Coding, transcription, and other productivity tools proved the most invasive, though several other categories are worth watching as well.

In a a robust Hacker News thread sparked by Jamf Threat Labs research, a VS Code team member defended the editor's Workspace ...

A compromised Open VSX publisher account was used to distribute malicious extensions in a new GlassWorm supply chain attack.

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

Security researchers found two AI-branded VS Code extensions with 1.5M installs that covertly send source code and files to ...

VS Code forks like Cursor, Windsurf, and Google Antigravity may share a common foundation, but hands-on testing shows they ...

In this post, we will show you how to create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer. CodeVisualizer is a free, open-source Visual Studio Code extension that ...

You start by getting the official installer from the Visual Studio Code website. Open your preferred browser on Windows. Go to the Visual Studio Code download page ...

In December 2025, the GlassWorm supply chain malware campaign emerged again, affecting both the Microsoft Visual Studio Marketplace and Open VSX platforms. This episode involved 24 extensions posing ...

Have you ever wondered if your go-to tools might be holding you back? For millions of developers, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is the undisputed champion of code editors, celebrated for its ...

Google has launched an official Colab extension for Visual Studio Code, aiming to bridge the gap between local development and powerful cloud computing for AI and machine learning. The new tool allows ...

A new proof-of-concept attack shows that malicious Model Context Protocol servers can inject JavaScript into Cursor’s browser — and potentially leverage the IDE’s privileges to perform system tasks.