The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, repositories, and extensions on GitHub, npm, and VSCode/OpenVSX extensions. Evidence ...

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 ...

If VS Code freezes on open, the notebook is often too heavy to render because outputs are saved inside the .ipynb (dataframes, logs, plots, HTML). Clearing outputs reduces the file to cells only, ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new extensions on Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace that are designed to infect developer machines with stealer malware. The VS Code ...

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The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

I'm using Windows 11 latest update, Vscode latest version, Python version 3.13.3, I'm using pip and vrtualenv, not uv. I don't use uv. I have ruff extension and pylance extensions for Python installed ...

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, ...