OpenAI has acquired Astral, the company behind Python tools uv and Ruff, to integrate them into its Codex platform as it competes with Anthropic's Claude Code.

Microsoft used Nvidia's GTC conference this week to roll out a series of enterprise AI announcements spanning agent infrastructure, real-time voice interactions and next-generation GPU deployments.

Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

Microsoft's February 2026 Foundry update includes broader platform changes, but the most immediate developer-facing news for VS Code users is an AI Toolkit refresh centered on tool discovery, agent ...

I recently noticed this too while using UV. Setting Python-envs › Terminal: Auto Activation Type to off in the settings (or equivalently adding "python-envs.terminal.autoActivationType": "off", in ...

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I gave claude a prompt that wasn't very long, and it ended up thinking itself long enough that the prompt timed out. Extension version: 0.37.8 GPU0: VENDOR= 0x8086, DEVICE=0x3e9b [Intel(R) UHD ...

Microsoft Defender Experts identified a coordinated developer-targeting campaign delivered through malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials.

Abstract: Programming language source code vulnerability mining is crucial to improving the security of software systems, but current research is mostly focused on the C language field, with little ...