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As part of the infamous Contagious Interview campaign, North Korean threat actors were seen abusing legitimate Microsoft Visual Studio Code in their attacks.

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 ...

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 ...

The Visual Studio Code editor can sometimes encounter issues that leave you with no choice but to reset its settings. Resetting the settings reverts everything back to default, allowing VS Code to ...

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.