BlackBox AI, a popular VS Code coding assistant, has a critical indirect prompt injection vulnerability. Hackers can exploit this to gain remote root access to a user’s computer.

Agentic AI is the place to be these days as a Microsoft-centric developer, and as advanced GenAI works its way into the brand-new Visual Studio 2026, several agentic tools are already available for ...

The Copilot Studio extension lets developers use any VS Code-compatible AI assistant to develop AI agents, then sync with Copilot Studio for testing and iteration. Microsoft is offering a Microsoft ...

Software development changed faster in the past three years than in the previous decade. Open a modern IDE and an AI assistant greets you before the first line of code appears ...

VS Code 1.108 adds experimental Agent Skills support, enabling Copilot to load workspace-defined skills on demand. Chat sessions are now organized around agent sessions, with a revamped session picker ...

What if choosing the right AI coding assistant wasn’t just about features or speed, but about how it feels to work with it? Imagine two tools, one that’s like a brainstorming partner, offering ...

Have you ever wondered if your go-to tools might be holding you back? For millions of developers, Visual Studio Code (VS Code) is the undisputed champion of code editors, celebrated for its ...

Free AI chatbots handle small projects surprisingly well. Pro coding agents deliver serious productivity boosts for pro coders. Spend based on what you need to get the job done. The use of AI in ...

A malicious extension with basic ransomware capabilities seemingly created with the help of AI, has been published on Microsoft's official VS Code marketplace. Named susvsex and published by ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CodeRabbit, the leading AI-powered code review platform, today released the “State of AI vs Human Code Generation”, a comprehensive new report analyzing the quality of ...