Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

Founded in 2011, Black Girls Code has spent more than a decade trying to change who gets a seat at the table in tech.

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"I'm going to call it Yaffle." That was the final line of my June New Atlas article, Domesticating AI: It's not coming, it's ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Sam Altman taught me how to vibe code. I've spent the past several months reading my colleagues' ...

Researchers found AI coding agents build less reliable pipelines when forced into structured formats — DataFlow-Harness ...

Install Python package dependencies without the packages, learn the ins and outs of making standalone Python apps, and ...

Microsoft's fifth July update expands agent monitoring, adds offline speech transcription and changes Python environment management.

The widespread introduction of AI-powered coding tools has led to some dramatic splits between those integrating those tools into their workflows and anti-AI absolutists who don’t want large language ...

Autonomous AI coding has crossed a threshold that most software engineers did not expect to see this year: a new benchmark released Friday by Epoch AI and METR found that today's best model, Claude ...

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious payload that remains invisible to security scanners, AI agents, and human ...

At Microsoft, Python has long been one of our most popular programming languages. Our developers use it for building production systems, internal tools, automation workflows, and more. We estimate ...