Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks.

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.

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.

Microsoft introduces agent technology to Visual Studio, featuring curated assistants and personalized agent creation tools.

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

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

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 ...

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

Orca has discovered a supply chain attack that abuses GitHub Issue to take over Copilot when launching a Codespace from that ...

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, ...

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