VS Code stops trusting your code by default
Simplified model hovering also is featured in VS Code 1.126. The model hover now shows a one-word descriptor of the model’s capabilities and includes deep link buttons that take a user directly to the relevant configuration. In an enhancement to…
Rust introduces new Range types
A future Rust version will add core::range::RangeFull and core::range::RangeTo as re-exports from core::ops. These do not implement Iterator and already implement Copy, the Rust team said. A future Rust version will also introduce core::range::legacy::* as the new home for the current ranges. Range syntax like 0..1 still produces the legacy types for now,…
Claude Sonnet 5 boosts coding, reasoning, and tool use
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, an update that is substantially improved over predecessor Claude Sonnet 4.6 in coding, reasoning, tool use, and knowledge work, according to the company. Claude Sonnet 5 was introduced June 30. It can make plans,…
Five tools to bolster your AI coding stack
“When tools like Cursor are installing dependencies and running actions on a developer’s behalf, they can unintentionally pull in malicious or unvetted packages,” says Randall Degges, vice president of AI engineering and developer relations at Snyk. “That’s why techniques like…
A better way to manage LLM spending
As an old Delphi guy, I remember well the “language wars” we had with the Visual Basic guys. An early codename for Delphi was “VBK” — VB Killer — and the VB community took exception. They’d come to our Delphi forums…
Microsoft MCP server gives AI assistants access to MSBuild logs
Microsoft has introduced the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server, which gives AI assistants like GitHub Copilot direct access to MSBuild (.binlog) files. The Model Context Protocol server enables AI-powered build investigation through natural language conversation, Microsoft said. Introduced June 17 and…
Cloud repatriation is back on the agenda
For years, the enterprise narrative focused on moving to the public cloud for flexibility and leaving behind old infrastructure. While the public cloud remains a powerful platform for burst capacity, global reach, and modern application development, leaders now evaluate where…
MongoDB embeds reranking into Atlas as enterprises look to simplify AI stacks for scale
“The rationale is that every passage you send to the model is something it has to read and reason over on expensive GPU compute, and that cost scales with how much you feed it. Trimming irrelevant passages before they reach…
Microsoft unveils Memora to tackle AI agents’ memory problem
Memora also introduces a policy-guided retriever that, rather than returning the top-k semantically similar items in a single shot, iteratively refines its query, expands through cue anchors to surface related-but-not-similar memories, and decides when to stop. “The deepest flaw in…
Kotlin improves compile-time constants | InfoWorld
Kotlin 2.4.0, an update to JetBrains’s statically typed language for building JVM, native, Wasm, and web applications, introduces experimental improvements to compile-time constants, making support for numeric and string types more consistent and easier to use, JetBrains said. Kotlin 2.4.0…
