On Halloween 2018 a developer filed an issue in the GitHub repo for the VS Code Python extension, asking for the ability for users to "spin up multiple 'Python Interactive' windows." In August 2020, ...

The January 2021 update to the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is out with a short list of new features headed by a data viewer used while debugging. Python for VS Code comes with the Python ...

Visual Studio Code’s Python development ecosystem is expanding with new AI-assisted capabilities, smarter environment management, and productivity-focused extensions. Microsoft’s Python tools now ...

Visual Studio has never really been the lightweight option. It's not the tool you open just to tweak a config file or write a quick script.

ZiChatBot malware spread via 3 PyPI packages in July 2025 uses Zulip APIs as C2, enabling stealthy attacks across systems ...

Cursor is a free, open‑source code editor based on Visual Studio Code. It integrates large language models directly into your workflow, giving you AI‑powered autocomplete, inline code generation, a ...

Visual Studio Code 1.117 adds Copilot BYOK, faster chat streaming, and terminal fixes, giving developers more control.

This professional-grade development environment is down to a one-time $34.97, eliminating the need for ongoing subscriptions.

VS Code 1.118 adds remote Copilot control, enterprise AI restrictions, and smarter caching while improving developer ...

Microsoft is making Visual Studio more agentic. New tools handle remote coding tasks and analyze live app behavior to find ...

The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows ...