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Zig project ditches GitHub for Codeberg but move could be costly

The Zig project is migrating from GitHub to Codeberg, a non-profit Git hosting company based in Berlin, Germany, […]

OCaml maintainers reject massive AI-generated pull request

The maintainers of OCaml, an open-source functional programming language, rejected an AI-generated pull request (PR) with more than […]

Microsoft Visual Studio shifts to annual releases, raising cost concerns

Microsoft is accelerating Visual Studio’s update cycle, moving from quarterly to monthly feature updates and introducing annual major […]

Google’s Chromium team decides it will add JPEG XL support, reverses ‘obsolete’ declaration

The Google Chromium team, responsible for the browser engine used in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and more, has […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]