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

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Visual Studio 2026 is no longer a preview or a promise, it is a shipping product that developers can install today. Microsoft is positioning this release as a generational reset for its flagship IDE, ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

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 ...

Enterprises seeking to make good on the promise of agentic AI will need a platform for building, wrangling, and monitoring AI agents in purposeful workflows. In this quickly evolving space, myriad ...

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