Security researchers found two AI-branded VS Code extensions with 1.5M installs that covertly send source code and files to ...

Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times, exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code version 1.107 (November 2025) to the general public. A major theme for this release is the enhancement of agents, introducing multi-agent orchestration and ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

Everywhere you look, people are talking about AI adoption as if it’s a technical challenge. But the real barriers to success have very little to do with the technology itself. Most of the challenges ...

The Glassworm campaign, which first emerged on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces in October, is now in its third wave, with 24 new packages added on the two platforms. OpenVSX and ...

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Microsoft announced the availability of .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), the final prerelease version before general availability. As with RC1, the release is production-ready with a go-live support ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior editor and ...

What if your favorite coding tool just got smarter, faster, and more intuitive? That’s exactly what the latest update to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) promises. With a bold focus on AI integration, ...

Malware Injected Into Code Packages That Get 2 Billion+ Downloads Each Week Your email has been sent An attack targeting the Node.js ecosystem was just identified ...