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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 includes a Tool Catalog that can scaffold a Python or TypeScript MCP server with the core transport and registration plumbing already set up. In ...

AI Toolkit for VS Code v0.30.0 adds a new Tool Catalog for discovering, configuring, and managing agent tools, including local stdio MCP servers and tools from the public Foundry catalog. A new Agent ...

So, you want to get into Python coding online, huh? It’s a pretty popular language, and luckily, there are tons of tools out ...

Microsoft is accelerating its dev cycle with weekly releases. The latest VS Code update brings a visual overhaul and deeper ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code development environment will move from monthly updates to a weekly release schedule, beginning with version 1.111, according to the development team.

No more waiting on slow-loading modules or wasting time on ad hoc workarounds: Python 3.15’s new ‘lazy imports’ mechanism has ...

VS Code 1.113 adds new themes, AI reasoning controls, and nested subagents, improving workflows and customization for ...

Generative AI with .NET from SDKs and streaming to tools and agents: an overview of OpenAI, Azure, and the new Microsoft ...

How many headlines, articles and self-indulgent LinkedIn posts have you seen lamenting the state of the tech industry in ...