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 ...

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Microsoft announced that Azure MCP Server capabilities are now included out-of-the-box in Visual Studio 2026, which went GA this week and rewrote the usual long form of the acronym IDE, turning it ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension with basic ransomware capabilities that appears to be created with the help of artificial intelligence – in ...

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Latest release of Microsoft’s code editor also adds support for Git worktrees and the ability to checkpoint and restore different states of Copilot chat conversations. The newly released Visual Studio ...

The July 2025 update to Visual Studio Code, taking it to version 1.103, adds support for chat checkpoints, allowing developers to restore their workspace and conversation to earlier states during AI ...