Microsoft is keeping Visual Studio's new built-in Agent Skills switched off by default while a public dashboard measures whether their performance gains justify the additional tokens they may consume.

LLVM-generated code is used every day by billions of people on billions of devices—an outcome that can be clearly traced to research funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) starting in ...

CNCF graduated OpenTelemetry on May 21, 2026. Microsoft added OpenTelemetry to recent .NET, VS Code and Azure tooling. AWS, Google Cloud, Datadog and Grafana document OpenTelemetry support.

This blogpost introduces our latest white paper, presented at Virus Bulletin 2025, where we detail the operations of the North Korea-aligned threat actor we call DeceptiveDevelopment and its ...

Researchers from security firm Trend Micro warn that a critical remote code execution vulnerability patched in April in the Langflow AI agent framework is being exploited to deploy botnet malware. The ...

During the director’s commentary for Monty Python And The Holy Grail, co-director Terry Gilliam offers a fascinating insight into the creative differences between himself and the film’s other director ...

A previously undocumented China-aligned advanced persistent threat (APT) group named PlushDaemon has been linked to a supply chain attack targeting a South Korean virtual private network (VPN) ...

ESET researchers provide details on a previously undisclosed China-aligned APT group that we track as PlushDaemon and one of its cyberespionage operations: the supply-chain compromise in 2023 of VPN ...

Copilot in Excel introduces new finance-focused capabilities that help teams work to their standards, use trusted financial data, and stay in control of every change. GPT‑5.5 Instant is now available ...

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Microsoft says the next major upgrade to its flagship IDE will be faster, more streamlined, more intelligent, and 64-bit, making out-of-memory exceptions a thing of the past. Microsoft has big plans ...