Microsoft's fifth July update expands agent monitoring, adds offline speech transcription and changes Python environment management.

What Makes It So Popular? Visual Studio Code, or VS Code for short, has quickly become a favorite among developers worldwide. Released by Microsoft in 2015, this open-source code editor combines the ...

Last time, I installed VSCode on my Mac and tried opening a sample folder for article notes. Just having the file list on the left and being able to open Markdown in the center made it easier to see ...

LLM-powered tools have come a long way over the last few years. What were typically considered tacky gimmicks have now become QoL-enhancing assets that are capable of automating tedious tasks. This ...

Wildlife researchers have found an unconventional way to help control invasive Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades – by using one of the snakes’ favorite prey. Opossums are a key food source for ...

If there’s one universal experience with AI-powered code development tools, it’s how they feel like magic until they don’t. One moment, you’re watching an AI agent slurp up your codebase and deliver a ...

The Python extension now supports multi-project workspaces, where each Python project within a workspace gets its own test tree and Python environment. This document explains how multi-project testing ...

If VS Code freezes on open, the notebook is often too heavy to render because outputs are saved inside the .ipynb (dataframes, logs, plots, HTML). Clearing outputs reduces the file to cells only, ...

Microsoft has cut its sales targets for its agentic AI software after struggling to find buyers interested in using it. In some cases, targets have been slashed by up to 50%, suggesting Microsoft ...

In this tutorial, we walk through an advanced yet practical workflow using SpeechBrain. We start by generating our own clean speech samples with gTTS, deliberately adding noise to simulate real-world ...

Officials estimate that pythons have killed 95% of small mammals as well as thousands of birds in Everglades National Park South Florida Water Management District via AP; AP Photo/Lynne Sladky ...