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 […]
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 […]
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 integrates Kilo’s rapid-growth community of over three million […]
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 company said it has removed the […]
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 environment (IDE) that steals credentials and data […]
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 streamline how developers review, trust, and integrate AI-generated code in VS Code and IntelliJ.
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 methods for delivering […]
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 OpenVSX marketplaces that […]
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 locally run open-source AI LLMs […]
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.
