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Nothing AI-specific (The Register), but it's the kind of thing that silently kills a scheduled agent run on a Windows host. If a pipeline started failing this week for no apparent reason, this is a candidate.
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Windows Latest covered the September 5 post from Fowler, an 18-year Microsoft veteran who leads Aspire, arguing developers now own architecture, testing, performance and security review while agents produce code. Supporting numbers in the coverage: Nadella's 20-30% AI-written...
microsoft/skill-recorder (2,233 stars since July 29, pushing daily) is an Electron app that records clicks, window switches and optional narration, then uses the GitHub Copilot CLI to reconstruct the session as an intent plus ordered steps. The design choice that matters: gene...
Microsoft confirmed on June 16 that it's routing GitHub burst workloads, specifically GitHub Actions runners and Codespaces, onto Amazon's cloud after agentic coding pushed the platform below its own three-nines availability target. Read that again. Microsoft, which owns GitHu...
At Build 2026, Microsoft introduced Autopilots, always-on agents that hold their own identity and act on your behalf, with Scout as the first, shipping for Windows 11+ and macOS 12+. Hosted Agents in Foundry hit GA by end of June with hypervisor-isolated environments, per-agen...
Corporate cost-cutting just hit the tool developers actually want to use. Windows Central reports Microsoft is canceling Claude Code licenses across its Experiences and Devices division by June 30, 2026. The memo cites cost-cutting and security integration with Azure DevOps an...
Anthropic's biggest product event since the Claude 4.6 launch happens tomorrow at 9:30am EST. Expect new Cowork features, live demos of "Claude's newest capabilities," and technical sessions on enterprise agent deployment. The Cowork desktop preview (macOS and Windows) now inc...
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