol-default-mcp-login-tui-govcloud https://reveneau.com/ainews/openai-codex-0-161-gpt-6-1-sol-default-mcp-login-tui-govcloud Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:45:00 +0000 Dev tools OpenAI shipped Codex 0.161 with GPT-6.1 Sol as the default model in both the bundled and Amazon Bedrock catalogs, a new /mcp login command that signs you in to an MCP server from inside the terminal, Bedrock support for multi-agent V2, Ultra reasoning and AWS GovCloud, and tighter opt-in gating around Daybreak features. (Source: OpenAI on GitHub) https://reveneau.com/ainews/docsy-linux-foundation-ai-agent-friendly-documentation-scores https://reveneau.com/ainews/docsy-linux-foundation-ai-agent-friendly-documentation-scores Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:30:00 +0000 Dev tools The New Stack reports that Docsy, the Google-built documentation theme used by Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry and gRPC, is moving to the Linux Foundation and adding agent-friendly features including llms.txt, Markdown copies of each page and a planned score for how readable your docs are to AI tools. (Source: The New Stack) https://reveneau.com/ainews/stacklok-mecatl-cloud-native-agent-harness-kubernetes-creators https://reveneau.com/ainews/stacklok-mecatl-cloud-native-agent-harness-kubernetes-creators Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:15:00 +0000 Infrastructure Latent Space reports that Stacklok, led by Kubernetes creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, has pivoted to agent infrastructure and open-sourced Mecatl, a harness built from scratch to run on Kubernetes rather than on a laptop. (Source: Latent Space) https://reveneau.com/ainews/infino-launches-agent-retrieval-parquet-apache-2-opensearch-founders https://reveneau.com/ainews/infino-launches-agent-retrieval-parquet-apache-2-opensearch-founders Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000 Infrastructure Infino, built by former OpenSearch engineers, launched a retrieval layer that lets AI agents run keyword, vector, SQL and graph queries over one Parquet copy in object storage. (Source: Infino) https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-synthid-detector-public-launch-ai-watermark-verification https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-synthid-detector-public-launch-ai-watermark-verification Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:15:00 +0000 Models & agents Google says it is opening SynthID Detector, the verification portal that checks whether an image, video or audio file was watermarked by one of its AI models, to anyone, after an earlier period limited to journalists and researchers. (Source: Google DeepMind) https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-copilot-usage-metrics-fix-agent-activity-ide-sdk https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-copilot-usage-metrics-fix-agent-activity-ide-sdk Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:00:00 +0000 Dev tools GitHub says Copilot usage metrics have been under-counting agent activity for IDEs that moved to the Copilot SDK, and the fix starts in Visual Studio Code 1.139.0 with other IDEs following through November 2026. (Source: The GitHub Blog) https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-healthcare-review-snippets-drop-schema-app-may-august https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-healthcare-review-snippets-drop-schema-app-may-august Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:45:00 +0000 Go-to-market Schema App says review snippets, the star ratings in Google Search, have been missing from healthcare pages since late May, with a second drop in early August, even when the Review schema markup is valid. (Source: Search Engine Roundtable) https://reveneau.com/ainews/nvidia-nemotron-3-ioi-535-imo-30-gold-sft-rl-opensource https://reveneau.com/ainews/nvidia-nemotron-3-ioi-535-imo-30-gold-sft-rl-opensource Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:30:00 +0000 Models & agents NVIDIA posted a Nemotron 3 build that it says scored 535.4 of 600 at IOI 2026 and 30 of 42 at IMO 2026, both above the gold threshold, with the fine-tuned checkpoints, the training recipe and a 200-problem benchmark released on Hugging Face. (Source: Hugging Face) https://reveneau.com/ainews/obie-auto-handoff-claude-code-plugin-prompt-cache-warm-handoff-document https://reveneau.com/ainews/obie-auto-handoff-claude-code-plugin-prompt-cache-warm-handoff-document Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:15:00 +0000 Dev tools Obie Fernandez released auto-handoff, a Claude Code plugin that writes a handoff document to disk after 50 minutes of idle time, while the hour-long prompt cache is still warm, so a fresh session can resume cheaply. (Source: GitHub) https://reveneau.com/ainews/cosmic-desktop-bans-ai-code-contributions-gnome-debates-bug-reports https://reveneau.com/ainews/cosmic-desktop-bans-ai-code-contributions-gnome-debates-bug-reports Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:00:00 +0000 Open source System76 added a no-AI rule to the COSMIC desktop's contributor guide, while a GNOME developer argues the project must accept AI-written bug reports to keep up with the flaws AI is now finding in older code. (Source: The Register) https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-crawl-rate-retry-after-header-reduce-documentation-update https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-crawl-rate-retry-after-header-reduce-documentation-update Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:30:00 +0000 Infrastructure Google added guidance to its reduce-crawl-rate documentation page naming the Retry-After HTTP header as a signal to Googlebot, alongside the existing 429 and 503 status codes, with both delta-seconds and absolute date formats supported. (Source: Google Search Central) https://reveneau.com/ainews/ahrefs-ai-search-roi-forrester-94-percent-nielseniq-42-percent https://reveneau.com/ainews/ahrefs-ai-search-roi-forrester-94-percent-nielseniq-42-percent Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:15:00 +0000 Go-to-market Writing for Ahrefs, Louise Linehan proposes reporting AI search ROI with two revenue columns, tracked and self-reported, after showing the same quarterly spend yields 33 percent or 100 percent ROI depending on which one is used. (Source: Ahrefs) https://reveneau.com/ainews/python-3-15-jit-faster-than-standard-grinberg-benchmarks https://reveneau.com/ainews/python-3-15-jit-faster-than-standard-grinberg-benchmarks Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Productivity Miguel Grinberg ran recursive Fibonacci and bubble sort across CPython 3.10 through 3.15, PyPy 3.12, Node.js 26.3 and Rust 1.97, and found Python 3.15's JIT ran roughly 1.20 to 1.28x faster than the standard 3.15 interpreter, the first time a Python release has shown that gap. (Source: Miguel Grinberg) https://reveneau.com/ainews/matklad-benchmark-milliseconds-300ms-target-microbenchmark https://reveneau.com/ainews/matklad-benchmark-milliseconds-300ms-target-microbenchmark Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:45:00 +0000 Productivity Alex Kladov, writing on his blog, argues a microbenchmark should take about 300 milliseconds: fast enough to iterate on, slow enough that fixed overhead disappears, in a unit a human reads at a glance. (Source: matklad) https://reveneau.com/ainews/chris-green-sej-local-llm-seo-check-gemini-nano-chrome-extension https://reveneau.com/ainews/chris-green-sej-local-llm-seo-check-gemini-nano-chrome-extension Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0000 Productivity Writing in Search Engine Journal, Chris Green describes a Chrome extension that splits an SEO audit three ways: deterministic checks for facts, Gemini Nano on-device for explanations, and a human for every judgment call. (Source: Search Engine Journal) https://reveneau.com/ainews/wordpress-mcp-adapter-0-7-0-canonical-plugin-abilities-api https://reveneau.com/ainews/wordpress-mcp-adapter-0-7-0-canonical-plugin-abilities-api Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:15:00 +0000 Dev tools WordPress published MCP Adapter 0.7.0 on wordpress.org, serving two MCP schema revisions and exposing WordPress abilities as MCP tools to AI agents, with 40,000 active installs carried over from the GitHub distribution. (Source: WordPress.org) https://reveneau.com/ainews/openai-math-722-manuscripts-372-families-github-release https://reveneau.com/ainews/openai-math-722-manuscripts-372-families-github-release Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 Models & agents OpenAI released 722 mathematical manuscripts grouped into 372 result families, generated by an unreleased internal model from about 4,000 problems, with Lean formalizations attached to many of them. (Source: OpenAI) https://reveneau.com/ainews/cloudflare-adaptive-ai-waf-testing-harness-ssrf-rules https://reveneau.com/ainews/cloudflare-adaptive-ai-waf-testing-harness-ssrf-rules Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:45:00 +0000 Infrastructure Cloudflare let frontier AI models rewrite blocked attacks on a staging site, ran 1,107 attempts across 45 scenarios, and shipped three Managed Ruleset changes from the surviving 49 findings. (Source: Cloudflare) https://reveneau.com/ainews/wikimedia-openai-rogue-agents-etherpad-proxy-wiki-edits https://reveneau.com/ainews/wikimedia-openai-rogue-agents-etherpad-proxy-wiki-edits Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:30:00 +0000 Infrastructure The Wikimedia Foundation says agents operated by OpenAI edited its wikis without approval, probed its public Etherpad, and made millions of automated requests to its APIs. (Source: Wikimedia Foundation) https://reveneau.com/ainews/cloudflare-web-search-api-beta-ceramic-exa-linkup-ai-gateway https://reveneau.com/ainews/cloudflare-web-search-api-beta-ceramic-exa-linkup-ai-gateway Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:15:00 +0000 Infrastructure Cloudflare has released a Web Search API in beta that lets AI agents call Ceramic.ai, Exa, or Linkup through AI Gateway, with each provider billed at its list price. (Source: Cloudflare) https://reveneau.com/ainews/cursor-ios-app-remote-control-local-agents-desktop https://reveneau.com/ainews/cursor-ios-app-remote-control-local-agents-desktop Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:45:00 +0000 Dev tools Cursor's iOS app can now see and reply to the local Cursor agents running on a signed-in computer, with pairing approved from the desktop app and the computer kept plugged in and awake for the link to work. (Source: Cursor) https://reveneau.com/ainews/openai-decisions-api-public-beta-pricing-gpt-6-luna https://reveneau.com/ainews/openai-decisions-api-public-beta-pricing-gpt-6-luna Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:30:00 +0000 Models & agents OpenAI has moved its Decisions API from limited preview to public beta, with a price of $0.10 per million input tokens, no output or cache charges, and only its gpt-6-luna model available at launch. (Source: OpenAI) https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-stacked-pull-requests-generally-available-9-percent-more-merged-code https://reveneau.com/ainews/github-stacked-pull-requests-generally-available-9-percent-more-merged-code Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:30:00 +0000 Dev tools GitHub moved stacked pull requests from public preview to general availability. The company says repositories using stacks merge 9% more code than their peers, and two-thirds of the top 1% of repositories now use them. The release adds signed rebases, bypass permissions, automatic retargeting when a base branch is deleted, and auto-merge rolling out over the next few weeks. (Source: GitHub) https://reveneau.com/ainews/martian-code-review-bench-independent-cubic-first-copilot-fourth https://reveneau.com/ainews/martian-code-review-bench-independent-cubic-first-copilot-fourth Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:30:00 +0000 Dev tools The New Stack reports that Martian's Code Review Bench ranks Cubic first and Copilot fourth, while GitHub's own ReviewBench, released this week, puts Copilot on top. (Source: The New Stack) https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-preferred-source-subscribers-email-search-console-publishers https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-preferred-source-subscribers-email-search-console-publishers Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:15:00 +0000 Go-to-market Search Engine Roundtable reports that Google has started emailing site owners the number of people who selected their site as a preferred source in Google Search. The email also recommends adding a one-click JavaScript button that lets a visitor subscribe to the site as a preferred source. Preferred sources affect Top Stories and AI Overviews. (Source: Search Engine Roundtable) https://reveneau.com/ainews/antfu-pulls-review-github-pr-reviewer-scope-402-stars https://reveneau.com/ainews/antfu-pulls-review-github-pr-reviewer-scope-402-stars Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000 Dev tools Anthony Fu released pulls.review, a tool that reads a GitHub pull request, groups the changed files by scope, summarises each scope, then reviews one scope at a time. It ships as a website, a browser userscript that enhances the GitHub review page, and a GitHub Action. The code is MIT licensed and the repository has 402 stars after 20 days. (Source: GitHub) https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-embeddinggemma-2-740m-multimodal-open-weights-apache-2-0 https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-embeddinggemma-2-740m-multimodal-open-weights-apache-2-0 Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:45:00 +0000 Models & agents Google released EmbeddingGemma 2 as open weights under Apache 2.0. The full model is 740M parameters and encodes text, code, images, video and audio into a shared 768-dimensional space. A 270M text and code variant ships alongside, and the embeddings can be truncated from 768 to 128 dimensions through Matryoshka Representation Learning. (Source: Google for Developers) https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-sitemap-couldnt-fetch-mueller-splitt-crawl-demand-site-quality https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-sitemap-couldnt-fetch-mueller-splitt-crawl-demand-site-quality Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:30:00 +0000 Go-to-market Search Engine Journal reports that Google's John Mueller and Martin Splitt gave three reasons for the Search Console "couldn't fetch" sitemap error. Only one is a real fetch failure. The others are low crawl demand and a decision by Google that the site does not need a sitemap, and both are driven by Google's quality signals. (Source: Search Engine Journal) https://reveneau.com/ainews/brand-identity-skill-claude-code-eight-page-pdf-design-tokens-fatihaydost https://reveneau.com/ainews/brand-identity-skill-claude-code-eight-page-pdf-design-tokens-fatihaydost Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000 Dev tools A new open-source Claude Code skill by fatihaydost, published 2026-10-04, takes a one-paragraph brand brief and returns three complete identity directions, each with a logo, typography, colour palette, measured contrast checks, and an 8-page guidelines PDF with design tokens for the chosen direction. (Source: fatihaydost (GitHub)) https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-search-console-performance-report-filter-multiple-countries-devices-combined https://reveneau.com/ainews/google-search-console-performance-report-filter-multiple-countries-devices-combined Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000 Go-to-market Google Search Central announced on LinkedIn on 6 October that Search Console's Performance report filters are updating to combine traffic across several countries and devices in a single filtered view. The change ends the previous two-item limit, which only let you compare two countries side by side. (Source: Google Search Central)