Visual Studio Code’s Python development ecosystem is expanding with new AI-assisted capabilities, smarter environment management, and productivity-focused extensions. Microsoft’s Python tools now ...

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OpenAI has introduced Codex Pets, optional animated companions for its Codex desktop app that sit on your screen and track what the coding agent is doing in real time.

Microsoft's splashy announcement ignores some of the biggest problems with Windows 11, and I've heard similar pledges too many times before. I've been writing about technology for more than 15 years ...

The era of Windows 10 support ended on Oct. 14 of last year. After more than a decade, Microsoft is prioritizing updates for the latest OS, Windows 11, and has thus stopped providing security updates ...

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We're back to settle what has become an age-old debate: does Windows 11 or Windows 10 deliver better gaming performance? Microsoft has been rolling out Windows 11 25H2 for the past few months, an ...

Zorin OS 18 has topped 2 million downloads, with more than three-quarters coming from Windows users as Windows 10 support ends and upgrade limits bite. If your older PC is suddenly feeling unloved by ...

Looking ahead: The vast majority of Windows users already run Steam on 64-bit operating systems, even though the client has continued to support a legacy 32-bit version of Windows. That era is ending: ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...