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 ...

Artificial Intelligence is steadily improving, with developments like Google's Opal coding tool and a Chinese-made robot with human-like dexterity. AI is also being used to write computer code in a ...

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 ...

Recently, a friend asked me a question that's been floating around every boardroom and business school: "With AI writing code, does programming still matter?" It's a fair question. Generative AI can ...

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 ...

Although Microsoft offers Visual Studio Code as a lightweight, but very powerful, open-source code editor to customers, its flagship development environment is actually vanilla Visual Studio. This is ...

What if the tools you’ve relied on for years suddenly became something entirely different? That’s the reality developers are waking up to as Visual Studio Code, once heralded as a lightweight and ...

Microsoft has decided to open source its GitHub Copilot tool in Visual Studio Code. It has also shared some exciting developments. On the opening day of its BUILD 2025 conference, Microsoft has ...

Copilot-enabled repos are 40% more likely to contain API keys, passwords, or tokens — just one of several issues security leaders must address as AI-generated code proliferates. AI coding assistants ...