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.

In a social media feedback thread started by Microsoft Visual Studio guru Mads Kristensen, multiple developers unloaded on the IDE's facility with AI provided by GitHub Copilot and other tools.

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, ...

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...

A technical preview promises to take on the unrewarding work in DevOps, but questions remain about controls over costs and access.

Software development changed faster in the past three years than in the previous decade. Open a modern IDE and an AI ...

Did our AI summary help? Anish Moonka has shared how artificial intelligence helped him turn a personal problem into a fully functional iOS app in just one week. Moonka said he wanted to read the ...

North Korean-linked campaign publishes 26 malicious npm packages hiding C2 in Pastebin, deploying credential stealers & RAT ...

Microsoft has warned that threat actors are exploiting seemingly legitimate Next. js repositories to compromise software developers, embedding staged backdoors inside projects that mimic technical ...

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, ...

Whether it is a 0.8B model running on a smartphone or a 9B model powering a coding terminal, the Qwen3.5 series is ...

To the benefit of every racing-game fan in the world, in the early '80s a young boy in England's north east stared at the pixels on the screen of an arcade cabinet and became fixated on discovering ...