In addition to rolling out patches to address two zero-days affecting SQL Server and .NET, Microsoft introduced Common Log File System hardening with signature verification.

AI coding agents are reshaping how developers write, debug, and maintain software in 2026. The debate around Claude Code vs ChatGPT Codex highlights two distinct philosophies: local-first reasoning ...

Critical and high-severity vulnerabilities were found in four widely used Visual Studio Code extensions with a combined 128 million downloads, exposing developers to file theft, remote code execution, ...

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VS Code-integrated configuration files are automatically executed in Codespaces when the user opens a repository or pull request. The automatic execution of VS Code-integrated configuration files when ...

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, ...

Today, OpenAI launched a macOS desktop app for Codex, its large language model-based coding tool that was previously used through a command line interface (CLI) on the web or inside an integrated ...

A spear-phishing campaign by North Korean actors is abusing a legitimate feature of Microsoft Visual Studio (VS) Code to gain full remote control of targeted systems. In the campaign, discovered by ...

Threat actors behind the campaign are abusing Microsoft Visual Studio Code’s trusted workflows to execute and persist malicious code. Threat actors behind the long-running Contagious Interview ...

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive. Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...