Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft's executive vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, announced he will leave the company next year after a 35-year career. He will remain focused on marketing for Wi…
Microsoft is updating its Office apps next week to allow users to disable a floating Copilot button that has been obstructing content in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, particularly angering Excel users.…
Microsoft's Python Risk Identification Tool (PyRIT) is an open-source framework designed to automate red team testing of large language model (LLM) systems by chaining together targets, prompt convert…
A shift in open-source AI agents from general coding assistants to specialized tools, featuring four GitHub repositories as examples. These include "mattpocock/skills," which enforces engineering disc…
Runtime (YC P26) is a platform that provides sandboxed, pre-configured coding agents for entire teams, integrating with tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot. It allows users to build specialize…
Educators must shift from teaching students how to find information to teaching them how to critically evaluate the AI-generated answers they already have. It recommends practical classroom strategies…
As Microsoft Copilot in Power BI uses semantic model metadata to answer business questions, this metadata must be treated as critical engineering assets—reviewed, versioned, and stored in source contr…
11 AI plugins for Godot in 2026, categorizing them by how they integrate with the editor (in-editor agents, MCP bridges, AI-native editors, and external clients). After running each through identical …
A new Claude skill called "spec-driven-development" that creates standardized specification files (requirements.md, design.md, tasks.md) and matching configuration files for multiple AI coding tools (…
On May 18, GitHub released a general availability feature allowing users to remotely control Copilot CLI sessions from mobile, web, or VS Code by scanning a QR code. The author independently published…
Rise of "cloud coding agents," a new class of AI development tools that execute tasks on remote servers rather than a user's local machine. Unlike traditional IDE assistants that require real-time int…
Engineers are accumulating "prompt debt" by writing model-specific instructions for AI coding tools that become obsolete with each new model release, warns a developer. Unlike traditional code debt th…
Microsoft's AI-powered Copilot and the controversial "Recall" feature, which continuously captures snapshots of user activity, have sparked intense backlash from cybersecurity experts and privacy advo…
Maturity ladder for AI agent instruction systems, categorizing configurations from L0 (System) to L7 (Adaptive) based on the communication channel each level uses. The key distinction is between the "…
The author, an AI professional, built an AI narrative platform called WYRD in about a month for roughly $467 using the OpenClaw agent framework, despite not being a developer. The platform allows user…
L-SDF (Latent-Structured Documentation Format), a tool created to address the problem of AI coding agents like Claude Code quickly hitting usage limits due to repeatedly re-sending large codebase cont…
GitHub announced that all Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing starting June 1, 2026, replacing Premium Request Units with GitHub AI Credits charged according to actual token consumpti…
A software engineer argues that the title "Software Engineer" is no longer sufficient in an AI-driven job market, where colleagues in marketing and other departments have rebranded themselves with AI-…
On May 15, 2026, from 07:43 to 08:48 UTC, GitHub Actions experienced a degradation that caused 42% of workflow runs to fail or start late, triggered by a planned infrastructure failover that led to in…
Microsoft is still displaying a spoofed Google homepage on Bing in May 2026, 18 months after the deceptive UI was first reported and supposedly removed. The tactic, which tricks users into running Bin…