Cloning used to sound like something out of a late-night sci-fi flick, but these days it’s more about pixels than petri dishes. The idea of recreating an image—sometimes even a person—through artificial intelligence has turned from “someday” into “right now.” I’ve tinkered with a few of these tools myself, and the results can be equal

Perforce Software has introduced JRebel Enterprise, software that promises to accelerate the configuration of cloud-based Java development environments, and that enables incremental code changes to Java applications, eliminating the need to redeploy entire applications for every change, the company said. Announced August 19, JRebel Enterprise skips Java application redeploys for minor code changes and automatically configures

GitHub has unveiled an agents panel, available on every page of github.com, that allows developers to delegate coding tasks to GitHub Copilot throughout the GitHub platform. The agents panel allows developers to assign tasks to Copilot and manage these tasks from a single interface, GitHub said. Launched August 19, the agents panel is available in

Microsoft’s move to the cloud-native world means it’s now the custodian of several quite different Linux distributions. Some are internal tools that run deep parts of Azure’s networking infrastructure; others are part of Azure’s Internet of Things platform. However, one of the most important is almost invisible: Azure Linux. First unveiled as CBL-Mariner, Azure Linux

When Anthropic announced its Claude 4 models, the marketing focused heavily on improved reasoning and coding capabilities. But having spent months working with AI coding assistants, I’ve learned that the real revolution isn’t about generating better code snippets — it’s about the emergence of genuine agency. Most discussions about AI coding capabilities focus narrowly on

ASP.NET Core offers a simplified hosting model, called minimal APIs, that allows us to build lightweight APIs with minimal dependencies. We’ve discussed minimal APIs in several earlier posts here. We’ve examined how we can implement in-memory caching, route constraints, model binding, parameter binding, anti-forgery tokens, versioning, JWT authentication, identity authentication, authentication handler, logging, and testing

The launch of a major Windows 10 update isn’t the end of a process — it’s really just the beginning. As soon as one of Microsoft’s feature updates (such as Windows 10 version 22H2) is released, the company quickly gets to work on improving it by fixing bugs, releasing security patches, and occasionally adding new

Google’s Pixel phones are taking center stage this week — today, in fact, as the company takes the wraps off its latest and greatest Googley gizmos. We’re expecting to see a focus on fancy new AI additions and some tantalizing hardware touches, including what could be Android’s first native, no-case-requiring support for MagSafe-style magnetic accessory

Chinese startup DeepSeek has released its largest AI model to date, a 685-billion-parameter model that industry observers say could intensify competition with US players. The model, called DeepSeek V3.1, was made available on the open-source platform Hugging Face this week with little publicity. Despite the quiet rollout, early benchmark results reportedly suggest the model performs

In environments ranging from construction sites to university campuses to legal and retail operations, IT leaders are putting generative AI assistants to work — and discovering how to make them drive productivity. In this article, we focus on Microsoft 365 Copilot, examining real-world experiences that reveal both the promise and the pitfalls of the AI