The anti-tech notes app that's actually a joy to use

I only need an app to quickly annotate something when I'm not with my physical journal. Normally, I rely on my Realme Notes app because it strips the process to the barest minimum. But I'm avoiding ...
PCMag

The Power of Plain English: Build Professional Apps With Base44

With the arrival of the Base44 vibe-coding platform, natural language could be the new language of software development.

Exposing a global ‘rape academy’

CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.
PCMag

Vibe Coding 101: How to Build Apps and More With AI

Have an app you've always wanted to build? A humdrum task to automate? AI tools make it easier than ever, but they can be as ...

Microsoft updates Visual Studio Code with new themes and adjustable AI reasoning

Microsoft is accelerating its dev cycle with weekly releases. The latest VS Code update brings a visual overhaul and deeper ...
InfoWorld

I ran Qwen3.5 locally instead of Claude Code. Here’s what happened.

You can now run LLMs for software development on consumer-grade PCs. But we’re still a ways off from having Claude at home.
Visual Studio Magazine

Going Local (& a Bit Loco) with Open-Source AI in VS Code

This hands-on PoC shows how I got an open-source model running locally in Visual Studio Code, where the setup worked, where it broke down, and what to watch out for if you want to apply a local model ...
The Verge

GitHub adds Claude and Codex AI coding agents

Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, ...
BGR

How Old Is Too Old To Use? When Experts Say You Should Upgrade Your Laptop

A laptop is a sizable investment, whether it's for personal purposes or professional work. As with any personal computer, it's understandable to get attached to your laptop and want to keep using it ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft Copilot Studio extension for VS Code now publicly available

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with Copilot Vision: VS Code's Head Start and How the IDE Is Catching Up

A hands-on test in VS Code showed Copilot using a degraded mockup image as the primary input to generate a working, navigation-capable web site, a significant step beyond last year's single-page ...