Microsoft charges hundreds every year for Visual Studio Pro, but it’s only $33 here

Why rent something you can own?

Microsoft charges $99.99 per month for a Visual Studio license — get it for life here for $35

Same tools, but now you can finally stop renting them ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Copilot Billing Shock Hits Developers

Developer complaints about GitHub Copilot's new usage-based billing model have centered on unexpectedly rapid AI credit consumption, and neither GitHub nor Microsoft has responded directly to the ...

From code-first to intent-first: Microsoft Build 2026 could be the end of programming as we know it

Build 2026 runs from June 2-3 in San Francisco. Here's what Microsoft is expected to announce for GitHub Copilot, Azure AI ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Ubiquiti Fixes, And FreeBSD Joins The Club You Don’t Want To Join

Ubiquiti released a new security bulletin detailing fixes for six security issues, including one rated 9.1 (critical) and one scoring a perfect 10.0 on the CVE risk scale. The vulnerabilities ...

AI Can Write More Code, But Engineers Must Design Better Systems

It seems like everyone is using AI to improve their enterprise operations. We're no different. Not too long ago, our business team had an urgent need ahead of a major event, but the requirements were ...
Tech Times

GitHub Copilot Replaces GPT-4 With Project Polaris, Ships Multi-Agent VS Code at Build

GitHub Copilot multi-agent support for VS Code launched at Microsoft Build 2026 alongside Project Polaris, an in-house AI ...
Purdue University

The RACES writing strategy is an acronym that stands for the following components:

This refers to restating or rephrasing the question or prompt in your own words to ensure that you understand it correctly. Provide a clear and concise answer to the question or prompt. This is the ...