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Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

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Vulnerabilities with high to critical severity ratings affecting popular Visual Studio Code (VSCode) extensions collectively downloaded more than 128 million times could be exploited to steal local ...

VS Code-integrated configuration files are automatically executed in Codespaces when the user opens a repository or pull request. The automatic execution of VS Code-integrated configuration files when ...

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 ...

An experimental feature in VS Code 1.108, Agent Skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that GitHub Copilot can load for specialized tasks. Visual Studio Code 1.108, the latest ...

Popular artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) forks such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae have been found to recommend extensions that are ...

A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...