GitHub's August 17, 2026 outage lasted 7 hours 36 minutes, with Copilot being the last service to recover, clearing only when the incident closed at 21:15 UTC. The incident, which began at 13:40 UTC, …
A developer's essay argues that despite the rise of AI coding tools like Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code, software engineering fundamentals remain essential. The piece contends that while AI accelera…
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced in November 2024, has become the standard connection method for AI agents to access email marketing platforms, enabling tools like Claude, ChatGPT,…
Microsoft will merge its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single app, retiring Podcasts, Deep Research, and Group Chat on August 18. The Verge reports the consolidation aims to simpli…
Claude Code, Anthropic's CLI tool, enables AI agents to directly edit files, run commands, and refactor code in the terminal, offering a workflow distinct from IDE plugins like Cursor or Copilot. In a…
Microsoft has demoted its animated AI assistant Mico from the Copilot app, less than a year after its introduction, according to an FAQ about retiring Copilot features. The company is removing Mico fr…
Nurb, a Mac app that gives AI assistants real CAD skills, lets users design 3D-printable parts by talking, with a live viewer and direct STL download for printing. The app, available for Intel Macs vi…
Microsoft will merge its consumer and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps into a unified interface starting Aug. 18, part of a broader push toward a Copilot 'super app' that consolidates features like Copilot …
Microsoft has removed Mico, the anthropomorphic assistant introduced less than a year ago as the face of Copilot Voice, and will repurpose the character for Learn Live, a voice-based study mode. The c…
Prathak Malik released v0.2 of the agent-standards-as-code kit, which syncs AI coding standards across Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot, and Codex on both macOS and Windows. The kit uses the Agent Skills …
Three AI coding agents — Cursor, AWS Kiro, and GitHub's Agentic Workflows — were compromised this summer through prompt injection attacks, with researchers disclosing critical vulnerabilities includin…
Agentrove, a self-hosted AI coding workspace from Mng-dev-ai, orchestrates Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Cursor, Grok, and OpenCode agents from one interface, with Docker, macOS, and iOS apps. It uses …
GitHub's Copilot impact dashboard now includes a 'Potential return on investment' section that compares Copilot spend against pull request output for passive versus agent-first developers. The new sec…
Microsoft is removing its Mico avatar from Copilot's voice mode, moving the character to its Learn Live platform, according to a Microsoft support page. Mico, which launched in Copilot's voice mode la…
Scottish Water deployed Databricks Genie, integrated with Microsoft Teams via Copilot, to let Capital Investment teams query governed project data in plain English, cutting a typical lookup from about…
Microsoft Windows 11 Pro is available for $9.97 (MSRP $199) through August 20, a deal promoted by Boing Boing that includes advanced security, productivity, and management features such as BitLocker a…
Microsoft Corp. is scaling back its operations in China, citing regulatory and geopolitical pressures, but the company's global AI boom is helping it maintain a presence in the market, according to a …
Microsoft is shutting down Copilot features including Deep Research, AI Podcasts, Group Chats, Copilot Labs, and the Mico mascot on August 18, and merging its consumer Copilot app with Microsoft 365 C…
Microsoft is consolidating its various Copilot features into a single 'super app' that will serve as the primary interface for its AI assistant, according to a support document update. The unified Cop…
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.133 on August 12, adding flexibility to Anthropic Claude sessions by allowing users to mix Anthropic and Copilot providers between turns, and introducing an exp…