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Not every question deserves the same amount of thought. Renaming a variable isn't the same as debugging a memory leak, and they don't need the same level of thinking. So why should your model treat them the same way every time? Starting in Visual Studio 18.9 Insiders 2, it doesn't have to. Supported models now come …
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How two API settings improved GPT-5.6 performance on ARC-AGI-3, boosting scores and efficiency by retaining reasoning and enabling compaction. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/how-two-settings-tripled-our-arc-agi-3-scores
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Last time, we fixed the problem of an exception thrown from the custom deleter's constructor resulting in a reference leak. But wait, there's another source of exceptions. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260729-00/?p=112570
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Qodana 2026.2 makes it easier for development teams to act on code quality, security, and compliance findings throughout the development workflow. This release introduces clearer code coverage insights for pull requests, highlights uncovered new lines directly in the IDE, and automatically detects coverage reports in …
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This tutorial was written by an external contributor. APIs are frequent targets for bad actors since they expose data and functionality. Securing them while maintaining usability is often one of the most challenging and time-consuming parts of API development. OAuth 2.0 and JSON Web Tokens (JWT) help make these …
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GitHub Copilot CLI for .NET workflows: configure C# conventions, prompt ASP.NET Core changes, run tests, review diffs, and commit safely today, with guardrails. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/29/github-copilot-cli-for-net-developers-real-workflows-on-a-c-codebase
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OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to ChatGPT's most advanced AI models to accelerate scientific research, collaboration, and discovery. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-for-academic-researchers
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In this post I describe the Fetch Metadata HTTP headers like Sec-Fetch-Site and Sec-Fetch-Mode which give information to a server about the context of a request Link to article: https://andrewlock.net/understanding-the-fetch-metadata-http-headers-sec-fetch-site-and-friends/
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The author critiques Buffer, a social media scheduling tool, after a transition from Twitter to Bluesky due to increased user friction. Key issues include inefficient scheduling interfaces, lack of character limit warnings during composition, and inadequate support for mentions and hashtags. The author expresses a need …
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GPT-5.6 improves AI efficiency across models, inference, and agentic workflows, helping deliver more useful intelligence per dollar. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-6-frontier-intelligence-efficiency
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MAI-Code-1-Flash is a lightweight coding model purpose built for the fast, iterative work developers do every day in GitHub. In this post, we share what the data is telling us about how it performs in real developer workflows. Read the full article Link to article: …
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) C# SDK has reached v2.0, implementing the 2026-07-28 revision of the MCP specification. It's the largest revision of the protocol since it launched. Link to article: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/announcing-v20-of-the-official-mcp-csharp-sdk
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How to set up OpenTelemetry logging .NET using ILogger -- structured log export, trace context correlation, OTLP export, and practical C# examples. Link to article: https://www.devleader.ca/2026/07/28/opentelemetry-logging-net-ilogger-integration-and-structured-log-export
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The Model Context Protocol (MCP) published its 2026-07-28 specification, the largest revision since launch: MCP is now stateless, with a governed extensions system and hardened authorization. Learn what changed and how to enable the new version on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway with a single UpdateGateway call. Link …
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Learn how to architect and deploy a production-ready multi-agent AI system using LangGraph for workflow orchestration and Strands for agent reasoning on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. This post walks through a market surveillance example with state-driven orchestration, checkpoint-based recovery, and AgentCore memory and …
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A new field report shows how scientists use AI coding agents to modernize scientific computing, accelerating software development and discovery in genomics and beyond. Link to article: https://openai.com/index/scientific-computing-agentic-ai
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A recent conversation started (as many interesting conversations do) with a simple question: "Why is MSIX secure?" MSIX includes multiple layers of protection designed to defend against both accidental damage and malicious tampering. But as with all good security solutions, it's not the individual elements so …
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The best AI assistance is the kind you can steer, understand, and rely on. The July update is built around all three. There's a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat, built on the same GitHub Copilot SDK that powers the GitHub Copilot CLI, that gets more done with less back-and Link to article: …
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Great code has a long memory. The fix you shipped last quarter, the refactor that touched a dozen files, the one-line change that explained why something works the way it does — it's all there in your commit history. The hard part has always been finding it. Today, we're excited to announce that Commit Search is …
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Many enterprises still maintain legacy Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) applications built on .NET Framework. While these applications continue to serve business needs, organizations face growing challenges: a shrinking VB.NET developer talent pool, limited modern tooling support, and a difficult path to cross-platform .NET …
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