Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...

Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

Silimate co-founder and CEO Ann Wu M.S. ’23 demonstrated how the startup’s AI copilot can identify bugs, trace root causes and optimize chip performance at a Monday talk. The ...

You also get to escape Microsoft telemetry tracking too.

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

Container Tools lets you do a lot more.

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

Choosing an AI assistant for your business in 2026 isn’t as simple as picking the most popular one. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini have each matured into serious ...

Claude Code is the new AI coding assistant that many users are using in their workflows. Here's everything you need to know ...

New z/XDC software expansion improves accessibility and integrates into existing workflows while welcoming a new generation of programmers into mainframing Izzi Software, owner of ColeSoft, the ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...