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Microsoft ships VS Code weekly, adds Autopilot mode so AI can wreak havoc without bothering you

Google also enables auto-approval of AI agents while their documentation warns against it Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is moving to a weekly release cycle, as well as joining Google in enc ...
Thurrott

Visual Studio Code Moves to a Weekly Update Schedule

With the release of Visual Studio Code 1.111 last night, Microsoft has moved its lightweight code editor to a weekly update schedule. “Welcome to the 1.111 release of Visual Studio Code, the first of ...

Visual Studio Code 1.110 gets new features for AI agent configuration

The new release allows using experimental agent plug-ins and the new Agent Debug Panel offers detailed insights into chat ...

Forget 'debloat apps.' Sophia Script gives you real control over Windows 11. Here's how it works.

The Sophia Script is an open-source PowerShell module designed to debloat and fine-tune Windows 11 (and Windows 10). It is ...

Alibaba's new open source Qwen3.5-Medium models offer Sonnet 4.5 performance on local computers

This leap is made possible by near-lossless accuracy under 4-bit weight and KV cache quantization, allowing developers to process massive datasets without server-grade infrastructure.
Dark Reading

Malicious Next.js Repos Target Developers Via Fake Job Interviews

Linked to North Korean fake job-recruitment campaigns, the poisoned repositories are aimed at establishing persistent C2 ...

Tech 42 launches open-source AI Agent Starter Pack in AWS Marketplace, reducing production deployment time to minutes

Advanced Tier Services AWS Partner releases production-ready AI agent package built on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to ...
PC Gamer

Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'

Gaming Industry An AI-generated review of Resident Evil Requiem written by a fake 'iGaming and sports betting analyst' briefly hit Metacritic AI Reports claim an AWS outage last year was caused by an ...
ZDNet

I tried a Claude Code rival that's local, open source, and completely free - how it went

Free AI tools Goose and Qwen3-coder may replace a pricey Claude Code plan. Setup is straightforward but requires a powerful local machine. Early tests show promise, though issues remain with accuracy ...
TechCrunch

China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent

China’s Moonshot AI, which is backed by the likes of Alibaba and HongShan (formerly Sequoia China), today released a new open source model, Kimi K2.5, which understands text, image, and video. The ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Copilot Studio Extension for VS Code Goes GA

The Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, allowing agents to be developed and managed directly from the editor. The extension enables software-style workflows for ...
Computer Weekly

Microsoft open sources XAML Studio

The latest trends and issues around the use of open source software in the enterprise. XAML Studio is a rapid software application development prototyping tool that started out life as a Microsoft ...