Everything you may have missed from the past week.

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

For the last few years, Visual Studio Code has delivered new major updates each month. Now, those updates will arrive once a week, and the first weekly update has some helpful changes to AI agents.

VS Code 1.112 shipped March 18 with expanded Copilot agent autonomy controls. A new Autopilot permission level lets Copilot CLI run tasks without user approval dialogs. MCP server sandboxing restricts ...

TL;DR: Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $42.49 (MSRP $499.99) with code MARCH15 through March 29. Microsoft’s Visual Studio has long been a standard tool for professional developers, ...

Microsoft plans major WSL improvements in Windows 11 2026, with faster file performance, better networking, and easier setup ...

The new family of AI models can run on a smartphone, a Raspberry Pi, or a data centre, and is free to use commercially.

Ubisoft subsidiary Red Storm Entertainment has just laid off over 100 developers and is ceasing game development, according to new reports. Both VGC and GamesIndustry.biz reported on the layoffs at ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now includes a Tool Catalog that can scaffold a Python or TypeScript MCP server with the core transport and registration plumbing already set up. In ...

Ironically, it's the tech-iest there is ...