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Microsoft is providing early access to C++ code editing tools for GitHub Copilot via the Visual Studio 2026 Insiders channel. These C++ tools allow GitHub Copilot to go beyond file searches and unlock greater context-aware refactoring that enables changes across multiple files and sections, according to Microsoft. Public availability was announced December 16 , with the blog also offering instruc…

Anysphere, the developer of AI coding assistant Cursor, is adding some code review and debugging skills to its portfolio with the acquisition of Graphite, TechCrunch reported Friday . The output of AI coding tools often requires extensive debugging, something the company sought to address with new code review capabilities in Cursor 2.0 . Through the acquisition, Anysphere will be able to add new …

The computer revolution has always been driven by the new and the next. The hype-mongers have trained us to assume that the latest iteration of ideas will be the next great leap forward. Some, though, are quietly stepping off the hype train. Whereas the steady stream of new programming languages once attracted all the attention, lately it’s more common to find older languages like Ada and C recla…

The most significant advances in artificial intelligence next year won’t come from building larger models but from making AI systems smarter, more collaborative, and more reliable. Breakthroughs in agent interoperability, self-verification, and memory will transform AI from isolated tools into integrated systems that can handle complex, multi-step workflows. Meanwhile, open-source foundation mode…

If you want to know what is actually happening in generative AI —not what vendors pretend in their press releases, but what developers are actually building—Datasette founder Simon Willison gets you pretty close to ground truth. As Willison has been cataloguing for years on his blog , we keep making the same key mistake building with AI as we did in the web 2.0 era: We treat data and instructions…

A software update knocked out Snowflake’s cloud data platform in 10 of its 23 global regions for 13 hours on December 16, leaving customers unable to execute queries or ingest data. Customers saw “SQL execution internal error” messages when trying to query their data warehouses, according to Snowflake’s incident report . The outage also disrupted Snowpipe and Snowpipe Streaming file ingestion, an…

What is cloud native? Cloud native defined The term “cloud-native computing” encompasses the modern approach to building and running software applications that exploit the flexibility, scalability, and resilience of cloud computing. The phrase is a catch-all that encompasses not just the specific architecture choices and environments used to build applications for the public cloud, but also the s…

From autonomous agents to vibe coding, 2025 was the year generative AI stopped being theoretical and started doing real work—with a little fun along the way. Our readers gravitated toward features and tutorials that explored how to move AI into production software and reshape developer workflows , and to columnists who forced uncomfortable (and sometimes amusing) questions about the role of human…

A few months ago, I worked with a global manufacturer that considered itself conservative on AI. They focused on stabilizing their ERP migration to the cloud, modernizing a few key customer-facing apps, and tightening security. The CIO’s position on generative AI was clear: “We’ll get there, but not this year. We’re not ready.” On paper, they were officially “not doing AI.” In reality, they were …

AI code generation appears to have a few kinks to work out before it can fully dominate software development, according to a new report by CodeRabbit . When compared to human-generated code, AI code created 1.7 times more problems discovered in pull-request analysis, according to the report. AI coding assistants have become a standard part of the software development workflow, but developers have…

Attackers have upped the ante in their exploits of a recently-disclosed maximum severity vulnerability in React Server Components (RSC), Next.js, and related frameworks. Financially-motivated attackers have found a way to use the flaw, dubbed React2Shell ( CVE-2025-55182 ), to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable servers through a single malicious HTTP request. This allows them to quickly and eas…

Touted as an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, ty has moved to beta. Developers can install ty with uv tool install ty@latest , or via a Visual Studio Code extension . A stable release is eyed for 2026, according to ty steward Astral. Written in Rust , ty is positioned as an alternative to tools such as Mypy, Pyright, and Pylance . In a December 16 blog post , Astral founder…

Executives increasingly believe AI will reshape their businesses, but many large organizations are still stuck at proofs of concept. McKinsey’s 2025 State of AI report shows widespread experimentation, but real business value is being seen by only a small set of “high performers.” 23% of respondents report their organizations are scaling an agentic AI system somewhere in their enterprises, but th…

My recent Java Stream API tutorial introduced Java streams, including how to create your first Java stream and how to build declarative stream pipelines with filtering, mapping, and sorting. I also demonstrated how to combine streams, collectors, and optionals, and I provided examples of functional programming with Java streams. If you are just getting started with Java streams, I recommend start…

As 2025 comes to an end, it seems fitting to look at how Microsoft’s Azure hyperscale cloud is planning to address the second half of the decade. As has become traditional , Azure CTO Mark Russinovich gave his usual look at that future in his presentations at Ignite, this time split into two separate talks on infrastructure and software. The first presentation looked at how the underlying infrast…