GitHub's weekly Copilot update (August 10) introduces Kimi K3 to all paid plans, makes Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available, and adds MAI-Code-1.1-Flash with image understanding. The update also brin…
Cursor, the AI coding agent, has released a new icon system designed by a designer over the course of a year, featuring 600+ icons in two sizes (16px and 24px) and two styles (outline and filled), rep…
Solheim AI launched Virtual Private LLM (VPL), a flat-fee service providing private, EU-hosted LLM instances with no token or usage limits, starting at €15.00 per month for one instance with a 64k con…
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains added persistent memory across sessions and repositories, plus Ollama as a local model provider, on August 11. The update brings JetBrains users features already available…
AppSignal's MCP server gives AI agents direct access to production monitoring data, enabling incident investigations in plain English. In a real scenario, an agent triaged a payments service alert, id…
GitHub released Agent Plugins 1.0 on August 6, an open standard that packages agent skills and MCP servers into a single installable plugin, with support from AWS, Anysphere, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel…
Edward, co-founder of Mnemoverse, explains three approaches to giving Cursor persistent memory: built-in Rules and Memories, local-first MCP memory servers like Basic Memory, and managed MCP memory se…
Microsoft's VS Code 1.132, released August 5, stabilizes the Agent Host Protocol, isolating AI agents like Copilot, Claude, and Codex in a dedicated process to prevent editor freezes and enable shared…
A developer transformed a 4GB Lenovo Duet Chromebook into a primary development machine by disabling the Android VM, tweaking ChromeOS flags, and optimizing Linux container settings. The modifications…
GitHub introduced two new enterprise managed-settings keys, `allowedMcpServers` and `deniedMcpServers`, on August 6 to let organizations centrally control which MCP servers GitHub Copilot can run. The…
A mitmproxy teardown of GitHub Copilot in VS Code revealed that the assistant's context engine shipped a secret from a .env file the user wasn't editing, bundling up to 20 files with 8 edit summaries …
GitHub Copilot Chat now supports OpenTelemetry-based monitoring in VS Code 1.131 or later, enabling developers to send traces and metrics to SigNoz without additional instrumentation. The Copilot Chat…
OutageDeck has launched an MCP server that checks status feeds from 172 cloud and SaaS providers, accessible at https://outagedeck.com/api/mcp. The server integrates with ChatGPT, Claude, VS Code, Gem…
Databricks has open-sourced Metals v2, a Java and Scala language server designed for multi-million line codebases, enabling lightweight editors like Cursor, VS Code, and Neovim to handle large JVM mon…
GitHub announced the deprecation of MAI-Code-1-Flash across all GitHub Copilot experiences on September 10, 2026, following the launch of MAI-Code-1.1-Flash. Users are advised to update workflows and …
A product manager's guide to organizing Claude Code, created by Adam Faik, went viral on Hacker News, arguing that results with AI agents depend more on file organization than prompting. The guide, wh…
Shalom Borohov released Claude Fleet, a Windows widget that tracks multiple Claude Code sessions in an always-on-top strip, sorting them by urgency so users can see which session is waiting on them. T…
Francesco, a solo bootstrapped design engineer, launched Overlay, a VS Code extension UI editor that renders real React components and CSS tokens on a DOM canvas inside the IDE, enabling rapid design …
ASSET Research Group disclosed GhostSplice on August 10, a proof-of-concept that splits a secret-exfiltration request across multiple MCP tool channels to bypass AI coding agent refusals. In controlle…
A developer reverse-engineered GitHub Copilot by placing it behind a man-in-the-middle proxy, uncovering details about its network traffic, harness, memory, and how context is becoming the product. Th…