Discover VSCodium, the community-driven, open-source version of VS Code that prioritizes privacy and freedom. Enjoy the same powerful features and extensions without Microsoft's telemetry and branding ...

Confirming recent rumors, code editor startup Anysphere Inc. today announced that it has closed a $900 million funding round. OpenAI backer Thrive Capital led the raise. It was joined by several other ...

Cursor is an AI-powered fork of Visual Studio Code, which supports a feature called Workspace Trust to allow developers to safely browse and edit code regardless of where it came from or who wrote it.

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...

VS Code 1.102, otherwise known as the June 2025 release, builds out GitHub Copilot Chat capabilities and finalizes support for the Model Context Protocol. The latest update to Visual Studio Code, ...

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit. Open source software may not earn the company direct ...

The researchers are calling the threat actor WhiteCobra.

An unknown threat actor is deploying a large-scale, sophisticated cryptojacking campaign through a series of malicious extensions in Visual Studio Code, Microsoft’s lightweight source-code editor, ...

A weakness in the Cursor code editor exposes developers to the risk of automatically executing tasks in a malicious repository as soon as it's opened.

Microsoft is planning a big upgrade to Visual Studio. The move may be a response to intense competition for AI coding tools. The new Visual Studio will be packed with AI features as Microsoft tries to ...