Visual Studio Code 1.110 (February 2026) adds new agent extensibility, browser-driving chat tools, and expanded chat accessibility.

In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...

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.

Linked to North Korean fake job-recruitment campaigns, the poisoned repositories are aimed at establishing persistent C2 ...

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, ...

Come for the coding test, stay for the C2 traffic Next.js developers are once again in the crosshairs as hackers seed ...

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Microsoft has warned that threat actors are exploiting seemingly legitimate Next. js repositories to compromise software developers, embedding staged backdoors inside projects that mimic technical ...

With progress slowing to a crawl, I researched Windows App SDK alternatives and then started experimenting with AI pair programming.

Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, ...

Attackers are running paid Facebook ads that look like official Microsoft promotions, then directing users to near-perfect clones of the Windows 11 download page. Click Download Now and instead of a ...