Microsoft lands Visual Studio Code 1.130 with agent rearchitecturing

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

Visual Studio Code 1.129 introduces dedicated agent host

Update to the code editor also brings an editor panel to the Agents window and the ability to run terminal commands directly ...
InfoWorld

‘The Java Story’ recounts the rise, fall, and rise again of Java

Free hour-long documentary by Cult.Repo tells the story of the Java programming language in the words of its lead engineers.
Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio 2026 Gives Copilot Built-In Skills -- and Makes Them Prove Their Worth

Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the ...
IEEE

Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Energy-Efficient Motion Planning and Control for Quadrotors 3D Area Visual Coverage

Abstract: Quadrotor UAVs are ideal platforms for performing coverage tasks, but limited battery power constrains their efficiency in performing coverage tasks. In this paper, a hierarchical deep ...