In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

Pixel Agents adds a pixel office view in VS Code; six character styles show coding, searching, or idle states, useful for ...

Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...

Linked to North Korean fake job-recruitment campaigns, the poisoned repositories are aimed at establishing persistent C2 ...

Orca has discovered a supply chain attack that abuses GitHub Issue to take over Copilot when launching a Codespace from that ...

Attackers used “technical assessment” projects with repeatable naming conventions to blend in cloning and build workflows, ...

Microsoft has warned that threat actors are exploiting seemingly legitimate Next. js repositories to compromise software developers, embedding staged backdoors inside projects that mimic technical ...

North Korean-linked campaign publishes 26 malicious npm packages hiding C2 in Pastebin, deploying credential stealers & RAT via 31 Vercel deployments.

While the Windows maker did not attribute the activity to a specific threat actor, the use of VS Code tasks and Vercel ...

Insiders reveal how OpenAI’s rapidly growing coding agent works, why developers are delegating tasks to it, and what it means ...