Copilot .Net modernization tool a ‘huge downgrade,’ devs say – and no longer free

A post describing how to use GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio to migrate a .Net Framework application to modern .NET has provoked pushback from...

Inside the cloud’s shift to Arm: Why hyperscalers and the industry are making the switch

How Arm is redefining cloud performance — and how developers are already building on it If you thought that Arm was just for mobile applications,...

We take a look at Google’s Antigravity: Agentic AI development but some frustrations for early adopters

Google has previewed Antigravity, a new IDE forked from the open source base of Visual Studio Code, described as an agentic development platform –...

Google VP of development explains how ‘citizen developers’ must be tempered by the pros

At Google’s London Summit last week, developer news included three new AI-related features in Firebase Studio, a browser-based IDE for the Firebase platform, including...

AWS S3 gets vector buckets with new algorithms for reasonable performance at lower cost, VP tells us

Updated: AWS has previewed a new bucket type for S3 (simple storage service), designed for AI workloads, and positioned as a lower-cost option for...

Hands on with Kiro, the AWS preview of an agentic AI IDE driven by specifications

AWS has previewed Kiro, a fork of Code OSS (the open-source part of Visual Studio Code) which promotes a AI-driven developer workflow based on...

Microsoft shovels extra Copilot features into VS Code amid dev complaints of ‘more AI bloat’

Microsoft has updated Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to version 1.102 with another bundle of Copilot features including general availability of MCP (Model Context...

Docker adds AI agents to Compose along with GPU-powered cloud Offload service

Docker has added AI agent support to its Compose command, plus a new GPU-enabled Offload service which enables compute-intensive AI workloads in ephemeral cloud...

Despite 30 months work, core developer says Python’s JIT compiler is often slower than the interpreter

Ken Jin, a CPython core developer who works on the experimental JIT (just in time) compiler optimizer, says that after two and half years...

Things Go better with telemetry: Microsoft adds phone home to its Go build

Microsoft will add telemetry collection to its build of the Go language compiler and tools, used for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) compliance, and...