For most of us, Visual Studio Code is a text editor, a place to write code, preview Markdown, or maybe debug a script or two. But that perception barely scratches the surface. Over the last few years, ...

A comprehensive new study has unearthed fresh details on the extensive and troubling use of memory-unsafe code in major open source software (OSS) projects. However, the chances that fresh insight on ...

Normally right now we'd be reporting on the May 2025 edition of Visual Studio Code, perhaps detailing the work to take GitHub Copilot Chat open source. However, Microsoft has extended the development ...

Closed-source software also comes with the specter of vendor lock-in, and "security through obscurity." Now, I don't want to repeat the semi-myth that open source software is inherently more secure ...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) last week announced an agentic AI IDE called Kiro, adding to a growing camp of AI coding assistants based on Microsoft's ubiquitous open-source based Visual Studio Code ...

All critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft, third-party, and open source code are eligible for rewards if they impact Microsoft services.

Another self-inflicted wound for Intel’s AI accelerator ambitions Troubled Chipzilla has abandoned the open-source user-space ...

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In August 2023, a small group of Google development and UX leads bewailed the difficulty of setting up a development environment for multiplatform and full-stack apps, and offered their take on an ...