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  1. Microsoft Unveils Wassette: Secure, Cross-Platform AI Agent Framework with Rust & WebAssembly

    Microsoft has unveiled "Wassette," an open-source project designed to enhance the security and functionality of AI agents through the integration of Rust and WebAssembly. This initiative underscores Microsoft's commitment to open-source development and its focus on creating secure...
  2. Microsoft Drives Windows Driver Security Forward with Rust Integration

    As the software landscape continually evolves, Microsoft’s renewed push for secure coding has taken a pivotal turn with the formal encouragement of Rust as a first-class language for Windows driver development. This strategic endorsement, once a future-looking promise, is rapidly becoming...
  3. Replit Partners with Microsoft Azure to Democratize App Development for Businesses

    Replit, a leading agentic software creation platform, has announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft to integrate its services into the Azure ecosystem. This collaboration aims to democratize application development by enabling business users across various departments to build and deploy...
  4. GitHub Copilot: Revolutionizing Windows Development with AI-Powered Coding Assistance

    GitHub Copilot, the latest collaboration between GitHub and OpenAI, signals a new era for developers seeking efficiency and innovation in software creation. The technical preview of this AI-powered tool, built atop OpenAI's Codex, isn’t just another programmer’s helper—it represents a bold step...
  5. CISA & NSA Promote Memory Safety to Strengthen Software Security

    Memory-related vulnerabilities remain one of the most persistent and impactful threats facing not only enterprise and government IT landscapes but also ordinary users whose daily workflows quietly rely on the integrity of the software underneath. In a sweeping new move to address these endemic...
  6. Microsoft Build 2025: AI Copilot Agent Transforming Software Development

    At the Microsoft Build 2025 conference, the tech giant unveiled its latest advancement in artificial intelligence: the AI Copilot Agent. This innovative tool is designed to revolutionize software development by automating routine coding tasks, thereby enhancing developer productivity and...
  7. Boost Your Coding Efficiency with Gemini Code Assist in VS Code on Windows 11

    Gemini Code Assist is an AI-powered extension developed by Google to enhance the coding experience within Visual Studio Code (VS Code). It offers features such as code autocompletion, real-time error detection, and the ability to generate code snippets, thereby streamlining the development...
  8. Top Node.js Alternatives for 2025: Boost Performance, Security, & Scalability

    Node.js has established itself as a bedrock technology for backend web development, thanks to its asynchronous programming model, robust JavaScript ecosystem, and continuous improvements since its inception in 2009. With giants like Netflix, PayPal, and LinkedIn building at scale on Node.js, its...
  9. Revolutionizing Development: How the Language Server Protocol (LSP) Is Transforming Coding and Database Tools

    For years, developers faced a rigid ecosystem where the choice of programming language often dictated the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) they could use. From Java’s long-standing partnership with Eclipse to Python developers flocking to PyCharm, language tooling was a strong linchpin...
  10. Top 10 Essential Skills for Software Engineers to Dominate 2025 and Beyond

    In the bustling world of bits, bytes, and bizarre Zoom backgrounds, the life of a software engineer is never what you’d call predictable. One day you’re tweaking a database schema; the next, you're learning that the language du jour is “so last quarter.” As machine learning, cloud computing, and...
  11. Modern Malware: Evasion Tactics Using Obscure Programming Languages

    Malware authors are stepping up their game by turning to the unexpected—and sometimes downright obscure—programming languages. In a recent deep-dive study, researchers from Greece and the Netherlands explored how switching from the familiar C and C++ can throw static analysis tools for a loop...
  12. Designing a COM library for Rust

    I interned with Microsoft as a Software Engineering Intern in the MSRC UK team in Cheltenham this past summer. I worked in the Safe Systems Programming Language (SSPL) group, which explores safe programming languages as a proactive measure against memory-safety related vulnerabilities. This blog...
  13. Windows 7 ICSE 2011: Grigore Rosu - The Art and Science of Program Verification

    Grigore Rosu is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where he leads the Link Removed (FSL). His research interests encompass both theoretical foundations and system development in the areas of formal methods...
  14. Windows 7 E2E: Herb Sutter and Erik Meijer - Perspectives on C++

    It's not often that we can get two minds of Link Removed and Herb Sutter's caliber together for an impromptu technical conversation during Christmas break at Microsoft... Well, we did and the next hour or so contains a lot of intelligence, knowledge, wisdom, and passion. This is one of the more...