The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now lets developers scaffold a working MCP server in minutes. Here's what that looks like in practice -- including the parts that don't work, and a simpler ...

Savvy developers are realizing the advantages of writing explicit, consistent, well-documented code that agents easily understand. Boring makes agents more reliable.

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Choosing an AI assistant for your business in 2026 isn’t as simple as picking the most popular one. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini have each matured into serious ...

Tools such as Cursor can go a long way toward simplifying code setup. There's still a lot of work to refine the results. Conceiving an app's goals and how to get there is the hidden gotcha of AI ...

The Python extension now supports multi-project workspaces, where each Python project within a workspace gets its own test tree and Python environment. This document explains how multi-project testing ...

Free AI tools Goose and Qwen3-coder may replace a pricey Claude Code plan. Setup is straightforward but requires a powerful local machine. Early tests show promise, though issues remain with accuracy ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extensions that are advertised as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistants, but also harbor ...

Two malicious extensions in Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Marketplace that were collectively installed 1.5 million times exfiltrate developer data to China-based servers. Both extensions are ...

Threat actors behind the campaign are abusing Microsoft Visual Studio Code’s trusted workflows to execute and persist malicious code. Threat actors behind the long-running Contagious Interview ...