Having long ago seen the handwriting on the wall for the journalism profession with the debut of GenAI, I decided to just cut to the chase and build my replacement now.

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.

It's more than just a code editor.

Visual Studio Code 1.109 introduces enhancements for providing agents with more skills and context and managing multiple agent sessions in parallel. Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.109, ...

OpenAI has launched the Codex app for Windows, bringing its AI-powered coding assistant to developers with native sandboxing, multi-agent workflows.

Three of the four vulnerabilities remained unpatched months after OX Security reported them to the maintainers.

Visual Studio Code 1.109 has been released, primarily bringing new features for handling AI agents. Developers can now follow the response generation of Anthropic Claude models in real-time in the ...

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 ...

Anthropic's new AI tool for finding and fixing code vulnerabilities has triggered sharp market reaction in select markets and renewed debate over how much AI can reshape application security industry ...

Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. Microsoft-owned GitHub continues to embrace OpenAI and Anthropic AI advances. is a senior editor and author of Notepad, ...