Microsoft has released the August update for Visual Studio 2022, adding several features related to AI-assisted development. The company announced that GPT-5 is now integrated into the IDE, and support for MCP is generally available...

The product analytics company Amplitude is announcing new self-service capabilities that will enable marketing and growth teams to run user experiments without waiting on development teams. “Every click and conversion matters, and marketers can’t afford...

Android will soon require app developers to go through an identity verification process before their apps can be installed on users’ devices—regardless of if the apps are downloaded through the Play Store or sideloaded. “Think...

Today at the Open Source Summit Europe, The Linux Foundation announced that the open-source document database, DocumentDB, would be joining the foundation and be released under the MIT license. DocumentDB was created by Microsoft and...

Agent Mode in Gemini Code Assist now available in VS Code and IntelliJ This mode was introduced last month to the Insiders Channel for VS Code to expand the capabilities of Code Assist beyond prompts...

Microsoft has been adding several new diagnostics features to Copilot in Visual Studio for .NET to make the debugging process easier. “The same tools you rely on are now able to keep up with you,...

GitHub has added a new panel to its UI that enables developers to invoke the Copilot coding agent from anywhere on the site. The coding agent was launched a few months ago, allowing developers to...

Black Duck adds new security app to GitHub Marketplace The Black Duck Security GitHub App enables static application security testing (SAST) and software composition analysis (SCA) scans in GitHub repositories. Scans are triggered automatically by...

Codeglide.ai, a subsidiary of the DevOps company Opsera, is launching its MCP server lifecycle platform that will enable developers to turn APIs into MCP servers. The solution constantly monitors API changes and updates the MCP...

For decades, software testing has been built on a simple idea: humans write tests, machines run them. That model has persisted since the first commercial recorders appeared in the mid-1990s. Testers would record a flow,...

Testing company BrowserStack has announced a new Chrome extension called Testing Toolkit that includes 11 different manual web testing tools.  According to the company, manual web testing has been very fragmented, and QA teams are...

Anthropic expands Claude Sonnet 4’s context window to 1M tokens With this larger context window, Claude can process codebases with 75,000+ lines of code in a single request. This allows it to better understand project...

Application monitoring company Sentry is making it easier to gain visibility into MCP servers with the launch of a new monitoring tool.  With MCP monitoring, developers can understand things like which clients are experiencing errors,...

Google is enhancing its AI coding agent, Jules, with new functionality that reviews and critiques code while Jules is still working on it.  “In a world of rapid iteration, the critic moves the review to...

AI company bitHuman has announced a visual SDK for creating avatars for use as chat agents, instructors, virtual coaches, companions, and experts in different fields.  According to the company, the SDK allows avatars to be...

GitHub’s CEO Thomas Dohmke has announced his plans to leave the company at the end of the year.  Dohmke says he will be staying with the company through the end of the year to help...

Developer advocacy is a specialized role within developer relations focused on helping customers understand how the latest trends and products translate into value, Wade Wegner, chief ecosystem and growth officer at DigitalOcean, explained during a...

Animation, when applied with purpose, clarifies intent and reduces friction in modern UIs. In React, the right animation library can bridge the gap between basic layouts and interfaces that feel intentional and well-crafted. Below are...

OpenAI launches GPT-5 OpenAI announced the availability of GPT-5, which it says is “smarter across the board” compared to previous models. Specifically for coding, GPT-5 achieved significant improvement in complex front-end generation and debugging larger...

Melissa, a provider of data quality solutions, is making it possible for customers to run its SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) components in Azure Data Factory through the Azure-SSIS Integration Runtime. This brings the power...

During a livestream today, OpenAI announced the availability of GPT-5, which it says is “smarter across the board” compared to previous models. Specifically for coding, GPT-5 achieved significant improvement in complex front-end generation and debugging...

It’s imperative that business leaders can enable their business to work at the speed that technology is moving. However, lengthy and cumbersome approval processes to adopt new tools can hinder an organization’s ability to keep...

Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Aspire 9.4, which the company says is the largest update yet.  .NET Aspire is a set of tools, templates, and packages that Microsoft provides to enable developers to...

With cloud native technologies becoming foundational for software development and deployment, and finding developers skilled in those areas a challenge, talent marketplace provider Andela and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation have partnered to create the...