Two VSCode extensions are harvesting sensitive data and sending it to China.

This extension runs the latest pdf.js underneath. A demo of their editor (hence ours) can be found here. Most extensions currently in the marketplace have problems too deep to fix. These problems ...

With Visual Studio Code 1.107, developers can use GitHub Copilot and custom agents together and delegate work across local, background, and cloud agents. Just-released Visual Studio Code 1.107, the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has hit a new milestone with its April 2025 update, version 1.100, introducing a significant evolution in its AI-powered Chat capabilities and overall editor experience.

Does not work for me. I do CTRL-C on a square of cells in Excel, and SHIFT-ALT-V in .md file in Visual Studio Code after the plugin has been installed, does not produce the copied content, but the ...

Chinese hackers targeting large IT service providers in Southern Europe were seen abusing Visual Studio Code (VSCode) tunnels to maintain persistent remote access to compromised systems. VSCode ...

Microsoft has started rolling out the August 2024 update of Visual Studio Code, its powerful cross-platform text editor. This is version 1.93, and it's available right now with eight key improvements: ...