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Blogs

Microsoft Decouples AI Agents From the VS Code Editor in Latest Release

Microsoft has shipped Visual Studio Code 1.133, and the headline change is architectural rather than cosmetic: AI agent sessions now run in a dedicated background process rather than within the editor’s extension host. The release…

Aug 14, 20263 min

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Jul22

VS Code 1.129 Moves Agent Sessions Out of the Editor Window

Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.129, and the headline change isn’t a new feature so much as a new foundation. The update introduces the agent host, a dedicated process…

3 min

Jul16

Features

Anaconda Acquires Kilo Code to Unify AI Development from First Prompt to Production

Anaconda Inc. has acquired Kilo Code, an open-source, model-agnostic platform that embeds artificial intelligence (AI) agents directly into developer workflows. The acquisition int…

3 min

May20

Blogs

GitHub Breach Tied to Malicious VS Code Extension Exposes Thousands of Internal Repositories

GitHub says attackers accessed thousands of internal repositories after a company employee’s device was compromised through a malicious Visual Studio Code extension, though the com…

3 min

Apr03

Blogs

Latest Typosquatting Attack Targeting VS Code Tools Hits Windsurf IDE

Cybersecurity researchers from Bitdefender, a provider of an endpoint detection and response (EDR) platform, have discovered an extension to the Windsurf integrated development env…

3 min

Mar11

Gemini Code Assist Gets Agent Auto-Approve, Inline Diffs, and Custom Commands to Speed Up the Core Coding Loop

Google’s latest Gemini Code Assist updates focus on workflow, not hype: Agent Mode with Auto Approve, inline diffs, a Context Drawer, custom commands, Finish Changes, and Outlines…

3 min

Dec10

CI/CD

Malicious VS Code Extensions Take Screenshots, Steal Info

Developers were the targets of two new malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions created by a threat actor that security researchers believe is experimenting with…

3 min

Oct15

Massive VS Code Secrets Leak Puts Focus on Extensions, AI: Wiz

Researchers with cybersecurity firm Wiz earlier this year discovered, almost by chance, a significant supply chain risk and massive secrets leak in the Visual Studio Code and OpenV…

3 min

Aug10

Free Tiers and Open Source LLMs – Mana for Developers, Platform Engineers and QA

Development rarely follows one straight path. You sketch ideas, prototype, test, swap tools, iterate, and repeat. The increasing availability of free, limited-use AI tiers and loca…

3 min

Oct11

Microsoft kills Python 3.7 ¦ … and VBScript ¦ Exascaling ARM on Jupiter

In this week’s #TheLongView: VS Code drops support for Python 3.7, Windows drops VBScript, and Europe plans the fastest ARM supercomputer.

3 min

Aug30

Blogs

VS Code for Mainframe: The Enterprise Developer Tipping Point

With the free and open Code4z extension pack, VS Code is mainframe-ready and it’s a great tool for mainframe developers.

3 min

Apr01

Blogs

How to Secure Online Coding Platforms

Threat Modeling for Online Coding Platforms The evolution of DevOps teams and a greater reliance on cloud-based computing has completely changed the coding process. Now, with Integ…

3 min

Jan16

Blogs

Che: A Revolutionary IDE for the Mainframe

Tools such as the green screens of ISPF and the Eclipse desktop IDE, enhanced with proprietary plug-ins, have served mainframe application developers well over the years and, for t…

3 min