Microsoft's latest update expands agent management, adds cross-platform sandboxing and lets developers pick up AI conversations started in other apps.

IntroductionOn October 13, 2026, the AI code editor Cursor released a marketplace that allows external apps to connect to its code hosting (a place to store and manage source code) service, "Origin." ...

A former project manager and long-term tech addict, Richard has been covering the industry for over a decade from phones, to gaming, and PCs, and everywhere in-between. Microsoft can't go too long ...

GitHub has built its own browser-based text editor, where developers can write and edit code. It has a shot at ending the long-running war on which text editor is best. The code-storage superstar ...

Microsoft has released a new update of its Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor for Windows, Windows on Arm, macOS and Linux. The latest update brings VS Code to version 1.51, which contains fixes ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub announced it will sunset its popular Atom "hackable text editor" late this year as it concentrates on cloud-based dev tooling. As a desktop application, Atom just had no viable ...

ChatGPT has updated GitHub directly!Today, I had a somewhat surprising experience.It happened while I was consulting with ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...

Recently GitHub launched its Github.dev service. If you’re browsing some code in a repo, all you need to do to launch an editor is press “.” or edit the page URL, switching out .com for .dev. This ...

Compare five Claude Code alternatives for 2026, including Codex, Antigravity, Copilot, Cursor, and Kiro, with pricing, security, and team controls.

For as long as anyone can remember, GitHub has been the de facto code host preferred by a majority of developers. However, in recent times, the platform has struggled with widely reported outages and ...