About three years ago Microsoft released a new source code editor for Windows, Linux, and macOS. This was named Visual Studio Code. It is way lighter IDE than various editions of the legendary Visual ...

A recent Stack Overflow survey found that more than 84% of developers are already using or planning to use AI tools in their workflow. After trying OpenAI Codex for myself, I understand why. Like many ...

VS Code 1.123 adds a two-hour delay before extensions auto-update to newer versions when automatic updates are enabled.

A reported software supply chain attack involving a malicious Visual Studio Code extension has exposed the growing security risks surrounding modern development environments. According to published ...

VS Code 1.121 was released May 20, 2026, featuring yet another update to Claude Code, becoming more and more a first-class citizen in the VS Code ecosystem. Remote agents can run over SSH or dev ...

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...

Update May 21: GitHub has now linked this breach to the TanStack npm supply-chain attack and says the employee installed a malicious version of the Nx Console extension. GitHub has confirmed that ...

Hackers exfiltrated roughly 3,800 of GitHub Inc.’s internal code repositories after one of its employees installed a poisoned Visual Studio Code extension, the Microsoft Corp.-owned developer platform ...

Microsoft's May 2026 VS Code update makes BYOK usable in restricted environments while adding agent, browser and issue-reporting updates.

GitHub has confirmed that a recent breach into its internal repositories was caused by a vulnerability in a Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension called ‘Nx Console.’ The security team at ...

GitHub confirms an employee’s compromised device led to exfiltration of internal repositories via a poisoned VSCode extension Threat actors TeamPCP are selling an archive of roughly 4,000 repos on the ...