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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 ...

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...

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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 ...

First version of a web extension allowing you to view IDL code and notebooks directly in the browser — lightweight for now, but a step toward full desktop/browser parity See the changelog for full ...

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 ...

A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...

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