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Visual Studio Code 1.132, the latest version of Microsoft’s popular, open-source code editor, has been released. The brings improvements to built-in dictation, side chats, and support for commenting on web elements in the integrated browser. VS Code 1.132 was released August 5 . The update can be downloaded for Windows, Linux, and macOS at code.visualstudio.com . With VS Code 1.132, the built-in …

AWS is finally adding native vector search to its managed NoSQL database DynamoDB, which is typically used to store high-volume operational and transactional data. The update, according to analysts, removes complexity for development teams that are trying to maintain separate vector databases for a rapidly growing class of AI and agentic applications that rely on real-time access to operational a…

AI agent orchestration platforms coordinate role-based and task-based AI agents, along with the tools, data, and people they depend on, into multistep workflows. These platforms are highly important for organizations scaling from handfuls to thousands of AI agents running in production. Two open standards do the connective work: MCP (Model Context Protocol) gives agents governed access to tools a…

I hope you’ll indulge me this week as I take a break from my usual rantings about agentic coding and meander down memory lane . I learned to code BASIC in the mid-1970s at my progressive junior high school. In math class. We took Fridays to learn about line numbers, loops, statements, and the amazing GOSUB , which was as close as we got to a function call. It strikes me that it was pretty early i…

A new critical vulnerability in the Ruby on Rails (“Rails”) web application framework, CVE-2026-66066 , could turn a seemingly innocuous image into a front door to your secrets. Disclosed July 30, the high severity CVE (scored 9.5 out of 10) poses a significant risk to enterprises running apps that handle user-uploaded images in Rails. Dubbed “KindaRails2Shell,” it targets the overly-trusting Act…

SnapLogic has introduced its new SnapGPT, an agentic assistant that helps enterprise teams plan, build, understand, and operate integrations through natural language. Unveiled July 28 and described as the company’s most-significant advancement in SnapGPT since 2023, the new SnapGPT evolves from an AI-powered integration copilot into an agentic assistant for the integration life cycle, combining p…

AWS on Tuesday released Kiro Crew, an open-source orchestration platform designed to help enterprises move beyond interactive AI coding assistants toward long-running, autonomous engineering workflows that span repositories, developer tools, and multiple work sessions. Rather than simply generating code, Kiro Crew coordinates multiple AI agents, schedules recurring work, preserves project context…

Security flaws in automated workflows in the GitHub repository for Google’s Agent Development Kit for Python could allow public-facing AI agents to trigger more privileged automation, opening one path to manipulate pull-request reviews and another to expose credentials, according to a report from Pillar Security. The first attack path involved a triage agent that analyzed pull requests submitted …

Most folks seem happy to let AI write their LinkedIn posts for them. Others, myself included, have AI draft their work memos or slide decks. And some, according to recent survey data highlighted by AI Secret , are happy to let AI do their grocery shopping for them (28%), but not handle luxury goods or banking (6%). In trying to uncover a guiding principle for when mere mortals are willing to cede…

Not long ago, I worked with an enterprise that believed it had done everything right. The company had spread workloads across multiple regions, replicated key data stores, documented failover procedures, and invested heavily in automation. On paper, it looked like a mature cloud deployment. Then a control-plane issue hit one of its core providers. The infrastructure itself was not entirely gone, …

There is a lot of talk about the coming enterprise AI reality, in which AI finally arrives in production systems. You might not know it, but this reality—or nightmare, depending on how you handle it—is already happening. It all starts with a “pilot,” a “prototype,” or a “side project.” Maybe someone builds an internal dashboard with an agent. The dashboard quickly becomes indispensable, and all o…

Advancing on software development, GitHub has announced the public preview of stacked pull requests. The public preview was announced July 30 . Stacked pull requests break large changes into a chain of smaller, dependent pull requests. A stacked pull request is an ordered series of pull requests that each represent focused layers of a change,” GitHub said in the announcement. The goal is to make …

Gleam, a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes, has reached version 1.18.0 . The update brings full support for record fields to the Gleam language server, along with other improvements. Gleam 1.18.0 was released July 29 . Gleam is billed as “a friendly language for building type-safe systems that scale.” Gleam 1.18.0 brings three improvements to t…

The rise of AI coding agents is beginning to expose a longstanding weakness in software development: work remains fragmented across developer terminals, CI pipelines, remote servers, and production systems. Superlogical, a startup founded by HashiCorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto , aims to solve that by turning the terminal into a persistent execution layer that both developers and AI agents can…

Alibaba on Monday introduced Qwen3.8-Max, its largest artificial intelligence model to date, expanding its enterprise AI portfolio with an open-weight model designed for software engineering, multimodal reasoning, and other knowledge-intensive business workloads. In a blog post announcing the launch, Alibaba described Qwen3.8-Max as a 2.4-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model that act…