Microsoft Weekly: Start menu in rework again and Recall is on fire

Catch up with this week's Microsoft stories in the latest recap. Patch Tuesday updates, bugs, Start menu reworks, Recall ...
Visual Studio Magazine

At VSLive!, Mads Kristensen Lets 'the Cat out of the Bag' on Visual Studio 2027

At VSLive! Las Vegas, Mads Kristensen revealed Visual Studio 2027 as part of a broader shift toward AI-assisted development and a more continuous release cadence for Microsoft's flagship IDE.
WinBuzzer

VS Code 1.116 Ships Built-in Copilot, Agent Debug Tools

Microsoft has embedded GitHub Copilot as a default VS Code extension in version 1.116, adding agent debug logging, terminal ...
Visual Studio Magazine

How to Debug Team Problems Before They Derail Delivery

Amber Vanderburg discusses how engineering leaders can spot and fix the “silent bugs” in team dynamics before they turn into bigger delivery problems.
GitHub

VAR: a new visual generation method elevates GPT-style models beyond diffusion & Scaling laws observed

🕹️ Try and Play with VAR! We provide a demo website for you to play with VAR models and generate images interactively. Enjoy the fun of visual autoregressive modeling! We provide a demo website for ...
IEEE

Alleviating Cold Start Problem by Improving User Retention in Mobile Crowdsourcing Network

Abstract: Mobile crowdsourcing (MCS) has attracted widespread attention by recruiting users with mobile devices to collect crowdsourcing data. Existing research on MCS assumes that the platform has ...