Aspire 13.6 keeps dashboard telemetry across runs, opens container exec shells right in the dashboard, adds first-party Java and Rust hosting, introduces portable volume paths, and previews Azure…

Release notes for Windows App SDK 2.0 across the Stable, Preview, and Experimental channels, with feature highlights, bug fixes, and API changes.

WSL is central to our commitment to making Windows the best place to build, run and manage Linux workloads. As AI, cloud-native development, containers, and open-source ecosystems continue to…

Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.

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Feature: typed structured outputs for all six SDKs Provide a JSON Schema, or use an idiomatic typed helper, to have the model return typed, validated output instead of free-form text. (#2590) const...

We are so excited to welcome hundreds of developers back to the Kalahari Resort in the Poconos this October 13-16 for an incredible week of learning, networking, and fun.

Explore the MSSQL extension for VS Code v1.46 release. Discover quick actions, guided workflows, and enhanced SQL formatting now available.

Learn to direct AI coding agents, review their work, and build reliable development workflows with this free GitHub Copilot app course.

Today, Claude Sonnet 5.5 is available in Microsoft Foundry, bringing Anthropic’s latest Sonnet model to developers building AI applications and...

Rider 2026.2.3 brings AI performance analysis to the Monitoring tool window and fixes an issue with the AI Agent Setup widget on Windows. You can update directly from the IDE, through the Toolbox App,

Build Agentic UI with the new Blazor AI components for streamed content, tools, approvals, shared state, and generative experiences.

The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.

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News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

Voice is quickly becoming a major way people interact with AI agents. Recent research found that 14% of users already prefer speaking with generative AI...

What is a developer to do when they need something more tangible than a chat box? Enter canvases.

An agent that answers a question is a starting point. An agent that completes useful work needs more: an interface users can interact with, memory beyond

Uno Platform 6.7 adds Android TV, Android Auto, and Wear OS targets, semantic styles across Material and Simple, Skia damage regions, and OS text scaling.

Define and attach an outbound policy to a hosted agent in Microsoft Foundry, observe calls in Audit, and verify allowed and denied destinations under Enforced mode.

Version: 0.7.0 Commit: 2fdd020c5b7db093e8b3e317b22bdd8135a47e89 What's Changed Other Changes Update nuget network policy for release failure by Zach Teutsch (@zateutsch) in #740 Remove the threa...

Agents are rapidly evolving beyond chat. The first generation of agents waited for a person to send a message. Today, organizations want agents that can

Run agents on your laptop, in the cloud, and move between them with one command, all safely. Earlier this year we launched Docker Sandboxes: microVM environments where coding agents can work…

Learn when to migrate Reactive Forms to Angular 22 Signal Forms, when to keep Reactive Forms, and how to migrate incrementally with compatibility APIs.

Dew Drop Weekly Newsletter #501 - Week Ending September 25, 2026

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Today at Snapdragon Summit, we introduced the next Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch, built on

Learn about the latest features, bug fixes, and support for Visual Studio 2026. Download today.

There's no shortage of sound and fury in AI right now.

How we rebuilt the diff surface in the GitHub Copilot app to open a million-line pull request with hundreds of inline review comments.

AI models are increasingly taking on work that extends far beyond a single prompt: building a feature across a codebase, investigating a complex issue,...

How about a cloud-native AI assistant? That's RockBot! Carl and Richard talk with Rocky Lhotka about RockBot, Rocky's own variant of the OpenClaw/Hermes type pe

Starting September 23, 2026, Microsoft is updating the author-signing certificate used for NuGet packages. Customers using trusted signer policies or certificate fingerprint verification should add…

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Microsoft Learn is changing how it manages public documentation repositories. Learn what the changes mean for GitHub contributors and where to continue...

The following article originally appeared on Arize’s blog and is being reposted here with the author’s permission.This week the AI community was in uproar

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Changes: 193cb57 Set version to '0.4.3' 192be1f Users/sotripathi/update to v0.4.3aplha (#184) ef79da9 Preserve the base price when publishing (#175) [ #112 ] 65fec5f Let human-readable output be r...

In this episode, Scott Hanselman and Mark Russinovich dive into the security risks surrounding increasingly capable open-weight AI models and Mark’s latest research into a new defense called Fool’s…

Learn how GPT-6 improves prompt caching with higher cache hit rates, new diagnostics, explicit breakpoints, and controls that reduce latency and costs.

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