You can now run LLMs for software development on consumer-grade PCs. But we’re still a ways off from having Claude at home.

Everything you may have missed from the past week.

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

print("hello world, I'm learning Python"!) ...

So, you want to get into Python coding online, huh? It’s a pretty popular language, and luckily, there are tons of tools out ...

Threat actors are publishing clean extensions that later update to depend on hidden payload packages, bypassing marketplace ...

Dave Gray offers a solid, free Python tutorial that runs for about 9 hours. It’s a pretty methodical course, starting with the basics and moving into more complex stuff like closures and recursion. He ...

NVIDIA's biggest DLSS announcement yet brings dynamic frame generation to RTX 50 Series cards March 31st. Twenty games ...

Agents, browser debugging, and deprecation of Edit Mode are all highlighted in the latest versions of the popular code editor ...

Visual Studio Code 1.112, released March 18, expands Copilot agent autonomy, adds MCP server sandboxing on macOS and Linux, enables in-editor web app debugging, and broadens monorepo support for agent ...

OpenAI acquires Astral, the Python toolmaker, to enhance Codex AI coding assistant as it competes with Anthropic's Claude ...