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Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor has reached version 1.126, which is highlighted by a new security mode for untrusted code. Also with the new release, VS Code now displays total cost for chat sessions (instead of just for individual turns) and allows users to manage multiple chats side-by-side in a single agent host session. Published June 24 , VS Code 1.26 can be downloaded from code.visual…

Deno Land has published Deno 2.9, an update of the company’s JavaScript / TypeScript / WebAssembly runtime that features deno desktop , a mechanism for building native desktop applications from the web stack developers already know. Introduced June 25 , Deno 2.9 also improves startup time, memory use, and HTTP throughput, the company said. Deno installation instructions can be found at docs.deno.…

In the late 1960s, elite Navy pilots began losing dogfights. The deep, instrument-level understanding of exactly where they were, what their aircraft was doing, and what was coming next had been automated. And when moments of crisis arrived, they didn’t have the situational awareness to respond. Put a plane on autopilot long enough, and the pilot stops actually flying. The same dynamic is playing…

Before Tobi Lütke ran Shopify, he learned programming through Germany’s apprenticeship system⁠, the way people have learned trades forever: in a shared workshop, watching people who already knew what they were doing. More recently, describing Shopify’s River , he reached for a related word: Lehrwerkstatt ⁠, a teaching workshop where “the whole shop floor is the classroom.” X has been agog by the …

US authorities are getting decidedly twitchy about frontier AI models. Just a couple of weeks after ordering Anthropic to prevent foreign companies from getting hold of its latest release, Mythos/Fable 5, it’s been putting the squeeze on another AI company.. Now, the Trump administration is asking OpenAI to hold back on the general release of GPT-5.6, according to a report from Bloomberg . OpenAI…

For years, enterprises have maintained separate systems for processing transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) data, even if that meant moving data between them. However, the rise of autonomous agents and AI applications needing immediate access to data while generating volumes of operational data themselves, has exposed the cost and complexity of maintaining those separate systems. The indust…

For the past several years, the default assumption in enterprise IT was that AI would follow the same path as many other workloads and settle into the public cloud. That assumption seemed reasonable on the surface. The hyperscalers had the infrastructure, GPU capacity , managed services, and developer ecosystems. If you wanted to move fast, public cloud AI looked like the obvious answer. That log…

For a decade, confidential computing has been chipping away at one of security’s hardest problems: data is well encrypted in transit and at rest, but when a processor works on it, that data sits in memory in the clear, exposed to anyone with privileged host access. “Confidential computing’s aim was to solve this with a trusted execution environment, a subset of the CPU that runs the encrypted wor…

As enterprises deploy increasing numbers of AI agents across applications and organizations, the Linux Foundation on Wednesday announced plans to launch a new Agent Name Service framework designed to establish identity, ownership, and trust for these systems. The ANS framework , which is expected to allow systems and users to verify who an agent represents, what permissions it has, and whether it…

Anthropic has accused Alibaba of using nearly 25,000 fraudulent accounts to extract capabilities from its Claude AI models, in what the US AI company described as the largest known attack of its kind against it. The campaign, carried out between April 22 and June 5, generated more than 28.8 million exchanges with Claude, according to a June 10 letter Anthropic sent to senior members of the US Sen…

Microsoft has been rethinking its commitment to Windows for a while now, with Insider builds of the operating system showing a swing away from web-based user experiences and back to native code. That commitment got a boost at Build 2026 with a bundle of announcements that focused on tools and features that help developers take advantage of the platform. The most obvious is support for the standar…

Key takeaways Backstage solved the portal problem, not the platform problem. A portal organizes catalogs, documentation, and templates. A platform owns deployments, environments, policies, and runtime operations. Backstage assumes that the execution layer exists beneath it. Point-to-point integrations become a maintenance burden. Many organizations end up with a “messy middle” where Backstage is …

Enterprises may soon be paying as much for their developers’ AI token usage as they do for their salaries. According to Gartner , these costs will meet, or even exceed, the typical software engineer’s monthly salary within the next two years. This is not only because developers are increasingly adopting generative AI and agentic tools , it reflects a trend toward consumption-based licensing model…

Claude Tag is Anthropic’s latest attempt at getting Claude out of your DMs and into your team’s Slack channels. AI assistants are increasingly showing up in the workplace to perform research, coding, writing, and analysis, but the results of those interactions typically remains tied to individual conversations rather than being shared across projects and teams. That limitation is what Anthropic i…

Microsoft has been pushing hard to make Visual Studio Code a major way to consume its AI services, mostly in the form of GitHub Copilot . GitHub Copilot’s deep integration with VS Code brings many conveniences — inline autocomplete, for instance — but it’s frustrating for those, like me, who would rather use another model provider, or even a locally hosted LLM, for those functions. Visual Studio …