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VS Code 1.135 adds Rubber Duck AI review, persistent agent sessions, Agent Host infrastructure and clearer token usage as Microsoft builds a more agentic IDE.
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GitHub, the Microsoft Corp.-owned code hosting platform serving more than 180 million developers, is still reeling from a widespread outage on Monday that severely disrupted softwa…
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A major technical outage struck GitHub on Monday morning, disrupting workflows for millions of developers worldwide for several hours as critical services, automated testing pipeli…
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Microsoft has shipped Visual Studio Code 1.133, and the headline change is architectural rather than cosmetic: AI agent sessions now run in a dedicated background process rather th…
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AI coding assistants write code fast. Whether that code can be trusted is a separate question, and it’s becoming a more urgent one. Surveys this year put average developer trust in…
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Amazon’s recent report attributing a series of compromises of open source software libraries to a North Korea-backed threat group encapsulates many of the expanding cyber risks inc…
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Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.129, and the headline change isn’t a new feature so much as a new foundation. The update introduces the agent host, a dedicated process…
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A newly discovered supply chain security flaw is once again putting a spotlight on inherent weaknesses in CI/CD pipelines and the growing interest among cyberthreat actors to explo…
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Akrites, a new Linux Foundation initiative backed by many of the world’s largest tech and financial firms, is the industry’s latest attempt to get ahead of AI‑accelerated software…
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Microsoft has moved the Azure SDK for Rust out of beta and into general availability, giving Rust developers a stable, production-ready way to connect to core Azure services. The r…
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Microsoft has reportedly begun using Amazon Web Services to provide additional computing capacity for GitHub as a dramatic rise in AI-assisted software development places unprecede…
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AI coding agents are reshaping software development—but they’re also expanding the attack surface. Researchers uncovered a now-patched vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Code GitH…
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Microsoft’s Intelligent Terminal 0.1 brings native AI agent integration to the Windows Terminal. Here’s what DevOps engineers need to know.
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IBM and Red Hat are bringing together what they’ve learned from frontier AI models and 20,000 engineers to launch Project Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative aimed at helping enterp…
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Microsoft open-sources RAMPART and Clarity to help dev teams embed AI agent safety testing directly into CI pipelines and design workflows.
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For years, IT and DevOps teams have wrestled with the same stubborn problem: how do you automate workflows in systems that were never built for automation? Legacy apps, vendor port…
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The era of the “human-only” software engineer is rapidly receding into the rearview mirror. Google CEO Sundar Pichai revealed Wednesday that a whopping 75% of the company’s new cod…
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Microsoft has unveiled plans to incorporate Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview model and other AI models into its Security Development Lifecycle, embedding AI directly into the stag…
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has struck a deal with artificial intelligence (AI) coding sensation Cursor that gives SpaceX the right to acquire the startup for $60 billion later this year or…
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A critical vulnerability in a popular Microsoft GitHub repository could allow a threat actor to easily exploit its CI/CD infrastructure to run arbitrary code in the repository and…
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VS Code 1.115 adds the VS Code Agents companion app, better browser tools, and background terminal interaction for agentic development workflows.
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The supply chain attack that compromised Aqua Security’s Trivy open source security vulnerability scanner and its associated GitHub Actions earlier this month continues to expand,…
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VS Code 1.110 ships agent plugins, hooks, and persistent memory. Microsoft is embedding control plane primitives into the IDE for AI agent governance.
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Generative AI is transforming software development at remarkable speed. But in a new paper written by two Microsoft executives, Azure CTO Mark Russinovich and Scott Hanselman, VP o…
