Forgive me for starting with a cliché, a piece of finance jargon that has recently slipped into the tech lexicon, but I’m afraid I must talk about “moats.” Popularized decades ago by Warren Buffett to ...

A dozen critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the vm2 Node.js library that could be exploited by bad actors to break out of the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on susceptible ...

Microsoft is shipping GitHub Copilot as a built-in VS Code extension starting with version 1.116, eliminating the manual install step that separated new users from AI coding assistance. Published on ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code version 1.116, introducing a set of AI-focused improvements that refine developer workflows and make Copilot available out of the box. The update is now ...

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The software industry is racing to write code with artificial intelligence. It is struggling, badly, to make sure that code holds up once it ships. A survey of 200 senior site-reliability and DevOps ...

Torvalds and the Linux maintainers are taking a pragmatic approach to using AI in the kernel. AI or no AI, it's people, not LLMs, who are responsible for Linux's code. If you try to mess around with ...

Recently updated guidelines for the Linux kernel tell us that AI-generated code is now being accepted into the open-source project, provided it is properly reviewed and certified by a human. This ...

The Linux kernel community has formally clarified that it will allow contributors to use AI coding tools, provided a human takes full responsibility for the results. The new documentation for "AI ...

The use of AI-powered tooling is becoming increasingly common in most development environments. Notable examples in this area include GitHub Copilot, Anthropic Claude, ChatGPT Codex, and more. As such ...

Cursor AI Coding is reshaping how developers build software by combining a GPT-powered IDE with intelligent automation. Instead of switching between tools, developers can rely on a single AI coding ...

VS Code 1.112 shipped March 18 with expanded Copilot agent autonomy controls. A new Autopilot permission level lets Copilot CLI run tasks without user approval dialogs. MCP server sandboxing restricts ...