The VS Code 1.110 cycle is putting more 'hands-on' capabilities into chat, led by native browser integration that lets AI agents interact with page elements, capture screenshots, and pull real-time ...

Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

Visual Studio Code 1.109 has been released, primarily bringing new features for handling AI agents. Developers can now follow the response generation of Anthropic Claude models in real-time in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Python libraries are pre-written collections of code designed to simplify programming by providing ready-made functions for specific tasks. They eliminate the need to write repetitive code and cover ...

Developers using Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) editor are being warned to delete, or at least stay away from, 10 newly published extensions which will trigger the installation of a ...

A suspected China-nexus cyber espionage group has been attributed to an attacks targeting large business-to-business IT service providers in Southern Europe as part of a campaign codenamed Operation ...

Zed, Eclipse Theia IDE, Lite XL, and Cursor all offer some advantages over VS Code, at least for now. Zed and Cursor stand apart. The conductor of my choir famously tells us singers, “I only want ...

The China-linked advanced persistent threat (APT) group known as Mustang Panda has been observed weaponizing Visual Studio Code software as part of espionage operations targeting government entities ...