With Microsoft's new Dev Configs, a Windows installation becomes a ready-to-use developer workstation with a single command – including WSL and Ubuntu.

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Mads Kristensen said subagents are coming to Copilot in Visual Studio, posting an image of a Copilot task flow showing a delegated subtask. VS Code already documents subagents as independent AI agents ...

Microsoft has rolled out Visual Studio Code 1.118, just days after releasing version 1.117, continuing its rapid update cycle with a strong focus on AI-powered development and enterprise controls. One ...

Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is moving to a weekly release cycle, as well as joining Google in encouraging agentic AI development without manual approval with a new Autopilot feature. VS ...

Python may not work in the VS Code terminal due to several reasons: the Python executable path is missing from your system’s PATH environment variable, the wrong Python interpreter is selected in VS ...

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six “zero-day” vulnerabilities that attackers ...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension for Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) on the official Extension Marketplace that claims to be a free ...

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...

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A hacker planted data wiping code in a version of Amazon's generative AI-powered assistant, the Q Developer Extension for Visual Studio Code. Amazon Q is a free extension that uses generative AI to ...

This has sent shockwaves across developer circles. As details continue to emerge, both the tech industry and Amazon's user base have responded with criticism, concern, and calls for transparency. It ...