Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

Visual Studio Code is an advanced editor that supports just about every programming language in use today. That is why Visual Studio Code has more buttons, knobs, and switches than a Martian starship.

VS Code update brings info on running subagents into the Agents window and previews built-in dictation and a Markdown editor ...

New Package Firewall CLI, VS Code extension, and AI coding assistant plugins enforce package trust before malicious or policy-violating dependencies are installed. Modern software supply chain attacks ...

Spread the loveChoosing the right code editor is a bit like a chef selecting their knives: it’s a deeply personal decision ...

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has rapidly become one of the most popular code editors among developers worldwide. Its flexibility, ease of use, and robust features make it a go-to choice for everything ...

GitHub confirmed on May 20 that a poisoned VS Code extension installed on an employee’s device gave attackers access to roughly 3,800 internal repositories at the Microsoft-owned code storage and ...

The ongoing GlassWorm campaign has deployed a fresh wave of malicious Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions, many of which seem initially benign but later deploy self-replicating malware that can poison ...

Anthropic’s powerful AI assistant, Claude, now offers deep integration into VS Code. This move of Anthropic brings Claude’s advanced reasoning and code generation capabilities directly into the most ...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities in four popular Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that, if successfully exploited, could allow threat actors ...

Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...