ChatGPT has quietly gained bash support and multi-language capabilities, enabling users to run commands and install packages in containers without official announcements.

North Korea is doubling down on a familiar playbook by weaponizing trust in open-source software and developer workflows. The ...

Two VSCode extensions are harvesting sensitive data and sending it to China.

A new Visual Studio Code extension called Nogic sparked a wide-ranging Hacker News discussion, with commenters praising its ...

Microsoft released new open‑source quantum development tools that deepen VS Code and Copilot integration while targeting real ...

A Visual Studio Code extension for ty, an extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust. The extension ships with ty==0.0.12. Once installed in Visual Studio Code, ty will ...

Popular AI-powered integrated development environment solutions, such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae, recommend extensions that are non-existent in the OpenVSX registry, allowing ...

So, you want to start coding in Python, huh? That’s awesome! Python is super popular and pretty forgiving for beginners. But where do you actually write your code? You could just use a basic text ...

Two malicious extensions on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Marketplace infect developers' machines with information-stealing malware that can take screenshots, steal credentials, crypto wallets, and ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain compromise on the Python Package Index (PyPI) via a domain ...

The coordinated campaign abuses Visual Studio Code and OpenVSX extensions to steal code, mine cryptocurrency, and maintain remote control, all while posing as legitimate developer tools. In a new ...

Ask any Python developer about their least favorite part of the job, and environment management will top the list. The endless juggling of virtual environments, dependency conflicts, and version ...