GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...

GitHub, the world's biggest code repository and DevOps platform, fell victim to a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension. The company's initial assessment is that only internal repositories ...

Visual Studio Code 1.118 now stamps a Copilot co-author trailer on Git commits by default after PR #310226 flipped git.addAICoAuthor to all in 1.118 builds. The opening comment quickly drew 372 thumbs ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged dozens of Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions on the Open VSX repository that are linked to a persistent information-stealing campaign dubbed ...

Setting up a python environment for VS Code. Activating a python environment in a VS Code batch script. Running a python Jupyter notebook interactively in VS Code. Running a python script (.py) ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

VS Code Extensions have transformed the code editor into a productivity powerhouse. GitHub Copilot enables AI-powered autocomplete, multi-line code generation, and ...

AI coding agents are reshaping how developers write, debug, and maintain software in 2026. The debate around Claude Code vs ChatGPT Codex highlights two distinct philosophies: local-first reasoning ...

Critical and high-severity vulnerabilities were found in four widely used Visual Studio Code extensions with a combined 128 million downloads, exposing developers to file theft, remote code execution, ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

Popular artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) forks such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae have been found to recommend extensions that are ...