Just two days after GitHub announced usage-based billing for Copilot, Microsoft shipped VS Code 1.118 -- under its new weekly release cadence -- with significant token efficiency improvements designed ...

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...

The April update suppresses Copilot completions while IntelliSense is active, addressing a long-running editor conflict.

GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, prompting user concerns about predictability, model access, monthly credit limits and whether unchanged plan prices will translate into ...

Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it ...

Visual Studio 2026 includes GitHub Copilot functionality built into the IDE, while third-party AI coding assistants remain available through the Visual Studio Marketplace. Using Marketplace install ...

New research on the effect of AI-powered GitHub Copilot on software development cites some adverse results. The "Coding on Copilot" whitepaper from GitClear sought to investigate the quality and ...

VS Code forks are diverging rapidly, not just in features, but in how they structure AI-assisted development workflows. Cursor emphasizes speed and visual polish, Windsurf leans toward dynamic ...

Microsoft officially announced TypeScript 7.0 Beta on April 21, 2026. The company says TypeScript 7.0 is often 10 times faster than 6.0. The beta ships through @typescript/native-preview@beta and tsgo ...

Microsoft's Data API Builder is designed to help developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building a full data access layer from scratch. In this Q&A, Steve Jones previews ...

Dozens of machine learning algorithms require computing the inverse of a matrix. Computing a matrix inverse is conceptually easy, but implementation is one of the most challenging tasks in numerical ...