Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

Enterprises seeking to make good on the promise of agentic AI will need a platform for building, wrangling, and monitoring AI agents in purposeful workflows. In this quickly evolving space, myriad ...

VS Code's AI Toolkit and Microsoft Foundry can speed up agent development, but real-world success often depends on picking the right runtime and region, keeping tool-driven context under control, and ...

Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP ...

Sanae Takaichi won her snap election based on a smile and lacquered promises. Japan’s first female prime minister, we were told, would be outspoken and open-minded and — why not? — caring. A fresh ...

You also get to escape Microsoft telemetry tracking too.

Environmentalists say the war’s effects on oil and gas prices are an argument for countries to get off fossil fuels. But the reality is likely to be messier. By Brad Plumer and Lisa Friedman The ...

Learn how to use keyed dependency injection in ASP.NET Core to build applications that can select a specific implementation of a service at run time. Microsoft’s cross-platform .NET takes interesting ...

With the query “add me to search” you can create a Google people card and link to your website, social media, and other pages from one place. In today’s digital-centric world, establishing a notable ...