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Microsoft Windows has improved massively as a developer environment over the past few years. Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you work seamlessly with Linux on Windows without the clunk and overhead of a VM. All of the popular software development tools that figure into common workflows exist in native Windows editions. And Microsoft has introduced a slew of developer amenities directly int…

With the rapid rise in the use of AI, large language models (LLMs), and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), the IT security landscape is undergoing a seismic shift. Recently, Anthropic previewed a new foundational model, Claude Mythos, that has shaken the cybersecurity community . Although Mythos is a general-purpose model, it has demonstrated a significant ability to handle computer security t…

Anthropic has introduced Claude Opus 5, an update to its hybrid reasoning model that promises improved performance on coding and knowledge tasks, more capable agents, and sharper professional work. Introduced July 24 , Claude Opus 5 provides greatly improved performance at the same cost as its predecessor, Opus 4.8, Anthropic said. Anthropic described Claude Opus 5 as a thoughtful and proactive m…

Model Context Protocol ( MCP ), the emerging standard for connecting AI models to external tools and enterprise data, is undergoing its biggest architectural overhaul yet. The latest release candidate , scheduled for release on July 28, removes protocol-level sessions in favor of a stateless architecture, a change which industry experts say is intended to make MCP easier to deploy across standard…

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.130, an update to the code editor that brings several improvements to the Agents window, along with enhancements to the agent host and the terminal. VS Code 1.130 was released on July 22 , one week after VS Code 1.129 . Developers can access the release for Windows, Linux, or Mac from code.visualstudio.com . With the new release, the Agents window gets …

Enterprise software developers continue to be in danger of falling victim to slopsquatting, where AI coding tools hallucinate the existence of nonexistent libraries and hackers create malicious packages in response. The top AI coding tools are remarkably consistent in their hallucinations: Researcher Aleksandr Churilov found the same 127 fake package names generated by five different LLMs. Slopsq…

Over the past year, I had the same conversation with almost every team starting an AI initiative. Should we build on Semantic Kernel, AutoGen or Foundry? At first it felt like the most important architectural decision we’d make. Each framework had its own philosophy, each promised to be the foundation for enterprise AI, and picking the wrong one felt like an expensive mistake. I spent a lot of ti…

EF Core is Microsoft’s flagship ORM (object-relational mapper), the software layer that allows .NET developers to work with relational databases. The DbContext class is the core component of the EF Core framework for managing database operations. However, the DbContext class in EF Core is not thread-safe. Hence, if you share DbContext instances between multiple threads, you will often encounter d…

A new version of Python’s native package management tool, pip, will remove a limitation that has frustrated Python developers for years. If you wanted to install the dependencies for a given package, but not install the package itself, you were stuck. Either you had to extract the dependency list from the package and install it by hand, or you had to build the whole package anyway. Why was this a…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has sought to allay concerns over the delayed release of the Gemini 3.5 Pro large language model. He dodged questions about it in Google’s quarterly earnings call on Wednesday by focusing on the company’s next frontier AI model, Gemini 4, and plans to release subsequent LLMs at an almost monthly cadence. His comments came a day after Google unveiled Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3…

Running containers on Windows has never been as easy as it should be. While there are versions of Docker Desktop and Podman that work with both the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and Hyper-V, I’ve found both overly complex and unstable. Where they have worked, it’s turned out that Hyper-V has been the best option, using a Linux virtual machine to host my containers. That all adds up to overhea…

Leadership wants to scale AI. Budgets are tripling. Adoption is up. Then the CFO asks the question every board now asks: which of these initiatives is actually profitable? Most organizations cannot answer that question, not because they lack visibility into cost, but because the cost data they have was never designed to produce that answer. Applying lessons learned from managing cloud spend won’t…

G# (GSharp) is moving forward as a programming language for Microsoft’s .NET platform, touted as bringing Go -, Kotlin -, and Swift -style ergonomics to the CLR (Common Language Runtime). The language is described by its creators as modern, simple, and accessible. Although pre-1.0 and still growing, G# aims to be for people who want a small, predictable language with direct access to the .NET eco…

Oracle’s July 2026 Critical Patch Update, its largest ever, contains 1,449 new security patches spanning 32 product families, from Oracle Database and E-Business Suite to PeopleSoft, GoldenGate, Java SE, and Fusion Middleware. Fusion Middleware was particularly hard hit, with new security patches for 355 security vulnerabilities, 219 of them remotely exploitable without authentication, meaning th…

Oracle is expanding its Cloud@Customer on-premises portfolio with a managed database offering that it says will enable enterprises to run databases, applications, and AI agents in their own data centers, helping CIOs modernize mid-sized workloads while meeting data residency, regulatory, and low-latency requirements. The hybrid cloud offering, Base Database Cloud@Customer, combines existing datab…