Five free Marketplace extensions promise private, locally run coding assistance as developers look for alternatives to metered cloud AI.

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VS Code model picker now allows users to switch between Anthropic and Copilot providers between turns reconfiguring the agent host. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.133, an update to its ...

On March 24, 2026, developers building AI applications with LiteLLM — a Python package with 95 million monthly downloads — ...

WSL gives Windows users an entire Linux system at the command line, with less overhead than a VM. The lion’s share of the world’s software development work happens on Linux, or a Unix-like system like ...

Andy Burnham has signalled he could make it harder for benefit claimants, saying the UK must 'get really serious' about curbing the welfare bill. The Prime Minister indicated ministers could tighten ...

The visual system is the part of the central nervous system that is required for visual perception – receiving, processing and interpreting visual information to build a representation of the visual ...

Visual Studio Code 1.133 is now available, and Microsoft is making its AI agent features easier to access without a GitHub account. Last week, Microsoft released Visual Studio Code 1.132, and the ...

Tim Dertz had arrived at the apartment worried mostly about the smell, the trash and the $15,000 he’d lost renting the apartment, whose tenant he’d finally evicted. Tim Dertz had arrived at the ...

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