VMtree, a lightweight self-hosted tool written in Bash, lets developers provision ephemeral VMs instantly by SSH-ing into a new subdomain, such as `ssh demo-foo.example.com`, and uses LXD/Incus contai…
A new guide from developer Adam C. shows how to run a local AI coding assistant in Visual Studio Code using IBM's Granite 4 tiny model and the Lemonade server, eliminating the need for a GitHub Copilo…
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.136 on September 2, introducing a preview Agent Merge feature that automates finishing pull requests by addressing review feedback, fixing failed checks, and me…
Microsoft introduced Project Zenith on Sept. 4, a new Windows 11 experience that pairs developer-class hardware with a preconfigured, distraction-reduced software environment, first available on devic…
Microsoft announced Project Zenith, a preconfigured Windows experience for developers, with the first devices powered by AMD's Ryzen AI Halo chips and capable of running 30B+ parameter models locally.…
GitHub has made Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash model available in GitHub Copilot, with early testing showing strong performance on complex terminal-based coding tasks. The model is billed at introductory p…
OpenAI resolved a nearly four-hour outage on September 3 that disrupted 19 components across ChatGPT and Codex, with services restored by 2:56 PM ET. The incident, which began at 10:58 AM ET, affected…
GitHub announced that enterprise-managed settings now support any default model for GitHub Copilot, allowing administrators to set a preferred default model for new conversations and customize default…
Visual Studio Code 1.137 (Insiders) released on September 2, 2026, adds a feature to display each model's context size as a single token limit instead of separate input and output limits, and improves…
Microsoft has released WorkIQ, a public preview plugin collection for GitHub Copilot that connects AI assistants to Microsoft 365 data via MCP servers, skills, and tools. The plugins require Node.js 1…
CEU's Department of Economics and Business has published a setup guide requiring students to install Python environment tool uv, Git, and Visual Studio Code, and to create a GitHub account with two-fa…
Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.135 on August 26, introducing the Rubber Duck agent, an experimental AI mode that provides a second opinion from a different model, and UX improvements to the A…
GitHub announced that enterprise-managed settings now support autoUpdate for plugin marketplaces, allowing organizations to set autoUpdate: true on extraKnownMarketplaces entries to automatically upda…
GitHub's August 17 outage lasted 7 hours and 47 minutes, disrupting GitHub.com, authentication, GitHub Actions, APIs, pull requests, issues, and Copilot, according to GitHub and The Register. The inci…
Anthropic's 2026 Agentic Coding Trends Report reveals that engineers use AI in roughly 60% of their work but can fully delegate only 0–20% of tasks, highlighting the need for AI agents to integrate wi…
Microsoft has introduced a public preview of a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for the Dynamics 365 Business Central admin center as part of its 2026 release wave 1, with availability starting Apr…
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code documentation now includes a link to Microsoft Copilot, the company's AI-powered coding assistant, in its 'See also' section as of August 17, 2026. The update adds a dir…
Microsoft Technical Fellow Anders Hejlsberg discussed the TypeScript 7.0 native port to Go on The Peterman Pod with host Ryan Peterman, noting the new compiler delivers 8x to 12x speed increases on fu…
GitHub Copilot is rolling out Grok 4.6, xAI's latest reasoning model designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows, available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise SKUs. T…
Microsoft's August 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 421 CVEs, including two critical vulnerabilities affecting Visual Studio Code: CVE-2026-70336 enables remote code execution in VS Code, and CVE-2026-70335 a…