The technique exploits Unicode Private Use Area characters, which render as zero-width whitespace in virtually every code ...
Microsoft is speeding up the delivery of its Visual Studio Code updates. Since last summer, the company has been making ...
Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...
Former GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke has raised the largest-ever seed round for a dev tool startup, according to its lead backer, Felicis. The startup, Entire, has raised $60 million at a $300 million ...
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, ...
GitHub has introduced an Agents tab that provides a repository-level view of Copilot coding agent tasks and sessions. The Agents workflow produces normal pull requests, enabling review and validation ...
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...
Microsoft has spent the past year aggressively promoting Copilot as the future of coding with AI. The company even brought Copilot Studio extensions to Visual Studio Code. Still, internal moves ...
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 ...
The 300-person startup hopes bringing designers aboard will give it an edge in an increasingly competitive AI software market. Cursor, the wildly popular AI coding startup, is launching a new feature ...
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 ...