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Microsoft’s .NET Framework 3.5 development platform, which dates back to November 2007 , is no longer included as an optional Windows component. Microsoft has changed its deployment model to standalone installer status for future Windows versions. In a bulletin published February 5 , Microsoft said that beginning with Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27965, .NET Framework 3.5 must be obtained as …

Anthropic only released its latest large language model, Claude Opus 4.6, on Thursday, but it has already been using it behind the scenes to identify zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source software. In the trial, it put Claude inside a virtual machine with access to the latest versions of open source projects, and provided it with a range of standard utilities and vulnerability analysis tools, b…

Google is previewing the Developer Knowledge API and an associated Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which together offer a machine-readable gateway to the company’s official developer documentation. Announced February 4 , the Developer Knowledge API is designed to be the programmatic source of truth for Google’s public documentation. Developers can access documentation from firebase.google.co…

How does Python’s new native JIT stack up against PyPy? Is there life for machine learning applications outside of Python? And can we run our Python apps in WebAssembly yet? Keep reading for answers to these and other burning questions from the Python develop-o-sphere. Top picks for Python readers on InfoWorld CPython vs. PyPy: Which Python runtime has the better JIT? PyPy and its JIT have long b…

Last month, I met with a mid-sized law firm facing a common dilemma. Their Windows 10 laptops were nearing the end of support and needed to be replaced. Typically, this meant buying new hardware and software—predictable and straightforward. But this time, Microsoft suggested a different approach: move to Windows 365 Cloud PCs, a PC that operates with a monthly subscription and is accessible from …

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, the latest update of the company’s popular code editor. The new release brings multiple enhancements for agents, including improvements for optimization, extensibility, security, and session management. Released February 4 and also known as the January 2026 release, VS Code 1.109 can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and macOS at code.visualstudio.…

Databricks’ Mosaic AI Research team has added a new framework, MemAlign, to MLflow, its managed machine learning and generative AI lifecycle development service. MemAlign is designed to help enterprises lower the cost and latency of training LLM-based judges, in turn making AI evaluation scalable and trustworthy enough for production deployments. The new framework, according to the research team,…

In the world of streaming, the “Super Bowl” isn’t just a game. It is a distributed systems stress test that happens in real-time before tens of millions of people. When I manage infrastructure for major events (whether it is the Olympics, a Premier League match or a season finale) I am dealing with a “thundering herd” problem that few systems ever face. Millions of users log in, browse and hit “p…

Vibe coding is the latest tech accelerator, and yes, it kind of rocks. New AI-assisted coding practices are helping developers ship new applications faster, and they’re even allowing other business professionals to prototype workflows and tools without waiting for a full engineering cycle. Using a chatbot and tailored prompts, vibe coders can build applications in a flash and get them into produc…

NPM, the Node Package Manager, hosts millions of packages and serves billions of downloads annually. It has served well over the years but has its shortcomings, including with TypeScript build complexity and package provenance. Recently, NPM’s provenance issues have resulted in prominent security breaches , leading more developers to seek alternatives. The JavaScript Registry (JSR) , brought to u…

Context engineering is the practice of designing systems that determine what information an AI model sees before it generates a response to user input. It goes beyond formatting prompts or crafting instructions, instead shaping the entire environment the model operates in: grounding data, schemas, tools, constraints, policies, and the mechanisms that decide which pieces of information make it int…

DeDeno Land, maker of the Deno runtime, has introduced Deno Sandbox, a secure environment built for code generated by AI agents. The company also announced the long-awaited general availability of Deno Deploy , a serverless platform for running JavaScript and TypeScript applications. Both were announced on February 3. Now in beta, Deno Sandbox offers lightweight Linux microVMs running as protecte…

Apple is previewing Xcode 26.3 with integrated support for coding agents such as Anthropic’s Claude Agent and OpenAI’s Codex . Announced February 3 , Xcode 26.3, the Apple-platforms-centered IDE, is available as a release candidate for members of the Apple Developer Program , with a release coming soon to the App Store . This latest version expands on intelligence features introduced in Xcode 26 …

GitHub helped open the floodgates to AI-written code with its Copilot. Now it’s considering closing the door, at least in part, for the short term. GitHub is exploring what already seems like a controversial idea that would allow maintainers of repositories or projects to delete pull requests (PRs) or turn off the ability to receive pull requests as a way to address an influx of low-quality, ofte…

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a broad multi-hour outage beginning on Monday evening, disrupting two critical layers of enterprise cloud operations. The outage, which lasted over 10 hours, began at 19:46 UTC on Monday and was resolved by 06:05 UTC on Tuesday. The incident initially left customers unable to deploy or scale virtual machines in multiple regions. This was followed by a rel…