Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming’s “compiling shaders” wait times

Microsoft first rolled out Advanced Shader Delivery in its SDK last September and added support to the ROG Xbox Ally as a ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft accelerates pace of VS Code development

Microsoft is speeding up the delivery of its Visual Studio Code updates. Since last summer, the company has been making ...

Nvidia, AMD, and Intel back Microsoft's plan to fix shader compilation stutter

Nvidia announced its support for Microsoft's new Advanced Shader Delivery technology during a presentation at the Game Developers Conference this week. The feature, designed to address ...

How to Build Claude Code Skills for Task Automation & Workflows

Step-by-step walkthrough explaining how to create custom Claude Skills to automate repetitive tasks and business processes.
InfoWorld

Microsoft brings C++ smarts to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions. Microsoft has introduced C++ ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Launches Azure Skills Plugin to Give AI Coding Agents Real Azure Expertise

Microsoft's new Azure Skills Plugin bundles curated Azure skills, the Azure MCP Server, and the Foundry MCP Server into a single install that gives AI coding agents both the expertise and execution ...

Cracking the code: How a “prediction machine” is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Some years ago, my linguistic research team and I started to develop a computational tool aimed at reconstructing the text of ...
The New York Times

Hungry for Affirmation, Vulnerable to Scams: As a Writer, I Know the Feeling

From George Saunders to the National Book Foundation, the literary world has been besieged by fake requests. Just like me. Credit...Ricardo Tomás Supported by By Dan Barry More than 20 years ago, I ...