In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

Updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code provide the same C++ symbol context and CMake build configuration awareness as Microsoft’s C/C++ DevTools and CMake Tools extensions.

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...

Attackers used “technical assessment” projects with repeatable naming conventions to blend in cloning and build workflows, retrieving loader scripts from remote infrastructure, and minimizing on-disk ...

Follow President Trump’s progress filling over 800 positions, among about 1,300 that require Senate confirmation, in this tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service.

Studio 2 Extra: Nikole Hannah-Jones on erasing Black history and civil rights With the slavery exhibit back at Philadelphia’s President’s House, we spoke with Pulitzer winner Nikole Hannah-Jones on ...