The MSVC Build Tools Preview is updated regularly with the latest features and fixes from the MSVC (Microsoft C++) development team. The MSVC team’s updates for August 2026, targeting the Visual ...

Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.

AI coding agents can accelerate development, but they may also generate bloated code and technical debt. Learn where they ...

Visual Studio 2026 v18.8 includes built-in Agent Skills created by Microsoft's .NET and Azure teams. Skills provide reusable, task-specific instructions, workflows and guardrails that Copilot loads ...

Nutanix has released an open-source Model Context Protocol server that lets AI assistants, including GitHub Copilot, interact with Nutanix Cloud Platform through Prism V4 APIs.

JEP 401, integrated into JDK 28, introduces value objects. These new class instances feature final fields, altered behavior ...

Azul is moving to monthly Java security updates across supported long-term support releases, following Oracle's decision to shorten its own patch cadence.

Visual Studio Code 1.130 brings some agent host rearchitecturing and an option to reduce approval interruptions during large agent tasks. Another week has passed us by which means it is time for ...

Blacksmith says revenue has grown more than tenfold over the past year.

The code-testing-generator searches your repository for code that needs tests, then plans, writes, and checks its tests to ...

Last weekend, I saw Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Great movie. It has gods, monsters, storms at sea, an impossible journey, and a runtime that, to be honest, had us praying for landfall. A few days ...