Visual Studio April update adds autonomous cloud agents and a new debugger agent

Microsoft is making Visual Studio more agentic. New tools handle remote coding tasks and analyze live app behavior to find ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...

J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79 ...
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10 VS Code extensions I can't live without

Try these extensions and you'll wonder how you ever lived without them!