The Santa Cruz Sentinel's Letters to the Editor for April 18, 2026.

We are living in an incredible time in which we can suddenly create almost anything without needing to master complex tools.

Microsoft has embedded GitHub Copilot as a default VS Code extension in version 1.116, adding agent debug logging, terminal ...

Now shipping in the VS Code Insiders build, Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code Agents preview offers an early look at a separate companion app for agent sessions, approvals, workspace discovery, and ...

Across the April 8 and April 15, 2026 releases, Visual Studio Code expanded its agent-focused tooling with a new companion app, better terminal interaction, session debugging and more built-in Copilot ...

235 production-ready Claude Code skills, plugins, and agent skills for 12 AI coding tools. The most comprehensive open-source library of Claude Code skills and agent plugins — also works with OpenAI ...

Local AI > browser tabs. Not even close.

Abstract: Collaborative Code editors are essential tools in modern software development. It plays a critical role in enhancing productivity and collaboration among distributed teams. However, ...

North Korean hackers pushed out malicious updates to a popular open source project by hacking a top developer's computer in a ...

Gartner issued a same-day advisory after Anthropic leaked Claude Code's full architecture. CrowdStrike CTO Elia Zaitsev and Enkrypt AI CSO Merritt Baer weigh in on agent permissions and derived IP ...

Anthropic PBC is rushing to address the inadvertent release of internal source code behind Claude Code, an AI-powered assistant that has become a key moneymaker for the company. Thousands of copies of ...

Nearly 2,000 internal files were briefly leaked after ‘human error’, raising fresh security questions at the AI company Anthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its ...