The Verge

Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access

Developers will now have to pay a $11.99 / month subscription to build apps using Strava’s data. Developers will now have to pay a $11.99 / month subscription to build apps using Strava’s data. is a ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Building and Using MCP Servers in Visual Studio

MCP (Model Context Protocol) provides a universal standard for connecting LLMs to external data sources and tools, eliminating the need to manually copy-paste context into a chat session and enabling ...
TechSpot

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is down to $35

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a quick script. It is the big Windows development environment, the one built ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Using Data API Builder to Speed Up Application Development

Data API Builder helps developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building extensive custom data access code. Steve Jones' Visual Studio Live! San Diego 2026 session will show ...
adexchanger

Meta Is Launching An Easy Button For CAPI

CAPI, but make it easy. Conversion APIs have become standard issue for the big ad platforms. The idea is to shift conversion tracking from the browser to the server so it’s less exposed to browser and ...
InfoQ

Beyond RAG: Architecting Context-Aware AI Systems with Spring Boot

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) effectively grounds LLM outputs in external knowledge, but does not model the runtime context, such as user identity, session state, or domain constraints, on ...
The Penn

Get Psyched!: How to rest, recharge the brain over spring break

Spring break is an exciting time of year for any college student. Whether it is planning a trip somewhere, hanging out with friends from home or simply taking the time to relax and recharge, spring ...
Harvard Business Review

How AI Damages Work Relationships—and Where It Can Actually Help

We’re outsourcing the very moments that create connection. Here’s how to be more intentional. by Amy Gallo “My coworker’s emails sound like a robot wrote them ...
Bleeping Computer

Previously harmless Google API keys now expose Gemini AI data

Google API keys for services like Maps embedded in accessible client-side code could be used to authenticate to the Gemini AI assistant and access private data. Researchers found nearly 3,000 such ...
Wired

You Can Now Install—and Update—Microsoft Store Apps Using the Command Line

I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio adds GitHub Copilot unit testing for C#

GitHub Copilot testing for .NET in Visual Studio 2026 v18.3 can generate tests for the xUnit, NUnit, and MSTest test frameworks. Microsoft has made GitHub Copilot testing for .NET, a new capability in ...