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.

In the new release, developers can experimentally dictate in VS Code without a speech extension and gain deeper insights into ...

VS Code update brings info on running subagents into the Agents window and previews built-in dictation and a Markdown editor ...

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

Visual Studio Code 1.130 adds a dedicated agent host, assisted permissions, compact diffs, worktree isolation, and smarter Git links.

Visual Studio Code 1.130 is the latest weekly update from Microsoft. The company focused heavily on agents in this update.

VS Code update also introduces assisted permissions for agent tool calls in the agent host and clickable file links in Git ...

Microsoft's latest weekly VS Code release advances shared agent sessions, multi-file change review, chat visibility and terminal navigation ...

Sometimes less software means more speed.

Android 17 QPR1 Beta 6 introduces two new features in the Linux Terminal app. Users can now import fonts from their phone storage and set them as the Terminal app’s default font. It also supports ...

Xiaomi's MiMo AI team has open-sourced MiMo Code V0.1.0, a terminal-native AI coding assistant that the Chinese electronics giant says outperforms Anthropic's Claude Code on key agentic coding ...