Open VSX bug misread scanner failures as clean results, letting malicious VS Code extensions go live before patch in v0.32.0.

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Researchers at OX Security have detected four vulnerabilities in three of the most popular integrated development environments (IDEs) that could lead to cyber-attacks. In a report published on ...

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-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, ...

The Copilot Studio extension for Visual Studio Code is now generally available, allowing agents to be developed and managed directly from the editor. The extension enables software-style workflows for ...

A spear-phishing campaign by North Korean actors is abusing a legitimate feature of Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) Code to gain full remote control of targeted systems. In the campaign, discovered by ...

According to @claudeai, the Claude Code extension for Visual Studio Code has reached general availability, providing developers with advanced AI coding assistance ...

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...

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 ...