Microsoft has released the August update for Visual Studio 2022, adding several features related to AI-assisted development. The company announced that GPT-5 is now integrated into the IDE, and support for MCP is generally available as well. MCP support enables developers to authenticate with any OAuth provider directly from the IDE, perform one-click installation of … continue reading
The product analytics company Amplitude is announcing new self-service capabilities that will enable marketing and growth teams to run user experiments without waiting on development teams. “Every click and conversion matters, and marketers can’t afford to wait weeks just to test an idea. Unfortunately, that’s the reality with most legacy experimentation tools: visual editors break … continue reading
Android will soon require app developers to go through an identity verification process before their apps can be installed on users’ devices—regardless of if the apps are downloaded through the Play Store or sideloaded. “Think of it like an ID check at the airport, which confirms a traveler’s identity but is separate from the security … continue reading
Today at the Open Source Summit Europe, The Linux Foundation announced that the open-source document database, DocumentDB, would be joining the foundation and be released under the MIT license. DocumentDB was created by Microsoft and launched earlier this year. Since its release, it has gained 1.9k stars and hundreds of contributions, feedback, and users, according … continue reading
Agent Mode in Gemini Code Assist now available in VS Code and IntelliJ This mode was introduced last month to the Insiders Channel for VS Code to expand the capabilities of Code Assist beyond prompts and responses to support actions like multiple file edits, full project context, and built-in tools and integration with ecosystem tools. … continue reading
Microsoft has been adding several new diagnostics features to Copilot in Visual Studio for .NET to make the debugging process easier. “The same tools you rely on are now able to keep up with you, identify issues more quickly, offer context-smart fixes, and help you move from asking ‘why is this broken?’ to ‘oh, I … continue reading
GitHub has added a new panel to its UI that enables developers to invoke the Copilot coding agent from anywhere on the site. The coding agent was launched a few months ago, allowing developers to assign an issue to it and have it work in the background and create a draft pull request. The functionality … continue reading
Black Duck adds new security app to GitHub Marketplace The Black Duck Security GitHub App enables static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) scans in GitHub repositories. Scans are triggered automatically by code commits and pull requests, and results are added as comments to the pull request if issues are detected. It … continue reading
Codeglide.ai, a subsidiary of the DevOps company Opsera, is launching its MCP server lifecycle platform that will enable developers to turn APIs into MCP servers. The solution constantly monitors API changes and updates the MCP servers accordingly. It also provides context-aware, secure, and stateful AI access without the developer needing to write custom code. According … continue reading
For decades, software testing has been built on a simple idea: humans write tests, machines run them. That model has persisted since the first commercial recorders appeared in the mid-1990s. Testers would record a flow, edit a script, maintain it as the application evolved, and repeat the cycle endlessly. Tools improved incrementally, but the basic … continue reading
Testing company BrowserStack has announced a new Chrome extension called Testing Toolkit that includes 11 different manual web testing tools. According to the company, manual web testing has been very fragmented, and QA teams are often switching between multiple different apps and accounts, leading to unnecessary context switching and lost time. The Testing Toolkit acts … continue reading
Anthropic expands Claude Sonnet 4’s context window to 1M tokens With this larger context window, Claude can process codebases with 75,000+ lines of code in a single request. This allows it to better understand project architecture, cross-file dependencies, and make suggestions that fit with the complete system design. Longer context windows are now in beta … continue reading
Application monitoring company Sentry is making it easier to gain visibility into MCP servers with the launch of a new monitoring tool. With MCP monitoring, developers can understand things like which clients are experiencing errors, which tools are most used, or which tools are running slow. They can also correlate errors with events like traffic … continue reading
Google is enhancing its AI coding agent, Jules, with new functionality that reviews and critiques code while Jules is still working on it. “In a world of rapid iteration, the critic moves the review to earlier in the process and into the act of generation itself. This means the code you review has already been … continue reading
