Everything you may have missed from the past week.

OpenAI's rumored superapp plans could merge ChatGPT, Codex, and its Atlas browser into a single platform, simplifying how users interact with AI tools.

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

Astral tools and expertise will be leveraged in OpenAI Codex agentic coding app to expand AI capabilities across the software ...

VS Code 1.112 adds native image support for agents, and I used it on three Microsoft AI Foundry leaderboard screenshots to see whether it could turn chart-heavy visuals into a useful developer summary ...

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

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 ...

One IDE to rule them all. You won't want to use anything else.

See the VS Code Tips wiki for a quick primer on getting started with VS Code. Setting up the JDK The extension requires JDK 17 or newer to run. Optionally, set a different JDK to compile and run ...

The Container Tools extension makes it easy to build, manage, and deploy containerized applications from Visual Studio Code. It also provides one-click debugging of Node.js, Python, and .NET inside a ...

Abstract: A visual chatbot is a progressive kind of communication software that has the ability to process, apprehend and provide responses to any prompt as asked in different formats like images, ...

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions. Microsoft has introduced C++ ...