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☁️ Cloud security🔐 gap widens! 66% of orgs lack confidence in real-time threat detection across multi-cloud environments. Identity risks top the charts at 77% 📊
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Report: Cloud Complexity Outpaces Security Defenses as Multi-Cloud Becomes the Norm -- Virtualization Review
The 2026 Cloud Security Report from Fortinet reveals that while cloud security budgets are rising, 66% of organizations lack confidence in real-time threat detection across increasingly complex multi-...
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January 27, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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🚀 Choosing the right GPU for AI? It's all about the VRAM! 💾 Memory is the real bottleneck—not processing power. Learn why you need 1.2-1.5x your model size in GPU memory 🧠✨
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What GPU You Really Need for AI Workloads -- Virtualization Review
Understanding GPU memory requirements is essential for AI workloads, as VRAM capacity--not processing power--determines which models you can run, with total memory needs typically exceeding model size...
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January 27, 2026 at 5:54 PM
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Hands-on testing shows Cursor, Windsurf, and Google Antigravity diverging sharply in how they plan work, execute changes, and hand control to AI 🤖
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What a Difference a VS Code Fork Makes: Antigravity, Cursor and Windsurf Compared -- Visual Studio Magazine
VS Code forks like Cursor, Windsurf, and Antigravity may share a common foundation, but hands-on testing shows they reflect sharply different philosophies around AI autonomy, workflow structure, and d...
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January 27, 2026 at 4:48 AM
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🧪The real differences showed up late when each critiqued its own work & decided what to fix, add or rethink 🤖they didn’t just build differently — they thought differently.🧭

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Hands On: Testing Cursor, Windsurf and VS Code on Text-to-Website Generation -- Visual Studio Magazine
A hands-on comparison shows how Cursor, Windsurf, and Visual Studio Code approach text-to-website generation differently once they move beyond the basics and begin redesigning and extending their own ...
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January 24, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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New VS Code extension visualizes code as a graph 🕸️ Big HN buzz 💬 Devs like the idea 🧠 but raised flags on speed ⚠️ and closed source 🔒
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Buzz About VS Code Extension for Codebase Visualization -- Visual Studio Magazine
A new Visual Studio Code extension called Nogic sparked a wide-ranging Hacker News discussion, with commenters praising its graph-based approach to understanding complex codebases while also raising c...
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January 23, 2026 at 12:15 AM
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Copilot Studio’s VS Code extension is now GA 🚀 Build and manage agents locally 🧠 with Git workflows 🔁 and AI assist 🤖 — without leaving your editor.
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Copilot Studio Extension for VS Code Goes GA -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft has released the Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code to general availability, enabling teams to build, version, review, and deploy Copilot Studio agents using standard software d...
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January 22, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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Writing better Copilot prompts starts with structure 🧠🤖
Prompt Coach helps refine goals, context, sources & expectations to deliver cleaner, more useful results ✍️💡
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How to Use the 'Prompt Coach' AI Agent to Create Effective Prompts for Copilot -- Visual Studio Magazine
A recursive vibe journalism experiment in which Microsoft 365 Copilot's 'Prompt Coach' agent is used to wholly create an article on how to use 'Prompt Coach' agent to prompt M365 Copilot.
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January 22, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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New tools land in VS Code ⚛️💻
GitHub Copilot 🤖 now helps write, test, and run hybrid quantum apps, with new libraries for chemistry 🧪 and error correction.
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Microsoft Expands Quantum Development Kit with New Open-Source Tools, VS Code Integration -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft released new open‑source quantum development tools that deepen VS Code and Copilot integration while targeting real‑world hybrid quantum workloads in chemistry, optimization, and machine lea...
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January 22, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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The Tech Debt Trap (And the Rewrite Trap That Makes It Worse) -- Visual Studio Live!

Benjamin Day 🧠 explains how technical debt 🧱 slows teams & why big rewrites 🔄 often fail. The fix 🛠️: incremental improvements with tests of code that changes ⏳.

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The Tech Debt Trap (And the Rewrite Trap That Makes It Worse) -- Visual Studio Live!: Training Conferences and Events for Enterprise Microsoft .NET and Azure Developers
Benjamin Day explains how technical debt quietly compounds business risk, why full rewrites often make the problem worse, and how incremental testing-focused improvements provide a safer path forward.
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January 21, 2026 at 8:38 PM
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Dr. James McCaffrey 🧠 walks through quadratic regression 📈, adding squared and interaction terms ➕🔢 to linear models. He shows a from-scratch C# implementation 💻 trained with SGD ⚙️ on synthetic data 🤖
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Quadratic Regression with SGD Training Using C# -- Visual Studio Magazine
Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of quadratic regression, implemented from scratch, with SGD training, using C#. Compared to standard linear regression, quadratic regre...
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January 21, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Visual Studio 2026 ships with Copilot 🧠, but it is not the only AI option.
I looked at Marketplace data 📊 and found 5 non-Copilot AI coding tools with 100K+ installs.
Some surprises in adoption and ratings 👀
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Top 5 AI Tools for Visual Studio 2026 -- Visual Studio Magazine
A review of five non-Copilot AI coding assistants available in the Visual Studio Marketplace that support Visual Studio 2026 and exceed 100,000 installs.
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January 20, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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January 20, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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GenAI apps break down fast without the right data layer 🧠
Lino Tadros shows how PostgreSQL + PGVector 🐘🔍 & Azure AI can improve RAG relevance, reduce hallucinations & scale apps for production 🚀
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Supercharging GenAI Apps with PostgreSQL and Azure AI -- Visual Studio Magazine
Learn how to supercharge your GenAI apps with PostgreSQL and Azure AI. Lino Tadros shows how PGVector and AI Extensions in VS Code turn PostgreSQL into an intelligent foundation for high-performance G...
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January 20, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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Hey devs 👋 when anyone can feed an image 🖼️ into Visual Studio Copilot and spin up a navigation-enabled web app ⚡🧱 in one fell swoop — what will YOU be doing 🤔
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Hands-On with Copilot Vision: VS Code's Head Start and How the IDE Is Catching Up -- Visual Studio Magazine
What a difference a year makes in the fast-moving advanced AI space. GitHub Copilot's vision and image-based features arrived first in VS Code in February 2025 and have since become more integrated th...
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January 14, 2026 at 6:41 PM
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Missed bugs 🐞, outages 🚨, technical debt ⚠️ -- failure is part of the job.
Semira Allen 🎤 explores how developers and teams can build resilience 💪 and learn without fear.
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A Developer's Guide to Failure: Building Resilience in the Face of Setbacks -- Visual Studio Magazine
Engineering Manager Semira Allen examines how developers and teams can respond to failure with resilience, psychological safety, and accountability rather than blame.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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VS Code 1.108 puts AI agent workflows front and center 🤖
Copilot loads workspace-defined skills on demand, alongside updates to chat sessions, terminal tooling, and accessibility ⚙️🧩
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VS Code December 2025 Update Puts AI 'Agent Skills' Front and Center -- Visual Studio Magazine
Visual Studio Code 1.108 expands AI capabilities with experimental Agent Skills for Copilot, alongside updates to chat sessions, terminal tooling, accessibility, and core editor workflows.
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January 12, 2026 at 11:50 PM
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Tried the new experimental Agent Skills in VS Code and built a Copilot-powered copy editor ✍️
Changes show up as clean diffs before applying, which makes it practical, not scary 🤖
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Hands On with New Experimental GitHub Copilot 'Agent Skills' in VS Code -- Visual Studio Magazine
Visual Studio Code 1.108 introduces Agent Skills for GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to define reusable, domain-specific automation that can handle everything from code refactoring to custom text ...
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January 12, 2026 at 1:11 AM
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When a VS Code extension I relied on stopped working 🧩, I rebuilt the workflow using snippets and keybindings ⌨️. Same result, different paths, and some surprising AI advice along the way 🤖.
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AI Faceoff: Customized VS Code Commands -- Visual Studio Magazine
After a long-unused VS Code extension stopped working, I compared multiple AI tools to recreate the same HTML-wrapping workflow using built-in snippets and keybindings. Mileage among the systems varie...
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January 10, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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Latest rankings show C# with the biggest year-over-year gain 📈
The same report flags TypeScript as a language to watch 👀
A look at what TIOBE, RedMonk, and PYPL say now about the scene.
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C# Grabs Language of the Year, TIOBE Predicts TypeScript Rise -- Visual Studio Magazine
C# was named TIOBE’s Programming Language of the Year, while the index also pointed to a potential rise for TypeScript. Here’s how the latest rankings compare across TIOBE, RedMonk, and PYPL.
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January 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
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Devs didn't unplug over the holidays 📺
19 VS Live! Orlando sessions hit YouTube and pulled nearly 30,000 views, mostly on advanced topics like Copilot debugging.
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Microsoft: Devs Are Choosing Immersive Learning as AI and Modern .NET Accelerate -- Visual Studio Magazine
Strong holiday viewership of advanced VS Live! Orlando sessions points to growing demand for immersive, hands-on training as AI-assisted development and modern .NET architectures reshape how developer...
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January 7, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Indexing can make or break SQL Server performance. 🗄️
Denny Cherry (@mrdenny.com) digs into column order, filtered indexes & tuning mistakes at VSLive! Las Vegas on March 17. ⚙️
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Mastering SQL Server Indexing: What Every .NET Developer Needs to Know -- Visual Studio Magazine
At the upcoming Visual Studio Live! Las Vegas developer conference, SQL expert Denny Cherry will share essential indexing strategies to boost performance in SQL Server databases--from 2000 to 2025. He...
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January 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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This can be a strong option for numeric prediction problems 📈
Here's an end-to-end KRR implementation in JS, including RBF kernels and Cholesky-based matrix inverse training 🧮
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Kernel Ridge Regression with Cholesky Inverse Training Using JavaScript -- Visual Studio Magazine
Dr. James McCaffrey presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of the kernel ridge regression technique to predict a single numeric value, implemented using JavaScript. The demo trains the model usi...
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January 6, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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Upgrading server-side code from .NET 8 to .NET 10? 🚀
Reddit devs say it takes minutes ⏱️, brings free performance gains ⚡, and rarely breaks things — even for large backends
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Devs Discuss Updating Backend Code from .NET 8 to .NET 10: 'Like a Breeze' -- Visual Studio Magazine
Reddit developers discussing upgrades from .NET 8 to .NET 10 report few breaking changes, minimal effort, and consistent performance and LTS benefits, even across large, multi-project codebases.
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January 5, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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C++ devs in Visual Studio 🧰 are getting a more serious Copilot workflow 🤖: Microsoft is previewing C++ code editing tools that expose project-wide symbol info, references, and more in VS2026 Insiders.
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C++ Joins C# in Visual Studio's Deep Copilot Tier -- Visual Studio Magazine
Microsoft has moved C++ into Visual Studio's deepest Copilot tier, adding symbol-aware tools in public preview that let Copilot agent mode refactor and edit large C++ codebases across multiple files, ...
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December 19, 2025 at 7:22 PM