Five free Marketplace extensions promise private, locally run coding assistance as developers look for alternatives to metered cloud AI.

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Visual Studio 2026 v18.8 includes built-in Agent Skills created by Microsoft's .NET and Azure teams. Skills provide reusable, task-specific instructions, workflows and guardrails that Copilot loads ...

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.129, an update to its free, popular code editor that features a dedicated agent host and an editor panel in the Agents window. The updated editor also ...

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Nutanix has released an open-source Model Context Protocol server that lets AI assistants, including GitHub Copilot, interact with Nutanix Cloud Platform through Prism V4 APIs.

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Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

WSL gives Windows users an entire Linux system at the command line, with less overhead than a VM. The lion’s share of the ...

Cascadeur 2026.2 adds alpha animation layers, easing, new UI languages, improved posing and broader Python integration.

Palette is a Blender 4.5+ extension that reorganises Sculpt Mode brushes and native tools into configurable radial palettes.

Apple MacBook Pro M5 Pro 14-inch leads this coding laptop guide for demanding macOS development and daily productivity.