Microsoft has announced that NuGet now supports Trusted Publishing for publishing packages from GitHub Actions. Trusted Publishing is an authentication method that utilizes the OpenID Connect (OIDC) standard. Rather than using long-lived API tokens when publishing software packages, an OIDC identity token can be exchanged for a short-lived API token. It has been adopted by … continue reading
OpenAI updates Codex The company released GPT-5-Codex, a variant of GPT-5 that is optimized for Codex, OpenAI’s AI coding agent. It was trained on real-world engineering tasks like building projects from scratch, adding features and tests, debugging, large-scale refactoring, and code reviews. “With these updates, Codex moves closer to what we’ve been building toward all … continue reading
Microsoft has launched its Insiders preview program for Visual Studio 2026, providing insights into what developers can expect from the upcoming release. One of the main highlights is that the company plans to integrate AI even further into the IDE, describing it as being “woven into the daily rhythms of coding” as opposed to being … continue reading
Microsoft has announced it is going to be retiring the Microsoft Graph CLI, with a deprecation phase starting now and full retirement scheduled for August 28th, 2026. During the deprecation phase, Microsoft will not add any new features and will only address critical vulnerabilities. According to Microsoft, this change is part of the company’s efforts … continue reading
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
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’s CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced his plans to leave the company at the end of the year. Dohmke says he will be staying with the company through the end of the year to help with the transition. When he leaves GitHub, he plans to build a new startup. “After all this time, my startup … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Aspire 9.4, which the company says is the largest update yet. .NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages that Microsoft provides to enable developers to build distributed apps with observability built in. With this release, Aspire’s CLI is now generally available and includes four core … continue reading
Cloudflare now blocks AI crawlers by default, introduces pay per crawl model Last year, Cloudflare introduced a setting that allowed website owners to block AI crawlers. Now, the company is announcing that this setting will now be the default rather than a user needing to switch it on. The company explained that by switching to … continue reading
OpenAI announces Codex updates The coding agent Codex can now access the internet during task execution, opening up new capabilities such as the ability to install base dependencies, run tests that need external resources, and upgrade or install packages. Internet access is turned off by default. It can be enabled when a new environment is … continue reading
Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 are capable of undertaking long-running tasks and can work continuously for several hours. Claude Opus 4 excels at coding and complex problem-solving, whereas Claude Sonnet 4 improves on Sonnet 3.7 and balances performance and efficiency. In addition to releasing these new models, the company also revealed a beta for … continue reading
