A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

TL;DR: Right now, you can get a lifetime license to Visual Studio Pro for only $10. One of the most popular developer environments is Microsoft Visual Studio Pro. It can be expensive to get access, ...

Smart TVs come with a dedicated operating system (OS) that allows you to install various types of applications. While many smart TVs in the market come with Android TV OS (now Google TV OS), major ...

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 ...

Amazon introduced a Nova Act extension to build and test AI agents directly inside integrated development environments including Visual Studio Code, Amazon’s Kiro, and Cursor. The company says the new ...

Thanks to our old friend Ken Gruberman, who wrote on TidBITS Talk in response to “When Should You Upgrade to Apple’s OS 26 Releases?” (15 September 2025): If ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior editor and ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

After bringing GPT-5 to Visual Studio and full MCP support, Microsoft is now giving developers greater control over Copilot inside Visual Studio 2022 (version 17.14.13). Starting August 2025, you can ...

Microsoft has announced that GitHub Copilot users in Visual Studio can now access GPT-5, which is OpenAI’s latest and most capable coding model. The rollout, which began yesterday, introduces faster ...