Tom Smith

Such is certainly the case these days in these former “United States of America:” for we are anything but united. Instead, we’re divided on just about everything: whether it be politics, religion, national defense, the economy, global warming, etc.

Microsoft is upgrading its AI-powered Finance Agent with centralized views of financial activity and support for natural language queries of financial data.

VS Code 1.123 adds 1M token context windows, session sync, a parallel agents view, and a new research agent.

GitHub disabled 73 Microsoft repos after the Miasma worm used compromised credentials to target AI coding tools and developer environments.

Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.123 on June 3, expanding its AI-assisted development capabilities with features that reflect the editor’s direction

Microsoft's annual Build conference this week featured more local, and more flexible, hardware options to support developers' agentic AI projects.

Microsoft has introduced optimization features that evaluate AI agents hosted in its Foundry service to maximize their performance in production applications.

By: on For years, running npm install meant trusting that whatever code got pulled in would behave itself. That trust was often misplaced.

Congratulations to Paul Yu, a native Claremonter currently living in Austin, who was one of 21 readers who correctly identified last week’s “Where am I?” as the fountain at Pomona College’s Peter W. Stanley Academic Quadrangle. Paul is now entered into the year-end drawing for a one-year subscription to everyone’s favorite award-winning local newspaper, the Claremont Courier. So, “Where am I” this week? Email your answer, full name, and city of residence — and suggestions for future mystery photos — to [email protected] for your chance to win. Courier photo/Tom Smith

Pogo, the friendly opossum and cartoon philosopher from another generation, once said these words that are worthy of our remembrance: